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The Xbox Live revamp of Duke Nukem 3D will be released on 24th September.

Microsoft has sacked games tester Robert Delaware for speaking publicly about Xbox 360 hardware failures.

More than seven months after the whole business began, Electronic Arts has announced it's no longer interested in acquiring Take-Two.

World of Warcraft's second expansion Wrath of the Lich King will be released on 13th November this year, according to an advertisement on the Wowhead site.

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.

If you're an adult gamer, where's the pleasure in playing a Hannah Montana game? Or making one, for that matter? "We're still real gamers," says Todd Dewsnup, lead artist at Disney's Avalanche Studio. "It's still a challenge to make these games. Lots of parents want games their kids can play. The goal is to make a game that kids like that adults won't hate. Just like the movies many of them are based on."

Let's start with the bad news, because there isn't really very much of it. Crysis Warhead is not a particularly long game - in fact, if you're playing on normal settings, and you're familiar with the first entry in the series, you can probably clock this at somewhere between five and seven hours.

Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida is disappointed at the lack of third-party support for the PSP.

UK retail chain Woolworths looks poised to cut the price of Xbox 360, following a similar move by Microsoft in the US.

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.

Activision has splashed out to acquire UK studio FreeStyleGames, the developer behind PSP rhythm action game B-Boy.

Nintendo will be releasing Wii hospital drama Trauma Center: New Blood on 7th November in Europe.

Fitting Supreme Commander onto the 360 is a bit like squeezing a horse into a chest of drawers - even if you can, that doesn't mean you should. With the massive battles and sweeping strategic vision of the PC version already melting CPUs and warping motherboards on anything but high-end gaming rigs, trying to port this much sound and fury onto a console seems like an act of sheer bravery. And it undoubtedly is, but then so was the Charge of the Light Brigade. Sometimes, simple bravery is not enough. Sometimes, what's really called for is a little bit of judgement too.

2K Games will be offering a PS3 demo of BioShock on 2nd October around the world.

Midway has revealed the 22 playable characters who will appear in Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe later this year.

Even though I wasn't born until nearly 40 years after the end of World War II, whenever I hear the Colonel Bogey March I can't help but sing the song about how Hitler's only got one ball. And I wonder, does it still have any resonance with the younger generation? Do they recognise it? Is it still sung in playgrounds, or would they think I've just written down something unnecessarily crude about one of the 20th century's greatest monsters - if they even know who Hitler is? Well, whatever they think, the fact I remember gives the second stage of Major Minor's Majestic March a very lewd and subversive feel.

Codemasters plans to unleash Rise of the Argonauts across Europe in November.

Sony has updated the PlayStation Store with all sorts of exciting new content. Hahahaha. No, but seriously, there's a few new bits and pieces including the long overdue 1942: Joint Strike (GBP 6.99) and a demo of the same.

Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony have all spun their interpretations of the US sales figures for August, which saw Madden NFL 09 dominate the software charts and Nintendo platforms romp hardware figures.

With its official release looming - next Thursday at retail, pre-order head-starts on Sunday - Mythic and GOA have announced the types and names of the launch servers for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning.

Capcom plans to offer all major releases on multiple platforms in future in order to maximise their impact in the west, where "consoles are practically waging war against one another" in the company's words.

Blizzard has announced in a forum post that it's opening up paid character transfers from Normal (player-versus-environment) to Player-versus-Player servers in World of Warcraft.

Microsoft is popping exclamatory siblings Destroy All Humans! and Intellivision Lives! on Xbox Live Originals this coming Monday, 15th September.

Sony has announced that WipEout HD will cost GBP 11.99 when it launches, but the release date has yet to be confirmed.

Given Evolution's strong and oft-overlooked history developing rally games, it was no surprise when MotorStorm skidded into view on a slick foundation of variable surfaces; specifically, surfaces that remembered your path through them, bearing the scars to those who followed. But it was a surprise that it wracked up so much debt to the likes of SSX.

One Life Left is back! We probably should have pointed that out. Here's a letter from Ste Curran, one of the three excellent people who staff the show, to explain why and what will be happening in future:

"The acronym should be WOAR, not WAR," our esteemed and not at all pedantic editor complained in the pub last night. Well, he's half-right; Mythic Entertainment's long-awaited, oft-delayed, EA-backed, Games Workshop-licensed monster fantasy MMO, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, should technically be dubbed WOAoR.

Sony will be unleashing MotorStorm: Pacific Rift on the North American public from 28th October, but Europe has lost its date in the bushes.

With only weeks to go before Rare's venerable Banjo-Kazooie franchise emerges from its decade-long slumber, the game is seriously taking shape. This week, at Microsoft's UK headquarters in Reading, we were able to go hands-on with almost finished (albeit not yet bug-free) code.

Sony has decided not to release a Blu-ray version of Ratchet & Clank: Quest for Booty in the UK after all.