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RockBand.com has been overhauled and now lets you build custom figurines of characters from Rock Band 2.

Too Human developer Silicon Knights has temporarily laid off 26 employees while work on "several new and exciting games" gets under way.

MLB Stickball will be the Xbox Live Arcade game released tomorrow, Wednesday 8th October, as Microsoft says we've been asking for baseball game for a while now.

Having given Fable 2 9/10 in his own unofficial review last month, Lionhead's Peter Molyneux is now dispensing tips and instructions to those of us who had to wait.

FIFA 09 has scored a number one debut in the UK All-Formats chart this week, becoming the fastest selling instalment ever in the football series.

EA has announced that Goichi Suda and Shinji Mikami's upcoming horror game will use Unreal Engine 3.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has rubbished suggestions that the Xbox 360 price cut was a last-ditch attempt to spur sales going into Christmas, arguing that the console is "an absolute home run".

Microsoft has officially announced it is cutting the price of Xbox 360 in Europe.

Sports Interactive boss Miles Jacobson has said the developer will soft-launch Football Manager Live, its first stab at a touchline hairdryer MMO, later this year.

Many years ago, I owned a computer with a very rudimentary voice-operated word processor on it. I can't remember the name of the particular bit of software, which is probably handy from a legal point of view given what I'm about to say about it, but I do remember that it was a dazzlingly effective piece of technology, so long as what you required was an easy means of taking letters, shopping lists, CVs and college essays, and transforming them into conceptually challenging works of modernist free association. It was a lovely idea, but it didn't work.

Microsoft has secured the exclusive rights to distribute two downloadable add-on episodes for Tomb Raider: Underworld on Xbox Live following the release of the game.

Software specifically created for the Nintendo DSi will be region-locked, meaning that European software will only work on European consoles, and more importantly US and Japanese software won't.

Nintendo US boss Reggie Fils-Aime has admitted doing Wii Music an "injustice" by underselling its complexity at E3.

As Good Queen Bess noted in her review of the original Need for Speed in 1601, in-between denouncing its vinyl-clad carriages and under-horse neon as Godlessness, if not a plot by villainous Spaniards, this is a series with legs. She meant wheels - and she was right. These days, the yearly refresh has become as much a part of Christmas as Die Hard reruns or that nasty annual bout of conjunctivitis.

Fans have found a rather calamitous multiplayer bug in Rock Band 2 that wipes groups from the hard drive.

Eurogamer is happy to announce that PlayStation 3 exclusive Killzone 2 and the Xbox 360 version of Left 4 Dead will be playable at the Eurogamer Expo later this month.

The first time David Reeves got up on stage and took a new PSP out of his pocket, it was easy to see why he looked so pleased with himself. The PSP-2000 - or Slim & Lite to you and me and the shops - was considerably smaller and lighter, and upon further investigation was clearly a big step forward, introducing USB charging, external video output, and more onboard memory to improve load times.

Square Enix plans to launch Star Ocean: First Departure on 24th October.

Sony has explained to Eurogamer that there has been a slight production hiccup with the Sackboy toys, meaning they won't be shipped in time to be sent with pre-ordered copies of LittleBigPlanet.

Capcom will dish out some extra content for Mega Man 9 this week.

The World War II shooter genre has yet to make itself essential on the Wii, with the best efforts on the console - Call of Duty 3 and Medal of Honor: Heroes 2 - still only managing to scrape their way to disappointing 5/10 scores. Now it's the turn of Ubisoft's squad-based Brothers in Arms to take up the challenge.

Square Enix's Final Fantasy XI is the latest MMO to become available via digital download.

Big Download is reporting that the closed beta test for Stargate Worlds is due to start next week, on 15th October.

Atari plans to release the PS3 version of Eternal Sonata here in February 2009.

Microsoft has shed more light on how the redesigned Xbox Live Games Store will work when it launches sometime in November, probably.

You can now download classic shooter Full Spectrum Warrior for no money at all - legally and everything.

A bit of digging by Game Politics has revealed most high-profile developers are backing Barack Obama in the forthcoming US election.

Crytek will be offering free online trials of Crysis Wars this weekend, starting Friday evening and ending early the following Monday morning.

Eidos has confirmed that Deus Ex 3 is a prequel and features biological augmentations, a cover-based stealth system and customisable and upgradeable weaponry.

After revealed that he was keen on bringing MMOs to PSP, Sony Online Entertainment boss John Smedley has spoken more about his company's console development strategy, and it amounts to this: every future SOE game is console-bound.