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Sony's semi-official UK blog, Three Speech, has published a list of first-party PS3 releases dates that puts Resistance 2 in our gun-hungry hands on 28th November.

A quick tip for when naming your game. Try to avoid using words like "Failure", "Atrocity", and "The Worst Game I've Played In Years" (although I double-dare someone to use that one). It doesn't matter how good your game might be - it still invites every critic to lazily turn it against the product. So "Disaster: Day of Crisis" was Nintendo really pushing its luck.

THQ has confirmed the release of Saints Row 2 PC has been delayed in the US.

Sony has said that it is still "investigating the cause" of LittleBigPlanet online issues. Meanwhile, copies of the game on both sides of the Atlantic have been patched to version 1.03.

First things first: we must apologise for the absence of Quantum of Solace and Red Alert 3 reviews. They are in progress, and will be up as soon as humanly possible (probably Monday morning), but they won't be done before the games' release tomorrow.

Variety is reporting that Atari will publish the new Ghostbusters game.

Atari has picked up the publishing rights to The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena.

Microsoft is to launch a new standalone hard drive bundle for Xbox 360 in the US.

Microsoft has announced the winners of the Dream-Build-Play competition for 2008, all of whom will now be invited to publish their XNA-based games on Xbox Live's Community Games channel, which launches with New Xbox Experience on 19th November.

Microsoft has now notified everyone who has been accepted into the New Xbox Experience preview programme ahead of the service launch on 19th November. Bad luck if you didn't make the cut.

Sony has revealed a bundle of tracks that will feature on the SingStar Vol. 3 disc for PS3.

EA and DICE have announced that the Mirror's Edge demo trailed last month will be released today, 30th October, on PlayStation Network and tomorrow, 31st October, on Xbox Live.

Harmonix and MTV may be on the verge of landing The Beatles for Rock Band.

Activision has unveiled the track listing for Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades, the second DS instalment in the plastic-hammering rhythm-action series.

Wrestling games have long been dominated by one brand - WWE - and that's meant there's only been room for one wrestling videogame series - the one officially endorsed by, and licensed from, the WWE. Yet SmackDown has been treading water for several years, bloating its back-of-box claims with lots of peripheral fluff but doing little to address the fundamental flaws in its now-creaky game engine.

Sony has belted out the track listing for SingStar ABBA, which will be released here on 14th November.

Bethesda has hinted that the next instalment in the tip-top Elder Scrolls series won't be released until 2010.

SEGA has announced that it will publish High Voltage's Wii first-person shooter, The Conduit, in spring next year.

Few pregnancies have been as painful and protracted as Mother 3's. The follow-up to Super Nintendo classic Earthbound, a game that won a dedicated following for its cute and funny modern-world styling of the Japanese RPG, was first announced twelve years ago. Numerous false starts and broken promises later, lead designer Shigesato Itoi finally announced its imminent Japanese release for the Game Boy Advance on his blog in 2005.

Easy mode. That's what MMO veterans of EverQuest and its ilk like to call World of Warcraft, and to some extent - when it comes to death penalties, ease of soloing and generous quest rewards - they're right. Warhammer Online has stripped things back even further, with instant respawns, easy teleportation around the world map, and content carefully sculpted into a non-stop waterslide of experience points. Could the next WOW expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, go any further?

EA has announced that Rock Band 2 will "begin shipping" in Europe on 14th November exclusively for Xbox 360 for a limited time.

In the latest edition of Ask Cryptic, the MMO developer has let slip a few more details on how combat will work in Star Trek Online.

A comparison of Sony's corporate unit sales data and comments made by an investor relations spokesperson for Microsoft suggest that PlayStation 3 outsold Xbox 360 worldwide for the three months ending 30th September.

Rare has cobbled together a Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts demo for Xbox Live.

Kingdom Under Fire developer Blueside has announced Princess and Knight for the DS.

Sony development bigwig George Bain has said the PlayStation 2 is "effectively an open platform" in Europe.

NCsoft has announced a date for the Korean open beta test for its forthcoming MMO, Aion: Tower of Eternity. The beta will begin on 11th November.

Steam is offering Rome: Total War Gold Edition free to anyone pre-ordering Empire: Total War.

Activision has described sensitivity issues affecting Guitar Hero World Tour drum-sets in the US as "an isolated manufacturing issue" and said it would "immediately address any hardware issues" via its US support channels.

As announced on the official Call of Duty website, the multiplayer beta test for the PC version of Call of Duty: World at War has gone live.