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PS3 was the best-selling console in Japan last week, according to figures from Media Create.

3D card manufacturers shouldn't take this the wrong way, but it takes a lot to make us crawl out of the communal Eurogamer bed (yes, all the Eurogamer writers share a single large bed - we do it for frugality and communality, which remain our watchwords) and go to a hardware presentation. There's a nagging fear someone may talk maths at us and we'd come home clutching the local equivalent of magic beans. And then we'll be laughed at by our fellow writers and made to sleep in the chilly end where the covers are thin and Tom left dubious stains. That's no fun at all.

LucasArts appears to be working on a Star Wars game for Wii and DS based on the upcoming animated film.

Ubisoft has made a new label with crayons that will focus on making Wii party games for "all family members and friends".

Sony has updated the European PS3 Store but there is no Metal Gear Solid 4 Database in sight.

Lionhead has shed some light on the characters you'll meet while exploring Fable 2, and claims to have "one of the most evil people in videogame history".

Realtime Worlds boss Colin MacDonald has said there is a "misconception" that MMOs are not as good-looking as single-player games.

Saints Row 2 will be very distinct from Grand Theft Auto IV when it launches in October on PC, PS3 and 360, says THQ chief executive Brian Farrell.

The son of late author Mario Puzo has sued Paramount because he didn't get his cut from sales of The Godfather games.

Work on the action-themed spin-off for Final Fantasy XIII has temporarily ceased.

Square Enix has rubbished suggestions that Final Fantasy Versus XIII is on hold.

LittleBigPlanet is the PlayStation 3's great white hope for 2008 - an ambitious, abstract physics game built around user-created content - but developer Media Molecule admits that the hype has taken it by surprise.

Stan Lee's radioactive riff on Jekyll and Hyde has long provided popular source material for our gaming entertainment. After all, Hulk loves to smash - and what's more videogamey than smashing things? It's a superpower made for gaming. Unfortunately, it's also a superpower that pushed against the boundaries of what games were capable of. Hulk may be the strongest there is, but until realistic physics were an option, his boundless strength could still be blocked by a strangely rigid pile of metal barrels.

LucasArts is working on new DS and Wii titles based on the Star Wars spin-off animated series, The Clone Wars, and one of them is billed as a proper Wii lightsaber game. Both are due out in "Holiday 2008". I'm on holiday tomorrow.

Japan has gone absolutely bananas for Metal Gear Solid 4, snapping up over 465,000 copies in the game's first week on sale.

Tomorrow, as everyone knows, is International "Worth a look if you're a fan of the genre" Day. There will be a parade, followed by a singsong with popular young-persons' beat combo Mixed Bag and the Rent It Firsts. Party bags will include everything you expected in a fairly competent fashion but nothing to stretch your imagination.

It's only been out for a day but 250,000 beasties have already been birthed using the Spore Creature Creator, with community site sharing taking place at a rate of two creatures every second.

Gamestation is now taking pre-orders for a limited edition Metal Gear Solid 4 watch.

Sony will be popping a special Metal Gear Solid 4 database application on the US PlayStation Store today.

Eidos has confirmed four titles it plans to show off at E3 next month.

Damn straight it's tough to be a deity. Universes aren't built in a day. The typical estimate says six, and those are some long shifts. Immaculately kept, pearl-white beards don't trim themselves, either. But never mind being a God. It's hard to be a game developer if this RPG is anything to go by. Or at least this lot makes it look hard going.

Valve has given more details of what will be in the Pyro update coming to Team Fortress 2 PC this Thursday.

You've tracked them silently for days, learning their style, their routines, their favourite places. Now you've finally made your move: traps laid, you lurk inside Netflix.com to watch it all play out. Your first mine catches them off guard as they make their Tuesday evening sweep of Major Nelson's site. Your second tags them on the rebound, as, shaken, they head back to your profile to see what else you have in store. But you never find out about mine number three (lodged deep inside Amazon.co.uk, with that expensive toaster they've got a thing for) because with a misplaced sense of victory, you head towards Wired News, and that's when they get their revenge, with mines scattered on both the front page and the GameLife blog. Leaking data points all over Chris Kohler, you sign off, defeated. Welcome to the new internet: this time you're a player as well as a user.

THQ has declined to comment on rumours that it is the publisher behind The Crucible: Evil Within, which hit the headlines recently after footage was leaked.

KOEI has pushed Wii-exclusive role-playing game Opoona back from July to September in Europe.

It's never a good sign when a publisher waits until release day to send out review copies of their game. This means they're buying time, hoping the game will at least get through its first weekend on sale before getting its face kicked off on the Internet.

Popular browser MMO Kingdom of Loathing has taken a step in a new direction with the addition of its first multiplayer clan dungeon: Hobopolis.

Nintendo has put shiny new DS download pods in 30 shops around the UK.

Until January this year, Kudo Tsunoda was best known for producing the Def Jam and Fight Night series. Well, that and sporting ridiculous sunglasses at all times, and wearing the kind of clothes and jewellery more usually seen on rap stars than people who make videogames for a living.

Iconic game designer Warren Spector has said he believes lengthy adventure games are "on the way out".