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Nintendo's WiiWare service has received its usual biweekly update today, bringing two new titles and some DLC to market.

Sony Online Entertainment has revealed the benefits of the optional subscription to its free-to-play family MMO, Free Realms.

George Harrison's son has revealed that Rock Band: The Beatles will feature previously unheard material.

Sony Online Entertainment has announced that it will be introducing sanctioned real-money trading to its fantasy MMO, Vanguard: Saga of Heroes.

Did you know that Chris Redfield is a gay icon? Apparently so. Outnumbered by gay friends in the pub last night, I was expressing my belief that Sheva's unlockable leopard-print bikini outfit is perhaps a step too far, only to be told that at least one of them is trying to coax a downloadable Redfield Speedo out of Capcom. What a thought.

Block-dropping puzzler Topple 2 has launched in the App Store.

Electronic Arts won't be publishing any more Lord of the Rings games, according to a Variety report.

Activision and Treyarch have finally released a Call of Duty: World at War demo on Xbox Live and announced that the upcoming multiplayer map pack will be released on 19th March for PS3 and 360. That's next Thursday.

SEGA has confirmed reports that it plans to bring Cyber Troopers Virtual On Oratorio Tangram - better known to most as Virtual On - exclusively to Xbox Live Arcade this spring.

Microsoft has pooh-poohed Jonathan Ross's claim that he has been invited to provide a voiceover in Fable III, but has confirmed plans for more Fable II DLC.

Sony has updated the PlayStation Store with a Wheelman demo, some more DLC for Street Fighter IV, Everybody's Golf, LittleBigPlanet and Buzz, and the digital download version of Patapon 2 for PSP.

Three tantalising new demos have hit XBLA this afternoon, namely The Wheelman, Wanted: Weapons of Fate and Legends of Wrestlemania.

The PSP is in a curious situation. Perhaps a victim of its own multi-functional design, the handheld has clocked up impressive sales in the face of daunting competition from the DS, yet in 2008 it seemed like the games were drying up. "Make more games!" said Sony to its third-party developers, before sheepishly muttering, "Oh, and maybe we should do the same."

As we suspected, Capcom has announced two new, premium DLC multiplayer modes for Resident Evil 5, available in a single pack called 'Versus'.

Wii exclusive Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles has been confirmed for a UK and US release this winter.

Astonishingly, EA has decided not to ditch its hugely popular Tiger Woods golf licence, instead announcing Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 for the Wii, PS3, 360 PSP and PS2.

Call of Duty 4 has racked up 11 million unique players since launch on Xbox Live, and over 4 million on PlayStation Network, according to Infinity Ward's Rob Bowling.

Eidos has dated action-strategy title Battlestations: Pacific for 15th May in Europe and Australia, with the US getting it three days earlier.

So what do we already know about Championship Manager 2009? Well, we know that for the first time in the series' history the game will feature a 3D match engine sporting 450 unique player animations (350 for goalkeepers) and player tendencies such as Ronaldo stepping over the ball 116 times before pretending he's stepped on a landmine. What else? How about the fact that most parts of the game have either been revamped or redesigned, such as the tactics screen that now features rotating info buttons, or the ability to set separate formations for attacking and defensive phases of play? There's also an all-new newspaper feature capable of generating 500,000 unique stories with the ability to filter the information that's of interest to you while discarding the guff you couldn't give a toss about.

Aren't you glad you're not in charge of developing the new Ghostbusters game? (Unless you are, in which case: Hi, and Good Luck.) Imagine the pressure of producing the tie-in for such an iconic movie. Everything from the theme tune to the one-liners to the cast to the car is fondly remembered by millions. Get it wrong, and the entire internet will accuse you of curling one out in the mouth of its childhood. But that's nothing when your biggest potential critic is the Hollywood megastar who thought up the whole thing in the first place.

Nintendo has announced that the New Play Control version of Pikmin 2 will be released across Europe on 24th April.

Everything was better in the eighties. Back then it was socially acceptable to like pop music, wear red leather and smoke. It was a jollier, gentler time, and the only thing you had to worry about was the perpetual threat of global nuclear holocaust.

Confirming our suspicions, Worlds.com has revealed that it intends to sue Blizzard and Linden Labs if its patent suit against NCsoft is successful.

Tecmo has invited US press to the unveiling of a new title in San Francisco in the week of the Game Developers Conference.

Speaking to Japanese magazine Famitsu - as reported by 1up - Shigeru Miyamoto has revealed his sadness at the lack of popularity and creative-dead end Nintendo experienced during the GameCube era.

David Hasselhoff, the man responsible for Knight Rider, Baywatch and the reunification of Germany, has revealed he's a big fan of the Wii.

Activision has added "Sing Hero" to its pile of Hero-related registered trademarks in the US, prompting speculation that the publisher is considering a karaoke game.

Nintendo's decision to increase the UK trade price of the Wii may result in an unprecedented console price increase for consumers, retailers have told our sister site GamesIndustry.biz.

The latest downloadable content for Midnight Club: Los Angeles has been delayed by a week.

There must be an area, a gland or a neural network somewhere deep within those quivering grey meat computers in our heads which absolutely revels in the organisation of stuff into groups: a fragment of our reptilian hind-brain which is unnervingly fond of putting things into small sets, delineated by their colour and shape. What evolutionary purpose it might serve, I'm not sure, but it's the only logical explanation for the vast number of games which involve just that.