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Last summer, the moment no one but Activision's accountants had been waiting for finally arrived: Guitar Hero made its debut on DS. As you'll know if you read Tom's review, the transition wasn't altogether successful. An uncomfortable control system, limited song choice and poor audio quality resulted in one of the weakest instalments to date. But Guitar Hero: On Tour still sold well thanks to the strength of the brand, and the fact you couldn't illegally download the requisite peripheral.

A robot suit and quick-time events.

When artistically-inclined creators set out to do something different in the videogame "space" - like thatgamecompany's Flower, to take a recent and excellent example - they often start with the subject matter, the atmosphere, the style. They might create something that has the bones of a game, but the looks of a painting and the heart of a song - something that creates a different mood in the player.

With sales approaching 1.3 million units, this handheld remake of Dragon Quest V was the third best-selling Nintendo DS title in Japan last year, and the seventh highest-selling videogame on any system in the country. For the Japanese, this game represents one of the most significant remakes in recent years, so great is the sense of nostalgia and reverence the nation holds for its most-beloved RPG series.

Capcom has announced that the Devil May Cry series has shipped 10 million units worldwide since the release of the first game for PlayStation 2 in 2001.

Namco Bandai has released Facebook-compatible J2Play versions of arcade classics Pac-Man and Dig Dug, which burrow into the social networking site to record achievements and fill out leaderboards among other things.

Apple has announced the feature set of the next version of the iPhone operating system, OS 3.0, and much of it is relevant to the game's burgeoning gaming scene - especially paid-for App updates and peer-to-peer Bluetooth connection.

Capcom's forum-loving biz-dev man Christian Svensson has said that PSN versions of some of the company's PSone games are due on the US PlayStation Store soon.

Sony America's Scott Steinberg believes that the company's 2009 line-up is "relentless and AAA-quality", and says to expect "even more excellent titles at E3" in early June.

We all knew about it anyway, but EA has finally officially confirmed development of PC and Xbox 360 RPG-shooter sequel Mass Effect 2.

BioWare has released the first footage of Mass Effect 2.

BioWare has said the next downloadable addition to Mass Effect will be a Fight Club-style arena. Expect less of a focus on story, and more on gambling and good old-fashioned dust-ups.

Electronic Arts boss John Riccitiello has said that a sequel to Battlefield: Bad Company is in development along with a Wii Dead Space game, and that Mass Effect II will be released before the end of the company's next financial year.

"A Prinny is a small, usually blue, pouch-wearing penguin-like creature with disproportionately small bat wings and two peg legs where its feet would normally be. When thrown, it explodes on impact." Wikipedia, whatever its other shortcomings, can always be relied upon for obsessively detailed entries on bit-part characters from obscure Japanese videogames. The above summary, concise and efficient, gives the measure of the Prinny, a bird that has in recent years become something of a mascot for its creator, Nippon Ichi.

Codemasters and Turbine have confirmed that their Lord of the Rings Online MMO is about to receive the first major update since last year's Mines of Moria expansion, in the form of Book 7: Leaves of Lorien.

2K Marin give you control of a Big Daddy roaming Rapture in the upcoming BioShock 2: Sea of Dreams for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.

We've now had the first two entries in a new feature series on Eurogamer MMO: the Ten Level Test.

Illusion Labs has expanded its kooky iPhone platformer Sway with a content update on the App Store.

A rarity amongst videogame characters, it's now perfectly possible to love Sonic and wish he was dead at the same time: a testament to recent games, which have made it their mission to kick your cheery childhood memories of the Greenhill Zone into tiny fragments, and stamp out any lingering enthusiasm you may have for SEGA's aging mascot.

Suave automoton and Lombax companion Clank is seeing new horizons as Secret Agent Clank is ported onto the PS2 by Sanzaru Games.

Tecmo has confirmed that Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 is in development for PlayStation 3 and will be released in the autumn.

Occasionally I just forget how impressive certain games look. Perhaps it's information overload and I just have to delete the brain-file, but coming back to them I am appalled by what I've been missing. World in Conflict is a case in point. My screenshot-memory pegged it looking okay, but when I went back in last week and started to watch tank battles across the distant sunlit farmlands of North America, I was taken aback. This is a game that that doesn't even seem to be showing off. It's faultlessly, effortlessly beautiful. It was a little like meeting an old flame years later and thinking: "Oh. Damn." Memories revised.

EverQuest is ten. The Sony Online Entertainment MMO - the game that launched massively-multiplayer gaming into 3D, widely regarded as the template for Blizzard's World of Warcraft - was launched on 16th March 1999, and so celebrated its tenth anniversary of continuous operation yesterday.

Sometimes, you just want to shoot terrorists until they're dead. And not in a careful and methodical way where you inch along a grassy field towards a ridge where you use your IR goggles to locate them, so you can fire your SXHXZZZZ-XIII (DU) through their left eyeball at a range of forty kilometres. No - instead you want to run right up to the blighters and tw** them with your big old samurai sword. Take that! And that! And that!

Ten Ton Hammer reports that Stargate Worlds developer Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment is being sued for not paying bills from a supplier.

After Namco Bandai claimed that it had to pull its Splatterhouse remake from developer BottleRocket for "performance" reasons, the studio has hit back, calling the publisher "inept".

It's not often that a new publisher appears out of nowhere with seven MMOs up its sleeve. It's even less often that one of them is a high-profile resurrection of a canned title. Yesterday, Gazillion Entertainment announced that it existed, and was bringing back Marvel Universe.

Google has invited journalists to an event during GDC to showcase its "new collection of gaming themes for iGoogle", the customised homepage.

Capcom's Christian Svensson has rejected suggestions that the premium Versus mode for Resident Evil 5 is a scam.

If you're not doing anything on 25th December (although it does ring a bell), you could do worse than spend an afternoon on the sofa with Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, if not half an hour in the evening watching the incurable tinkerer and his mouthless hound in the UK premiere of A Matter of Loaf and Death. "Hugely funny, fantastically inventive, warm, witty and just wonderful", according to the Radio Times, it's the fourth W&G TV short, and if the other ones are anything to go by, it'll be rich with jokes for old and young, packed full of silly references and baffling contraptions, and another reason to be thankful for Nick "Academy Award" Park in a world of Pop Factors and Strictly Come premium-rate phone numbers.