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Microsoft has unveiled a sequel to Xbox 360 hackandslash Ninety-Nine Nights.

Microsoft has announced that Tekken 6 will launch simultaneously on Xbox 360 as well as PlayStation 3.

Microsoft has announced that Star Ocean: The Last Hope will launch in Japan on 19th February and the US on 3rd March. Europe's date is "TBC". Wicked.

Sony wants to know if it should delete all the things you've made using the LittleBigPlanet beta, which ends on 12th October.

According to a new report, the Xbox 360 will soon be getting an external Blu-ray disc drive.

Harmonix may have dragged us to the peak of novelty mountain with Rock Band and its drum kit, guitar and microphone combination, but as we all lay around at the top coming to terms with the thin air (and even thinner wallets), things became awkward. The Tour mode was offline-only, and effectively restricted you to playing the main mode only when your whole band was around, which is either dimwitted or conceited depending on your point of view. As for the instruments, the guitar strum bar was dreadful, the drums' foot-pedal was made of matchsticks, and in-game the lead guitar was too easy and the bass guitar too boring. Plus, of course, online play was limited to one-offs. And it rained.

Eurogamer will be reporting live from Microsoft's Tokyo Game Show keynote address tomorrow morning at 4am UK time, which is noon in Japan. Insanity.

Capcom has outlined the changes made to each character for its upcoming download release, Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, in fascinating detail.

Nintendo has announced that Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon will be out in Europe on 5th December. That's before the US, for once.

Sierra/Vivendi plans to close 21 game servers on 1st November.

Here's a situation with which everyone who plays videogames will be familiar: you're playing as a heavily armed character, who has shot, punched, smashed and looted his way through wave after wave of monsters, zombies, henchmen or aliens - only to be foiled, despite your bulging muscles and impressive arsenal, by a plywood door. Kick it in? Shoot it? Blow it up? Nonsense - it's time to go and look for the four pieces of the sacred medallion that'll make it open!

Before there was Resident Evil, before there was Silent Hill, there was Alone In The Dark. It's easy to forget that now, of course - those two games have unquestionably made the genre what it is today, after all. It's still worth mentioning, though, that Alone In The Dark was there before either of them.

It's been a long time coming - not least for fans of the last instalment, which came out seven years ago - but Eden Studios' larks-in-the-park reimagining of the Alone in the Dark series finally hits later this month.

At sea in an ocean of blockbusters, Alone in the Dark has no choice but to punch above its weight: high production values, biblical clashes between good and evil, and precociously elaborate game mechanics unite, embraced by a rigid but versatile single location and tempted in every direction by a developer unafraid, perhaps even desperate, to sling every idea at the wall and hope the majority stick.

We hear you! We know you want Wii reviews of multiformat games. The problem is that publishers are often unwilling or unable to provide them. That was the case with Alone in the Dark - with Atari's usually helpful staff for once unable to assist us in our search - so in the end we gave up asking and bought it ourselves. We're going to look pretty silly if it turns out you're not interested. Not as silly as Alone in the Dark looks, sounds and feels on the Wii, mind you, despite developer Hydravision's valiant attempts to wrestle Eden Studios' ambitious Xbox 360 design into the constraints of the Wii's relatively underpowered hardware.

Nintendo has told Eurogamer that details such as DSi and Wii Points being non-transferable will not be confirmed until we get closer to the spring 2009 launch of the new handheld.

Tecmo has whipped the wrappers off a new third-person shooter called Quantum Theory.

Activision has told Eurogamer there will be no deluxe Guitar Hero World Tour bundles for Europe.

Harmonix and MTV have added more downloadable songs for Rock Band, lead by spiky-haired Californian punk rock group The Offspring.

Riot Games has unveiled League of Legends, a competitive online game attempting to blend RPG and RTS gameplay.

Namco Bandai has unveiled a sequel to Wii balance board game Family Ski.

Ubisoft has delayed the Xbox 360 VIP demo of Tom Clancy's EndWar again.

EA plans to sell a Mirror's Edge music album alongside the game this November. Act surprised.

Got PlayTV for your PlayStation 3? Planning to buy LittleBigPlanet? If Media Molecule co-founder Mark Healey gets his way, you could end up watching last night's Eastenders in-game and pasting stickers all over Ian Beale's smug face.

Gears of War 2 lead designer Cliff Bleszinski has said that developers shouldn't be intimidated by the success of mainstream games and the audience they attract.

Developer 7 Studios is working on a rhythm action game backed by legendary rap producer Quincy Delight Jones III (QD3).

As you'll know if you've read, well, pretty much anything at all about it, Mirror's Edge is an action-adventure game with a difference. Like so many other titles in the genre, it involves working out how to get from point A to point B and pulling off the right combination of moves to get there. But unlike most of them, it presents the action from a first-person perspective. For this reason it's most often referred to as an action-adventure with an FPS twist. But in fact, it's got more in common with racing games.

Ankama Games has said more than 10 million people are playing attractive Flash MMO Dofus.

For those strange people who are interested in crafting, trading, and other non-violent MMO activities, there is no finer or more complex game than EVE Online. Part of EVE's principles of human interaction is that it's the players who have to produce most of the traded goods in the game world. Rather than relying on NPC spawns and loot drops for the majority of its weapons, ships, and ammunition, everything in the game world has to be manufactured by players. There are still some rare item drops, of course, but the day-to-day ship construction and the general shopping done by the masses has to be provided for by the, er, masses.

It wasn't so long ago that industry chinwaggers were pondering whether or not digital games distribution could ever take off. Would there ever be a time when players wanted to buy stuff without leaving their armchair, and have the game piped directly into their console? Or were they too fond of those piles of DVD cases teetering next to the telly? We know the answer now, of course, but it's interesting to note just how quickly this once-fanciful notion has become the accepted norm, now that the major console manufacturers have all put their weight behind it.