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Towering Atari spokesperson Phil Harrison is not worried about the "macro-economic" impact of the pre-owned market on the industry, because he reckons Atari can create games so valuable that no one wants to trade them in.

Pokémon isn't really a series you turn to if you demand radical evolution between instalments. The core series has remained largely unchanged for over a decade, with the most obvious differences evident in the ever-shifting Pokédex listings rather than the gameplay.

Call of Duty: World at War boss Daniel Suarez plans "at least" two bouts of downloadable content for the shooter, and said the first batch was on course for the New Year.

Square Enix plans on releasing Dragon Quest: The Hand of the Heavenly Bride here in spring 2009.

Majesco has revealed plans to release a Gardening Mama game on DS next year. 505 Games is the European publisher.

About six days after arriving in Japan, I found myself in Tokyo in the company of a suddenly homeless friend. Stuck without anywhere to stay, we ended up doing something many foreigners find themselves doing in a state of desperation when they don't have enough money for a hotel, and checked into an all-night manga cafe. Imagine rows of miniature computer booths, just slightly too small for the average Western frame, all lined-up side by side, their sleep-deprived, hunched-up inhabitants bathed in the same harsh, fluorescent glare of white strip-lighting at any time of day or night.

Star Wars: Empire at War developer Petroglyph has unveiled Mytheon, the massively multiplayer online game it teased earlier this year, and said it will be out next autumn.

Poor old Mortal Kombat. Everything seemed to go downhill for the world's most visceral fighting series when it hit the third dimension after the release of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3: Mortal Kombat 4 was a letdown, Deadly Alliance and Deception failed to make up for it, Armageddon was ill-conceived and the less said about the likes of Mortal Kombat: Special Forces the better.

Sony has assured disgruntled LittleBigPlanet fans that level-moderation changes are in the pipeline.

Novastrike developer Tiki Games has whipped the table-cloth off a brand new Xbox Live Arcade game called Interpol.

Atari has picked up co-publishing rights to PC action strategy game Demigod, and plans a release sometime next year.

Valve president Gabe Newell has reportedly told an anxious fan that he believes there is "a groundswell to abandon" DRM in PC games.

Atari plans to bring wintery Wii sequel Family Ski & Snowboard to Europe in February 2009.

Atari has announced that it will distribute Tekken 6 in Europe for Xbox 360 and PS3 next autumn as part of its long-standing partnership with Namco Bandai.

Atari has shed more like on AKI's Ready 2 Rumble Revolution for Wii, which the publisher said yesterday would be released in March 2009.

Ninjatown is a very silly game. You play an ancient ninja master directing his chibi-ninja disciples in an effort to stop Mr Demon from stealing an ancient ninja recipe for sugar-cookies. It's bright and cute and full of silly LOL NINJAS jokes about ninja droppings and moustaches and tie-wearing business ninjas who worry about their sugar stock. No mention of pirates, though, which is odd for a game that tries to squeeze as much cheesy jocularity as it possibly can into every line of dialogue or tutorial.

Q Entertainment's Tetsuya Mizuguchi is developing a new Wii music game for Atari, the publisher said today. The game currently goes by the working title "QJ".

As CD Projekt continues to tease its next game, a user-posted video on Gametrailers may have let the cat out of the bag, in the shape of a 6-minute, cinematic-backed interview with game designer Jakob Stilinsky discussing console versions.

Atari has confirmed most of the details leaked in a video over the weekend concerning a console version of The Witcher.

Atari plans to revisit the likes of Baldur's Gate, Dungeons & Dragons, Neverwinter Nights and Test Drive Unlimited, but not in the next 12 months.

Activision has confirmed that the Call of Duty: World at War double-experience promotion in the US next week will also take place in Europe.

The Japanese have lapped up more than 500,000 DSi units during the launch month of November.

Being a woman, a terrific show-off and a part-time alcoholic, I love SingStar. So do lots of other people, judging by the fact Sony's still churning out new releases nearly five years on, by the fact that there are so many embarrassing videos on the internet, by the fact there are four hundred million songs on the SingStore, and by the fact Big Phil recently raided Sony for SingStar's mum, Paulina Bozek.

Retailer Zavvi has had to cancel all videogame, film and music orders as supplier Entertainment UK falls into administration.

A European announcement for brand new Wii and DS game Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time is "imminent", Square Enix told Eurogamer today. The games are due out in the US in spring 2009.

Sumthing Else Music Works and Microsoft have decided stuff all of the Halo music onto a massive compilation soundtrack.

Online auctioneer eBay has revealed the Nintendo Wii as the most popular product on the entire site.

IndieCade dubs itself the International Festival of Independent Games, and that's exactly what it is - a boutique festival that promotes, examines, and doles out awards to the non-profit, aesthetic, political, academic and just plain go-it-alone fringes of the videogame form. As well as hosting a standalone event in Bellevue (Seattle suburb and home of Valve), IndieCade is a travelling showman, taking its gallery of gaming oddities to events like E3, the Penny Arcade Expo and Nottingham's GameCity festival, where we caught up with it at the end of October.

Chirpy radio show One Life Left has made a CD boasting some of the best videogame-inspired music in the whole wide world.

Comics writer Geoff Johns, currently working on the script for Sony Online Entertainment's licensed superhero MMO DC Universe Online, has said the developer is working towards an early 2010 release - if not earlier.