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Infinity Ward has said there should be no more problems downloading the Call of Duty 4 Variety Map Pack from Xbox Live.

Eidos has revealed it is remaking arcade classic Gauntlet for DS.

Nadeo Studio has confirmed that TrackMania Nations Forever will be available as a free PC download later this month.

Sony America is pulling the online server plug on some of its old PS2 and PSP games.

Epic Games boss Mark Rein has assured those eagerly awaiting the Xbox 360 version of Unreal Tournament 3 that it's looking good and will be playable soon.

American author Stephen King has spoken out against politicians trying to ban videogames with violent content.

Pseudo Interactive, the studio behind the Full Auto series and last-gen title Cel Damage, has closed its doors.

Rockstar Games has acquired Empire Earth developer Mad Doc Software.

Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz' widely-read weekly newsletter, the GamesIndustry.biz Editorial offers analysis of one of the issues weighing on the minds of the people at the top of the games business. It appears on Eurogamer after it goes out to GamesIndustry.biz newsletter subscribers.

Let's talk hexes. Not voodoo curses, or indeed well spoken old flames, but military hexagons. Fantasy Wars is a traditional hex wargame set in a rather retro-looking world of swords, sorcery, orcs, goblins and magic helmets.

THQ gathered the world's press in San Francisco this week to show off its line-up for the next year, announcing Dawn of War II just beforehand and a Saints Row 2 release date on the night before plying us all with alcohol and letting us loose on demo pods and developers.

Actually, there is nothing new on either PlayStation Store or Steam this week. Sony is revamping the PlayStation Store, you see, so while you can still grab existing content there will be nothing added until the makeover goes public. Steam has updates to various games but no discounts or fresh title additions of note - although if you live in America you can pre-purchase Assassin's Creed.

THQ has announced that Saints Row 2 is coming to PS3 and Xbox 360 on August 26th.

Team 6 has released some new screenshots of PC title Sunshine Beachvolleyball. Watch out, Tecmo!

Empire of Sports is the Eurovision Song Contest of massively multiplayer gaming. It's brash, colourful, competitive, plastic, repetitive, and curiously addictive; it's cheap but glossy, shallow but expansive, cheesy but endearingly earnest.

It's never a good sign when a game spends years in development. It's never a good sign when the game's concept changes almost entirely over the course of those years. It's never a good sign when the game is finally released and everyone immediately compares it unfavourably to a game that came out the year before, and it's certainly never a good sign when you play all the way through the game and still have to look up the main character's name on the Internet.

Silicon Knights boss Denis Dyack reckons games or films grouped together posthumously are nothing more than marketing ploys.

Criterion has pledged to "TRANSFORM" Burnout Paradise by issuing a series of hefty updates.

D3Publisher has announced the winning entry in its recent competition to name the first Puzzle Quest XBLA expansion.

As reported by GamesIndustry.biz, NCsoft is to introduce in-game advertising to its superhero MMO, City of Heroes. This makes City of Heroes the first major subscription MMO to feature ads.

Activision has declined to comment on a possible sequel to Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved.

Sony has told Eurogamer that the changes to the PlayStation Store will be cosmetic, and that it will still be region-free.

Two Worlds has another bundle of downloadable content available on Live Marketplace.

Rockstar has confirmed that Grand Theft Auto IV has been cut in order to be granted a release in Australia.

Series creator Kazunori Yamauchi has told Eurogamer that Gran Turismo 4 on PSP is unlikely to be out in 2008.

Ubisoft has snagged the distribution rights to Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword and will be releasing it here in June.

LucasArts has slapped a fresh release date on its in-house Star Wars action blockbuster, The Force Unleashed. The game will be unleashed on September 19th in Europe, just a couple of days after it appears on the 16th in the US, and the 17th in Australia and South East Asia.

Pandemic has said that Mercenaries 2 will be released here on 5th September.

The Virtual Console has just Yoshi's Cookie to offer you this week.

After months - over a year, in fact - of speculation and fan demand, Telltale Games has confirmed that its episodic PC comedy adventures starring Sam & Max will be coming to Wii this year. Gamespot broke the news, and Telltale gave it the thumbs up.