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"We're sitting in the Milton room by the way," Wayne Barlowe confides, with a twinkle in his eye. We've just been talking about Paradise Lost, the English writer's 17th-century epic poem, and the defining literary influence on Barlowe's artistic life.

Developer ACE Team has said to expect a demo for Zeno Clash in the near future, along with downloadable content and an SDK for the creative types.

Microsoft promises to refund people who were overcharged for a discounted copy of Braid from Xbox Live Arcade.

A source close to Bethesda has told Eurogamer that Fallout 3 add-ons Operation: Anchorage and The Pitt will be bundled together and sold at retail.

Old school laserdisc and arcade game Mad Dog McCree appears to be heading to Wii, if an ESRB rating for a Gunslinger Pack is to be believed.

SEGA has announced that Virtual On: Oratorio Tangram is this week's Xbox Live Arcade release, so you will be able to grab it on Wednesday morning.

Konami has decided to dump controversial Iraq war game Six Days in Fallujah due to the amount of negative feedback received.

The iPhone and iPod Touch version of Assassin's Creed: Altair's Chronicles has gone on sale for GBP 5.99 / USD 9.99.

Blizzard has put a website form live allowing attendees of last year's BlizzCon event to register the beta keys they received.

What's new? The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena. But despite the efforts of Atari and Starbreeze to shed the next-gen re-skin image, the added content scarcely conceals a five year-old game which, as good as it once was, is now outdated. We still recommend a purchase, but only just.

Norway's King Harald V has told one of his subjects that he cannot change his name to Sonic X.

Nintendo has given June dates to Wii game Another Code R: A Journey into Lost Memories and DS game Walk With Me! Do You Know Your Walking Routine?

Universal Pictures has placed the production of the BioShock film adaptation on hold.

US publisher Atlus had its website hacked last week, and the naughty "third-party entity" responsible may have used it to launch malicious software onto visitors' PCs.

Guild Wars celebrates its fourth anniversary tomorrow, and developer ArenaNet and its parent NCsoft have celebrated by announcing that it has sold six million copies.

Mezmer Games has announced its latest PC offering, Stalin vs. Martians, will be released on Wednesday 29th April.

Ubisoft has trademarked the game title Driver: The Recruit.

Atari and its recent acquisition Cryptic studios have announced that they'll release their superhero MMO Champions Online for PC on 14th July in Europe and North America.

Microsoft is offering Xbox Live Silver users the chance to try out Gold membership for free this weekend.

In 1966, according to Wikipedia - which I've certainly never known to be wrong about anything - Don King stomped an employee to death over a debt of 600 dollars. I mention this only because it makes Don King's Prizefighter the first videogame series I can think of that's endorsed by somebody who's actually killed a man - well, at least since Lesley Grantham's Super-Trick Snowboarding gave us so many hours of fun on the SEGA Megadrive. Still, it feels a little churlish bringing it up, really: King's served his sentence and deserves a second chance. He's done his time, and now, with Don King Boxing, we're doing ours.

The MMO market is a strange place: a land of boundless opportunity, or at least perceived to be, going by the tales of hardy adventurers into the unknown like EverQuest and EVE Online and, of course, the great explorer World of Warcraft, who ventured deep in-country and found riches beyond imagining.

Earlier today, Eurogamer and Codemasters Online Gaming celebrated the second birthday of The Lord of the Rings Online by giving away 2000 free copies of the game in digital form. These were not trials but full products, complete with 30 days' free game time. They have all gone. It only took around 20 minutes, with five codes claimed every three seconds, you greedy lot.

THQ has informed us that Red Faction Guerrilla is to be released one week earlier than planned.

"We didn't want to make a World War II game," says Tom French, lead designer on The Saboteur. Things don't appear to have gone according to plan. The Saboteur is set in the early 1940s, in France, and is mainly about killing Nazis. If they meant to deliver a tennis game or an an innovative new twist on the Cooking Mama genre, a rethink may be required.

Dead Space's gutsy debut on Xbox 360 and PS3 last year divided opinion like an arc welder through necrotic flesh, with a vocal surge of support pushing it up to a healthy 10th in the Eurogamer Readers' Top 50. Atmospheric, gory, and very nearly genuinely frightening, Dead Space is a title which probably deserved greater success than it saw, despite EA's belief that it will get there. A continuation of the IP was almost inevitable, but the choice to turn it into an on-rails shooter for the Wii was a little surprising. I spoke to Steve Papoutsis, executive producer, to find out what challenges the team faced, and whether there's been any squeamishness about bringing 'strategic dismemberment' to the 'family' console.

There's lots to buy on the PlayStation Store this week, plus free samples of Red Faction Guerrilla UFC 2009 Undisputed to try.

Seeing as it's been more than six months since the game hit the shelves, you might have expected Volition to beef up Saints Row 2 rather more substantially than it has with this lightweight serving of DLC.

Codemasters has really made a name for itself in the driving genre. 2007's DiRT and 2008's GRID set the bar high for accessible, solid racers. Continuing the obsession with capitalised four-letter words, FUEL takes things to a bigger, louder and more light-hearted place: to the other side of the apocalypse.

Eidos has confirmed that The Joker will be an exclusive playable character in the PS3 version of Batman: Arkham Asylum.

A new Star Trek game is on the way for PC, Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network.