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Xbox Live's Major Nelson announced on Friday evening that Microsoft was opening up the New Xbox Experience early for a few thousand gamers - and then promptly closed the doors again after every place was snapped up in double-quick time.

Namco Bandai has announced that it will close all servers for Hellgate: London, the online RPG from doomed studio Flagship, on 31st January 2009.

Criterion plans to deliver four more chunky Burnout Paradise updates throughout spring 2009. Vroom.

If you've read this morning's Guitar Hero World Tour review, then you already know how much we like the new RedOctane drums - but with the game now on sale across the pond, a few early adopters are reporting problems.

Lionhead has said that fixing the Abbot bug in Fable II is a "matter of priority", and that a patch to fix the multiplayer glitch stripping characters of gold and experience will be made available "very soon".

Rockstar has released a Trophy patch for Grand Theft Auto IV on PS3.

Master recordings may be the norm these days, but there's still a sense that Guitar Hero World Tour is an "As made famous by..." The Rock Band series is now two games and many dozens of downloadable songs deep, and developer Harmonix, having abandoned the Guitar Hero series it designed and launched to work on Rock Band with MTV, was the first to present this formula - two Guitar Hero-style inputs, drums and vocals - to the public.

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I like to think PopCap was surprised when Peggle Deluxe made the leap from casual moneyspinner and guilty pleasure to industry-wide disease. I like to think that, when Valve joked that The Orange Box was delayed because everyone was playing Peggle, the PopCap staff fluttered a paper fan to their shy faces, and giggled. "Little old uncool us?" I continue to imagine them saying. "There must be some kind of mistake."

Sony has confirmed that it is delaying the release of LittleBigPlanet and recalling the game from retailers worldwide because it has identified "two expressions that can be found in the Qur'an" in one of the background songs.

EA has confirmed plans to make an Army of Two film with Universal Pictures.

The BBC reports that a Japanese woman has been arrested after "killing" her virtual husband in the free MMO MapleStory.

Only slightly later than previously advertised, we have 10,000 beta keys available now for Nexon's new free-to-play online FPS, Combat Arms.

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures game director Craig Morrison has said Funcom hopes to add the long-awaited player-versus-player consequences system to the game "early next week".

After a promising launch and a depressingly rocky first four months, it's all change at the top for Funcom's Age of Conan. The game's original director, Gaute Godager, is gone; his seat (probably still warm) promptly filled by Funcom veteran Craig Morrison.

A year ago, who would have predicted that come October 2008 Xbox 360 sales would be exceeding PS3 in Japan? Or that Microsoft would be making the most headlines at the Tokyo Game Show? But that's exactly what's happened, which must be good news for John Schappert.

Nintendo has updated WiiWare with three new games today, which we're also calling my birthday.

Next week's Eurogamer Expo - have we mentioned that? - is set to offer you invaluable advice on the videogames industry and how to become part of it.

IDG World Expo has scrapped plans for a second E for All consumer event in Los Angeles this October.

Ubisoft has pushed its latest Anno game and a top secret franchise back to 2009/10.

Whenever you get back from a trade event, everyone asks what the best game was. For this year's Tokyo Game Show, it's a surprisingly difficult question to answer.

EA and LucasArts executives have told videogaming247 that they are targeting World of Warcraft-sized success with Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Peripheral perfectionist Logitech has unveiled a ridiculously lavish guitar for Guitar Hero World Tour.

GOG.com (Good Old Games) has entered public beta, offering lots of PC games from yesteryear for download.

Those of you popping down to the Eurogamer Expo next week might want to carve out a bit of time in the afternoon to come and ask us questions.

Electronic Arts has dropped hints about sequels to Battlefield: Bad Company, Army of Two and Dead Space.

Microsoft sold 2.2 million Xbox 360s in the three months ending 30th September.

Prince of Persia Classic and Novastrike arrived on the PS3's PlayStation Store this week, while PSP owners were invited to buy previously UMD-only titles Puzzle Quest and Practical IQ and nostalgic owners of both systems can glory in memories of, er, Crash Bandicoot 3 Warped.

Activision has added the first downloadable content for Guitar Hero World Tour to Xbox Live.

If you have even a passing interest in the RPG genre, it can't have escaped your notice that Microsoft has been going crazy nuts loopy trying to woo as many Japanese developers as possible into bringing their skills - and fanbases - to the 360. Some argue this has left the PS3 bereft of the games that helped make its predecessor such an enduring hit in the East.