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Sony platforms take the winners rose in Japan this week as PSP outsells DS and PS3 performs better than Wii.

Atari founder Nolan Bushnell last night dismissed online gaming as "not cool", while talking up the future of social gaming exemplified by his current uWink venture.

ACE Team's first-person punch-up Zeno Clash, in which you wrestle with a menagerie of duck-billed goodness-knowses in a beautiful fantasy setting, has been reduced in price by half until 8pm GMT today. And it's not even out yet.

Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg has said that Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned is "the most successful game add-on content we've ever launched" on Xbox Live.

The downloadable version of SOCOM: Confrontation launched on the European PlayStation Store yesterday, along with PowerUp Forever, the PSone's Silent Hill and downloadable content for Call of Duty: World at War and Midnight Club: Los Angeles.

Battlestations: Pacific designer Alastair Cornish has been answering your questions this afternoon, tackling the tricky subjects of sharks, demo dates and much more.

Spring is in the air: as the flowers sprout, so too do new videogame releases. SingStar finally snips the chords with wireless mics, and the freedom - yours for GBP 34.99 - is welcome. SingStar Queen joins the party on PS3 and PS2, too.

It's a multi-billion dollar trade, yet denied in public by most players. In the first of a four-part weekly feature series, Nick Ryan reports on the current state of the thriving grey market in MMO currencies, characters and items. Future instalments will look at this shady virtual business from the perspectives of the gold traders themselves, the games' players, and the developers who make and run MMO games. This week, we offer an overview of this burgeoning and controversial market - and wonder why, if it's such big business, so few admit to doing it.

Microsoft says Halo Wars has sold over 1 million copies worldwide, making it the most successful console RTS this generation.

German publisher Frogster has officially launched its free-to-play fantasy MMO, Runes of Magic. You can register for an account and download the game at the Runes of Magic website.

The first map pack for Call of Duty: World at War is released today on Xbox Live Marketplace and the PlayStation Network.

In the first of a feature series on real money trading in MMOs published on Eurogamer today, the number of players that buy virtual goods and services is estimated at 30 per cent.

Indie outfit Tale of Tales has released its PC horror game, The Path.

The Advertising Standards Authority has dismissed complaints that the Government's Change4Life campaign harms the videogame industry in the UK, is misleading to parents or offensive to readers.

The National Center for the History of Electronic Games has opened in New York, and claims to be "the only museum anywhere devoted solely to the study and interpretation of play".

3G Studios has revealed a feudal Asian zombie slasher for PC and consoles.

Naughty Dog's Richard Lemarchand has explained that ice and snow in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves will create the same impact water did in the original game.

Nintendo's confirmed an exact European release date for Punch-Out!!, its Wii remake of its NES and SNES arcade boxing game.

Actor and games magnate Vin Diesel has revealed that he "begged" for developer Starbreeze to include an online multiplayer mode in The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena.

Fallout co-creator Jason Anderson has joined fellow Interplay veteran Brian Fargo at his inXile studio, where he's working on a new single-player RPG.

Epic Games says the Titan Pack expansion for Unreal Tournament 3 will be released free of charge on the PlayStation Network today.

Animal Crossing is Grand Theft Auto for big girls' blouses. It's for people who want to explore an open world, but one that's pretty and cosy instead of huge and scary; who want to chat with giant ducks instead of angry gangsters. It's for those of us who would rather collect shells on the beach than smash a gentleman's face in with a baseball bat, and shake pears out of trees than pay a lady to put something in her mouth when she's not even hungry.

Microsoft has confirmed, via Xbox Live's Days of Arcade feature, that SEGA's OutRun Online Arcade will be released on Xbox Live Arcade on Wednesday 15th April.

Tomy has announced that it's to release Pangya: Fantasy Golf for the PSP, a conversion of the hit massively multiplayer PC golf game.

A report on the Hockey Downloads forum has indicated that NHL 10 will never make it to PS2 or PC, saying that economic pressures are behind the decision.

Once, on my way back from a Starfox Armada preview, I was shot at by a frog flying a spaceship. Okay: that isn't entirely true - but I did get lost in London on my way to check out Monte Cristo's new urban planning MMO, Cities XL.

Electronic Arts has announced that it will add an extra multiplayer mode to The Godfather II in a free update when the game launches on April 10th.

Namco Bandai plans to acquire 100 per cent of D3Publisher, including both its American and European arms, as well as the development studio Vicious Cycle, reports GamesIndustry.biz.

In a furious bout of middle-fingering to the face of the credit crunch, developer Zombie has announced that its forthcoming strategic FPS title Blacklight will also be turned into a film and a comic book series.

Tom, is it too late for me to turn down this review? Now the disc is in my hands I realise there's been a bit of a misunderstanding. Because of a typo in your original email, I was expecting a startlingly original wargame all about the seventies fishing disputes between Iceland and the UK, not a bog-standard RTS about a fictional fifties conflict between NATO and the Warsaw Pact.