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As we all know, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is positioned as the realistic war game - the fact to Modern Warfare's fiction, if you like - and Codemasters' ballsy approach has worked well: the game is enjoying a third week in UK charts top-five surrounded by blockbuster competition.

Recently I've been learning first-hand about the trials and tribulations of putting on next week's Eurogamer Expo, as the people organising it have been sitting in my bit of the office. Who would have thought, for example, that you need a special licence to use a fire hose on queue-jumpers, or that you when you order two sealions you get the third one free?

In a post on the Civilization fan forum, strategy guru Sid Meier has announced that he's making a version of his empire-building series Civilization for Facebook.

Beautiful Game Studios will bring Championship Manager 2010 to legions of stylish Apple Mac owners on 13th November.

Activision has made nearly $70m just by selling map packs for Call of Duty: World at War.

News this morning suggests Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has done it again, pre-empting official announcements by confirming to Gizmodo that the company is planning a Blu-ray expansion drive for the Xbox 360.

Xbox 360 could be on the receiving end of a new Blu-ray drive accessory if comments by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer are to be believed.

EA has announced that the Need for Speed series has sold more than 100 million units since its launch in 1994.

Korean publisher and developer Webzen has launched its MMO Soul of the Ultimate Nation in the West. The game went live yesterday, October 21st.

Peter Molyneux has confirmed Natal support for Fable III and described gaming in 2009 as "the most exciting year ever".

Insomniac Games has announced a release date for Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time.

Activision will take over Leicester Square on Monday 9th November to launch what could be the biggest game ever, Modern Warfare 2.

Infinity Ward is a liar. An excellent liar with a clutch of fantastic, irresistible lies, but a liar nevertheless. Its Modern Warfare games claim to show players the future of professional conflict, a virtual replication of the horrors and thrills that will soon buffet soldiers to their particular nation's greater good. And we swallow the story. Who knows if, like many of Hollywood's action movie producers, Call of Duty is part-funded by the US military? It would certainly be money well spent. As an army recruitment tool the series is unrivalled: how many young men have been drawn to real battlefields, inspired to enlist by their glories on those virtual ones?

Codemasters has told Eurogamer that the first batch of Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising DLC will be out soon, alongside a network "optimisation" patch to "make it flow a bit better".

"I love war movies and I love the bits when people die in war movies," says Sion Lenton, executive producer of Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, with a disturbing glint in his eye. More specifically, Lenton's talking about the lengths he went to in order to ensure this updated version doesn't skimp on the horrors of war. "Catastrophic damage" is how he describes the injury model in this long-awaited sequel to the 2001 cult PC hit, which left many FPS addicts weak-kneed with its brutal realism, and his dedication to detail extends to letting the animation team film him writhing on the office floor in mock agony for visual reference.

Capcom wants you to dress up like a zombie and walk across London on Halloween (31st October).

Nintendo Europe has distanced itself from strong "rumour and speculation" surrounding a new DSi Speak Channel.

Nintendo has begun dishing out free Wii Points to anyone helping their friends and family get online.

The BBFC has revealed there are some "strong" sexy moments in upcoming Grand Theft Auto IV downloadable add-on The Ballad of Gay Tony.

Namco Bandai has announced a new 360 and PS3 game: Inversion, a gravity-defying third-person shooter from TimeShift developer Saber Interactive, due to be released in 2010.

Those perceptive little prancing pony enthusiasts over at GT Planet have observed that Gran Turismo 5 may come on three discs when it's released next year.

An iPhone version of classic platformer Earthworm Jim is now available in the App Store.

Game Informer has followed up its magazine debut of Epic Mickey with a huge online feature discussing the game's art and animation, and showing swathes of concept art and videos.

Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling has sought to defend Modern Warfare 2's lack of dedicated server support on PC by explaining the alternative system, IWNet, in a bit more detail on his blog.

The producer of the Kane & Lynch movie has confirmed Bruce Willis will take a starring role.

The Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) has rated a game called Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Predator.

The producer of God of War III has hinted at what we can expect in terms of downloadable content for the game.

Japanese developer Q Entertainment has said it wants to see PSP titles Lumines and Lumines II appear for download on the PlayStation Store, but a mixture of licensing and publishing issues are getting in the way.

Shigeru Miyamoto has said he is content for Nintendo consoles of the future to behave like the Wii. The main design-push will go into making consoles smaller and even more profitable.

A bundle of new stuff has appeared in the PlayStation Store, including a playable Killzone 2 demo.