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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.

Well, they weren't lying: the events of The Force Unleashed will change your understanding of the original Star Wars trilogy. The game has, of course, been relentlessly hawked to fans as much for its narrative promise as its gameplay. And the team can be forgiven for a little over-zealousness: the title's Episodes III and IV-bridging plot is fully Lucas-authorised and canon. It fills in the blanks between Palpatine's formation of the Galactic Empire and the fall of Anakin Skywalker, and the creation of a Rebel Alliance to strike back at the newly operational Death Star.

Codemasters has told Eurogamer that third-person shooter Damnation has slipped to early 2009. We had expected the game this winter.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that China's taxman intends to impose a 20 per cent tax on profits from virtual assets.

MTV and Harmonix have added Fall Out Boy song "I Don't Care" and Hinder track "Use Me" to Rock Band.

MTV, Apple Corps and Harmonix have announced that they are collaborating on "a brand new videogame featuring the music of the iconic Beatles" due out next Christmas.

Following the announcement the Hellgate: London servers will be closed early next year, HanbitSoft - the South Korean company that now owns the rights to the game - has reassured fans it's coming back. A new expansion pack is on the way, though so far it looks like the relaunch is only planned for Asian territories.

The new-look Team Ninja is backing PS3 following the departure of former leader Tomonobu Itagaki.

Bethesda Softworks' Pete Hines will be live on Eurogamer.net tomorrow afternoon at 4pm GMT to answer your questions about Fallout 3.

EA has accidentally misprinted CD keys on the manuals for Red Alert 3, leaving many 19 characters instead of 20 characters long.

The Xbox 360 is winning the online battle by "adding cool stuff", according to Epic Games president Dr. Michael Capps.

Konami has said over 1 million people are now members of Metal Gear Online, the multiplayer component to MGS4 that launched back in June.

Nintendo has updated the firmware for its new DSi handheld already, and early hands-on with the new unit reveals that it includes 1,024 "blocks" (around 256MB) of onboard flash memory in addition to SD card support.

THQ has shut down five of its game development studios and made staff cuts at two more in an attempt to stave off the effects of economic recession. Some of the job cuts are at the UK's Juice Games.

Whatever you think of BioShock - and we're fans, as you may have gathered from our 10/10 BioShock PS3 review a few weeks ago - the prospect of Portal-style canned challenges designed to take advantage of the game's genetic powers and guns is a new and interesting proposition. BioShock encouraged, but seldom commanded players to combine their abilities, but the PS3's Challenge Rooms - due out on 20th November - use their discretion as a licence to impose the kinds of restrictions players would never have tolerated in the campaign, but which make perfect sense removed to one-shot levels built around speed and MacGuyver-style ingenuity.

Valve has announced that Steam Cloud will launch this week.

A second expansion pack is in the works for Company of Heroes, the PC real-time strategy title from THQ.

Microsoft has announced that Vigilante 8: Arcade will be this week's Xbox Live Arcade release when it comes out tomorrow, 5th November, for 800 Microsoft Points (GBP 6.80 / EUR 9.60).

Let it be known that the Rockworm is our friend. Sure, he's large and unfriendly. And he's a family-sized centipede covered in stone cladding, so he's never going to be prime romance material. And he looks like just another thing to shoot at - and Gears of War 2 already has no problems on that front whatsoever. But for his twenty or so minutes of screen time, he's actually there to serve a more interesting purpose. His slow crawl and bulletproof hide mean he's a perfect piece of movable cover, and his hunger for the glowing fruit that hangs from cavern ceilings means you can steer him around by shooting down chunks of bait. Before you know it, you're using him to glide past enemy gun emplacements for easy headshots. So who cares if he's got sticky mandibles where his face should be? Yay for the Rockworm.