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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.

Rockstar has finally announced a release date for Manhunt 2 after months (in fact years, come to think of it) of waiting.

Activision is offering PC demos of Quantum of Solace to anyone buying special ottles of Coke Zero, the sugary drink with no sugar in.

Turning weaknesses into strengths is an appealingly simple approach to take with sequels. The main reason more developers don't try it is pretty simple as well: it's very hard. Much easier, then, to simply ignore the cracks that are forming, paper over them and let the problem quietly spread around the entire structure until, one day, several years down the line, it undermines the whole enterprise and you're left with a pretty mound of toxic rubble.

Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz' widely-read weekly newsletter, the GamesIndustry.biz Editorial is a weekly dissection of one of the issues weighing on the minds of the people at the top of the games business. It appears on Eurogamer after it goes out to GI.biz newsletter subscribers.

The screenshots don't do it justice. It's a common enough refrain, but it's become increasingly popular as new console hardware has offered us ever more lavish visual feasts. As the arts and sciences of animation, lighting, special effects and visual filters come into their own, there's less and less to be gleaned about how a game actually looks from a still image.

We've already covered the big class changes coming to World of Warcraft in the imminent Wrath of the Lich King - or the even-more-imminent Echoes of Doom patch that will precede it in the next couple of weeks. We've also romped through the incredible Death Knight intro. Over the next six weeks we'll explore Northrend and the expansion's new player-versus-player options - but before that, we have some nitty-gritty to attend to.

We've teamed up with CyberSports - publishers of the soon-to-be-released football MMO, Football Superstars - to offer Eurogamer readers a truly unique gaming competition with a big cash prize.

Media Molecule co-founder Mark Healey has outlined his vision for a handheld LittleBigPlanet, revealing how gamers could create content on the move to add later into the PlayStation 3 version.

Media Molecule co-founder Mark Healey has told Eurogamer his team could make a first-person version of LittleBigPlanet in the future.

Microsoft has planted a Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise demo on Xbox Live Marketplace.

Xbox 360 sales have trumped those of PS3 after yet another week in Japan. We never thought we'd write that.

D3Publisher has whipped the wrappers off of Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard, a third-person shooter due for release on PS3 and 360 in Q1 2009.

After the rather soggy Pirates: The Key of Dreams on WiiWare, and with the loosely related Pirates vs Ninjas Dodgeball doing bad things to my brain, I wasn't in a particularly receptive mood for yet more downloadable buccaneering seamanship. The fact that Age of Booty managed to thaw my frosty pirate prejudice, even slightly, is clearly a victory of sorts.

Wii Speak, the microphone peripheral bundled with Animal Crossing, is to get its very own Wii Channel.

Did you know that FIFA 08 sold over 1.4 million copies last year in the UK alone? It was the biggest-selling multiformat game, even eclipsing Brain Training and Call of Duty 4. As of this week - just over a year since its release in the last days of September 2007 - it's 36th in Chart-Track's All Formats Top 40. Anyway, we're big fans of the new one, but no, we don't know what "Let's FIFA 09" is all about. Although we do like the pitch-side translations around the globe. ECHATE UN FIFA 09!

Hothead games has decided to make the second episode of Penny Arcade Adventures cheaper.

Nintendo unveiled a third Mario & Luigi RPG yesterday, during a showreel of upcoming DS titles. (We did write about this at the time, but apparently there was "a technical hitch" and you never got to read the item. Everyone responsible has been framed for murder.)

As well as adding Sonic to the Smash Bros. roster, Nintendo's Japanese press conference also brought us the local release date for Wii Fit, news of motorbikes in Mario Kart and a few details on the first games for downloadable service Wii Software (Wii Ware), announced this June.

For about half an hour, this Austrian "puzzle shooter" had me convinced my remote was broken. Then I spent half an hour wondering if the game was broken. Finally, after finding an interview with the developer online, I discovered that everything was actually as it should be. I'd just been playing with the nunchuk plugged in, which completely changes the controls. It would have been nice if the game itself had been able to communicate this rather vital bit of info, but simplicity certainly isn't Plättchen's strong suit.

Nintendo has updated the Wii Shop with three new WiiWare games, including the eight-player Bomberman Blast.

The myth that EA makes the bimbo football game and Konami makes the cultured one is probably dead by now, but just in case, I have sent it to McDonald's at 2am to spill Joey Barton's pint. FIFA has long since put its dark, deformed days of knee-length grass and knee-deep gameplay behind it, and with this 2009th instalment it delivers solid, realistic football along with its trademark compellingly polished presentation. And careful, because it probably is trademarked.

Funcom has revealed that it's including an overhaul of item crafting in the next major update to Age of Conan, along with the rest of its new player-versus-player system.

SEGA secretly unveiled two new Wii games during the Nintendo conference yesterday.

Sony has patched Gran Turismo 5 Prologue to include three new cars and a host of tweaks.

Nintendo UK has told Eurogamer that Wii reworkings of GameCube titles Pikmin 1 and 2, Metroid Prime 1 and 2 and Mario Tennis will all be released in Europe next year.