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More than 100,000 people have signed a petition campaigning for a LAN option to be included in StarCraft II.

If you thought World of Warcraft expansions had settled into a comfortable routine of ten new levels and a new continent apiece, the latest rumours about the third add-on to the monster MMO will surprise you.

Sony's price points for the upcoming PSP app store are lower than those used on iTunes, according to a report.

Newcomer PQube has picked up the European rights to superb PS3 and Xbox 360 fighting game BlazBlue, and plans a launch here during Q1 2010.

Electronic Arts has announced plans to release Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Commander's Challenge for PSN and Xbox Live Arcade this autumn.

Eidos bossman Ian Livingstone has dismissed suggestions Rocksteady Games is working on a new Hitman title.

Microsoft has sold more than nine million Xbox 360 consoles in Europe according to local boss Chris Lewis.

Ever dropped a stone into a hole to find out how deep it goes? Had Jason Fleming done so while peering into the overgrown hollow that marks the start of Shadow Complex, no splash would have echoed back. This opening, into which his girlfriend descended not two minutes earlier, is the mouth of an abyss; a rabbit hole that will lead him unwittingly into an underground military complex, the role of would-be national saviour and the belly of one of gaming's long lost genres. By the time he re-emerges, triple-jumping into the sun, you'll have mapped tens of miles of subterranean corridors, thwarted a plot to blow up San Francisco and seen Jason Fleming transformed from country-bumpkin into cyber-ninja.

Part of the remit I set out for the Digital Foundry channel would be to showcase games, performance and technology in a way that isn't covered anywhere else. Sometimes it's controversial, sometimes it's intriguing and sometimes it's just... cool.

Target renders. Bullshots. Pre-renders. Grading. Post-processing. A whole new terminology has built up within the games community to describe the ways and means by which game-makers are creating promotional material that may or may not actually look like the product we'll eventually be playing on our consoles and computers. Where did it begin, why are they doing it, and in the internet age where any kind of fakery and shenanigans is swiftly jumped upon, shouldn't they really be stopping it?

Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz' widely-read weekly newsletter, the GamesIndustry.biz Editorial is a weekly dissection of one of the issues weighing on the minds of the people at the top of the games business. It appears on Eurogamer after it goes out to GI.biz newsletter subscribers.

Sony has re-stocked the PAL PSN cupboards and promised updates for VidZone, Fat Princess and PAIN.

UK retailer Argos is claiming that Microsoft has binned the 60GB Xbox 360.

Monster Hunter Tri has been knocked off the Japanese chart pedestal by PS2 newcomer SD Gundam G Generation Wars, which posts a winning score of 175,000 sales.

It might simply be "happenstance", as Harmonix man John Drake describes it, that The Beatles: Rock Band hits day and date with the fully remastered back catalogue, but it is nevertheless an unprecedented Beatlesgasm beyond the wettest, wildest dreams of oily marketing men.

Yes! More Expo games! We can hardly believe it either. Today it's Microsoft who takes centre-stage, tossing AAA Xbox 360 exclusives into the fray like thongs at a Timberlake concert. The Redmond giant isn't messing about either - the two games we're happy to confirm today are Forza Motorsport 3 and a little old thing called Halo 3: ODST. Yes, yes, we're aware that both of these titles will be in the shops at this point, but, as Tim Westwood might say - hold up, big dog.

Blizzard has revealed that it will celebrate World of Warcraft's 5-year anniversary by updating one of the classic raid dungeons from the original game, Onyxia's Lair.

You know who the unsung hero of the Resident Evil series is? The guy who moans "Resident Eeeeeevil" at the start of each game. I like to think that it's the same person, and that for each sequel he puts years of practice into making each number sound as spooky as possible.

Project Gotham Racing mastermind Bizarre Creations reckons people go "cross-eyed" when they hear about all the features going into new racing IP, Blur, which debuts in November on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

Double Fine has drawn back the curtain on the four-player RTS multiplayer mode within upcoming action game Brutal Legend.

Realtime Worlds has revealed that urban MMO APB will not require a monthly subscription, as a keen-eyed Eurogamer reader found out.

And they say online petitions never work. In your FACE, They, and a great big thank you to the literally thousands (approx.) of people who signed up to support the return of Jambo! Safari. SEGA could not ignore the cry of our united voices and now the classic arcade game is making a comeback. YES WII CAN.

Valve has shown the first footage of the Fairgrounds campaign coming to Left 4 Dead 2.

Capcom will roll out the Lost Planet 2 multiplayer co-op demo next week on Xbox Live.

IDEA and Bohemia have revealed an expansion for modern-day war game ArmA II.

THQ has announced a release date for Blood Bowl, the videogame based on Games Workshop's fantasy football series.

Nintendo had the best of another bad month for videogame sales in the US during July, topping both the hardware and software charts.

EA Montreal has announced a release date for Army of Two: The 40th Day.

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.