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Epic power-dresser Mark Rein has politely rubbished suggestions that the company has a "ten-year plan" for the Gears of War series.

The tiny team at Sony Online Entertainment that keeps The Matrix Online up and running has just lost a key member. Ben Chamberlain, a.k.a. Rarebit, has announced he's leaving after seven years on the game, in a forum post spotted by Massively.

3D Realms' sci-fi shooter Prey is coming to iPhone in the next few weeks.

From tomorrow, PlayStation Home will be able to purchase ninja outfits for their avatars in the local shopping centre.

EA and DICE have announced the reopening of the closed beta for their free-to-play shooter, Battlefield Heroes. Servers will be back online at some point today.

Nintendo has decided to spend some of its trillions of pounds on a brand new research and development centre.

Treyarch has detailed the first Call of Duty: World at War map pack, which we can expect to see on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 sometime next month.

Blizzard has confirmed that its official World of Warcraft Arena tournament will go into a second year. Registration starts on February 17th.

Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima will be delivering a keynote speech at the Game Developers Conference next month.

Microsoft plans to let Xbox Live Silver members play Grand Theft Auto IV online modes free for five days. This kind of treatment is usually reserved for Gold subscribers.

Ubisoft has told Eurogamer that the Xbox 360 demo for Tom Clancy's HAWX will go live tomorrow, followed by the PS3 version on Thursday. A PC sampler will follow on 26th February.

Sony has told Eurogamer that Killzone 2 multiplayer servers are not active, and won't be until sometime close to its launch on 27th February.

The reward for success, it seems, is omnipresence, and the price of omnipresence is diminishing returns. Hence the trajectory of most videogame franchises: a slow, slippery, miserable descent into over-tweaking and yearly rebalancing, an attrition as wearying and inevitable as anything from geology, whittling away at a title until that gentle, sparkling river you used to love has become a dusty echoing canyon, and all joy has drained from the world.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is heading up the nominations for the British Academy Video Game Awards this year, which take place in London on 10th March.

Gears of War writer Joshua Ortega has said the series will be "long-term" and may even stretch to a prequel covering the events of Emergence Day.

Yes, it's time for another roundup of the iPhone games that have been catching our attention recently. (There's plenty of other iPhone-related stuffon the site already, in case you missed it.) As ever, do drop the names of any interesting games you've found in the comments or on the forum and we'll be sure to check them out.

Stardock has said Sins of a Solar Empire add-on Entrenchment will be ready to digitally download from 25th February.

Great news for people who like American sports, hockey and/or ice - this week's Xbox Live Arcade addition is 3 on 3 NHL Arcade.

Treyarch plans to add more Nazi zombies to Call of Duty: World at War as part of the very first downloadable map pack.

Yesterday's rumour that Namco pulled its Splatterhouse remake from the Californian developer BottleRocket at the last moment has been confirmed by both parties.

Lead designer Peter Johansson has told Eurogamer Germany that Just Cause 2 will be out during the third quarter of 2009.

Because they just won't stop till they own all the money in the world, Activision Blizzard is launching a new range of Wii games.

D3Publisher has told Eurogamer that Puzzle Quest: Galactrix will be released for PC and DS next month.

Capcom has confirmed a sequel to zombie shooter Dead Rising is in development.

Wii Fit keeps up the pace to take another UK all-formats top finish this week. This will be its fourth number one on the trot.

It seemed like a nice job: to be given the opportunity to write a light-hearted piece on the first steps in the browser-based MMORPG RuneScape - an industry outsider that's quietly the Western world's second most successful MMO. Nip in, work out what everyone loves, hide my conclusions at the end of some amiable fluff, and phone my bank to tell them not to be shocked when millions of Eurogamer pounds fly into my account. I'll start with my guesses as to its popularity, then play it.

Atari plans to spring DS and PSP versions of N+ on us this April.

In the words of developer thatgamecompany, Flower is a "videogame version of a poem, exploiting the tension between urban bustle and natural serenity", and while the brief, sensuous journey through the game's six levels is worthily conceived and executed, inviting interpretation, its high-minded origins also have the potential to derail it, albeit not in the eyes of "the audience of pretentious fawning fops that have turned the PS3 into the equivalent of a f***ing beatnik poetry bar", as one of our readers put it when we previewed the game in January. However, the result is pleasantly innocent and uplifting, and perhaps unexpectedly its best qualities are those of a very good videogame.

Sony has finally slapped a ship date on squad-based shooter SOCOM Confrontation.

A new arcade-style brawler titled Unbound Saga is in development for PSP.