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"The first thing we had to do was deliver a game that was much, much, much better than the original," says Julian Widdows, game director on 50 Cent: Blood in the Sand. "While it was a huge commercial success, I don't think anyone is particularly shy of that fact that it wasn't critically well-received. It wasn't the game people wanted."

Trench. Trench coat. Trench foot. Ditch. Gully. Just some words relating to war. You might also say front lines. What great words. Words that, when sandwiched together, make Frontlines, a homogenised war word of war. Obviously you can only make new words up in the future when we have run out of normal words to use, so off we go to 2024 where robots clean houses and Will Smith has a nasty feeling about all this in his Audi that looks like a vacuum cleaner. But oh no someone had forgotten to make more energy so now we need to have a war, not of words, but of guns. Guns and robots and planes and drones and bombs and night vision and laser-pens.

Mario Kart Wii has whistled past the finishing line ahead of the Japanese chart-pack again this week, adding another 150,000 sales toward its 1 million goal.

The Internet has decided that God of War III will have multiplayer bits in it after uncovering a Sony America job ad seeking an "online gameplay programmer to join the team behind the critically acclaimed AAA titles God of War and God of War II".

Sony in Australia has told Gizmodo that PlayTV - the PS3's USB TV tuner and video-recording add-on - will launch there in Q4 2008.

Nintendo has dated the Namco Bandai balance board game for Wii called Family Ski.

Unique-looking puzzler Echochrome is being released in the US today for both PS3 and PSP.

Lord of the Rings Online developer Turbine has obtained USD 40 million in a third round of venture capital funding, according to an online report by Private Equity Hub - and also according to GamesIndustry.biz.

Radical Entertainment has said it's working hard to ensure Prototype gets a release in Australia and Germany - even if that means cutting the level of violence in the game.

Epic boss Michael Capps will be giving a Gears of War 2 keynote at this year's Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany.

Stargate Worlds, the science fiction MMO based on the cult Egyptology-in-space film and TV series, has opened registration for its closed beta-testing phase.

Leslie Benzies, producer of Grand Theft Auto IV, has estimated the game cost Rockstar around USD 100 million to create.

Funcom has laid out the full subscription pricing structure for its imminent fantasy MMO, Age of Conan.

US group Mothers Against Drunk Driving has voiced its disappointment with Grand Theft Auto IV for including a section where you can drive around while drunk.

Shopwatchers Chart-Track have revealed Grand Theft Auto IV broke a raft of records on its first day of sale, to the surprise of no one at all.

Infogrames has agreed to acquire Atari for USD 11 million, even though everyone thought they were the same company anyway.

Nintendo has confirmed that fantasy RPG Etrian Odyssey is coming to the DS this summer.

Capcom has announced the new version of Lost Planet is coming to Xbox 360 and PC on June 6th.

Capcom has announced that Okami for Wii will be released on 13th June in Europe.

Joypad magazine - the French Edge - has published the first preview of the next Prince of Persia, just announced by Ubisoft.

Radical Entertainment's Chris Ansell has said online co-op could feature in future Prototype games - even though they abandoned plans to put it in the first one.

It must take some nuts, showing off your brand new openworld game the week before the biggest openworld game in history launches. You know, the one that's set in a fictional version of New York, and features hundreds of optional side quests alongside a linear narrative, and revolves around a mysterious anti-hero who follows his own moral code.

Our friends at GamesIndustry.biz have learnt that Valve approached Microsoft and Yahoo - among others - to build Steam before deciding to develop it themselves.

At 1.30am last night, I couldn't tell you whether I loved or hated TrackMania. What I can tell you is that I was playing it. Or more specifically, playing one track. Again and again. Determined to beat it. Increasingly tired, and as such increasingly unable to make the perfectly timed turns to get that Gold medal that sat between me and sleep.

In a blog post, EA has announced that it will be closing its virtual world EA-Land, formerly known as The Sims Online.

Michael Bay has dodged videogame film director Uwe Boll's boxing match challenge but has thrown yet more Internet punches in an ongoing slanging match that threatens to turn boring any second, if it hasn't already.

Crysis developer Crytek is unlikely to make another PC-exclusive game because of problems with piracy.

Activision has not only secured Aerosmith for its upcoming Guitar Hero game about the band, but has done a deal to stop Tyler, Perry and co. providing content to rival music game Rock Band.

EA has announced a new card-battling multiplayer real-time strategy game called BattleForge, from its EA Phenomic Studio in Germany. It's due out on PC this autumn.

Valve has released a new map for Team Fortress 2 on PC sporting a new game-type, along with a bunch of new achievements and unlockable weapons for the Medic.