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"In the next six to twelve months, Age of Conan will live or die on how successfully Funcom can address these issues." That's how we closed off our initial review of Age of Conan - acknowledging grave flaws, but with immense optimism thanks to an early flurry of patches which steadily improved the game, week on week.

UK retailer GameStation has begun taking pre-orders for a Gears of War 2 bundle featuring a replica Gold Lancer Assault Rifle. And it could be yours for a meagre GBP 129.99. Peanuts.

At first glance, White Knight Chronicles doesn't appear to be pushing the JRPG envelope. It starts with a captured princess and a young boy charged with retrieving her, it's set in a medieval fantasy world, it features characters who can transform in battle to enhance their abilities. But what Level-5 is attempting is actually something new for the genre. In a country where popular online console games are still a relative rarity, White Knight Chronicles is attempting to seduce Japanese gamers into playing an online RPG by giving them everything they're used to from single-player ones.

The Eurogamer Expo is nearly upon us, and Capcom and Eurogamer have just announced that Resident Evil 5 will be playable at the show on both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Making an MMO out of the Halo franchise would be a "pretty challenging" undertaking that would involve the creation of a "whole new layer of fiction and new characters that don't currently exist" - and is a subject that has often been the subject of "heated discussions" at Bungie.

Mike Morhaime, Blizzard's chief executive, has said he isn't worried about another company establishing itself as the lead MMO provider on consoles.

Blizzard is still aiming to release World of Warcraft expansions annually, but following Wrath of the Lich King fans won't see another for more than a year, says the developer's chief executive, Mike Morhaime.

Capcom may be working on an Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network version of Marvel vs. Capcom 2.

EA has told Eurogamer that Dead Space downloadable content released for the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the horror title will not go live in Europe until 23rd October, the day before the game's European release.

Back in the old days, in the late eighties and early nineties, when I was a struggling young musician with more talent than money, all I wanted was a KORG synthesiser. The other spotty oiks and I would linger longingly in music shops before we were tazered out of the door by surly assistants, wishing we could scrape together the thousands of pounds the beautiful big KORG keyboards cost. The M1 was, and still is, the biggest-selling digital keyboard of all time, bigger even than the Yamaha DX7. Successive KORG keyboards introduced staggering new levels of sonic wickedness - every synthesised sound was like the opening of the soundtrack to Bladerunner, or Dune, or, hmm, Never Ending Story.

Update: Tesco has returned the PS3 version of Saints Row 2 to GBP 39.97.

Capcom has permanently stopped work on Talisman for PSN, XBLA and PC.

Microsoft is offering Xbox 360 owners who don't have a hard disk a free storage device to get them ready for the New Xbox Experience.

Sony America has announced that the MotorStorm Pacific Rift demo will be released for free on PlayStation Store this Thursday, 16th October.

Konami has told Eurogamer that Silent Hill: Homecoming has been pushed back to February 2009 in Europe.

In a World of Warcraft player-versus-player panel at last weekend's BlizzCon, it was revealed that Blizzard is considering making it possible for players to level up by playing PVP battlegrounds.

SNES role-playing classic Secret of Mana adorns the US Virtual Console this week. We don't usually bother to write about what's up there, but this a special occasion.

It's been announced that the first DS instalment in the TrackMania series will be released on 21st November.

FIFA 09 has reached top spot in the the UK All-Formats Top 40 chart for a second week, holding off newcomer LEGO Batman in the process.

UK retailer HMV has announced plans to launch a series of new gaming centres in shops across the country.

Cryptic Studios has opened applications for the closed beta for its superhero action MMO, Champions Online.

What with the excitement of giving away 20,000 keys for the Xbox 360 version in one hour yesterday, we quite forgot to add that Activision has restated plans for a Call of Duty: World at War PC beta.

PlayStation 3's upcoming 2.50 firmware includes support for Flash 9 via the console's web browser alongside various changes announced yesterday.

EA has unveiled the very first expansion pack for Spore, called the Creepy & Cute Parts Pack.

Sony has released the details for the latest round of firmware updates for its platforms, listing a number of improvements for both PS3 and PSP usability.

Blizzard has revealed that World of Warcraft will offer some sort of paid character customisation in the future.

After more traffic than we can ever remember (and we used to live next to a roundabout), the Call of Duty: World at War beta keys are all gone! Congratulations if you got one.

Ubisoft has popped a demo of Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway on Xbox Live Marketplace.

Sony has told Eurogamer that a LittleBigPlanet PS3 bundle will arrive here on 31st October.

Sony has clarified to Eurogamer that dates seen earlier for Resistance 2, MotorStorm: Pacific Rift and SingStar Vol. 3 are not set in stone.