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Microsoft is offering you the chance to win a trip to gamescom to experience Project Natal first-hand.

Monster Hunter Tri has proved enormously popular in Japan, with 520,000 copies sold over two days.

Bethesda, publisher of the mighty Fallout 3 and the Elder Scrolls series, has confirmed that both sexy action thriller WET and Wii-exclusive racer Wheelspin will be playable at our wonderful Expo in October.

The Revenge of Shinobi leads the Virtual Console/WiiWare/DSiWare update today. And that trip down Mega Drive lane costs 800 Nintendo Points (£5.60 / €8).

German developer Village1 Entertainment has announced that it's porting Starbreeze's Xbox and PC fantasy adventure, Enclave, to the Wii. The game is due out in early 2010.

Numark Industries and Genius Products have hired another developer to finish Scratch: The Ultimate DJ, pushing the music game's release back to early next year.

Codemasters has unveiled the DS version of Colin McRae: DiRT 2, which is due out alongside the other versions on 11th September.

Here's a snippet we missed from the Activision Blizzard conference call earlier in the week. This year's BlizzCon Blizzard fan convention sold out in just eight minutes, according to Big Download.

The October release of Brutal Legend will go ahead as planned after Activision and Double Fine reached a legal settlement.

Gameloft's TV Show King is pretty much the highlight in a rather dull update to the PlayStation Store this week, although PS3 owners do gain access to the much-trailed Batman: Arkham Asylum demo alongside one for Rag Doll Kung Fu: Fists of Plastic.

Volition has released a big old patch for Red Faction: Guerrilla on PS3 and Xbox 360 and announced its first double-XP weekend to celebrate.

Microsoft has introduced the option to buy its made-up Xbox currency using your PayPal account, assuming you're American.

Sometimes, in the often cliché-ridden and underwhelming world of movie tie-ins, a rare gem crops up which defies the odds and makes a silk purse from a sow's ear - a golden leaf which floats against the current of cultural effluent and heads upstream toward the spring of quality, high in the originality mountains.

Shatter - and this is something you don't often say of download games that cost less than a fiver - has an absolutely fantastic soundtrack. For the new PSN game by GripShift creators Sidhe, Module (aka Jeremiah Ross, a New Zealand electronica artist) has put together 90 minutes of warm, fat, fuzzy bass grooves over steady disco beats and under tidal washes of space-age synth, cut through with heroic stadium-rock guitar and sprinkled in pure, unadulterated SID-chip stardust.

Let's get down to it then: it's a real-time strategy game which, while it may be leading on PC, is due out at the same time on PS3 and Xbox 360. And when it comes to real-time strategy on consoles, all anyone ever wants to debate is compromises and dumbing down. Want to know why RTS games usually don't work on consoles? The fact we operate from the assumption that they won't work probably has something to do with it.

By now you may have seen our hands-on preview of Ubisoft and Eugen Systems' upcoming RUSE, due out for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 in Q1 2010. If you haven't, the following will probably make no sense whatsoever, because it's a fuller transcript of one of our discussions with project coordinator Mathieu Girard.

Eidos has pushed the PC release of Batman: Arkham Asylum back to 18th September.

After HDTV comes 3DTV. At least, that's according to Andrew Oliver, whose company, Blitz Games, has a proprietary engine that produces 3D images on PS3 and Xbox 360. You need a 3DTV to display them, obviously, and without many of them around there's not a huge amount of excitement yet, but Blitz hopes to change that with its upcoming downloadable 3D game, Invincible Tiger: The Legend of Han Tao for PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade.

Nintendo has announced that Wii Sports Resort has been bought over 500,000 times across the US.

Activision has announced that Bizarre Creations' racing game Blur will be released in November.

Microsoft has rolled out a brand-new version of Games for Windows - Live.

Following this week's revelation that Square Enix's MMO Final Fantasy XIV won't use experience points or a levelling system, more detail on its character advancement and classes has come to light.

Activision has apparently dated Guitar Hero: Van Halen for 22nd December in the US, putting the release super-close to Christmas - a period usually shunned by publishers.

Activision has told Eurogamer that Guitar Hero: Van Halen will not be released this year in Europe.

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one that is most adaptable to change." Charles Darwin.

Bohemia has patched up top-notch war game ArmA II, re-wiring computer-brains and tweaking the multiplayer and co-operative campaigns.

Halo Legends creative director Shinji Aramaki has admitted he would never stumbled on the Bungie universe were his wife not a Halo 3 fangirl.

Perhaps feeling the need to explain to shareholders why it was delaying StarCraft II, Activision Blizzard has given a broad explanation of the features we can expect from its new Battle.net online gaming service.

Activision Blizzard has revealed further instalments in some of its most popular series are on the way.

Crytek boss Cevat Yerli has spoken out against plans to ban German developers from making violent games.