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Polish developer Bloober Team has unveiled gory WiiWare horror game Last Flight, which will be out later this year at an "affordable and competitive" price, the developer told us.

Polish indie developer Exor Studios has unveiled a promising little PC peach called Zombie Driver, which is on the slate for November.

The next patch to Warhammer Online - game update 1.3.2 to its friends - will make significant changes to the starting experience for new players, as well as introduce an "apprenticeship" program allowing players of high and low levels to synchronise their ranks.

Nintendo will add Frontier's LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias to WiiWare tomorrow. The sequel will cost 1000 Wii Points (approx. £7/€10).

As visitors to Rockstar's Kings Road office are constantly reminded, there are many benefits to producing the world's most successful videogames. You can afford an office on the Kings Road, for starters. You can fill it with giant plasma tellies, powerful surround sound systems and leather sofas bigger than most living rooms. You can put a special shelf up in reception just to hold your BAFTA trophies, and line them up in a long row to wink at visitors while they wait.

Sony America's Eric Lempel has said pricing PSP Minis is a task for publishers and developers, not the platform holder.

Will Wright, discussing his company Stupid Fun Club with VentureBeat, has revealed that it's actively working on three projects and the first could be released in six months to a year's time.

US Homeland Security is funding a new screening project that makes use of commercially available sensors to measure things like your heart rate and body temperature - and one of the components, for now at least, is a Wii balance board.

The members of popular beat combo U2 have said they would quite like to appear in a music game after all, actually.

BioWare has three lots of downloadable content ready for the 6th November launch of Dragon Age: Origins.

Gearbox Software boss Randy Pitchford has raised a rare voice of dissent against Valve's digital distribution service for PC, Steam. Pitchford argued that a developer owning such a service is a conflict of interest, and that Valve is "exploiting" small developers.

The Rock Band series is set to make its debut on iPhone.

Former Bungie men Michel Bastien, Damián Isla and Rob Stokes have formed their own company, Moonshot Games, and announced plans to start making downloadable games.

Valve has announced the new fourth game mode for Left 4 Dead 2 - Scavenge.

Microsoft may be planning to launch a new Xbox Live environment which will let avatars explore a virtual arcade and play retro games.

You can't launch a rocket in a first-person shooter these days without clipping an MMO influence - whether it's Call of Duty 4's world-conquering perks and persistent stats, the elaborate intra-team relationships within Team Fortress 2, or Battlefield Heroes' reliance on microtransactions - but developers heading in the other direction are fewer and further between.

Polish developer CD Projekt has told Eurogamer that The Witcher 2 and The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf were always - and still are - separate projects.

Last month, Nintendo held an event in London to showcase the line-up of near-future releases for its twin downloadable gaming catalogues, WiiWare and DSiWare. The context was exactly as you'd expect: a plush venue with spectacular views of the capital; a marketing presentation with words of reassurance for retail, and an undertone of envy for Apple's success with the App Store; a smattering of news, a few names showing faces (David Braben, Kenji Eno, Dave Grossman) and a star turn from a slick sequel, LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias.

Naughty Dog multiplayer designer Justin Richmond has said he will be "working on DLC stuff for the next while", confirming post-launch support for the outstanding PS3 game.

The decision to open up the PSP to smaller snack-sized downloadable games is hard to fault. After all, it's often from these low-risk, high-concept projects that the brightest ideas emerge. Heading off competition from the iPhone is also clearly a factor, which is why the initial 13-strong line-up feels less than convincing - despite some absolutely fantastic titles.

Tecmo KOEI has, at the last minute, decided to release Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! What did I do to deserve this? in Europe on Friday.

Mobigame's EDGE has returned to the App Store after a long and well documented legal battle with Tim Langdell.

Getting more out of the Halo universe was never going to be difficult. There was plenty of drama waiting to be uncovered in New Mombasa, just as there will be in the since-glassed extremes of next year's Reach. But getting by without the Master Chief was always going to be difficult. He's the apex predator of Halo's enormously diverse battlefield ecology, sucking in his breath and diving out of space stations, smashing the Flood without breaking sweat, and hijacking Ghosts with one hand tied behind his Mjolnir armour. Everyone else can only be so tough; can only jump so high, recover so quickly, and do so much damage without need of backup.

There's death in videogames, and then there's death in videogames. The way to tell the two apart is enduringly simple. The first kind causes minor - if occasionally stinging - irritation: a brief round trip through the liminal world of the loading screen and back into the thick of it that happens, for the most part, only to you.

EA studio Visceral Games' interpretation of Jack the Ripper will cast the legendary British serial killer as a hero.

The managing director of the UK's largest independent games chain, Chips, expects the PSPgo to "fail miserably".

Xbox boss Robbie Bach has given the first indication of how Microsoft intends to market the Natal motion sensing device, indicating that the price will start high and reduce over time.

Charles Cecil, creator of the Broken Sword adventure games and kindly uncle to the British videogame industry, has revealed that he worked as designer on Disney's A Christmas Carol game for DS.

Activision has revealed that Tony Hawk: Ride on Wii lets you skate as your Mii avatar.