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Cryptic has sold out of the lifetime and six-month subscriptions for its new superhero MMO Champions Online, forcing it to close the offer early. The deals were originally intended to stay open until the game's launch next week on 1st September.

BioWare is working to fix the bug that prevents the new Mass Effect DLC Pinnacle Station from being registered by the game - and therefore played.

Sony has said to expect "the biggest ever virtual items content release in PlayStation Home" today, headlined by the Killzone 2 Visari Throne Room and the new Post-Apocalyptic Apartment.

The next instalment in the Command & Conquer series has been given a new subtitle.

Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg believes that Xbox 360's notorious hardware problems are "well behind us" thanks to manufacturing improvements.

Sony has announced a release date for the latest instalment in the Ratchet & Clank series.

The current decade has been an interesting time for SNK and The King of Fighters series. After the lacklustre Capcom Fighting Jam in 2004, it seemed Capcom had bowed out of the 2D fighter race, and from then on the only serious competition SNK faced was from Guilty Gear - although both Melty Blood and Arcana Heart get props for spicing things up. But now in 2009 everything has changed. Capcom has exploded back onto the scene with Street Fighter IV, and Arc System has answered with the seminal BlazBlue. From SNK Playmore's own mouth "the fight has evolved", but despite all the hype, The King of Fighters XII doesn't feel like much of an evolution.

SouthPeak has told Eurogamer that multiplayer shooter Section 8 has suffered a minor delay in the UK.

Announced at this year's gamescom event, Sony's new Minis programme is a brand new attempt to bring the PSP platform into line with Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch by offering a new range of what the company calls "snackable" small-scale games, designed by some of the leading lights in mobile game development. At a specially convened conference during the show, we met up and talked with Sony and a quartet of mobile game-makers about the new initiative, saw some of the games currently in development, and got some idea of the level of commitment given by the platform holder to the venture.

So then, Napoleon. One of history's greatest military strategists. A man who almost single-handedly took the reins of power in one of Europe's greatest nations, during a time of incredible open warfare, and raised an Empire which would encompass some of the great dynasties of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. A man born into conflict on the island of Corsica, who led charges from the front - revelling in battle until his age prevented him from doing so. A man who changed the face of warfare forever.

ShopTo has told Eurogamer that sales of PS3 Slim are forbidden here by Sony until 1st September - the date announced at gamescom.

New York, meet New York. While Grand Theft Auto IV's Liberty City could not and would not claim to be a facsimile, it wears its influences proudly on the sheer glass sleeves of prominent landmarks, and in the architectural sweeps of its bridges, towers and districts. One imagines Mafia II's Empire Bay pursues the Big Apple with no more of a mind toward replication - even of the equivalent city from the 1950s, when the game is set - but developer 2K Czech does have a mind toward authenticity of another kind: it's out to recreate the life of a post-war gangster, from pin-striped trilby to designer shoes and every phone booth, Billy club and shakedown in-between. They may only be a couple of publishing labels and a few European borders away from one another, but 2K Czech's world of organised crime is another world away from Rockstar North's excellent Grand Theft Auto IV.

Nintendo has patented an American Football peripheral that houses both Wii remote and nunchuk.

Infinity Ward has confirmed dual-wield guns for Modern Warfare 2, and demonstrated the 'Akimbo' ability using two Desert Eagle weapons.

Rockstar has announced that Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will be released for PSP in the US on 20th October.

Celebrated Xbox Live Arcade game Castle Crashers has expanded with new characters and weapons, as part of a mini-update released last night.

PC space strategy epic Sins of a Solar Empire will get its second mini-expansion early next year, according to a post on publisher Stardock's Impulse digital distribution network.

Two new games are now available for download via Xbox Live.

Developer Level 5 has revealed there is a 100-hour unlockable RPG game within DS title Professor Layton and the Devil's Flute.

Q Entertainment has revealed that it's to release its hypnotic musical block-puzzler, Lumines, for the iPhone, reports 1up.

Ubisoft has announced Wii exclusive No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle will hit the shops in January.

Some magical combination of developer A2M, publisher Bethesda Softworks and platform holder Microsoft has deposited a demo of WET on Xbox Live.

PlayStation Network ops director Eric Lempel has said that you "would be correct to assume" that firmware 3.0, due out soon, is the last major update for 2009.

THQ has announced that it will follow up the Demons of the Badlands DLC for Red Faction: Guerrilla with a Multiplayer Pack on 17th September.

Our last meeting with Final Fantasy XIII - playing the half-hour demo on the bonus disc nestled in the Advent Children special-edition Blu-ray in a tiny Japanese living room, back in April - was rather more intimate than this month's gamescom demonstration. It was possible to gain a real feel for the colourful, sleek science-fiction setting and revamped Active Time battle system, and both impressed us with their innovative spark as much as their predictably professional implementation. FFXIII is, in keeping with series tradition, a bright departure into a brave new universe rather than an incremental update.

Nintendo has revealed that Wii Sports Resort has sold over one million copies across Europe.

A legal blunder made 25 years ago means that retailers selling adult rated games and DVDs to children can no longer be prosecuted for their actions.

The new Pinnacle Station content for Mass Effect can be downloaded now from Xbox Live Marketplace.

Capcom has confirmed a 27th November date for Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles on Wii.

Headline-writers no doubt miss Phil Harrison's bullish proclamations about the downfall of rumble and the power of PlayStation 3 to crush its rivals, but his successor as president of Sony Worldwide Studios, Shuhei Yoshida, has arguably done a lot of good for the company's image since his appointment. Polite and measured in conversation with the press, he even does the unthinkable now and then and compliments the opposition, rather than referring to Microsoft and Nintendo in abstract terms and smirks.