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A little bit Duck Hunt, a little bit Sunset Riders. That's the blindingly obvious recipe for Wild West Guns, a self-explanatory cowboy-themed shooting gallery game. There are six levels in all, each split into three shorter challenges. The first two involve shooting different targets, the last one lets you loose on gangs of bandits as they pop out of cover in a variety of predictable western locations.

With so many games greedily - and presumptuously - placed in the premium 1000-Point WiiWare price bracket, it's refreshing to be able to report on a title that knows its limits.

Sony has decided to bundle all 12 episodes of Siren: Blood Curse onto Blu-ray disc for release this autumn.

Koei has clarified the Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI date on PC and popped out a demo so we would notice.

Logitech, which makes steering wheels and keyboards and mice, will now make "premium instruments" for Guitar Hero World Tour.

Insomniac Games has said Ratchet & Clank: Quest for Booty will be available here from 21st August - the same day as the US.

505 Games is bringing Battle Fantasia to Europe in the first quarter of 2009.

The Last Guy, an unusual PSN creation by Sony, will be available to download sometime this month.

Id Software technical director John Carmack has told Eurogamer that the reason Apple doesn't "deeply get" gaming, as he put it during his QuakeCon keynote, is down to Apple's CEO.

Bethesda man Pete Hines has said the company "clearly intended" to make more than one Fallout game when it bought the rights to the series.

Pure is keen to impress. Due for release at a time when most of the heavyweight racing brands are having a little nap on the hard shoulder, the game developed about 300 metres from our office in Brighton hopes to turn a few heads with a monstrously hectic brand of vertiginous, trick-focused off-road racing.

Atari has popped a demo for Alone in the Dark onto Xbox Live.

Hellgate: London and Mythos have been picked up by the Asian publisher T3 entertainment, which is setting up a new San Francisco-based studio to carry out development work, reports GamesIndustry.biz.

Square Enix has revealed that Final Fantasy XIII will be released in Japan next year.

Developer Media Molecule has "a rather scarily long list of great ideas for ways to support the community" after LittleBigPlanet launches - but is waiting to see what people want first.

Media Molecule co-founder Alex Evans wants to do another big "reveal" for LittleBigPlanet - and reckons the game has plenty left to surprise us with.

2K's Ken Levine has told Eurogamer he reckons BioShock has rescued the shooter genre by opening up a brand new market.

In an earnings call with investors last week, Blizzard chief Mike Morhaime confirmed that second World of Warcraft expansion Wrath of the Lich King will release in the fourth quarter of this year.

Criterion is finally wheeling out the free Cagney update for Burnout Paradise on Xbox 360.

Bungie is playing bad cop with users who upload naughty porn pictures and share them amongst the Halo 3 community.

Sony Computer Entertainment America exec Scott Steinberg has said rival platforms are starting to look old as PlayStation 3 comes of age.

Not, sadly, an adventure game starring Godzilla's infamous avian foe, but that's not to say that this Rhodan can't satisfy the urge for pulp sci-fi fun. It's based on a massively popular series of German SF novels following Perry Rhodan, a Buck Rogers/Flash Gordon/John Carter of Mars figure whose encounter with aliens on the moon fast-forwards the human race into the space age and leaves him with a "cell activator" which makes him pretty much immortal.

After besting Liberty City a couple of months ago, we all deserve a nice rest - and where better to head than Los Angeles? Actually we can think of lots of better places to head than Los Angeles - the inside of a woodchipper, for instance - but then Midnight Club's isn't quite the LA we know: it's a curvy cut that runs from Santa Monica to Downtown and takes in Hollywood on the way. A sizeable, varied strip of land where - in the hands of Rockstar San Diego, veterans of three Midnight Club games and a pair of Midtown Madnesses - gridlock is half the fun.

The Wolfenstein movie is still in development and Roger Avary is "working on the script right now" according to id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead.

Doom 4 will be a "finely-honed and crafted" single-player game primarily, backed up by multiplayer elements for which id Software is hoping to "leverage some of the Quake Live infrastructure".

Id Software technical director John Carmack has said that it's easier to realise the potential of the Xbox 360 hardware but that the PS3 has certain theoretical advantages, and he speculates that Blu-ray could play a decisive role in the console war in future.

Id Software's John Carmack has laughed off suggestions that Nintendo will care about being a lot of gamers' 'second system' after a PS3 or Xbox 360.

Id Software's decision to partner with Electronic Arts to distribute first-person action game Rage was partly down to the fact that the EA brass are "all hardcore gamers", according to the project's design lead Tim Willits.

Blizzard has stamped on the hopes of the 52,744 Diablo fans who have signed a petition asking it to change the art style of Diablo III.

Microsoft's Live, software and service boss John Schappert has confirmed to VentureBeat that the company is considering selling accessories and clothing for Xbox 360 Avatars through microtransactions.