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A big batch of probably quite good new games are popping up for the iPhone.

EA Games president Frank Gibeau has said confirmed that Criterion's Need for Speed game will keep up the series' yearly pace and launch in 2010.

Valve has finally patched Left 4 Dead 1 on PC to introduce competitive matchmaking for groups of four players.

Those of you who bought Modern Warfare 2 on Steam will not be able to play until Thursday.

Labour MP Tom Watson believes a Facebook 'pressure group' he created for gamers could be "a game-changing move for Parliament" - after being "incensed" by remarks made by fellow MP Keith Vaz on the violent content of Infinity Ward's Modern Warfare 2.

The launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 kicked off with a special event in Leicester Square tonight.

The release date for Modern Warfare 2 has been one of the most disregarded in the history of UK games retail, according to SimplyGames MD Neil Muspratt.

The UK government has defended mature videogame content, and stated that when it's rated properly grown-ups "can get what adults should be able to".

Nintendo has revealed that The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks will include sections where you play the DS like a woodwind instrument.

BioWare staff writer Patrick Weekes has defended the way the developer structures stories in its games, picking apart a tongue-in-cheek, fan-made "RPG Cliché Chart".

SEGA's classic Moonwalker game may be heading to Virtual Console months after the death of the man it's based on, Michael Jackson.

The moon has exploded. Needless to say, that means only one thing: astronaut deathmatch! Shattered Horizon is set in the not-quite-possible near future in which humanity has been plundering the moon for its cheese, and the resulting accident ends up blasting billions of tonnes of rock into orbit. This means that thousands of space workers are trapped up in the sky, with just a broken moon and the remains of Earth's by-then-extensive space infrastructure to live on. Two factions who were feeling a bit grumpy with each other now see this as an excuse for open hostility, and fighting in zero-gravity commences.

Wii Fit Plus finds itself on top of a busy UK chart this week, following positive reviews from the likes of us.

Bayonetta has stormed Japan and taken top chart honours on PS3 and seventh place on Xbox 360.

"Play, create, share." That's the official motto - or tagline, depending how cynical you are - of LittleBigPlanet. The idea being you play through a series of platforming levels, create your own (with the option to throw in items collected during the platforming bit), and share them online.

StarCraft II producer Chris Sigaty has confirmed that the game's beta test, promised for late 2009, has been pushed back to 2010.

Xbox Live will restrict the use of Twitter, Facebook and Last.fm to Gold subscribers aged 18 and over.

Mythic is moving Warhammer Online to an "endless" free trial which offers unlimited access to the MMO up to level 10 in the Empire versus Chaos zones, reports GamesIndustry.biz. Previously, the game's free trial had a 10-day time limit.

Dhani Harrison, son of George Harrison, has said he is helping to produce ambitious new controllers for Rock Band.

BioWare has released the tool set for its monster RPG Dragon Age: Origins on PC.

PopCap and Square Enix will release PC and Xbox Live Arcade game Gyromancer here on 18th November.

Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime reckons that New Super Mario Bros. Wii will outsell either the PS3 or Xbox 360 version of Modern Warfare 2.

Microsoft reckons Sky Player should now be available to every Xbox 360 owner in the UK.

American retailer GameStop has confessed to breaking the Modern Warfare 2 street date "in select markets where other retailers had broken street date".

I'm exhausted. Not just because my fun muscles are still aching after the Eurogamer Expo, but because playing Rabbids Go Home is like being trapped on a bouncy castle full of kids who've skipped their Ritalin and pumped themselves up on Red Bull and Tartrazine all afternoon instead. And you know what? I like it.

Call of Duty fans pre-ordering the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 won't be able to play it until Tuesday - even if their game is delivered early.

Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime has hinted there may be a bit of a wait in store for the next Wii instalment in the Zelda series.

NCsoft has announced that nearly a million copies of PC MMO Aion: The Tower of Eternity have been sold in the West.

Insomniac Games is "probably" going to turn its back on its long-standing commitment to 60FPS gameplay for its Ratchet & Clank franchise. According to the developer, there is no marketing premium, or review score value, in supporting the highest-possible refresh rate common to all HDTVs. "We want to give you guys, our fans and players, the best looking games you can buy on a console," says engine director Mike Acton, and 60FPS actually gets in the way of that.

Copies of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 have begun turning up on consumer's doormats, with both LoveFilm and The Hut sending the game out early.