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A squad-based Star Wars tactical shooter, hmmm? Normally we're a tad suspicious of LucasArts for its obsession with continuously yanking on the flaccid teats of its most lucrative intellectual property - and for very good reason. It's not that our attitude instantly defaults to cynical the minute we see the licence; it's more based on years on being mostly let down by patchy (and often plain cynical) attempts to seemingly cover all genre bases known to man, while, y'know, canning the stuff we actually want to play like Sam & Max 2 and Full Throttle 2. Sigh. We digress. Even so, the idea of Halo meets Rainbow Six in the Star Wars universe sounded like a pretty inspired concoction, admittedly while still running a huge risk of being a Clone War of the wrong kind.

Our giveaway of free copies of Age of Conan has now finished! 1000 keys for a digital download of the game disappeared in a little over an hour. If you got one, well done!

Over 28,000 people in Germany have signed a petition to get the Government to reconsider proposals to ban violent videogames.

Nintendo has stocked the WiiWare/DSiWare/Virtual Console cupboards for a second Hanabi Festival Friday today.

Nintendo's North American president and chief operating officer Reggie Fils-Aime has said people's reactions to the Wii Vitality Sensor are as doubtful as when the company first unveiled DS, the Wii controller and the Balance Board, but that once they play the games, they'll "get it".

It's a testament to DICE's original multiplayer war game that even though there's been a spin-off or expansion every year since 2002, many people have been holding out for a proper World War 2 sequel for seven years. That this sequel arrives on consoles first, rather than PC, and as a bargain-priced digital download no less, reveals much about how gaming has changed since we first planted our boots in Battlefield's bloody, muddy soil.

GripShift developer Sidhe has announced that PSN game Shatter will be released on 23rd July.

Oh July, you tease! There we were, all down in the dumps about having sod all to write about or buy for weeks, and then you go and conjure up several passably interesting products within the space of a few days. We knew you had it in you!

Battlefield 1943 tops the bill on the PlayStation Store this week, with GBP 10 the asking price for a slice of Pacific World War II online multiplayer madness. There's a free trial to test the waters, and you can expect our final verdict later this morning.

Eurogamer and Funcom are teaming up for a very special giveaway this week: 1000 free, digital download copies of Funcom's fantasy MMO for PC, Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures.

Activision and Infinity Ward have decided it's best to call their upcoming game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 after all, and not just Modern Warfare 2.

Bethesda has dusted off The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall and made it available as a free download.

Perhaps looking to revive interest in the MechWarrior games ahead of its just-announced reboot, Smith & Tinker is allowing the last game in the PC series to be released for free.

Microsoft, Robot Entertainment or whoever has updated the Halo Wars website with news of an upcoming Title Update that re-balances units and fixes a few bugs.

Activision has confirmed the first flock of songs for Guitar Hero 5, which launches this September on PS2, PS3, Wii and Xbox 360.

BioWare boss Ray Muzyka has told G4tv that George Lucas is keeping his eye on the studio's Star Wars MMO, The Old Republic.

Major Nelson has revealed a bundle of release dates for this year's Summer of Arcade titles over on his blog.

2K has revealed that Arx Fatalis developer Arkane Studios is contributing to BioShock 2.

If you want to learn something about a science-fiction, alien-invasion shooter before playing it, just pay close attention to how it names its enemies. The single words developers choose to boil their interstellar or interdimensional threats down to often inadvertently reveal the character of the game beneath. Halo's Covenant and Flood conjure an aura of biblical scale and religious devotion. Half-Life 2's Combine suggests seamless integration and sleek, powerful technology. Killzone's Helghast sounds like grim, Germanic warmongering.

When a venerable series makes the transition to handheld, a number of things can happen. Sometimes the results are excellent, paring down game concepts to their essential core, stripping away the layers of gloss and varnish to reveal the beautiful grain of the fun-wood beneath. Sometimes the result is less auspicious, with shoehorned gimmicks and unnecessarily hamstrung gameplay.

EA has announced Command & Conquer 4 for release on PC next year. Surprise! Or perhaps not.

EA has announced online play for FIFA Manager 10, in which players will be able to pit their transfer and tactical wit against each other just like in real life. But without the posturing.

Team17 has pulled the curtain back on Alien Breed Evolution, a co-operative and download-only project first teased last September.

THQ has trumpeted the arrival of a UFC patch that will punish online match-quitters, among other things.

Codemasters will offer a post-release demo of FUEL for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 today.

Remedy has said that Alan Wake on Xbox 360 is its top priority and the PC version may have to wait.

Polish developer CD Projekt has patched its cult low-fantasy RPG The Witcher to version 1.5, removing the game's DRM security protection and adding five bonus adventures created by players.

Harmonix has said that Michael Jackson's death will not affect the release of The Beatles: Rock Band.

Warner Bros. has announced that Watchmen: The End is Nigh Part 2 will be released on PC and PSN this month and on Xbox Live Arcade in August.

Turbine has announced that the free-to-play version of Dungeons & Dragons Online, DDO Unlimited, will launch in the US on August 4th.