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A videogame tie-in for Where the Wild Things Are is on the way.

Warner Bros. has clarified that the second episode of Watchmen: The End is Nigh will be coming to PC, despite apparently telling GameSpot the opposite late last week.

Q-Games boss Dylan Cuthbert has revealed on the US PlayStation Blog that his studio's next PSN game will be called PixelJunk Shooter and will have a co-op mode.

As promised, Activision has released a two-minute gameplay trailer for Modern Warfare 2, which is due out on 10th November.

BioWare has unveiled some of the new characters, locations, weapons and story details for Mass Effect 2.

Nintendo is to release all the Metroid Prime games on one disc for the Wii.

Microsoft has said to expect three new games on Xbox Live Arcade tomorrow, including the first of the Wallace & Gromit episodes from Telltale Games.

Capcom plans to re-release Resident Evil: Director's Cut via PlayStation Network this week.

Resident Evil 5 has sold nearly five million units according to Capcom's chief financial officer Kazuhiko Abe.

Blizzard has announced the first details of the next World of Warcraft update, patch 3.2: Call of the Crusade.

Final Fantasy will not be released in the US until next year according to a massive billboard advert thrown up ahead of E3 next week.

Today's videogame instruction manuals strain at their staples, pamphlet bibles heavy with back-stories for characters you don't yet care for and detailed explanations of control schemes that sit meaningless on the page. Perhaps then, Bit Trip Beat exists to prove that "Avoid Missing Ball For High-Score" can, even today, still be instruction enough. (Although let's drop the full-stop in "Bit. Trip" lest we all get confused.)

Around 15 hours into Sacred II, I check my stats. 2186 enemies defeated. 43 quests completed. 8.4 per cent of the main quest completed. 4.9 per cent of the map revealed.

Probably one of the most impressive demos released on PS3 and Xbox 360 recently, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, is to put it in very basic terms, excellent fun. The concept of melding Marvel Comics' most beloved berserker with God of War-style gameplay is simply inspired, and I'm looking forward to taking a look at the full game in more depth for the next Face-Off feature.

Throwing off the shackles of simulation racing might sound like a good idea to some extent, but in Bizarre Creations' case, the simmy side of Project Gotham Racing was only shackling it to, er, enormous critical acclaim. Having been swallowed up by Activision, however, the Liverpool-based developer had little choice but to start over on something new - and after a decade making sim-leaning racing games for Dreamcast and then Xbox and Xbox 360, it's little wonder that Blur is such a departure.

The history of PC gaming can be neatly split into two eras. Everything from 1993 onwards we can class as the Modern Age, in which the PC is established as a games platform in its own right. (We can pinpoint 1993 based on the fact that before that year the number of PC games that have survived into posterity drops off precipitously.)

Here's one of my favourite sections from new PS3 exclusive inFamous. It's effectively Sucker Punch's homage to the epoch-making Agency Tower ascent in Realtime Worlds' Crackdown. While the actual job of scaling this particular structure is nowhere near as meticulous an exercise as it can be in Crackdown (there's plenty of useful checkpointing, for starters), there's no denying that this is the best view you'll get of InFamous' cityscape, plus the developers have taken the opportunity of giving you some gorgeous HDR lighting to help make your ascent that much more of an experience. The inclusion of some sub-human scum to dispose of en route adds to the challenge too.

Visit Sony Online Entertainment's Seattle offices, which house the team making its stylish espionage MMO The Agency for PC and PS3, and you get buried alive: in ideas, in raw information, in words. Most of these things are fired out of the mouth of lead designer Hal Milton at machine-gun rate and you're left frantically scribbling away to keep up, not to mention thrown by the propensity of Milton and the rest of the team to answer questions on almost any facet of the gameplay in great detail, rather than with a "we're not talking about that today".

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Before embarking on Heavy Rain, David Cage - adventure-game auteur and chief of the Quantic Dream studio - made Fahrenheit. A similarly daring exercise in interactive narrative, known as Indigo Prophecy in the US, Fahrenheit is remembered with equal amounts of fondness and embarrassment by gamers, sometimes at the same time.

It seems improbable, but calendars don't lie. There's yet another bank holiday next Monday, meaning there will be a temporary lull in news updates on Eurogamer.

Like the sun, the new releases have come out to play. Or got their hat on. Whichever of the two makes sense. [That would be neither - Ed.]

Capcom has announced that the PSP demo of Monster Hunter Freedom Unite will be available next Thursday, 28th May.

For more than two years now, friend-of-Eurogamer Richard Leadbetter has been diligently playing through the PS3, Xbox 360 and often PC versions of big-hitting games to bring you technical analysis of their relative strengths and weaknesses.

Eurogamer's full review of inFamous has already been posted and it's difficult to disagree with Tom's verdict: despite minor issues and an initially uncompelling series of missions, the game manages to transform radically within a few hours of play and proved compelling enough for me to sit glued to the PS3 until it was completed. With so many releases and so few spare man hours, it's rare that a game is able to command my attention like this, but it's fair to say that the appeal of the Crackdown DNA is strong in this one.

The PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of new racers FUEL have been delayed by a week.

Typical: you wait all decade for a decent Wii game and three turn up at once. Titles like Little King's Story and Boom Blox: Bash Party are proving it's not just Nintendo who can produce decent games for the console. What's more, they don't all have to revolve around fitness, cooking or mini-games that are less fun than meningitis.

Warner Bros. has said the second episode of Watchmen: The End is Nigh will not be released for PC.

There are demos aplenty on the PS3 Store this weekend, including tasters for inFamous, Red Faction: Guerrilla, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 and Marvel vs. Capcom 2.

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has revealed the company is always developing new hardware - even though they end up throwing some of their ideas in the bin.