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Puzzle mastermind PopCap has turned its attention to DSiWare, where we'll see Bookworm added later this month and Bejeweled Twist in mid-October.

Sometimes, in moments of particularly focused age-related bitterness, I wonder if the kids these days have it too easy. They live in a world of Ninkynonks, Fimbles and Ballymory - hanging around in Lazy Town eating space fruits and befriending lime-green time-tigers. Of course, my own generation wasn't that hard-done-by either - I lived in Cities of Gold with Wizbit and Morph. SuperTed was my homeboy.

The Chinese World of Warcraft servers are back online after an enforced two-month hiatus while the government checked out a swap in local operators.

Microsoft has announced another two games to join Zombie Apocalypse on Xbox Live Arcade tomorrow.

Microsoft reckons that it's king of the hill when it comes to downloadable games, following a period that saw a 200 per cent boost in sales compared to last summer.

Q-Games' upcoming PlayStation Network release PixelJunk Shooter will go on sale in Japan this December, according to founder Dylan Cuthbert.

Ogyen Trinley Dorje, one of two claimants to the title of 17th Karmapa of Tibetan Buddhism, has said that he plays videogames in order to "decompress" and get rid of negative thoughts and feelings.

Microsoft has confirmed the existence of a new and improved Xbox 360 Wireless Network Adapter.

SEGA has announced a downloadable Warpath expansion for Empire: Total War.

Square Enix president Yoichi Wada has said he expects Nintendo to release a new Wii console by 2011.

Square Enix is still working on the Final Fantasy game that GRIN created but couldn't finish before collapsing last month.

EA has shown that Need for Speed still has pulling power as new game Shift debuts at the top of the UK All-Formats Chart.

Rubi Malone isn't your typical videogame heroine. She's several of your typical videogame heroines rolled into one. Like Lara, she's pneumatic and acrobatic. Like BloodRayne, she's handy with a sword. Like her out of Mirror's Edge, she has an implausible ability to see potential routes through the environment highlighted in red, like a CSI tracking semen traces left by the Ready Brek man. Like all of them, she wears clothes that are a bit too small.

Lord of the Rings Online maker Turbine has revealed the thinking behind its forthcoming console MMO, saying that PS3 and Xbox 360 offer a "superior MMO platform" with an untapped market worth an estimated $2.3 billion.

Activision has pushed Bizarre Creations' new racing game Blur back to 2010.

THQ has announced a standalone Dawn of War II expansion called Chaos Rising.

Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg does not expect recent price cuts for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 to leave a lasting impression on the console sales race.

Sony has spent the last few weeks reaping the rewards of its new redesigned PlayStation 3, so it's easy to forget that Microsoft also enjoyed a big boost on the back of a round of price cuts. The timing was a coincidence, according to MS Europe's Chris Lewis, but the underlying message was perhaps consistent: this Christmas is a big one.

EA DICE plans to revitalise Battlefield: Heroes with a significant Heroes of the Fall update. There's no date for the patch yet, but the "Fall" part of the title perhaps offers an autumnal clue.

Konami plans to release Zombie Apocalypse this week: Wednesday on Xbox Live Arcade and Thursday on the PlayStation Network.

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AION servers are already overcrowded as hundreds of thousands of pre-order customers are given headstart access to the MMO, according to widespread reports.

Rare has said the chances of striking a GoldenEye revival deal with Nintendo are slim, and have been for quite some time.

Nadeo has announced TrackMania 2 for PC at the Paris Games Festival.

Square Enix has announced an October release for DSiWare game Dragon Quest: Wars. And, as we know, it costs 500 DSi Points (approx. £5).

Capcom's Japanese Street Fighter IV blog has started hinting at a forthcoming sequel.

Microsoft's newly released Zune HD touch-screen media player will function as a gaming device, Microsoft has confirmed, and 3D versions of games such as Project Gotham Racing will be available for it by the end of the year.

"I'm betting," says Ron Gilbert, settling into a killer pause with the practiced air of a world-class vacuum cleaner salesman, "that you've never fought a nun before." He laughs, slightly frazzled after a day full of promotional interviews backstage at PAX. "If you've ever wanted to fight a nun, this is the game to do it in."

Flawed masterpiece it may well be, but Uncharted: Drake's Fortune remains one of the greatest games of this console generation. Even today, its technical prowess effortlessly outstrips the vast majority of games released on any next generation platform, but its superb appeal goes way beyond its expert utilisation of the PS3 architecture. Brilliant graphics, accomplished gameplay, interesting characters, excellent storyline... Naughty Dog's PS3 debut can be picked up for a song these days, and it's a game that deserves a retrospective purchase, if only to set you up for the magnificence to come. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves debuts in just a few weeks' time and already early reviews are hailing it a masterpiece. While the jury's still out on that until final release code is my hands, based on this week's demo release, I can well believe it.

Ankama Games has announced a 2nd December release for Dofus 2.0, which effectively relaunches the 25-million-strong cartoon MMO.