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THQ aims to kickstart the new year by releasing Darksiders: Wrath of War on 8th January 2010.

Sony has declined to comment on rumours that Killzone 3 is "deep in development" and will be released next year.

Who knows what crease in Nippon Ichi's psyche continually draws the developer back to the anti-hero. Perhaps the scriptwriters were picked on at school, or maybe the CEO was never any good at team sports. Whatever the reason, from Disgaea to Makai Kingdom, the studio has rarely cast players as anything but a demonic villain hell-bent on the destruction of everything good and respectable. It's more than a decision to dodge the comfortable fantasy cliché of knights in shining valour; Nippon Ichi understands the perverse delight that comes from surrendering to absolute corruption, of assuming the role of an amiable hyper-villain, especially one hapless enough to be mocked and glorified in equal measure.

Upcoming Xbox Live destination Halo Waypoint will be broken in two sections, one focusing on Intel and the other on Career.

Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of Final Fantasy, is already in the final stage of development on his latest game.

EA plans to release Need for Speed: Nitro here on 6th November. That's earlier than the 20th November we had once expected.

Abbey Road, the first full album to be released as downloadable content for The Beatles: Rock Band, is released today on Xbox Live and at the Wii Shop. It will appear on PS3 with Thursday's PSN update.

The sounds of war and industry will reverberate throughout the halls of Xbox Live Arcade tomorrow thanks to Panzer General: Allied Assault and Tower Bloxx Deluxe, which are this week's new games.

Data trackers The NPD Group have published US sales figures for September, revealing a healthy boost in sales for PS3.

Major Nelson has said that "unauthorised" Memory Units will no longer work with Xbox 360 once the next system update, currently undergoing testing, is applied.

Metal Gear maestro Hideo Kojima has promised there will be a third Zone of the Enders game on the Kojmia Productions blog.

Say what you like about BioWare - the Canadian RPG specialists always did think big, and they've never thought bigger than they are right now. While the Austin-based offshoot prepares the company's maiden foray into MMOs with the huge Star Wars: The Old Republic, home base is about to make not one but two monster releases - Mass Effect 2 in January, and Dragon Age: Origins next month.

Lorne Lanning's Oddworld is heading to the PlayStation Store this week.

If you thought Grand Theft Auto on the DS was unlikely, how about GTA on the DS ported to PSP? Already home to two of its own GTA games, which are also the two most popular games on the system, Sony's handheld could be forgiven for thinking it was above these top-down action-adventures, especially imports from the land of Nintendogs. Where are the fancy 3D graphics? Surely the PSP deserves better?

Naughty Dog's Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is the game that just keeps on giving. In addition to the gameplay, there's a wealth of bonus material on the disc that is well worth a look. Amongst the various goodies are eight behind-the-scenes mini-documentaries concentrating on the developers and their work. The one we enjoyed the most is entitled "Mastering the Cell", an intriguing glimpse into the ways and means in which Naughty Dog has created what must surely be this generation's defining technical achievement.

The British Board of Film Classification has stamped Modern Warfare 2 with an 18 rating in the UK.

Developer Tripwire will release a free content update for Killing Floor this Thursday on Steam.

Microsoft is handing out permanent Xbox Live bans for "pre-release title play" of Borderlands or Forza Motorsport 3 - both due out this Friday.

The PS3 and Wii are on level-pegging in Japan, posting respective sales of 30,896 and 30,741, according to Media Create data for the week ending 11th October.

Sony has told Eurogamer that the God of War Collection will not be available in Europe this year.

Sony has told Eurogamer that PSN title LocoRoco: Midnight Carnival will be released on 29th October.

PS3 blockbuster Uncharted 2: Among Thieves swung into the UK all-formats chart at number two this week, denied top-billing by an unmovable FIFA 10.

The original Drawn to Life was based around an interesting idea, half-heartedly realised in the guts of a mediocre platform game. Two years on and this sequel brings the series to the Wii for the first time, but sadly falls into the same trap despite addition of several new elements.

Namco Bandai has revealed that there is serious consideration for making a sequel to Tales of Vesperia, a well-received JRPG that appeared on Xbox 360 (and will soon be on PS3).

EA Sports boss Peter Moore has acknowledged that the scale of FIFA 10's early sales success caught the publisher's online service people off-guard, but also said he is "glad our teams have solved many of the capacity issues that plagued some of you in the first few days out of the gate".

Sony has revealed a new downloadable content pack is on the way for SOCOM: Confrontation.

iPhone and iPod Touch application developers will no longer have to provide a "Lite" version to allow people to sample their work for free.

The MMO being developed by Slipgate Ironworks, the studio founded by id Software alumnus John Romero, is "changing shape" after job cuts at the developer.

Infinity Ward appears to have dumped dedicated servers for the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 in favour of its own proprietary matchmaking service.

Charles Martinet, the man who provides the voice of Mario, has said a new instalment in the series is on the way.