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The PS3 Slim has done the business in Japan, shifting 151,783 units for the week ending 6th September.

Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker will be playable at the Tokyo Game Show later this month.

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Activision has countered lawsuit threats made by Kurt Cobain's widow Courtney Love over Guitar Hero 5 by holding up a piece of paper with her signature on it.

Vivid Entertainment, the largest adult video production company in the world, is drafting a proposal to Sony to distribute porn on PS3's PlayStation Network.

The PC version of 10/10 arthouse platformer Braid has been heavily discounted on Steam for the weekend.

The latest episode of Gametrailers TV has lifted the lid on a new, original game from LucasArts' internal studios called Lucidity. The game will be released on Xbox Live Arcade "later this month".

Microsoft has stamped a 5th November date on new Xbox Live destination Halo Waypoint.

August NPD figures show cheapened consoles selling well, outrageously, as Xbox 360 and PS3 finish almost neck-and-neck with 215,000 and 210,000 units sold in the US.

US magazine Game Informer has exclusively revealed the first detail on Crackdown 2, Microsoft's Xbox 360 action sequel in development at Ruffian Games, a splinter of original studio Realtime Worlds.

Titles like The Longest Journey - dreamy, personable, and quietly erudite - have granted Ragnar Tornquist a reputation as an unsettlingly grown-up presence in single-player game design. His latest project, The Secret World - which we preview today - sees him turning his attention back to MMOs following a previous stint on Anarchy Online, and he has a typically idiosyncratic agenda. Classes and levelling are out, and in their place are a promising tangle of factions and ancient allegiances, a culturally omnivorous conspiracy narrative, and a carefully partitioned PvP structure with RTS overtones. We sat down with Tornquist at this year's Penny Arcade Expo to get a sense of how such an enormous project is coming together.

The Secret World is an evocative, luxurious kind of title, a handful of words that conjure up a riddled sprawl of subterranean canals, dew-dropped gateways and darkened under-streets slotted in and around our own humdrum neighbourhoods and cities. It promises a glimpse of a murkier, sexier kind of life that unfolds just out of reach, on the other side of the raindrops, perhaps, or tucked in somewhere behind the fireplace. It practically bubbles with conspiracies, too, and we all love those - presumably because they allow you to believe that everything will make sense if you just stare at it long enough, that there's a governing force at work, however malignant, and that it operates within a galaxy of rules and restrictions, unfailingly listening to a quiet heartbeat of cause and effect. It all sounds a bit like a game, really.

Rumours are gathering pace, technological demonstrations have been made, statements have been issued... and then retracted. Sony is planning something massive for stereoscopic 3D gaming, and the potential is hugely exciting. While true 3D was thought to have been a possibility only for next-gen consoles, Sony will introduce a fully working system for PlayStation 3 in 2010, years ahead of its rivals. And there's nothing they can do to compete.

Kurt Cobain's widow Courtney Love is furious at Activision about her dead husband's appearance in Guitar Hero 5, and is threatening to "sue the s***" out of the publisher.

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves the long awaited sequel to Uncharted: Drake's Fortune on the PlayStation 3 launches this October.

Just Add Water boss Stewart Gilray has revealed that his studio is working on three other games besides PSN game Gravity Crash.

When kids learn to ride a bike, they usually have a parent trotting alongside with a guiding hand on their back. After a while, they notice the hand has gone, turn around and see that they've been riding solo without realising it. That's also how a good kids' game should work. Early handholding should slowly drop away, leaving the young player capable of feats they wouldn't have dreamt possible at the start.

Apple VP Phil Schiller has said that over 21,178 "games and entertainment" titles are available for the iPhone and iPod Touch, which he reckons makes them the leading handheld gaming devices on the market.

Atari has pushed the European release of Ghostbusters to 6th November on DS, PC, Wii and Xbox 360. We had expected the game on 23rd October.

Square Enix may have grand plans for action game Nier, judging by evidence of a sequel or companion game.

Sony's PlayStation Blog has detailed two special editions of Gran Turismo PSP: a Collector's Edition of the game, and a Gran Turismo Edition PSP3000 bundle.

Paramount Digital has announced the November release of top-down shooter Star Trek: DAC for PC and PS3.

Ubisoft has announced Assassin's Creed II: Discovery for iPhone, due for release on 11th November in the States.

Heavenly Sword developer Ninja Theory has finally exposed its next game, "a post-apocalyptic journey" called Enslaved.

Apple has refreshed the iPod Touch product line, cut prices and promised superior game performance from the high-capacity 32GB and 64GB models.

Sony has announced that the PlayStation Portable firmware will be updated to version 6.0 "soon", cautioning that it's just a minor update.

Spoilers follow! If you haven't played Fallout 3 yet, first of all what are you doing, and second you might want to give this a miss until you have. And even then, it's a bit icky. Check out part one of this series elsewhere on Eurogamer.

Beatlemaniacs young and old descended on Liverpool's Cavern Club last night for GAME's Beatles: Rock Band launch event, lured by the promise of playing the same venue where the Fab Four made their name, and left with vouchers to grab a copy of the game for a just £9.99.

LucasArts plans to pull back the curtain on a completely new game this Friday, if a pair of Tweets are to be believed.

A trusted retail source has corroborated earlier reports and told Eurogamer that a 250GB PS3 Slim will arrive here as early as October, as part of three console-plus-game bundles.