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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.

Castle Crashers developer The Behemoth has very nearly finished that patch to fix various multiplayer connection problems with the Xbox Live Arcade game.

After announcing staff cuts last week, Age of Conan developer Funcom has said that the redundancies won't affect development on any of its games.

Sony has popped out a firmware update for PS3.

The UK all-formats chart has settled into a familiar rhythm after a helter-skelter November, with Call of Duty: World at War top of the pops once more.

Microsoft has trumpeted the biggest-ever sales of Xbox 360 over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend in the US, claiming a three-to-one advantage over PlayStation 3.

Sony has lifted the lid on the sequel to its PS3 action-adventure, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, via a trailer and a Game Informer magazine cover.

Motion! It's the buzzword of this gaming generation, bringing with it the unspoken assumption that any game can be made better by incorporating a cheeky bit of waggle. Utter nonsense, of course, but with the Wii still hurtling off the shelves it's easy to see why a publisher might jump on the motion-sensing bandwagon.

Sony has told us that SonyStyle's PS3 prices, which just became among the lowest online, have nothing to do with the platform holder.

LEGO Batman scooped the videogame gong at last night's EA British Academy Children's Awards, at a celeb-packed bash in London's swanky Park Lane Hilton.

Sony Europe speaker James Armstrong expects Gran Turismo 5 to be out by next Christmas.

Sumner Redstone has sold his controlling stake of Midway Games for a paltry USD 100,000 (GBP 66,718 / EUR 79,241), or just USD 0.0012 per share.

JoWooD has publicly apologised for the mountains of bugs in Gothic 3 expansion Forsaken Gods.

First things first, it's Elasto Mania on the DS! We had no idea it existed either. But clearly it does, because a man from Noviy Disk Company in Russia emailed us politely asking us if we'd like to preview it, and then sent over a DS cartridge.

Criterion has unveiled Big Surf Island for Burnout Paradise, and revealed that the new downloadable area will be a premium download rather than a free add-on as originally announced.

You know that aunty? The one who hands you your Christmas present with an earnest smile, so you can't help feel she's tried, and then it's almost like she's gone back in time and got you what was cutting edge ten years ago, like a Global Hypercolour Power Ranger, or a Pikachu yo-yo? Well, Radical is your aunty, and Mind over Mutant is an S-Club Seven polyphonic ringtone.

I love Halo 3, you understand. But when it came out, and people asked me to describe it, my one-liner was, "Imagine if you had all the money in the world to spend on a game but couldn't change anything." Halo, conceptually, was as complete a thing as Mario Kart. To alter it too much, to push it in another direction, would be to destroy it. So we got flashes of user-generated content, multiplayer transparency, whatever. And, in the middle, Halo sitting there unchanged.

UK retailer Play has trampled on plenty of prices as part of its Mega Monday Offers.

The newest and fourth instalment in the Fatal Frame (Project Zero) series may be out here on Wii as soon as February.

DICE hopes to start an open beta for Battlefield 2 patch 1.5 before Santa stuffs himself down chimneys.

Nintendo is finally realising its long-held literary aspirations with the announcement of 100 Classic Book Collection for DS.

As if Sephiroth and Solid Snake were not enough, Sony seems to have lined up a Street Fighter IV quartet for Sackboy treatment ahead of the game's 20th February release.

Ascaron has rolled out a chunky patch to beef Sacred 2 up to the sort of size and quality initially expected.

The rise of downloadable games has returned immutably single-minded arcade releases to contemporary relevance in a way that even the harshest retro-sceptic would struggle to condemn, and sieved through that perspective GTI Club + Rally Cote D'Azur is a shrewd piece of commissioning: a fondly remembered three-minute racer on a download service with roll-your-own pricing.

It's a double dose of nostalgia, this: GTI Club + is a retooling of the 1996 Konami arcade cab, and doesn't shy away from the electric blues, burbling jazz-funk and reedy voiceover exclamations that will send you straight back to somewhere sticky-carpeted on the seafront. But GTI Club was hardly aggressively contemporary back in its day. The racer had a selection of classic hot hatches scrambling around the back streets of a breezy Cote d'Azur resort, in a throwback to The Italian Job and the 1960s heyday of the Monte Carlo rally.

December's first Rock Band downloadable content is a pick-and-mix of single tracks from a broad selection of groups and a couple of efforts from Naked Brothers Band, Harmonix has said in its regular DLC update.

Mythic Entertainment has assured fans that Warhammer Online player-versus-player servers will be fixed following complaints about their stability in the MMO's higher levels.