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Game Informer magazine reports that Square Enix's next-generation MMO - the company's follow-up to Final Fantasy XI - is rumoured make an appearance at E3 next June.

System 3 has announced that it will follow up this year's Ferrari Challenge with SuperCar Challenge, another PS3-exclusive racer, in the spring.

Great news for people who enjoy being sold things while playing videogames - Dash of Destruction is coming to Xbox Live Arcade tomorrow.

Pandemic has released a free content update for Mercenaries 2 today, featuring four new gameplay modes - "Urban Rampage, Death Race, Arms Race and Mercs Blitz", according to an admin post on the official forum - and some "patriotic characters".

There's no change at the top of the All-Format UK Charts this week as Call of Duty: World at War, Mario Kart Wii and FIFA 09 hold firm in the top three positions.

Square Enix has announced that The Last Remnant is coming to PC next year - but there's still no word on the PS3 version.

Space Giraffe launched on PC yesterday, just over a year after the psychedelic shooter carved a divide between critics on Xbox Live Arcade. And as a colourful, retro, and often bewildering blaster, Space Giraffe flaunts many of the same characteristics as its creator, Jeff Minter, who's been making games with Llamasoft since 1982. Working across just about every popular gaming platform, Minter has turfed out classics like Tempest 2000 and Gridrunner. He also rather likes animals, and lives on a farm with nine sheep, two llamas and one pygmy goat. To mark the release of the PC Giraffe, we sat down with him for a chat.

Space Giraffe developer Jeff Minter believes old-school game design should be able to coexist with modern blockbusters.

Three Speech has just reported the news that all Singstar fans wanted to hear: full backwards compatibility for Singstar PS3 arrives tomorrow.

Free-to-play fantasy MMO Runes of Magic has entered open beta testing, opening its gates to all comers.

Microsoft has added an animated snow globe to the Xbox frontend to celebrate what it likes to call the holidays.

1up reports that Rockstar racer Midnight Club: Los Angeles is to get its first downloadable content in early 2009.

The American magazine Game Informer has secured the first details on Guitar Hero: Metallica, the second in the series to feature a headline band after this year's Aerosmith game. You can find a precis at the Score Hero forum.

Namco and Sony have put a date and price - precise for Japan, vague for Europe - on Noby Noby Boy, the new PS3 game-thing from Katamari creator Keita Takahashi.

Bookmaker Ladbrokes has called the odds on the race for the number one game at Christmas in the UK, and made Call of Duty: World at War its firm favourite.

Coming out of nowhere to the iTunes store is an iPhone version of cult favourite Katamari Damacy for USD 7.99, called I Love Katamari.

Unlikely as it may seem, late-80s collector's item and notorious Super Mario Bros clone The Great Giana Sisters is to get a DS release in Europe next June.

Rockstar has announced a release date for Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, the first DS entry in the smash hit series.

Japan may have gotten the jump on the rest of us with the Resident Evil 5 demo this month, but a fortunate alignment of circumstances found your humble correspondent in the right place at the right time with the right kit: Japan, last week, with an Xbox 360. The two-level demo gives us our best chance yet to see how Capcom's latest is shaping up ahead of its 13th March release on the Microsoft and Sony boxes.

Investment analyst Ben Schachter of UBS has been poring over the sales figures of Guitar Hero and Rock Band in the US, and has found that the Activision Blizzard series outsold the EA games by over a million copies in November.

Nintendo UK has published its latest round of release dates for Wii and DS, including its upcoming pedometer-based walking game (20th February), and the first two GameCube-to-Wii adaptations in the series known here as "New Play Control!"

Grand Theft Auto IV took Game of the Year honours at last night's Video Game Awards - the Spike TV venture in the US that's staking its claim on the vacant position of videogame Oscars.

Harmonix has confirmed that this week's Rock Band pack rustles up five country music numbers - and that Pearl Jam's debut album ten is on the way.

Electronic Arts has confirmed reports that its Redwood Shores studio is working on a Dante's Inferno game.

Retail versions of the new Prince of Persia for PC are reportedly shipping without any form of digital rights management (DRM). Like, on purpose.

Epic has released three new multiplayer maps for Gears of War 2.

BioWare and LucasArts have revealed video footage Star Wars: The Old Republic to the public for the first time.

SouthPeak has made a demo of its DS game Ninjatown available for download via the Wii's Nintendo Channel.

According to Canada's Globe and Mail, EA has cancelled plans to build a new development studio in Vancouver.

One of the stranger things about PlayStation Home - and there are a great many strange things about PlayStation Home - is the experience of being in a virtual world without the slightest hint of fantasy about it.