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Nintendo has slapped two more games into the WiiWare Store.

Sony continues to put pressure on Nintendo as the gap in Japanese hardware sales closes.

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe boss David Reeves has said he reckons PS3 will remain the priciest console in the shops, despite competition from the Wii and Xbox 360.

Yesterday Sony published figures for the last three months of 2008. They revealed sales of all three consoles were down year-on-year, with only PS3 software showing an increase. Bad news for Sony, you might think - but David Reeves would disagree.

Electronic Arts has told Eurogamer that it plans to reinvent the Need for Speed series by launching separate core, casual and 'Play 4 Free' games this year.

More details of EVE Online's imminent Apocrypha expansion have emerged from a developer blog - this time of a new, much tougher breed of NPC opponent to be found in the new unexplored space.

The world isn't exactly short of bizarre, free-to-play Asian online PC RPGs. What seemed like a curio when Ragnarok Online appeared on these shores all those years ago has turned into a flood of free oddities - often of dubious quality and rarely of anything but passing interest.

2K Games will release Don King Boxing for Wii and DS here on 27th March, a few days before the US.

EA Games marketing bigwig Keith Munro has told Eurogamer there is one more secret Need For Speed game in development beyond the three titles revealed earlier today.

Bethesda has hinted that the next Fallout game may not have a level cap - and might be playable infinitely.

Bad news for anyone who enjoyed last year's Turok game on PC, PS3 or Xbox 360 - word is the sequel has been cancelled.

Epic Games is working to fix a bug that has suddenly made Gears of War PC unplayable.

Sony Online Entertainment has announced a deal to bring five PopCap games to PlayStation Network, starting with Bejeweled 2.

At the end of 2008, we thought we'd try and do away with roundups. On the one hand, they're a useful way of picking through the games we might otherwise miss out. On the other hand, there's usually a good reason for missing them out, and if we're interested enough to write about something, why not give it a day in the sun?

Psyonix Studios' Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars heads the PlayStation Store update this week.

Leipziger Messe has announced that the 2009 Leipzig Games Convention has been cancelled.

Microsoft Game Studios has a "lot of ideas" for future Halo Wars content, and said that the new studio created by former Ensemble employees will help.

Microsoft Game Studios hopes to expand the Halo franchise in "many different directions", including new genres and entertainment not game-related at all.

Square Enix has said Star Ocean: The Last Hope will arrive on Xbox 360 in Europe this spring. America and Japan will get the game on 19th February.

GOA has announced that a great big "Call to Arms" update for Warhammer Online will go live from March.

Any publicity is good publicity, they say. Unless it crashes your server.

Your wallets may be fixed expectantly on the end of next month, but there's still the small matter of this Friday's new releases to deal with, not to mention all the others in the meantime. That said, tomorrow's line-up really is a small matter.

Atari founder Nolan Bushnell is to receive the Fellowship award from BAFTA this year, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Evidence has mounted that Taito plans to release a Space Invaders Extreme sequel for DS this year. Owner Square Enix has declined to comment.

With all the excitement surrounding Football Manager 2009 and Championship Manager 09's shiny new 3D match engines, it's been easy to overlook the fact that one footy management series has had one for years. It's the often unfairly maligned FIFA Manager, which showed enough promise last year to suggest that the battle for the genre's top spot is no longer a two-horse race between Sports Interactive and Beautiful Game Studios.

If you ever doubted that the merger between Activision and Vivendi Games was all about World of Warcraft, this should set you straight. A games industry analyst has reckoned that the Blizzard MMO accounted for half of the publishing giant's earnings in the last fiscal year.

The University of California, Berkeley has begun offering a StarCraft course that rewards students with college credits they can put towards graduating.

Sony's third quarter financial report has revealed hardware sales for all its consoles were down compared to the previous year.

The Hollywood Reporter brings the welcome news that last year's best Wii game (unless you count Okami), EA's action-puzzler Boom Blox, will get a sequel as soon as spring this year.

Controversial and fundamentally rubbish videogame Postal 2 is going on show at Sweden's Nobel Museum.