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EA Maxis has uploaded nearly a dozen game prototypes that were designed to test certain areas of Spore.

D3Publisher will be offering six previously UMD-based games on the PSP Store later this year.

Square Enix plans to release Wii role-playing adventure Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon across Europe on 31st October.

Sources have told GamesIndustry.biz that NCsoft is preparing to trim staff at its European office in Brighton, and cancel the game in development there.

Microsoft wants your help renaming PC online service Games for Windows - Live, presumably having come to the same conclusion about the name as everyone else.

EA and DICE have announced that Battlefield: Bad Company will be patched with Trophy support on PlayStation 3 during a future round of fixes.

Apple boss Steve Jobs announced that the iPod touch is "the best portable device for playing games" during the Mac and iPod giant's San Francisco "Let's Rock" event yesterday (thanks Engadget), which also saw the unveiling of a new-generation of the touch-screen, tilt-sensitive handheld.

Microsoft will shut down Ensemble Studios once Halo Wars ships early next year.

Why do they keep doing it? Why do they think that we want to see our favourite fighting game characters crudely stuffed into third-person action games? It didn't do Namco any favours the last time they blundered down this road, with the laughably inept Tekken spin-off Death By Degrees earning a measly 3/10 back in 2005, and Midway tried to turn Mortal Kombat into an action-adventure three times before they decided that fans would probably rather make Sub Zero punch Batman in the sweetmeats than suffer through another shonky mess like Mortal Kombat: Special Forces.

Gamecock has decided to pull Velvet Assassin from October 2008 in favour of an early 2009 release.

HMV believes game sales could overtake music sales in its shops (and presumably online) within the next 18 months.

I'm not sure how I ended up in this position, hammering the D key on my computer in a desperate attempt to keep my ship's starboard cannons turned towards a giant crab attacking me from the rear. I can’t help wondering: if I had shelled out more money for a better crew, would I have even found myself in this predicament? When I started Florensia, this certainly wasn't what I was expecting.

SEGA has told Eurogamer that Samba de Amigo will release a week later than expected on 26th September.

MTV and Harmonix have chucked three songs by US metal band All That Remains online for Rock Band.

Sony Online Entertainment's other fantasy MMO - no, the other other one - Vanguard: Saga of Heroes is on the brink of receiving a major revamp.

Warner Bros. has bought back the F.E.A.R. name from the newly formed Activision Blizzard, allowing WB-owned Monolith to rename its upcoming Project Origin.

Building up to the global finals of the World of Warcraft Arena Tournament - the first attempt to make an eSport out of an MMO - at BlizzCon in October, last weekend saw the regional finals for North America and Europe take place.

"Death Magnetic", the upcoming ninth studio album by Metallica, will launch simultaneously in Guitar Hero III and in shops this Friday.

If it had been released a few years ago, Opoona would have been one of those Japanese PlayStation 2 titles nobody ever noticed on the release list - one of those quirky, average games that no-one really knew what to make of. Thanks to the dearth of Wii RPGs, though, it might have better luck.

3D Realms has decided to turn Duke Nukem into a Hollywood film, and has enlisted Max Payne producer Scott Faye to help. And he wants to help.

Tiki Games is working on getting Novastrike onto the European PlayStation Store as soon as possible, according to president and creative director Kevin McCann.

Although it confirmed the Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts release date a couple of weeks ago, Microsoft has now added that UK pre-orders will be rewarded with free access to the Xbox Live Arcade version of Banjo-Kazooie as well.

EA plans to launch the sixth adventure of bespectacled hero Harry Potter in summer 2009, alongside the pushed-back big-screen release. They're both out in July.

Midway veep Martin Spiess has said the Xbox 360's performance in some European countries is a concern, and that it's "lagging behind" its competitors.

Sony has apologised to would-be soldiers whose SOCOM: Confrontation beta experience was ruined by overwhelming demand on the game servers.

Mythic Entertainment boss Mark Jacobs has weighed into the row over the European open beta test of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, as problems persist with key authentication and account registration.

Mercenaries 2: World of Flames has conquered the UK All-Formats chart this week, helping EA to secure all top three spots.

Another week, another three new games for Xbox Live Arcade - set to be released tomorrow, 10th September - in an effort to swallow up a few more of your Microsoft Points and thoroughly exorcise lingering recollections of the Summer of Quality. Not that we don't have high hopes for RocketBowl, Samurai Shodown 2 and Shotest Shogi, but...oh who are we kidding.

Sorry to disappoint everyone excitedly thinking that they somehow produced a Your Sinclair role-playing game, because this is actually a compilation of the first two entries in another long-running Japanese RPG series that never really found its feet in the west. It's pronounced "Eez", by the way.

War is hell. That's a given. But war is also, increasingly, window-dressing: a thin historical veneer that allows developers to mine the past for easy brand recognition, while turning out arcade set-pieces that have little to do with the wider reality behind the uniforms.