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American author, critic and filmmaker Nelson George has stated that he believes videogames have a greater influence on young male culture than music.

Nintendo has admitted that Wii Fit body fat readings may not be accurate for younger players, nor for sporty people carrying lots of muscle mass.

Rockstar and musician/producer DJ Green Lantern have announced a downloadable album of songs from and inspired by GTA IV.

Electronic Arts has announced plans to release a new family title based around some classic Hasbro board games.

Sony America has coloured in the remaining blanks on its release schedule for the rest of 2008 and early 2009.

EA Sports president Peter Moore has spoken of his pain at quitting his former role as Xbox boss, revealing: "It broke my heart leaving Microsoft."

Sony has confirmed that developers can now integrate YouTube functionality in upcoming or existing PS3 games.

Sony has sneaked a Secret Agent Clank demo onto the US PSP Store for PC.

Electronic Arts has confirmed that Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia will get Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning at the same time as the US and Europe.

Sony has filled another carrier bag full of songs and emptied it on the PS3 SingStore.

Firefly Studios is one of the unsung heroes of British game development - largely because it doesn't do much singing. The company's been around since 1997 and has managed to sell 4 million units of its biggest PC series, Stronghold, but still you struggle to place the name. It's all down to stereotypical British understatement, says co-founder Simon Bradbury. "We're not very good at blowing our own trumpet," he sighs, as we settle in to have a first look at the studio's next big thing, Dungeon Hero - due out in about a year's time on PC and Xbox 360.

Nintendo has plopped three more exotic oldies on its Virtual Console for you to enjoy.

Speaking to Eurogamer, World of Warcraft producer J. Allen Brack - currently working on second expansion, Wrath of the Lich King - has said that there's no reason this year's competing launches, Age of Conan and Warhammer Online, can't succeed alongside it.

It probably wouldn't be fair to say that Blizzard is worried. But with two determined attempts on its hegemony of fantasy MMOs coming this year (Age of Conan and Warhammer Online), last week's Wrath of the Lich King showcase at the company's Californian HQ was, at the very least, a firm reminder of why you might want to keep playing World of Warcraft. The timing, two weeks before Conan's launch, could hardly have been a coincidence. And the reminder was effective - the next WOW expansion impressed us deeply.

In today's interview about next expansion Wrath of the Lich King, World of Warcraft producer J. Allen Brack said that WOW will "probably" get a complete overhaul of its graphics engine in the future.

Freshly-formed Polish studio Gingerbread has given us a first look at The Protector, its third-person shooter for PC and 360.

Konami has decided to convert its Lost in Blue DS adventure series onto Wii.

If you're still holding onto that pristine Dreamcast Samba de Amigo set with official maracas, now might be the time to load up eBay and cash it in. Amigo is returning, courtesy of SEGA and - of all people - Gearbox Software, and thanks to the Wiimote and nunchuk the bonkers old pose-matching maraca magic is as hilarious and exhausting as ever, with new moves and features that take advantage of the game's new home.

The closure of Capcom's Clover Studio - the division responsible for the likes of Viewtiful Joe, Okami and God Hand - was met with plenty of wailing and gnashing of teeth among gamers. That's understandable - studios creating high-profile original games aren't exactly ten a penny, after all. Still, just because Clover's doors were shut last March doesn't mean that the creative talent that fuelled the studio dissipated. Instead, the key players reformed as a development company called Seeds, Inc - which was subsequently renamed to PlatinumGames Inc.

Konami has opened its case and revealed Rock Revolution, a peripheral-based rhythm game for 360, PS3, Wii and DS.

Konami has announced its third Castlevania game for DS, Order of Ecclesia. It's due out this autumn in the US.

We know you all miss Phil Harrison as much as we do, so we thought you'd want to know that Sony has appointed Shuhei Yoshida as president of SCE Worldwide Studios effective 16th May, according to GamesIndustry.biz.

Nintendo sold 714,200 Wii consoles in the US in April, according to NPD Group data, meaning that the company's lifetime US sales of Wii hardware stand at 9.5 million.

Microsoft has sold 10 million Xbox 360 consoles in the US and reached 19 million sales worldwide, the platform holder announced yesterday evening. Xbox Live now has a membership of over 12 million.

After a couple of weeks of relative quiet, a week of absolute quiet. They may look loud, with names like "Terrorist Takedown 2: US Navy SEALs" and "Warhammer: Mark of Chaos - Battle March", but when Eurogamer's mad uncle Chart-Track blasts out his usual missive about sales performance next week we imagine he will be detailing the ongoing fortunes of the game currently hogging all of Brighton's bus shelter advertising spots, rather than Perry Rhodan or Crimes of War.

SEGA has signed a multi-game publishing deal with PlatinumGames, the studio set up by ex-Capcom developers Shinji Mikami, Hideki Kamiya and Atsushi Inaba.

Nintendo has unpacked a fresh expansion for Pokémon Diamond and Pearl.

Every now and then, you play a mini-game - either in a collection of such games, or as a distraction in a larger game - and think to yourself, "hey, this would work as a full-size game!"

Square Enix plans to unleash Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII here on 20th June.

There's still no echochrome on the PAL PlayStation Store this week, but there are at least a few bits and pieces to take your mind off it, according to VG247.