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Two exclusive new screenshots from Grand Theft Auto IV have popped up on MTV.com.

SEGA has officially confirmed that Obsidian's new RPG is called Alpha Protocol and is about a secret agent called Michael Thorton.

Turning Point begins by asking what would have happened if Winston Churchill had died before World War II began. Then it immediately answers thus: Germany would have blitzed the UK into submission and, having fixed the trains and weaned us off dangling prepositions (a future to look forward to - sorry, to which we can look forward), invaded the USA by air in 1953. The game begins as you, some sort of construction worker erecting the steel framework of a high-rise building, get a close-up view of the initial bombardment of New York, as German ordnance dismantles your work and the city around you. Being a linear first-person shooter, this means your immediate goal is to navigate down to the ground using the only route available to you - alternative paths falling away, exploding or disintegrating in time-honoured fashion as you approach them.

Brash Entertainment has announced a multiiple game development deal with Factor 5, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Microsoft is letting Capcom go over the 150MB Xbox Live Arcade game file-size limit to ensure "complete feature and graphical parity" between the XBLA versions of Bionic Commando Rearmed and Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix and their counterparts on PlayStation Network.

Sony Computer Entertainment has announced that Sony Online Entertainment will now report to Kazuo Hirai under a new company structure designed to address the growth of the online gaming market, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

The problem with baddies is that smoke and doors and all the other things David Copperfield uses makes them hard to see. And if they have guns, that is bad. Thank goodness, then, that Rainbow Six Vegas 2 has given you a fancy new tool to combat this.

SouthPeak has trumpeted the arrival of a downloadable content pack for Two Worlds on Xbox Live.

Three fresh songs for Guitar Hero III are all the PlayStation Store has to offer this week, disappointingly.

Take-Two's board of directors has recommended its shareholders should ignore Electronic Arts' offer to buy their stock.

Sony has announced plans to hold a Gran Turismo 5 Prologue tournament, with time trials set to take place at venues across the UK.

Bored, are ya? Not as bored as this woman, presumably, seeing as she sat on her boyfriend's toilet for two years and her skin grew around the seat. Perhaps she was playing Animal Crossing. "What surprises me is somebody wasn't called in a bit earlier," says someone called Ellis. Yes, that's what's surprising.

A new Soul Calibur IV character has been unveiled in the pages of Famitsu magazine.

Xbox Europe boss Chris Lewis has declared 360 has better games than any other console, which he believes will help Microsoft win the hardware war.

KOEI is keeping quiet about the future of Fatal Inertia on PS3 despite the game receiving a rating from the American Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB). "E10+" in case you care.

Hudson has announced the forthcoming release of a WiiWare instalment in the Bomberman series.

Guitar Hero III's Dropkick Murphys Track Pack has arrived on Xbox Live just in time to celebrate St. Patrick's Day 2008. Best of all, it's absolutely free.

From zombies to alien abductions, the fourth chapter of Sam and Max's second season of episodic adventures is not exactly much of an upgrade in terms of comic inspiration. However, just as Night of the Raving Dead started with zombies but soon turned into a disco vampire story, so Chariots of the Dogs starts with our anthropomorphic duo investigating Bosco's abduction by forces unknown, but then takes a left turn and becomes a time travel romp.

Electronic Arts has said the multiplayer region-locking in Army of Two isn't an indicator of what we can expect from future titles.

Not content with Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, Talisman and Rocketmen: Axis of Evil (and to be fair we weren't content with the last one either), Capcom is lining up yet another Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network title in the shape of 1942: Joint Strike, a remake of classic arcade blaster 1942.

George Miller, director of the Mad Max films, has confirmed a videogame tie-in will be released alongside the latest instalment in the series.

Rockstar Games' Sam Houser has dropped hints as to what might make up the downloadable Xbox 360 episodes for Grand Theft Auto IV.

Microsoft executive Aaron Greenberg has denied the company is in talks with Sony to bring Blu-ray technology to Xbox 360.

Capcom will let Xbox Live Gold subscribers who buy the Xbox Live Arcade version of Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3 access an upcoming Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix beta test, the US arm of the publisher said yesterday.

A sequel to top-down shooter Assault Heroes is coming to Xbox Live Arcade this spring.

WipEout HD lead designer Colin Berry says that anyone labelled the game as a port of its PSP predecessors "should not underestimate the changes that 60 frames per second and 1080p visuals make to the game".

Eidos is doing a new kart racing game based on the Wacky Races cartoons for Wii and DS.

Gibson Guitar has filed a lawsuit against Activision, claiming the Guitar Hero games infringe one of the company's patents.

Sony has officially unveiled MotorStorm 2 with a brief trailer and some information echoing the stuff leaked earlier this week, and says it's out on Blu-ray this autumn.

Sony has updated PlayStation 3 firmware to version 2.17.