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The winds of change blowing through the corridors of Relic Entertainment may be having the most profound impact on the Dawn of War team, but there's still enough of a breeze left to sway the direction of its other projects, and the Canadian developer deserves credit for its efforts to chop, change and experiment - even with a critical darling widely regarded as one of the greatest strategy games ever made. Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor is the second standalone expansion to the gripping WWII RTS, but more of the same just wouldn't do, and Relic simply can't stand still.

EA Phenomic believes its co-op card-battler BattleForge could be the game to finally establish real-time strategy as an online gaming genre.

No quote has attached itself more firmly to Conan the barbarian than the immortal line of Schwarzenegger's incarnation - in which he said that "to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women" was pretty much his favourite pastime.

Blizzard has announced that second of World of Warcraft expansion Wrath of the Lich King racked up 2.8 million sales worldwide in its first 24 hours on release.

Activision-Blizzard has agreed to redraw the box art for SCORE International Baja 1000, after THQ complained that the packaging looked too similar to Baja: Edge of Control.

Square Enix US boss John Yamamoto has declared the time of the platform exclusives is over.

Bungie has explained why load times increase when Halo 3 is installed to an Xbox 360 hard drive.

Style over substance. Lowest common denominator. Appalling frame-rate. Cheesy cut-scenes. Flattened difficulty curve. BANG BANG. Sorry readers, the Need For Speed review generator escaped. Won't happen again. Once in a blue moon, EA actually gets things right, as anyone who ever played Hot Pursuit or Most Wanted will attest, and the fact that Undercover brings back some of the best ideas - namely the cop chases - from both of those titles bodes well for it not being another pile of Pimp My Ride nonsense.

In the moments when they're not busy fabricating the follow-up to the world's most realistic soldier sim the staff of Bohemia Interactive Studio like nothing better than stroking kittens. It's true, I've seen it with my own eyes. Bohemia's surprisingly rural base of operations is home to a couple of cute black felines called Lock and Load (okay, I didn't actually get round to finding out their names, but it's probably something along those lines). On the day of my visit, these two moggies are stroked at least three times an hour.

Majesco has rejected criticisms from animal rights group PETA over the amount of meat in Cooking Mama.

1C Company has told Eurogamer that King's Bounty: The Legend will arrive in UK shops on 13th February 2009.

"Alcoholism's a strong word... but we're a rowdy studio," says Dawn of War II's charismatic lead designer Jonny Ebbert, who has just been telling us about how a fifth of them got thrown out of their own Christmas party, and how when they're not being manhandled by bouncers they like to "knock each other out or smash stuff; all kinds of crazy shit". Alright then.

PEGI plans to launch the traffic light age rating system across mainland Europe this spring.

Capcom has won a court battle proving that Dead Rising does not copy either of the Dawn of the Dead films.

Google is to abandon Lively, the social virtual world it launched as recently as July.

Sony has been ordered to pay compensation of USD 18.5 million (GBP 12.4 million) for being a copycat.

Microsoft has reportedly delayed the general release of Banjo-Kazooie on Xbox Live Arcade until 3rd December.

The best way to sum up the allures of Sacred 2 isn't to embark on a thrilling tale in which a myriad of beasts become hacked, slashed and fried by magic - but instead to discuss the map system. So obsessed with micro-management and detail and so (with no offence intended) very German is Sacred 2 that there's an in-game menu with which you can play around with the size, scale, curvature, icon size and overall transparency of the on-screen mini-map. Cartographers of the world, rejoice!

Midway plans to release Hollywood-style driving game The Wheelman on 20th February. This is the game recently pushed back to 2009 in order to allow more time to improve the quality.

Valve's classic first-person shooter Half-Life is ten years old. To celebrate its birthday yesterday, the developer has made it available to buy for 98 of your American cents.

Microsoft's Major Nelson has admitted there are "a few issues" with the New Xbox Experience update release yesterday.

Codemasters will be resurrecting the Colin McRae brand with a sequel to rally racer DiRT next year.

The big Fable II anouncement mooted last week on the Fable II dev blog has been delayed until Monday the 24th.

SingStar, anyone? Judging by more than 15 million sales and more than 2.2 million song downloads, the answer is yes. Microsoft wants in on the action, just as it does with EyeToy (You're in the Movies) and Buzz (Scene It?), and so it has enlisted respected Japanese music game developer iNiS to create an alternative that matches the Sony game almost word for word and hopefully builds on it.

Nintendo US boss Reggie Fils-Aime has ruled out the possibility of a Wii price cut in the near future.

Join us at 5pm as the Tomb Raider: Underworld review embargo expires to find out what we make of Crystal Dynamics' latest.

Despite having posted pricing and track details for Lips once before, we've now spotted that what's on the UK version of the game differs slightly from the list we reported. Sorry about the mix-up. Here's the full list, all of which are definitely on the version of the game we've been playing this past week for today's Lips review.

Activision plans to run an entire weekend of organised Guitar Hero World Tour events on Xbox Live starting next Thursday, 27th November with an Xbox All Nighter running from dusk until dawn.

SEGA and Sports Interactive have said Football Manager 2009 still suffers from authentication problems, most of which are the result of new PC DRM software.

Ubisoft has announced a Prince of Persia pre-order edition that will sell exclusively through Play.com.