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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.

Gary Gygax died, last week, on 4th March, 2008, after being diagnosed with an abdominal aortic aneurysm. Although the gaming press was swift to offer eulogies, his death was greeted by a relatively muted indifference in the mainstream media - initially greeted by relatively brief, tucked away, news stories, and, a few days later, by short obituaries that noted his role as the co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons. That muted indifference is an utter travesty, because Gary Gygax is one of the most important individuals of the twentieth century. His influence on the sum of humanity goes far beyond polyhedral dice and black-clad teenagers sitting in darkened rooms, and it extends well beyond the 20 million people who played the game that he created, or who read one of the many fantasy novels that he wrote. His influence on western culture is far more profound and important than just games and the people who play them.

Brash Entertainment has signed Japanese developer Game Republic to develop a game based on a "popular Hollywood film" for release in 2010, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

The latest instalment in the Guilty Gear series has been confirmed as an Xbox 360 exclusive.

Because you can never have too much Tetris (not true), Hudson has announced plans to release a new WiiWare version of the classic block-dropper.

Ubisoft has told Eurogamer that Rainbow Six Vegas 2 for PC will still be arriving on 17th April, not one week earlier as a freshly made schedule suggested this morning.

Ukrainian developer Black Wing Foundation has whisked the cloth off its third-person shooter Salvation.

Take-Two has offered the first hints at what Rockstar will be getting up to after Grand Theft Auto IV hits the shops on 29th April.

The first proper details have emerged of The Sims 3, which EA says is designed to appeal to hardcore gamers as well as casual players.

The first details of Lost Planet Colonies have popped up in scans of a magazine article over on Kotaku.

Quantic Dream has opened up about its PS3 exclusive Heavy Rain.

The Star Trek Online website has reappeared, promising that something or other is "coming soon".

Silencers are brilliant; you're not a professional killer until you have one, as everyone knows. They make that lovely little sound too. We asked around the office and "zzp", "thwp", and "chk" were our best silencer impersonations. No vowels. Too noisy.

Say hello, bonjour and hola to the latest batch of DS titles designed to offer self-improvement as well as entertainment. According to Ubisoft, the My Coach series "allows players to improve themselves and learn in an interactive and stimulating way, while having fun at the same time".

A new Street Fighter IV character has been unveiled in the pages of the latest issue of Famitsu.

The obvious comparison is Pokémon: when Dragon Quest Monsters was spun off from Dragon Quest proper, back in 1998, it was clearly, and pretty brazenly, inspired by Nintendo's pocket-sized behemoth. It combined the same top-down dimensions with the whole collect-'em-all shtick, and wrapped them up in a similar sort of RPG-lite. Now Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker has taken the series to two screens and three dimensions and it looks superbly fancy thanks to the sort of cel-shaded graphics that made Dragon Quest VIII such a joy to play. The design, however, remains fundamentally the same: wander round collecting monsters, fighting your way to the top of the latest monster-fighting tournament.