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Microsoft has revealed that global sales of Xbox 360 have trundled past 19 million units mark.

No sign of the Americans' echochrome demo on the PAL PlayStation Store this week, but instead there's Bishi Bashi Special and Command & Conquer PSone downloads, full releases for flOw PSP and the Call of Duty 4 Variety Map Pack, and even a couple of demos.

Ubisoft has said it is working on a patch to address the numerous problems with Assassin's Creed on PC.

Square Enix has announced that Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors will be released here on 9th May - another nail in the coffin for Nintendo's massive, slightly wrong release schedule.

Not content with coming up with the longest game name on record (or at least our record, which we started today), Square Enix has dispatched news that Final Fantasy IV for DS will be released in Europe this summer.

PlayStation and Sky plan to release the Go!View video on demand service for PSP across Europe this summer.

American gamers will be able to download a playable demo of echochrome from the PlayStation Store on PS3 and the PSP's web-based version today.

Nintendo has decided to release DS game Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness in Europe on 4th July.

"Worlds will collide. The fate of the universe will be decided." And the Internet will explode with indignant fanboy rage. Yes, Mortal Kombat is back, and this time it's teen-rated, which means no spine-ripping fatalities. Blunting the brand's trademark happy endings is inevitably going to unseat a few spleens, but that's the price series creator Ed Boon is prepared to pay for shacking up his "billion dollar fighting franchise" with Warner Bros. to bring the two famous brands together in one star-studded beat-'em-up package.

The new Def Leppard single Nine Lives is now available to download for Guitar Hero III on Xbox 360.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl will be released on 27th June in Europe, Nintendo said today.

Nintendo's WiiWare service will launch in Europe on 20th May and games will cost 500 Wii Points and upwards, according to a release issued today.

Nintendo has aired its financial laundry and flaunted profits of nearly 50 percent for 2007.

What with Grand Theft Auto IV being out on Tuesday, all the other publishers have gone into hiding. Well, almost all of them. Because the men and women of Nintendo and Sony aren't scared; they reckon they're lifestyle enough to compete, and they're not afraid to wear Abercrombie & Fitch sweaters and sing and balance on one foot about it.

Internet watchers have found what could be the official site for the next Prince of Persia game.

Microsoft has admitted that it's staffing up for its Halo collaboration with Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson.

I'll be the first to admit that games reviewers can easily become jaded, brave martyrs that we are. Playing so many games does mean that the uninspired offerings need to work harder to make an impression, while games that innovate become glittering gems to be treasured. And, sometimes, the elements that jump out of the mire aren't always the first priority of the everyday gamer. The end result is that any game that arrives on the crest of a hyperbolic wave, festooned with praise for its fancy new ideas, can make you - the common peasants who have to pay for your games - suspicious of anything heralded for its fresh thinking.

And so the second episodic adventure with Sam & Max comes to a close. The final episode - What's New, Beelzebub? - is very much of a piece with the previous entries in this season. That's to say that it's exquisitely written, packed with some of the best humour ever seen in games, but curiously disappointing as an actual game.

EA's upcoming Monopoly game - part of a multi-game partnership with Hasbro - will feature a special fast-paced family mode full of mini-games when it comes out later this year on PC (Pogo.com), PS2, Wii and Xbox 360.

Capcom plans to release Devil May Cry 4 on PC this summer and has added some extra bits and pieces to make the wait worthwhile.

EA and Hasbro, sitting in a tree, making games about recognisable properties for Nintendo formats.

Ubisoft has told Eurogamer it will look into claims that Rainbow Six Vegas 2 has a rather serious hard drive-consuming bug on PC.

Criterion has just revealed that motorbikes are on their way to Burnout Paradise in the upcoming "Davis" update.

Criterion will be recalling the "Bogart" software update for Burnout Paradise on Xbox 360 so it can iron-out some frame rate problems.

Monolith has been trying to think up a new name for F.E.A.R. for so long that it's given up and decided to enlist the help of its American fanbase.

Monolith Productions has announced that the name of its F.E.A.R. sequel will be Project Origin.

Soulcalibur IV director Katsutoshi Sasaki has said he is looking forward to competing with Capcom and Street Fighter IV.

Atari has unveiled the Limited Edition of Alone in the Dark and detailed what comes with it.

The organisers of QuakeCon have said that registration for this year's bonanza will begin on 30th April.

Atari has picked up the rights to Smash Court Tennis 3 and will be serving it to Europe in June.