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Parents are more worried about exposing their children to videogames than to alcohol, violence and pornography.

Sony has refused to comment on rumours that a slightly redesigned PSP is ready to be manufactured.

Those of you who have been following the Olympics have probably, er, seen more of it than any of us, since the only conversations on the subject around here have been the CG fireworks display and the little girl who didn't sing.

Steam is offering a free copy of Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 to any gamers pre-ordering Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway on the service.

Rumours of the demise of NCsoft's Austin studio - home to Tabula Rasa and Dungeon Runners - have, it turns out, been exaggerated, as the Korean MMO giant announced 21 job cuts at the developer.

EA plans to release PC standalone expansion Crysis Warhead and dedicated multiplayer excursion Crysis Wars in Europe on 12th September.

SEGA is reportedly "working with Apple" to patch the iPhone/iPod touch version of Super Monkey Ball following complaints about the sensitivity of the control system.

Electronic Arts has unveiled Celebrity Sports Showdown for Wii - part of the publisher's new EA Sports Freestyle brand.

Sony has plans to implement an A-to-Z search function on the PlayStation Store today - although sadly it's an alphabetical listing feature rather than a guide to getting around London.

Capcom has identified three key bugs in the beta version of Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix and offered a workaround for people experiencing them.

Codemasters has commanded Triumph (and Climax) to make more Overlord, as you have no doubt seen in our Overlord II and Overlord Wii/DS news stories. Which is music - probably thundering kettle drums - to our ears. Overlord let us trample through scenic fantasy villages and set hordes of multi-disciplined and mischievous minions on fat halflings and skinny elves. The result was glowing appraisals of Overlord on Xbox 360, and the same a year later on PS3.

Codemasters has unveiled Overlord II for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.

Codemasters will be expanding the Overlord empire onto Wii and DS in 2009.

Those who follow my internet ramblings (my mum and the FBI, basically) will probably know by now that one thing guaranteed to make my blood boil is crap games for kids. More specifically, crap licensed games for kids. I'm not just talking about generic design or uninspired construction, but games that have no concept of how to entertain a child. The result inevitably leaves children frustrated and parents out of pocket. And that makes me fume.

Sony is grooming LittleBigPlanet character Sackboy to become "the next emblematic character for the PS3".

Eidos has lifted the mask on Batman: Arkham Asylum, an "incredibly dark" outing for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.

SEGA has said that development guru Yu Suzuki is still an employee with the publisher after all.

Blizzard has said the Diablo universe will live on in some form or another after Diablo 3.

Cryptic Studios has published an official FAQ for Star Trek Online that answers a few more questions about the in-development MMO.

The next game in Creative Assembly's Total War series will be with us on 6th February 2009.

Sony has told Eurogamer that PlayTV will not allow saved video files be transferred to PSP, PC or Memory Stick.

Real time strategy has been a staple of the PC gaming diet ever since Command & Conquer appeared on our screens all those years ago and, along with the first person shooter, it has been one of the genres that have defined PC gaming.

Pokémon has become the most popular animated cartoon series ever in Japan, as the 11 films combine to gross over JPY 50 billion (GBP 246 million) in the region.

Sony has told Eurogamer that PlayTV will be released on 19th September and cost GBP 69.99.

Will Wright is lying flat out on the floor behind me, his head resting awkwardly on a small pile of books. Pieces of string are tied around his face and pinned to the carpet, with a plastic menagerie of weird alien figurines placed around his head and balanced precariously on the side of his face. I'm trying to play Spore on one of Maxis' laptops, and it's awfully distracting.

Microsoft has, once again, decided against delivering a press conference at the Leipzig Games Convention.

V8: Arcade, the XBLA re-imagining of the Vigilante 8 series, has finally been submitted to Microsoft for certification, which means the game should arrive in late summer or early autumn.

Mobile gaming has always, despite the best efforts of a few pioneering developers, been the black sheep of the market. Those who own consoles, PCs and handhelds tend to look down their noses at any attempt to shift the hobby onto mobile phones - and not without some justification.

If you want to be taken seriously as a gaming platform, you need monkeys and you need them fast. Fortunately for Apple, SEGA's first game on the newly-launched iTunes App Store is a conversion of GameCube classic Super Monkey Ball, where you roll capsule-clad simians around mazes in the sky dodging obstacles, collecting bananas and trying to reach a bright blue finish line before the time runs out.

Say what you like about Apple, but it's clearly taking this portable games console thing seriously. First monkeys, then kart racing, and now Bejeweled 2. It's textbook. They'll be putting on disappointing press conferences and charging 30 quid for fancy carry cases before you know it. Oh.