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What comes to mind when you think about the DS? Endless Brain Training knock-offs? Patrick Stewart with his funny beard in the TV advert? Various disturbing budget games in which little girls look after genital-free babies? The DS has become so successful, so ubiquitous, in recent years that it's easy to forget that when it started out, pre-Lite, it was something of a kooky oddity. We wrote an entire love letter about how delightfully strange it was just two years ago. Now the DS' image has suffered; we've forgotten that it's the console that inspired weirdness and creativity like no other, because all we see is endless, imagination-devoid shovelware aimed at either your mum or your daughter.

Blizzard's CEO Mike Morhaime has revealed the latest class for Diablo III - the Wizard.

LittleBigPlanet has been winning headlines with consummate ease ever since its announcement at GDC last year, so it's my pleasure to tell you that one of the first reviews of the finished game will be posted on Eurogamer at midnight on Sunday.

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Mythic has said more than 750,000 people have registered accounts for Warhammer Online.

Eidos has told Eurogamer that tropical action game Just Cause 2 has slipped to 2009.

Atari has added the subtitle Inferno to the PS3 version of Alone in the Dark, which is due out in November.

No publisher wants the phrase "polishing a turd" attached to their games as they cross the console divide, but Atari has at least been open about the need to spruce up Alone in the Dark before introducing it to anyone else. A new audience should represent new opportunities, but there's no denying that the well-publicised flaws in the 360 original mean that Edward Carnby's fifth outing arrives in Sonyville tainted by poor word of mouth and with much to prove.

Xbox 360 group product manager Aaron Greenberg has put rumours of Blu-ray on 360 to bed and had a dig at the HD disc format in the process.

It takes a while before you notice that you've bumped into someone. You're trying to run forward, and annoyingly something seems to be blocking your path. A lump of rock on the ground, perhaps, or some errant clipping. A forwards jump should sort it. Hmm, no. How about a step to the left? Wait. What? A person. It's a person that's in your way.

Cliff Bleszinski observed recently that Active Reload is one of the best ideas in the whole of Gears of War, and the fact that nobody's ripped it off is bizarre - especially when you consider how much they have ripped off. Gears may not have invented clip-to-the-wall cover systems, but it certainly popularised them, and even if you discount that, you can't throw a stone without hitting an action game that owes Bleszinski a pint. Fracture certainly does, having nicked the Roadie Run with an almost actionable disregard for variation, and - if that's any indication - the gently concealed data chips you collect and the player-character's crimson barrel-chested armour are also casual lifts.

Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has confirmed Gran Turismo PSP is still in development - even though it's been years since the game was first announced.

The Institute for the Future has launched a massively-multiplayer online game to chronicle the world of 2019, and help overcome some of the silly old problems we might face getting there.

Microsoft has denied that an external Blu-ray drive for Xbox 360 is in the works.

Turbine chief executive Jim Crowley has said that his company isn't just interested in developing MMOs for consoles - he thinks it's vital.

Blizzard plans to offer hands-on time with Diablo III at the BlizzCon this weekend.

Speaking at the Tokyo Game Show this morning, Turbine chief Jim Crowley revealed that Lord of the Rings Online is to get a full-featured social networking site late this year.

Never mind hedge funds, securitisation, short selling, fractional reserve banking, special investment vehicles, public finance initiatives, whether Gordon Brown's randomly flapping chin is down to some sort of nerve conduction issue or just a tick-based blemish in an other consistent facial narrative, whether the whole Iceland situation was an Ireland typo, how to spell taisoear, taisoearch, taisoearch, taiseorach, whether you should have taken out a mortgage with a man who did your credit check on a walkie-talkie, what will happen if the banks have to pay for all that free credit, what will happen if you have to pay for all that free credit, what will happen if you have to ask your Mum to pay for all that free credit, if that bloke opposite you is secretly hoarding Kit-Kats, whether they'll all be sorry they didn't save tinfoil for when 'shiny' is a currency, how much a pint of milk will cost in a week, how much a pint of milk costs today actually because you never look at the receipt, or you don't drink milk, or you've already got some, is a cow a good investment, can you milk a dog, probably don't type that into Google, is it about time to sell the car, is this a good time to get married because there's no way she can complain if you say it would be irresponsible to blow loads of money on the wedding, if it's a good time to bring up the 'pimp' idea, finally get some value out of that gold curtain rail you thought was a cane, whether that bloke from the Halifax adverts is actually a government employee now and if so can we have him instead, whether the world would be different if we'd all paid attention to the fat laughing man in that other bank ad who, let's face it, was only telling the truth, and, of course, never mind the financial crisis, because it's partly our fault anyway and at least this way breaking controllers when a game's crap is forgivable because you'll need the firewood.

Capcom has confirmed that Sakura will be another character appearing solely in the console version of Street Fighter IV.

Sony has added a PSP echochrome expansion to the US PlayStation Store.

Two more games line the WiiWare stomach today, each available for 800 Wii Points (GBP 6 / EUR 7.50).

Yesterday's PlayStation Network update brought with it GBP 1.99 demoscene project Linger in Shadows, and its producer Rusty Buchert has popped up on the US PlayStation Blog to explain.

Yesterday we reported that Guitar Hero World Tour's Xbox 360 buyers would find themselves with exclusive buying rights for a range of downloadable music from 30th October, but Activision has now clarified that account.

As you've undoubtedly gathered, Bungie got to show off Halo 3: Recon for the first time yesterday. It was a big deal for the studio, not least because the expansion was originally down to be unveiled at E3 - until Microsoft pulled the plug at the last minute.

Activision has announced plans to release a bunch of premium downloadable content for the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero World Tour during its first week of release. (UPDATE: Activision has clarified the original release, which was slightly ambiguous. Only the REM content mentioned below will be 360-exclusive. Original story continues below in tragic error.)

Media Molecule's Alex Evans has reportedly said that levels created with the LittleBigPlanet beta will be transferred into the final game after all.

Lionhead has tentatively announced a launch-day patch to enable online co-op in Fable 2.

Bungie has said a character called Maddie could "potentially" feature in the new Halo 3 expansion pack - but confirmed there's no connection with missing five year-old Madeleine McCann.

Microsoft may not delist crap games from Xbox Live Arcade after all, according to Live boss John Schappert, who has now said that the New Xbox Experience will eliminate the problems that step was designed to solve.

Grasshopper Manufacture's Suda 51 has told Eurogamer that No More Heroes: Desperate Struggle, the sequel to his cult Wii action game that was announced yesterday, will release in two versions in Europe, one censored for heavy violence.