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Microsoft now owns the patent covering split-screen seamless drop-in and drop-out co-op.

Gears of War 2 designer Cliff Bleszinski has shed some light on the single-player/co-op campaign element of the upcoming Dark Corners expansion, revealing that it's a 90-minute section that sees Marcus and Dom play dress-up.

It's often been said that one of the many advantages of working on console is that you have a fixed set of hardware to work with, that you can "write to the metal" and code to the "bleeding edge" of the spec. However, our sources suggest that this simply isn't an option for Xbox 360 developers. Microsoft doesn't allow it.

Publishers are treading carefully following the UK price increase of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, opting for cautious, non-committal reaction.

It's been revealed that Ghostbusters cost between $15 million and $20 million to make. That's Ghostbusters the game, of course; the film was made in 1984 and therefore cost about £3.99.

DICE has promised that a handful of Battlefield 1943 weapons will return in Battlefield: Bad Company 2 early next year.

Lest we forget, THQ stands for Toy Headquarters. Sounds wholesome, doesn't it? Goodness knows what's happened, then, because over the last few months I've popped elbows and head-locked people to asphyxiation, dropped hundreds of tons of masonry on the men and women of Mars, witnessed the launch of a pair of new franchises that consist primarily of dropping fools using massive assault rifles, and chainsawing and nuking my enemies in the name of a soul-harvesting god-emperor respectively, and all in the name of THQ. Oh well, at least the kids still have Darksiders.

Microsoft has reminded us that following a Summer of Arcade switcheroo, it's Splosion Man that's due out on Xbox Live Arcade tomorrow, 22nd July.

Warner Bros. has confirmed a game is on the way to tie-in with the movie of Where the Wild Things Are.

World of Goo developer 2DBoy has said that its next full game is a WiiWare title also derived from its Experimental Gameplay Project output.

Ubisoft has announced DS and DSi versions of Rabbids Go Home that will hop onto shop shelves this autumn.

Microsoft has opened sign-ups for its "Xbox Live Update Preview Programme", which will allow some of you to get your hands on the next dashboard update early.

Valve bigwig Gabe Newell has suggested games might be a bit more interesting if gamers themselves were putting the money up.

Appropriately enough, I'm writing this review on the 40th anniversary of the moon landings - when Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong took mankind's first tentative steps on the surface of our closest cosmic neighbour. No matter your opinion of the landings, and there are still plenty who believe that the whole thing was a set-up to nark the Russians and hide the fact that Nixon had doubled the national debt on caviar and prostitutes - pretty much everyone knows the name of the two astronauts who stepped out upon the Sea of Tranquility. You might not be so familiar with Michael Collins, the third member of the Apollo crew who stayed onboard the mothership Columbia and orbited the Moon whilst the other two had their little gad about on the surface.

Activision has announced that a third map pack for Call of Duty: World at War will arrive in August.

OverClocked ReMix has finished its community-wide remix of Final Fantasy IV, and is offering the massive album free either whole or dissected, track-by-track.

As Harry Potter opens in cinemas, so the official videogame whooshes to the top of the UK all-formats chart.

The internet may have unearthed the first pictures of a new Shin Megami Tensei role-playing game. This could be the PS3 instalment Atlus talked of back in 2005.

Aside from Duke Nukem Forever, there can't be a lot games that have endured as many false starts as Alien Breed Evolution. Initially envisaged as a PC RPG in the late nineties, the game crashed and burned after 18 months in development when publisher Microprose was swallowed up by the acquisitive Hasbro Interactive. Undeterred, Team17 then re-envisioned the game as a Snowblind engine-powered title on PS2, but met with frustrating indifference as a slew of publishers passed on backing it. Fortunately, times have changed. Boosted by the success of Worms on Xbox Live Arcade, the Wakefield-based studio has decided to self-publish Alien Breed Evolution, presumably waving two fingers in the direction of all the publishers who shot it down the first time around.

Sony has announced that WipEout HD expansion Fury will be here this Thursday and cost GBP 7.99 / EUR 9.99.

For a breakdown of exactly how Wii MotionPlus works with each event, check out our extra feature on the subject.

Editor's Grovelling Introduction: With Wii Sports Resort due out this coming Friday, many of you have made it clear that you felt our review should have spent more time describing the specific way that the Wii MotionPlus is put to use. Our reviewer, Christian Donlan, did what I asked him to do, so don't blame him - I should have realised that rating the first Nintendo game made for the Wii MotionPlus, of all things, called for more precision. Eurogamer exists to serve you, so I asked Christian to write a supplementary piece that reports on each event's MotionPlus implementation individually to give the review more context.

The MMO market is a tough one to crack. When Eurogamer launched its MMO channel early last year, it was in a mood of anticipation of a market that was about to be blown wide open, of what looked like a year's worth of stellar big-budget launches that would stampede through the breach made by World of Warcraft, and seize the mainstream.

Capcom has announced a 25th September date for Wii exclusive Spyborgs.

Guerrilla Games will launch the Napalm & Cordite add-on for Killzone 2 this Thursday on the PlayStation Store.

Ubisoft has launched a new web gaming portal via Facebook, titled UbiFriends.

Ubisoft has signed up to produce another game based on CBS's popular modern-day version of Quincy.

2K Boston creative director Ken Levine has said in passing that his next game is vastly more ambitious than BioShock, although we still don't know what it is.

Microsoft accidentally uploaded the forthcoming Gears of War 2: All Fronts Collection to Xbox Live Marketplace late last week for half its planned cost.

SEGA has decided to put a Valkyria Chronicles sequel on PSP, and not PS3 where the original was born.