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Update, Monday 23rd February: It's with a profound sense of regret and wanting to punch somebody in the face that I have to let you know we're cancelling the Wargear giveaway that was set to run from today at midday.

Capcom has revealed that over 2 million copies of Street Fighter IV have been shipped around the world.

What's your idea of a fun day out in New York? Strolling down Fifth Avenue? Taking a carriage ride through Central Park? Visiting all the places you've seen in the movies? Or running up the side of a skyscraper, elbow-dropping a giant mutant from 50 storeys up, consuming the DNA of a helicopter pilot and punching a tank?

Activision has popped a Monsters vs Aliens demo on Xbox Live, weighing in at 620MB.

Rockstar VP of development Jeronimo Barrera reckons The Lost and Damned plot has more quality than most other mainstream media.

Rolando publisher ngmoco has cut the price of the iPhone stunnah to GBP 2.99 / USD 4.99, and said that not only is a sequel in development, but free levels for the original will be released soon too.

Bethesda Softworks' Pete Hines has said that next month's second instalment of Fallout 3 downloadable content will be less combat-focused than the divisive Operation: Anchorage.

Forget the Oscars, LittleBigPlanet has cleaned up at the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences' annual awards shindig, collecting eight gongs including best game, best console game and best game direction.

Eidos has confirmed that you will get to play as the Doppelganger in the second Tomb Raider: Underworld DLC episode, Lara's Shadow.

Once regarded with uniform suspicion, premium downloadable content for console games has thrown off some of that stigma in recent months, as the likes of GTAIV: The Lost and Damned and the Mirror's Edge Pure Time Trial Pack have advanced the original games in directions influenced by critical and community response.

Key Nintendo DSi developers have said the original model featured two cartridge slots, but was disliked internally for being too fat.

Microsoft is slashing the price of platform-puzzler Braid to 800 Microsoft Points.

id Software will begin the Quake Live beta tomorrow, giving anyone the chance to test the browser-based, Quake III-inspired shooter.

Cryptic's Bill Roper - the Diablo and Hellgate luminary now working on superhero MMO Champions Online - has stood up for Mythic's Warhammer Online after it announced its drop to 300,000 subscribers.

It looks like the latest Leisure Suit Larry title will see the light of day after all, THANK GOODNESS.

Sony has announced that 21.3 million PlayStation 3 consoles have now been sold around the globe.

100 years from now, deep in the fiery depths of Hell itself, a meeting will take place between Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, whoever it was that invented the kind of plastic that cheese comes in, and Mikhail Kharlamov, the lead designer of the modest PSN puzzler, Cuboid. Seated around the flaming dinner table, having just finished off a feast composed of Cillit Bang-fried chicken and Vienetta, washed down with a generous serving of Vimto, the man responsible for the Third Reich will turn to Kharlamov in a contemplative manner, and say, "Sure, I've started wars, I've exterminated millions, and I've put fear and murder into the heart of my own people, but tell me: just how did you make the level called 'Flos' so incredibly difficult?"

It's always the maze that gets me. Though its appeal has waned somewhat after each subsequent visit, I still hold fond memories of meandering through a seemingly endless tangle of forest and shrubbery - darting past an ettin, a gargoyle, and perhaps less thrillingly, a mongbat - and finding myself at the entrance of a giant hedge labyrinth. Supposedly constructed by the wizard Relvinian with a view to getting daemons to do his laundry, it's a calming, floral little place whose only real perils are the odd troll-under-the-bridge and the nimbus of hellspawn living at its core. It's not tied to any particular quest I know of; it's just sitting there, waiting to be discovered.

This week's Xbox Live Arcade release is an updated version of the legendary Death Tank, one of the most celebrated, and yet under-played party games ever developed. Devised and programmed by Ezra Dreisbach of Lobotomy Software, the full DT experience is difficult to convey, but it's usually described as a kind of real-time version of Scorched Earth or Worms, as if that's enough to convey the refined, distilled genius of this game. It isn't.

Square Enix has set a 20th March release date for The Last Remnant on PC.

Valve and SEGA and Creative Assembly have popped an Empire: Total War demo on Steam.

As a sleepy dreadnought might have it, even in virtual unconsciousness, I serve. Albeit a day after we usually put up the new releases roundup. I'm tired, but no one cares about that, and especially not a suddenly spry and active games industry, which pumped out all sorts of exciting new games this week.

Disney has revealed Spectrobes: Origins for Wii and plans to launch the game this autumn.

505 Games' PC threesome from 1C Company - Men of War, NecroVisioN and Cryostasis - has been pushed back a week to 27th February.

GAME will offer the Nintendo DSi for half-price this April to anyone trading in an old console or handheld.

The strange thing about Halo Wars is how understated it all seems. How dignified. There are so many ways that Halo Wars is an important game - it's real-time strategy on console, it's Halo in a new genre, it's Ensemble's swansong, it's another blow in the console wars - but while they could easily dominate your thoughts as you play it, they don't. Instead they just evaporate in the face of such a confident, self-assured and elegantly constructed videogame.

Rockstar has popped out a patch that rectifies the GTAIV censorship mix-up reported yesterday

Mao, the 1578-year-old schoolboy star of Disgaea is super cross. His father, the Overlord of the Netherworld, accidentally stepped on his SlayStation Portable console and, in doing so, destroyed 4 million hours worth of save data for Mao's favourite videogame.

Nintendo will be adding adaptations of Katamari Damacy and Mr. Driller to the Japanese DSiWare service soon.

NASA has secured development partners for the forthcoming massively multiplayer online game Astronaut: Moon, Mars and Beyond, GamesIndustry.biz reports.