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The tracklist for The Beatles: Rock Band has been revealed, and leaves only one of 45 songs unnamed.

More hot Expo facts fresh from the presses for you this morning: 2K Games has announced that concept shooter Borderlands will be playable at the October Expo.

Much has changed since Sam Fisher retreated into the shadows under cover of nervous write-ups at Ubidays 2007. He's had a haircut, for a start, and he's bought some clothes that fit, including Jason Bourne's sweater. He's also, to judge by the opening sequence of the first playable press demo - a mash-up of the opening two levels of the game proper - relocated to the flashback bathroom where Craig, Daniel Craig popped his double-oh cherry in Casino Royale. But the most important thing for fans will be that he's found his old feet. Conviction is unmistakeably Splinter Cell. The goggles have gone, but Sam is still there, sneaking around and doing unbelievable things under cover of darkness.

id Software boss Todd Hollenshead has said that the developer will be able to talk about Doom 4 in more detail at QuakeCon 2010, which should take place next August.

John Carmack has told QuakeCon he believes id Software can release a new iPhone game "every other month" and given examples of the three product lines he envisages.

The long-awaited Xbox Live Arcade port of Quake III Arena - Quake Arena Arcade - is on show at QuakeCon in playable form, suggesting an impending release.

Only three years have passed since the last Splinter Cell game, Double Agent, took a bow and received the critical acclaim to which the series had become accustomed, but it feels a lot longer. After four releases in four years, the series' hiatus wasn't deliberate - Conviction had been scheduled for release in late 2007 - but after a mixed outing at the inaugural Ubidays that May, the game disappeared from radars amidst rumours the team had gone back to the drawing board.

Xbox Live Arcade specialist NinjaBee is buzzy making a spiritual successor to Cloning Clyde.

Eidos has announced an 11th September launch for Mini Ninjas, the next game from Hitman and Kane & Lynch developer IO Interactive.

Deep Silver and Piranha Bytes have signed top Hollywood talent to voice upcoming RPG Risen.

It's about time tri-Ace had another hit. The studio scored a big fat 9/10 with Valkyrie Profile 2 but that was nearly two years ago. Neither Infinite Undiscovery nor Star Ocean: The Last Hope impressed our reviewers, despite the fact one of them was Simon Parkin - a man who likes JRPGs so much the first dance at his wedding will be Aeris' death music.

Rockstar Games has announced a 2nd October launch for PSP music game Beaterator. Or, as the game is now known, "Beaterator, presented by Rockstar Games and Timbaland".

Nearly 800,000 Wii units have been sold in the UK since January, making it the best-selling console of the year so far.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Rubber Soul will join Abbey Road as the first three Beatles albums available to download for The Beatles: Rock Band.

Free DSi application Flipnote will head the weekly DSiWare/WiiWare/Virtual Console refresher tomorrow.

Nintendo has 5000 copies of Metroid (NES, Virtual Console) to give away.

With just days remaining before the big Premier League kick off, I've been given the opportunity to test the latest pre-release code of Championship Manager 2010 (formerly known as Championship Manager 2009). It's been almost two years since this traditionally annual series' last appearance - the hit and miss Championship Manager 2008 - but in a daring attempt to close the gap on Sports Interactive's all-dominant Football Manager franchise, developer Beautiful Game Studios has spent the last 20-odd months revamping CM with a number of high profile additions and innovations.

Sony's PSPgo is set to launch with a firmware upgrade featuring new options and tweakables. Expect a full video reveal in a forthcoming Eurogamer TV show, along with fuller hands-on, but in the meantime, check out this complete technical readout of the new, fully armed and operational PlayStation Portable.

Fallen Earth - an independently-developed post-apocalyptic PC MMO set in a Mad Max-style society living in the Grand Canyon - will go into open beta next Monday, 17th August.

Mythic has announced that it will release the 8th expansion to EA's venerable MMO, Ultima Online, on September 8th.

Valve will introduce a King of the Hill mode to Team Fortress 2 soon, as part of the very first Classless Update.

Activision has announced British artists Scratch Perverts and DJ Yoda as contributors to the upcoming DJ Hero music game.

EA plans to add three new boxers to Fight Night Round 4 in September, including Ukrainian brothers Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko.

David Doak, the former boss of Haze and TimeSplitters developer Free Radical, has set up a brand new studio.

The US PlayStation blog reports that the PS3 version of Batman: Arkham Asylum will unlock a Batcave personal space - i.e. apartment for your avatar - in PlayStation Home.

A man from Raven Software has promised to pay for your copy of Wolfenstein if the game outsells Madden NFL 10 in August.

Swedish studio GRIN has officially closed.

TimeGate and SouthPeak have announced that Section 8 will allow players to host dedicated servers for both the PC and Xbox 360 versions on their Windows PCs.

Firebrand Games, the company that produced impressive versions of TrackMania and Race Driver GRID for the DS, has announced that it's heading into home console development with a version of TrackMania for the Wii.

Sony plans to update the PlayStation website soon so that you can compare Trophy information with several friends at once and include more of it in your portable ID.