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Graphics chip maker NVIDIA is the closest thing the PC games market has to a platform holder. It may have its dalliances with consoles - it makes the RSX, the chip which powers the PS3's graphics, for example - but the beating heart of the company is the GeForce series of PC graphics cards, which have been the most popular cards among PC gamers for several years.

We wouldn't normally post details leaked from the alpha test for Wrath of the Lich King, the new World of Warcraft expansion - everything at this point is subject to change, anyway. However, this one is just too juicy to miss.

Square Enix has listed a load of release dates at the Xbox 360 RPG Premiere event in Tokyo.

Halo Wars is to sport a trendy co-operative campaign for you and a friend; the same feature boasted about for Red Alert 3 not so long ago.

A new expansion for highly addictive turn-based strategy title Civilization IV is on the way.

Microsoft is preparing a double whammy for Xbox Live Arcade tomorrow, with the known-about Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3 to be offered alongside bouncy sequel Frogger 2.

A global release schedule has been announced for Tales of Vesperia, the RPG being developed excusively for Xbox 360 by Namco.

One of the key characters in what is presumably Portal 2 has been revealed in an advert for voice over actors.

Falling block and tile and logic puzzle games have enjoyed a renaissance on Nintendo DS, whether it's stylus-driven efforts like Meteos and Zoo Keeper or more traditional affairs like Tetris and Slitherlink. With the launch of WiiWare, Nintendo must be hoping to repeat the trick - and it's already had a go with an agreeable if steeply-priced Dr. Mario retread. Actionloop Twist arrives at the same price - 1000 Wii Points, or approximately GBP 7 / EUR 10 in old money - and makes an even better account of itself.

LEGO Indiana Jones has swung in ahead of Grand Theft Auto IV to take top spot in the UK all-formats chart.

SouthPeak has told Eurogamer that the PS3 version of Monster Madness has been pushed back to September.

DICE will be deploying the first patch for the Battlefield: Bad Company demo tomorrow, which aims to put an end to statistic problems that stop you seeing how many people you've shot in the face and so on.

The next Call of Duty is subtitled World at War and developed by Treyarch.

Criterion has wheeled out a 10th July date for its upcoming "Cagney" patch for Burnout Paradise.

Microsoft has furnished Live Marketplace with a new demo for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.

CCP has said its annual EVE Fantest will take place from 6th to 8th November in Reykjavik.

Bethesda has said the Survival Edition of Fallout 3 recently unveiled on Amazon will only be offered to US shoppers.

Guitar-playing American pop star John Mayer has had a go at Guitar Hero, arguing nothing can compare to playing a real musical instrument.

LucasArts has confirmed the Indiana Jones game in development for PS3 and Xbox 360 is still in development, despite the recent lay off of up to 100 staff.

Numerous reports suggest MTV and Harmonix are hard at work on a sequel to Rock Band, with some retailer databases suggesting it could be out as early as November this year.

Leonardo DiCaprio has signed up to star in a new film about the history of Atari, according to Variety.

Funcom has managed to ship over one million copies of its gory online game Age of Conan.

Microsoft entertainment and devices boss Robbie Bach has shot down rumours there will be a Blu-ray Xbox released in time for Christmas.

Servicing a niche can be a thankless task. This is especially true when the niche in question is already dominated by another game, and you're the one battling to make your mark.

Unless it's Madden under that welding mask, EA must be serious about adding variety to its portfolio of familiar licences. Dead Space isn't based on a sport, a children's novel, or a sport in a children's novel. It's not family friendly - it's not particularly friendly at all - and it's certainly not casual. In fact, it's a chance to remember how broad EA's output can be: this isn't from the company that made endless Sims 2 expansions, it's from the company that sits back patiently waiting for Spore to come to the boil, and recently allowed Criterion to drive Burnout so far out of its comfort zone.

Clever industry analysts have laid into the Microsoft Xbox business, calling its attempts to grab the casual audience "disastrous" and predicting it will "start to struggle in the market" in 2008.

The long-awaited debut of WiiWare finally puts Nintendo in direct competition with Microsoft and Sony in the realm of downloadable original software. They've certainly started strongly, with developers like Frontier and Square both helping to expand our expectations of what a downloadable game can offer. But this latest addition to the Wii arsenal also works to the detriment of the Virtual Console, a service which has long been blighted by arbitrary pricing and often baffling selections. Will Nintendo be able to keep charging 800 Wii Points for less-than-stellar SNES games when just a few hundred points more can purchase something like LostWinds?

The Veteran Map Pack for Army of Two is now available on the European Live Marketplace.

Namco Bandai has decided to include the Secret Apprentice from The Force Unleashed in its upcoming fighter Soulcalibur IV.

Capcom has popped out a PC demo for Devil May Cry 4. The game's release lags behind the console versions, but also features a number of improvements that Capcom hopes will stop you moaning.