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It would be rude to trace a direct, chunky line from God of War towards Darksiders with a blood-red marker pen and a flotilla of exclamation marks; for a start it would pull attention away from the parallel line leading up to the threshold of EA's Dante's Inferno. Ethereal beatings are just in vogue these days. The way to pull in the button-mashing blood-let brigade, it would seem, is to provide an array of combos within the more pointy-tooth-centric and ancient areas of world religion. With God of War we get Grecian monsters and threesomes; with Dante's Inferno we'll get a medieval-eye view of hell with (hopefully) a final boss that's Judas Iscariot encased in ice with lasers for eyes; and finally, with Darksiders, we get the gaming adaptation of the Book of Revelation.

A Japanese TV commercial for Wii MotionPlus has revealed two more of the mini-game sports for Wii Sports Resort: table tennis and golf.

The release date for PC-exclusive war game ArmA II has been brought forward by a week.

Duke Nukem Forever developer 3D Realms "has not closed and is not closing" and "retains ownership of the Duke Nukem franchise", according to a statement issued by the developer.

Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade service continues to swell past the 200 games mark it hit a few weeks ago with the addition of Blazing Birds (400 Microsoft Points - GBP 3.40 / EUR 4.80) and Gel: Set & Match (800 MSP - GBP 6.80 / EUR 9.60) tomorrow.

You could argue that the Wild West is a tough sell for a videogame. It may have been the reliable staple of action-packed kids' entertainment for years, but those who grew up daydreaming of cowboys were doing so long before the joypad made an appearance. Kids today - and by kids, I refer to most people under the age of 40 - seemingly all grew up wanting to be tormented superheroes, homoerotic space marines or superstars of reality TV. Where's the room for a Western adventure in that?

You'd think Steven Spielberg had better things to do than help EA make videogames. Like issue a public apology for Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, for example. Or remake it with a proper plot, decent special effects and an ending that doesn't make you want to slice your own face off.

Some interesting discussion going on over at the Beyond3D forum, here. Capcom’s long awaited Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix has been released - its main claim to fame being beautifully redrawn artwork in full 1080p. But is it really 1080p? There are some odd-looking artefacts in the character sprites, as pointed out by a man posting online using the hacker alias ‘MazingerDUDE’.

MLB The Show ‘08 is revered amongst PlayStation 3 owners for not only providing the best baseball game on the console, but also for its excellent tech credentials, including support for native 1080p - a somewhat rare commodity on the current generation of gaming systems. The excellent news is that the brand new MLB The Show ‘09 improves upon the original in all respects.

Fallout 3. One of the most hotly controversial cross-platform projects of 2008, the PlayStation 3 version in particular came in for plenty of criticism owing to its often-poor frame rate - though Digital Foundry was somewhat more even-handed in its Eurogamer assessment at the tail-end of last year.

EA, MTV and Harmonix have unveiled the list of songs included in Rock Band Unplugged, which launches on PSP on 19th June.

Activision has confirmed that Tony Hawk: Ride will appear on PS3, Wii and Xbox 360 "later this year". RoboModo will develop PS3 and 360 versions while Buzz Monkey creates for Wii.

Microsoft Entertainment and Devices bigshot J Allard has been named as one of five inventors of a "magic wand".

Wii Fit is balanced atop the UK All-Formats chart for a seventh consecutive week, taking its lifetime top-spot total to 16.

DJ Shadow reckons the amount of freedom DJ Hero offers players over licensed music will "raise some eyebrows" this autumn.

Konami has seen a rise in sales of 4.2 per cent this fiscal year. Profits are down by more than 40 per cent, however, standing at JPY 10,874 million (GBP 2.1 billion).

Oblivion and Fallout maker Bethesda plans to make mature games for the Wii.

KOEI has announced that Dynasty Warriors 6 Empires will be released for PS3 and Xbox 360 on 26th June.

Nintendo has revealed that Wii Punch-Out!! will have a brand new Title Defence mode where champions must protect their belt from ambitious boxers.

In Funcom's latest financial report, there's some encouraging news regarding the performance of its troubled MMO Age of Conan - although nothing as concrete as subscriber numbers.

Sony Online Entertainment has announced more than a million people have signed up to play Free Realms.

Cryptic's superhero MMO, Champions Online, has had its release delayed from July 14th by September 1st to give it more time in development.

id Software plans to expand Quake Live by one map every Monday, starting today and ending in six weeks' time.

Team Ninja's new boss has dropped a big hint that Ninja Gaiden will return - and that it will be a multi-platform game when it does.

Arkane and Valve have put ambitious multiplayer shooter The Crossing on hold, deciding to focus on a first-person RPG and an iPhone strategy game instead.

The first batch of tickets for Blizzard's BlizzCon fan convention went on sale on Saturday and sold out within "minutes", according to VG247.

3D Realms co-founder Scott Miller has denied that the developer received USD 12 million from Take-Two for the publishing rights to Duke Nukem Forever as stated in the lawsuit filed last week.

BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra are hosting a series of games events this bank holiday as part of their Big Gaming Weekend.

There's only one surefire way of revving up expectation for a World War II strategy game: use Dad's Army map arrows during cut-scenes. Works every time. Either Order of War's developers are geniuses on the same scale as Perry and Croft, or their home country of Belarus (as seen in the semi-finals of Eurovision) is a hotbed of not being kidded by Mr Hitler. So yes, Order of War is exciting because of the pointy arrows. But what else?

I'm not sure what my highlight so far has been. It may have been having a guy die while making out with me, before immediately proceeding to call up his sister, have a little mourn, flirt, make out, ask out and then dump her, whilst standing over the grave of the brother. Or it may have been discovering the patriarch of the town has a daughter, who I end up going out with, only to dump brutally, before hearing the patriarch has died, chatting up the widow in the gym (I ask her if she's single - surprise, she is!), and flirting with her enough to go steady. All in front of a crowd, including the upset daughter. Before dumping the widow. Only to later, in my dotage, get back together with the daughter and move into their epic townhouse.