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According to Wired, American intelligence agencies are planning to profile online gaming behaviour, and move on to "automatically detecting suspicious behaviour and actions in the virtual world".

Developer Warashi has slipped word that Triggerheart Exelica will arrive on Live Arcade this Wednesday.

Phil Harrison will resign as president of SCE Worldwide Studios on 29th February 2008, Sony has just announced.

Microsoft has unveiled plans for the Official European Halo 3 Tournament, which will run from 18th to 30th March.

A sequel of some sort to Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords will be released in 2008, says D3Publisher.

Microsoft has responded to the discontinuation of the HD-DVD format by predictably slinging its Xbox 360 add-on in the bin.

The new Indiana Jones action game has only just gone into production, according to a LucasArts source.

Take-Two has refused an offer by Electronic Arts to acquire the troubled publisher for $2 billion, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Are things slowly picking up for the Virtual Console? After several agonising weeks of solitary releases, we've now had two weeks in a row offering two games apiece. Not exactly an extravagant feast, and a far cry from those giddy days of yore when Friday morning brought three or more new retro downloads, but at least it offers some sort of choice. Read on to see if these latest batches are worth your Wii Points...

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 GI.biz newsletter subscribers.

Tom got drunk in San Francisco last night at the XNA party and told the fellow who made The Dishwasher he thought he was funny. Dishwasher man said he didn't know what to do next. Tom said, "mate, as long as they're [rude word] paying you, make every game utterly different". Tom went on to call himself a total "playah". Minus a hundred points.

Epic Games pin-up Cliff Bleszinski has promised us an "even more interesting narrative" in Gears of War 2.

Bungie has whipped the wrappers off its upcoming map pack by giving us a look at Ghost Town.

Creative director Ron Festejo believes PlayStation Home is the "best-looking" and most "user-friendly" multiplayer world he has seen.

Rising Star has shifted the release of No More Heroes back two weeks to 14th March.

Pandemic boss Josh Resnick believes Electronic Arts has turned a corner and is now committed to offering quality games.

Portal end-credits song "Still Alive" (oh come on, you must know that by now) is set to join the ranks of downloadable tracks in Rock Band.

At a GDC panel on the future of the MMOs yesterday, Jack Emmert, chief creative officer of Cryptic Studios, claimed that "the industry is sick".

Specialised movie tie-in publisher Brash Entertainment has outed Zombie as the developer of its upcoming Saw game.

Nintendo believes its Wii console will pass the total installed base for Xbox 360 in the USA by June.

Sony's Phil Harrison, head of worldwide studios for Sony, has expressed his frustration that the company's Japanese division was too slow at accepting the ideas of social gaming - a market now dominated by rival manufacturer Nintendo and its Wii console, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Hello and welcome to Eurogamer's LiveText coverage of the Microsoft keynote address at the Game Developers Conference! You're a little late for the actual keynote, but you can read exactly how it unfolded by starting at the top of this page and working your way down. Apologies for any minor typos and sarcasm.

Valve has confirmed that it has no plans for a PS3 version of Left 4 Dead.

Realtime Worlds boss Dave Jones has been showing off the huge amount of customisation options featured in forthcoming PC and Xbox 360 title All Points Bulletin.

With a week to go before release, Ubisoft has had a rummage around in the hatch and dug out a couple of exclusive behind-the-scenese documentaries on the game of the cruellest TV show in history. And we remember Beadle's About.

Epic Games vice president Mark Rein has said that the Unreal Engine tech demos shown off during Wednesday's Microsoft keynote speech at GDC were not from Gears of War 2.

Following the tech demos in our Unreal Engine demonstration at GDC, a Korean outfit called Nurien took the podium to demonstrate a "next generation social networking application" built around Epic's popular technology.

Microsoft's GDC keynote speaker, John Schappert, says that Xbox 360 has now sold more than 18 million units worldwide.

On Wednesday, John Schappert stood in front of the Game Developers Conference and introduced a new initiative to put community-made games on Xbox Live, and of course helped unveil Gears of War 2. We caught up with John a day later to talk about 360 hardware sales, the Wii and PS3, how the XNA, Xbox Live and Zune relationships will work, and of course what happens now that HD-DVD has died on its arse.