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Microsoft has decided to release the Fable 2 Pub Games on Live Arcade this August.

Max Schaefer is the operations chief and co-founder of Flagship Studios. Flagship was created by Max, brother Erich, Bill Roper and David Brevik after they all left Blizzard North, where they had worked together on the two Diablo games. Its first game, the anticipated online action-RPG Hellgate: London, released last year to mixed reviews. Flagship is now working on Mythos, a colourful free-to-play MMO with very Diablo-style, fast-paced, top-down action, which we rather liked when we tried the beta.

There's little change at the top of the UK all-formats chart this week, as Super Smash Bros. Brawl continues to fight off opposition from Battlefield: Bad Company at two and LEGO: Indiana Jones at three.

PS3 firmware update 2.41 is now available for download.

Skate wasn't built for the DS and Wii, and that's presented EA with something of a problem. How can you get a gameworld filled with milling pedestrians and wide-open draw distances to work on less powerful hardware? Its solution with Skate It, due out later this year, is to bring in a series of "comical natural disasters" (their words, not ours) to kick the city of San Vanelona into more manageably angular chunks of geometry, and clear out ninety-nine percent of the original population. God may work in mysterious ways, then, but sometimes He can be alarmingly platform-specific.

Guitar Hero and the Nintendo DS make an odd-looking couple, but the decision to produce hundreds of thousands of wacky clip-on plastic peripherals is perfectly sound. Activision and RedOctane have driven rhythm-action to unprecedented success on home consoles (over a billion dollars in revenue, for instance), and Nintendo has widened the market for handheld games with unprecedented videogame controllers. Guitar Hero: On Tour can look as silly as it likes - it's a match made in money, as the game's more than 300,000 US sales demonstrated last week.

Nintendo has told Eurogamer that claims it is preparing to unveil a widescreen DS are "purely rumour and speculation".

Konami has said it will be bringing the Eledees back to life on the DS this winter.

Guitar Hero relies on three things to work: a fake guitar to strum and jump around with, a good track selection, and solid and balanced gameplay. Guitar Hero: On Tour for the DS, therefore, shouldn't work. How are you meant to get all that music on a game card? And what about the guitar? It shouldn't work, but oddly it sort of does.

Electronic Arts has whipped the wrappers off a PC version of its popular town-builder MySims.

Microsoft loudmouth Aaron Greenberg reckons most people buy the Wii as a novelty to show off at parties rather than as a long-term investment worth building up a game collection for.

Gamers have evolved and can't afford to spend "days and days on end" trawling through lengthy adventures, Rise of the Argonauts lead designer Charley Price has told Eurogamer.

What do RPG fans want? Rise of the Argonauts' lead designer Charley Price believes they want a strong, customisable character with choices to make. And beyond that, it should be simple. Price says he's been busy "discarding the baggage of Dungeons & Dragons" for Argonauts - due out on PC, PS3 and 360 later this year - because it's laborious and repetitive. There's no juggling inventory items, no health or mana bars, no levelling up, XP or grind, and menus are few. This is a third-person action-RPG built on Unreal Engine 3. And Argonauts doesn't stop at reinterpreting the genre; it also wants to resurrect Ancient Greece.

Koei has finally decided on a European date for Fatal Inertia Ex, the improved PS3 version of its futuristic racer.

Peter Moore believes the real "movement" for Xbox 360 and PS3 sports games in the future will be making them more approachable.

Square Enix has added more bits to download for WiiWare Final Fantasy outing My Life As King.

"LUMINEON is enjoying riding on STARAPTOR!"

Gold-farming and power-levelling in MMO games is already a big business in China. It now seems that Vietnam is the next Asian economy to explore this lucrative, if rather bizarre, cottage industry.

Codemasters has responded to irate Race Driver: GRID fans that were stripped of their hard earned ranks in the recent server-wide reset.

In a producer's letter on the official website, the makers of Vanguard: Saga of Heroes have revealed details of a major update to the Sony Online Entertainment fantasy MMO, due in the next couple of months.

JoWooD has confirmed it plans to release a yoga-themed title for the Wii.

Bungie is celebrating itself today and offering you a bag of Halo 3 goodies for absolutely free.

The US release of PS3 exclusive SOCOM: US Navy SEALs Confrontation has been delayed by a month.

EA Sports has apologised for mistakenly including the "Soldiers' Song" as the anthem for Northern Ireland in its FIFA 2008 game.

Oasis guitarist and songwriter Noel Gallagher believes videogames are partly to blame for a knife crime spree that has claimed the lives of over 18 teenagers in London so far.

Konami has updated Metal Gear Solid 4 with two more downloadable OctoCamo patterns.

BioWare is preparing to reveal more about its ambitious role-playing game Dragon Age on Wednesday.

I went to see a play recently called "Contains Violence". In the programme, the writer mused over the choice of name, saying in effect that if you're going to call a play "Contains Violence" it had bloody well better do, or else the audience may decide to invent their own. At your expense. So it is with The Force Unleashed. If you're going to make a promise like that, you'd better come up with the goods. Even more recently, we sat down with the functionally identical Xbox 360 and PS3 builds of LucasArts' latest to see how they do.

Okay, so I have to declare an interest. My favourite game in the entire world, ever, ever, is a game called Rogue. It's a game created in 1980, in which you play the part of an adventurer who is represented by an @ sign. This adventurer explores randomly generated dungeons made out of ASCII characters and fights monsters represented by letters, and the game itself spawned a whole genre of 'roguelike' games - more complicated imitators that are enormously popular on the internet, where they can generally be downloaded for free.

Speaking to Eurogamer for our Diablo III preview, Blizzard's vice president of game design Rob Pardo has admitted that a console version of Diablo is "theoretically posssible".