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After 30 years of hurt, which never stopped us dreaming, Sony Europe has released PAIN on PlayStation Network for GBP 4.99.

Codemasters Online Gaming has confirmed that it's in talks to publish two massively multiplayer online games for home consoles, reports GamesIndustry.biz.

SEGA and Marvel have announced that Robert Downey Jr. and other people will be doing voice acting in its upcoming Iron Man game.

Samurai Warriors 2 Xtreme Legends will be released on PS2 and Xbox 360 on 28th March, KOEI told Eurogamer this afternoon.

MTV has announced that more than 6 million Rock Band songs have been sold as downloadable content.

GamesIndustry.biz has learned that the Byron Review - the government's anticipated study into the effects of violent imagery and content in interactive media on children - is due to be published on March 27.

EA has sneakily released a beefy patch to address problems with The Orange Box on PS3.

Media Molecule has assured those excited about LittleBigPlanet that it's coming along very nicely, thank you.

Electronic Arts' Chris Corry believes there is still a long way to go before console RTS games can be as fluent as their PC counterparts.

SouthPeak is working on a firework-themed shooter for DS.

Sony will be unleashing 24 fresh songs on the SingStore tomorrow.

Mission Bay Community Church in San Francisco is using a Jesus Mii to advertise its Easter celebrations.

What with it being Easter this weekend ("Hello Thomas, it's your mother. Are you coming home for Easter?" "Why?"), several of this week's new games are out today rather than tomorrow, and indeed we won't be here tomorrow or on Monday.

PlayStation 3's upcoming 2.20 firmware will include Blu-ray Disc Profile 2.0 (known as "BD-LIVE") Internet features and allow you to copy music and photos directly from PS3 to PSP.

The Agency is one of our most-wanted MMOs at the moment, and not just because it's coming to PS3 as well as PC. The spy-themed massively multiplayer shooter from Sony Online Entertainment - creators of early hit EverQuest, and Star Wars Galaxies - looks like it will be one of the first major MMOs to offer a convincing alternative to the epic fantasy RPG grind. Players will enter a sharply-drawn, stylish, but none too serious world of intrigue as either a UNITE super-spy or ParaGON mercenary.

Codemasters has said it plans to release HEI$T on PC, PS3 and 360 this summer.

Codemasters is aiming to release Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising this winter.

HMV is offering free stuff to anyone pre-ordering Grand Theft Auto IV on Xbox 360 from its online store.

NCsoft's superhero MMO, City of Heroes, is to begin selling additional character slots, according to a post on the official forums.

Microsoft is offering an Easter discount on five Xbox Live Video Store titles.

Beau Bridges, star of Stargate SG-1, The Fabulous Baker Boys and being Jeff Bridges' brother, has signed up to appear in the forthcoming Max Payne movie.

Codemasters is doing a bit of smash and grab today, announcing HEI$T for PC and next-gen consoles.

Market research company Pearl Research has found that the online games market in China grew more than 60 per cent in 2007 to reach a value of USD 1.66 billion, GamesIndustry.biz is reporting.

Activision plans to release playable demos of team-based multiplayer FPS Enemy Territory: Quake Wars for both PS3 and 360.

The traditional image of the FPS player as a PC gamer with keyboard and mouse doesn't necessarily hold true any more, according to id Software's director of business development, Steve Nix, who told Eurogamer this week that he believes many hardcore PC FPS players are now getting their jollies on consoles.

"Quake Wars sets out to provide a totally different experience, and does so very well - with a set of well-designed, expansive levels and great vehicles being the stand-out factors." That's what some handsome fool wrote about Enemy Territory: Quake Wars on PC back in September. We liked most of it, but the combat lacked the punchiness we'd hoped for in a Quake game, and we weren't fond of the steep climb up the learning curve.

Chinese company CDC Games has revealed it is making a Digimon-themed MMO.

Sony Online Entertainment has said it wants newcomers to stand a chance against veterans in its MMO The Agency.

Blizzard has officially lifted the lid on upcoming World of Warcraft patch Fury of the Sunwell, unveiling a new mini-site and trailer.

Activision has revealed details of the first DS instalment in the Guitar Hero series.