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The end of oil may be bad news for motorists, but it's been solid fuel for game developers, who seem to agree that the result will be superpowers jabbing nuclear fingers at one another. THQ's Frontlines toyed with the idea earlier this year, and now it's Ubisoft's turn to speculate on what might happen if Russia, Europe and the USA find themselves squabbling over diminishing natural resources.

Valve plans to release PC and Xbox 360 demos of Left 4 Dead on Tuesday 11th November.

A Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix-themed table will soon be available for Pinball FX.

Square Enix has invited Europeans to start buying things from its official merchandise shop.

Videogames look poised to become the best-selling form of entertainment in Britain for the first time ever.

Steam has chopped 75 per cent off the asking price for wacky PC music rollercoaster game Audiosurf.

Nintendo has decided to make learning about the economy a bit more fun, although in the current climate that probably won't take much doing. The result is a deal with Tokyo stock market index Nikkei to reproduce financial figures on the DS.

In the great console wars of the 21st century, the exclusive first-person shooter is an elite paratrooper regiment, pushing deep behind enemy lines, paving the way for the long-term advances, claiming back enemy territory and banging the propaganda drum every step of the way. Resistance: Fall of Man, launched with the PS3, wasn't quite up to the job. It was a good soldier, but not an inspirational leader.

Galactic Civilization developer Stardock has unveiled a brand new game called Elemental: War of Magic.

Electronic Arts has denied that Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 will be released for PlayStation 3 this year.

Sumio Mondo has a 1970s Toyota Celica and a briefcase he calls Catherine. He plugs Catherine into things - in the first instance, a bus driver's eye socket - and uses her to dial in combination numbers, as if cracking a safe, or using an old telephone. In this way, the mysteries of life are unlocked. Or the mysteries of Lospass island, at any rate - its enigmatic hotel, its bizarre inhabitants, and the endlessly time-looped aircraft explosion in its sky.

Valkyria Chronicles is to get two downloadable content packs early next year in the form of an Extra Hard Skirmish mode and an all-new mission.

Beta sign-up has been opened for the western version of the Shin Megami Tensei MMO, handily alerting us to the fact that it exists.

It's that time of year! The big guns are queuing up to fire their fun into your shopping baskets, and after Gears of War 2 on Monday we've got another two reviews today that we thought we'd trail for you.

SEGA has removed an advert for Samba De Amigo from its website following complaints from an animal rights group.

Ubisoft has decided to bundle official Sony PS3 Bluetooth headsets with Limited Edition copies of Tom Clancy's EndWar.

Capcom director of production Adam Boyes believes Xbox Live and PlayStation Network are "still in their infancy".

In the two years since Nintendo started their retro superstore, the Virtual Console has played host to many classic games of the last twenty years. It's also brought back some absolute howlers that should have stayed buried. There are dozens of classics still untouched, however, so here's our Eurogamer rundown of the games we hope to see every Friday morning. To keep the list reasonably realistic, we've omitted games based on movies, TV shows or comic books, purely because there's a very good legal reason why such licensed products can't be officially re-released. And, as further food for thought, skip to the end for the five gaming platforms we'd like to see added to the Virtual Console line-up.

Following yesterday's reports that Hellgate: London is to return, Namco Bandai has clarified the announcement does not pertain to the US and Europe.

Capcom has told Eurogamer that release dates for Street Fighter IV, Bionic Commando and other titles which appeared in the British trade press yesterday were retail guidance rather than confirmed launch dates.

Online bookies Paddy Power is now taking bets on which game will top the all-formats chart this Christmas.

Warner has whipped up an Xbox Live demo for LEGO Batman.

Sony has updated the PlayStation 3 firmware to 2.52.

Activision has announced that it has made the multiplayer beta for Call of Duty: World at War on Xbox 360 open to all.

Bethesda bigwig Pete Hines has said a patch for the PC version of the game will be released later today.

We're all terribly excited about Far Cry 2 and its open-world approach, and its malaria, and its African setting, and its guns, and its graphics, and its burning villages, and its this and its that. But we want to know more.

Capcom has said that Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix will be released on Xbox 360 and PS3 this month.

Haven't checked in with this one in a while. Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach - Turbine's other MMO, alongside Lord of the Rings Online - is getting DirectX 10 support and some substantial new features in the update known as Module 8: Prisoners of Prophecy.

Eurogamer's Face-Off king Rich Leadbetter likes to do things properly, which means going to unbelievable lengths in his research, sometimes just for the sake of a couple of sentences. So when he asked if we could put up the results of his BioShock frame-rate analysis - 100 like-for-like frames compared - we couldn't bear to deny him. Check out Xbox 360 vs. PlayStation 3 Face-Off: Round 15 to see where all this fits in. Over to Rich:

The battle of the band games has never been more heated. This Christmas will see Rock Band 2 going head-to-head with Guitar Hero World Tour, which works with drum and microphone peripherals too. But with neither game even in the shops yet, Harmonix is already gearing up for round two.