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Q Games will release PixelJunk Eden expansion Encore on PSN this week. It'll cost USD 5.99.

Nintendo has announced that the Wii MotionPlus add-on will launch in Europe on 12th June, with pricing still to be confirmed.

The word "unique" gets bandied about a lot these days, so it's hard to stay awake when you hear it coming out of a developer's mouth. Especially when you're jetlagged and you've had no lunch and you've already seen seven videogames today, all of them variations on the popular theme of shoot-the-monster-in-the-face. And especially when the word "unique" is followed by the phrase "combination of gameplay elements you've seen over the past ten to 15 years".

Konami and Hudson have unveiled a new crime-themed DS game called Miami Crisis.

Konami has whipped the wrappers off Driift, a WiiWare game due for release in July.

Satoru Iwata has said the Wii isn't doing as well in Japan as Nintendo would like.

I've just got back from an exciting four-hour holiday in Germany. I went to Frankfurt, where I was guided into a room full of televisions and allowed to play some of WiiWare's upcoming titles.

There is a confession I have to make, and it's as well that I get it out of the way now. I suck. At Bomberman 2. I am endlessly found hanging around just inside the blast radius of my own bombs, joyfully entering cul-de-sacs in front of hungrier, more talented players and gleefully toddling over to poison skulls to savour their various debilitating flavours. I'll loiter quite blithely on floors flickering with the ominous orange of impending flames and stare, entranced, at the sparking laser warming up just in front of me. And this is just single-player - traditionally the relatively sedate and simple cousin of the main, multiplayer, event. The Stephen to multiplayer's Alec.

THQ has made the Red Faction: Guerrilla single-player demo available to Xbox Live and PlayStation Network users in Europe who register on its website.

This, we're led to believe, is the end: the final set of downloadable maps for Halo 3. Despite the game's continuing success on Xbox Live, Bungie reckons there's enough meat on those multiplayer bones to keep us all going. So, with the possible exception of some new stuff (unconfirmed, as yet) in Halo 3: ODST later this year, the Mythic Map Pack is the swansong for Halo 3 multiplayer.

Wii Fit spends an 11th week atop the UK All Formats chart and becomes Nintendo's longest serving No. 1 ever, breaking Pokémon Yellow's record.

SEGA has confirmed that OutRun Online Arcade will be released on the PlayStation Network on Thursday this week, just one day after it arrives on Xbox Live Arcade - but in Europe only.

US TV star Judge Mathis has signed up to star in a new open-world shooter for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

Bungie lifted the lid on Halo 3 map Assembly during last weekend's Penny Arcade event in the US.

Microsoft has announced the third map in the upcoming Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack, which also ships as part of the Halo Wars collector's edition later this month.

UPDATE: It's been pointed out by many, many people that 9th April is the release date for the Mythic Map Pack for Halo 3. So it's probably that, as announced by Microsoft this lunchtime. The three-map pack had previously only been available to people who bought Halo Wars, which is why we didn't think of it. Mondays should be banned.

Bungie has said all downloadable Halo 3 maps will be included with ODST later this year, including the upcoming Mythic map pack and the three exclusive expansion levels.

Microsoft has officially confirmed release dates for the Xbox 360 Left 4 Dead Survival Pack (21st April), Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack (9th April) and Gears of War 2 Snowblind Map Pack (31st March), even though we knew at least one of those already. The L4D pack is also due out for PC, presumably around the same time.

Kotaku has confirmed that Activision Blizzard has left the PC Gaming Alliance.

Id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead has said that Doom 4 is "not a sequel to Doom 3, but it's not a reboot either".

JoWooD will rekindle the Painkiller series with a brand new instalment later this year.

Sony has released classic PSone game Final Fantasy VII for download via the PlayStation Network.

Konami has announced a pair of upcoming downloadable games for PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade, reviving the Vandal Hearts series and jumping on the zombie bandwagon in the process.

Sony has announced the first downloadable content for Killzone 2 is coming later this month.

Capcom has denied that the Versus downloadable content for Resident Evil 5 is no more than a key that unlocks the mode already on the game disc, despite being only 1.86 MB in size.

Gearbox chief Randy Pitchford says the visuals in Borderlands will not be cel-shaded.

Last Friday's WiiWare update brought with its three new ways to rid yourself of Wii Points in the shape of Bubble Bobble Plus!, Equilibrio and Family & Friends Party.

Assassin's Creed is set in 15th-century Italy and stars a young nobleman-turned-assassin called Ezio Auditore de Firenze, according to the Game Informer preview teased last week.

Sony has updated the PlayStation Store with downloadable versions of Hail to the Chimp, Flock and Rag Doll Kung Fu for PS3, and Ape Academy, Lemmings, Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice and Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror for PSP.

PixelJunk Eden Encore will be released next month, Q-Games boss Dylan Cuthbert has said on the PlayStation Blog.