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NCsoft has announced that it is to close down its struggling science-fiction MMO, Tabula Rasa.

Sony has said that the "14 million active accounts" on PlayStation Network includes PSP and PS3 owners, but added that one person using the same login for both is still treated as a single account.

A release date for the PSN version of Age of Booty has popped up on the Capcom blog.

Bethesda has broken silence and confirmed an upcoming patch for all three versions of Fallout 3.

Without the benefit of copious downloadable content, quiz games have a finite shelf life. It's just a matter of how long you can play before you run out of questions you've not seen before. The most pressing issue, therefore, is how many times you can expect to play any new quiz game before you start seeing repeated questions.

Back in 1990, a lot of the best games were in the arcades, and a lot of the best console games were the best-possible ports. The idea of getting one absolutely spot on, however, was unthinkable - unless money was no object, in which case you could have a Neo Geo. Compared to the other consoles, scant few of us ever saw one, but those who did will be well aware it outlasted the rest of the fourth generation. SNK's been through a transition or two since, but it's tried to hang onto its principles, and the latest result is a trio of compilations. We thought we'd follow the publisher's lead and round them up in one place.

Disappointingly for a game so vocal about throwing JRPG conventions out of the window, The Last Remnant suffers from one of the classic problems of the genre: an extremely slow start, made even slower by an astounding amount of loading. It's a good four hours before you're allowed access to anything interesting like combat and equipment customisation, and in the meantime you'll spend a lot of time staring at the five-to-seven-second splash loading screen that pops up every single time you start a fight, finish a fight, go into and out of buildings, encounter a cut-scene or walk more than twenty paces in a town. Even after so much loading, the game suffers from basic technical problems like shocking texture pop-in and juddering frame-rate, even in the tutorial battles.

Following on from the success of the last round of shorts created with the Grand Theft Auto IV PC video editor, Rockstar has sent forth another couple of its custom creations.

Activision has deployed modification tools for the PC version of Call of Duty: World at War so you can make your own levels and game modes, among other things.

90s Amiga classic Sensible World of Soccer is coming to the PC, Codemasters has confirmed.

So it's come to this. Right at the very start of World at War, you're a helpless prisoner of the Japanese, saved from execution at the last second by a rescue squad of US Marines. Handed a rifle, you begin to exact your payback. As you move from hut to hut, one of the game's many scripted moments occurs. Directly in front of you, a Japanese soldier, his uniform ablaze, bursts out at a fellow US soldier. Should you manage to shoot the assailant quickly enough, and thus prevent your team mate from burning alive, you're awarded your first Achievement or Trophy - Saved Private Ryan.

Sony will be sending out hundreds of thousands PlayStation Home beta invites today.

Microsoft has detailed the line-up, competitions and events taking place over the "Xtival" weekend, which runs from 28th - 30th November. We call that next weekend.

The press release for Bejeweled Twist is full of lies! There is not "no doubt" that "this is the world's greatest casual videogame"; just ask the world's millions of Tetris and Peggle fans. Bejeweled Twist does not "revolutionise fun". The visual and audio effects are not "stunning". And it's incorrect to say that "virtually every aspect of Bejeweled Twist is new". It's still played on a grid filled with multi-coloured gems. The gameplay still involves matching gems of the same colour to make them disappear, thereby racking up points. There are still special gems that have different effects when matched. The visuals are pretty enough, the music is as gently hypnotic as always and the nice clinky sound effects are as nice and clinky as they've ever been.

The Ultimate Fighting Championship has dumped some of its most promising stars for refusing to sign lifelong image-replication deals for the THQ series of official videogames.

Nintendo has whacked four new games onto the WiiWare store today.

Eurogamer readers will be able to question Valve "Mr Awesome" Chet Faliszek this afternoon from 5pm GMT in our latest live text interview.

PlayStation 3 games are beginning to penetrate the Japanese software charts, and finally nudge the ageing PS2 out of the equation.

Even those MMOs that don't have a new expansion pack this winter have saved up their tastiest updates for the run-up to Christmas, and Star Wars Galaxies is no exception.

An executive from big American games shop Gamestop has said he reckons the Wii will sell out before Christmas.

New Xbox Experience is out! And not since friend of Eurogamer Gemma Atkinson performed her physical upgrades have we been so excited about a change of interface. Whatever you make of the avatars, there's bound to be something in NXE for you, whether it's the party system, the internet Xbox Live Marketplace for setting off downloads remotely, or the banshee-wail toggle that is the hard disk install option. There's even some stuff in there we hadn't spotted, like the option to delete games from your played list if you didn't earn any gamerpoints from them, thus reducing your gamerscore from 15950 out of 179000 or whatever it is to something less humiliating. No actual gamerscores were parodied in the making of that sentence, incidentally.

Crash Time was rubbish. But there's a sequel nonetheless, and a European demo of it to ignore on Xbox Live.

Capcom stunned the world today with the news that a Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix themed card deck is to be released for Uno on XBLA next month. Yes.

Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger has taken a pop at Guitar Hero, saying players would be better off learning a real instrument.

SEGA has confirmed a release date - well, a release month - for Wii shooter House of the Dead: Overkill.

Warner Bros. plans to make a game tie-in for the brand new Terminator Salvation film.

Sony has said that all PlayStation 3 games submitted for certification from January onwards will have to include Trophy support.

Microsoft has announced that four new songs will be available today for its new karaoke game Lips, and that add-ons will be priced at 160 Microsoft Points (GBP 1.36 / EUR 1.92) per downloadable song. The four available today are:

Capcom has announced that Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix will cost 1200 Microsoft Points when it launches on Xbox Live Arcade next Wednesday, 26th November. That's GBP 10.20 / EUR 14.40 in symbol-rejecting old money.

Sony has updated the PlayStation Store with a demo of LocoRoco 2, the BioShock Challenge Rooms and a host of premium downloadables for Need For Speed Undercover along with usual candidates Rock Band and Guitar Hero World Tour.