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Harmonix has told the Internet there's no point going bonkers over the European price of Rock Band, saying the game is "not magically going to get cheaper because you wish it to be so".

Sony Europe has shed more light on the freshly announced Diabolical Dragons and Skyguard Update packs for Lair.

The blog for upcoming film Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li is back on its feet after being knocked over by too much Internet attention yesterday.

Let's talk a little about the term "director's cut". If we were to take it literally, it would refer to those rare occasions upon which a maligned film director revisits a studio-butchered film and re-cuts it to his or her satisfaction. In reality, it usually means "we found an extra fifteen minutes of footage that we cut out to make the movie better, but now we've put it back in". But what does it mean in videogames and, in particular, what does it mean for this long-overdue PC version of last year's stabby console hit?

New suggestions that Resident Evil 5 features racist imagery have emerged.

Sony has confirmed that the redesigned PlayStation Store will go live in Europe on 15th April, alongside firmware update version 2.30.

Yesterday, EA announced Rock Band will make its debut in Europe on 23rd May. Big news. It was also revealed the game will be exclusive to Xbox 360, at least for a few months. Again, big news. But these announcements were almost entirely forgotten as the Internet was too busy going, "WHAT? One HUNDRED and EIGHTY POUNDS?" Or, "Zut ALORS! DEUX-cent QUARANTE EURO?" etc.

Electronic Arts has unveiled The SimCity Box, which has five of the latest instalments in the series bundled together for the price of a normal game.

Not much more than a month after it was scheduled for a spring 2008 release, Dutch fantasy MMO Chronicles of Spellborn has been delayed to the autumn.

Nintendo has popped four links to the past on the Virtual Console.

Nintendo of America has revealed that Mario Super Sluggers is on its way to the West.

A new version of Game Boy Color classic Toki Tori is to be released as a WiiWare download.

Nintendo plans to release two fresh Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games on 20th April in the USA. European plans are yet to be made.

Infogrames bossman David Gardners has said he reckons between 2 and 3 million copies of Alone in the Dark could be shifted once the game launches this June.

The Nintendo DS isn't the most obvious place to continue the story of Altair, master assassin of Ubisoft's biggest game of 2007, so developer Gameloft, er, hasn't. Instead, Altair's Chronicles delves into his past, prior to that fateful trip into Solomon's Temple and the events that followed it. This is an odd decision, because Assassin's Creed itself was a game about personal redemption, charting Altair's downfall and his subsequent journey toward absolution and enlightenment - the point being that when he began the game he was a bit of an arrogant dolt.

Sony America is now showing a video demonstration of what you can do in the redesigned PlayStation Store.

Telltale has revealed that it is making an episodic series for Wii Software that will begin in June.

Rockstar has appealed to the Australian government to introduce an R18+ rating for the region.

Playing this, I found myself thinking about comrade Dan Whitehead's tongue-in-cheek flame-bait intro to his review of the 360 Universe at War: Earth Assault. For those not into link-clicking, he was saying that whether you prefer a first-person shooter on the PC or console is a matter of preference rather than intrinsic superiority, leaving real-time strategy as "the last bastion of PC snobbery". Which isn't true, however you cut it. There's MMOs too, proper grown-up wargames and what remains of the real simulators. And as if PC owners need anything to feel snobbish about. It's all part of the fun of that big beige box.

Konami has told Eurogamer that it will be announcing its European Metal Gear Online beta plans "shortly".

Morgan Gray, senior producer at Crystal Dynamics, has said he's fed up with all the stereotypical black characters appearing in games - singling out Gears of Wars' Cole Train as a prime example.

Sony has told Eurogamer that it is unaware of any issues regarding the mysterious PS3 error codes supposedly popping up around the world.

UK retailer Shopto has told our friends over at GamesIndustry.biz that a Grand Theft Auto IV PS3 bundle is indeed on the way.

WarCry has published an interesting preview of one of the more elusive MMOs currently in development: Cheyenne Mountain's Stargate Worlds, based on the cult science fiction film and TV series.

Sony has told Eurogamer there is no news regarding the arrival of the latest firmware and redesigned PlayStation Store in Europe.

In real life, the Baja 1000 race, which generally runs for about 1000 miles, takes 27 hours to finish. And that's if you're the world-record holder. It's a serious business, but it's a pretty rubbish business, by the sound of it. According to our giddy THQ and 2XL guides during the game's first playable showing, racers spend up to a million dollars on their vehicles and then have to spend another half-mil on race support from a watching helicopter - all for a prize purse of just five grand.

Konami Japan appears to be blocking outside attempts to sign-up for the Metal Gear Online beta test.

BBC technology journalist Darren Waters has explained the thinking behind the decision to bring the iPlayer to Wii - adding it's "almost inevitable" the service will also make it to PS3.

Gamecock has announced that forthcoming XBLA title Pirates vs. Ninjas Dodgeball won't be out till later this spring.

An EVE Online fan website has launched, announcing the full list of candidates for the game's forthcoming Council of Stellar Management elections.