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10Tacle Entertainment has said adventure game Jack Keane will be out here on 7th March.

Too Human developer Silicon Knights has been given CAD 500,000 to help kick-start work on its psychological action thriller.

Given how huge the Sonic and Mario brands still are (and probably always will be), it's strange how Sony, via Naughty Dog (Jak & Daxter, Crash Bandicoot), Insomniac (Ratchet & Clank, Spyro) and now Sucker Punch has totally captured the platform market once sewn up by Sega and Nintendo. On the day that it became widely known that Sega is porting the three year old Sonic Adventure to the GameCube, never more has it been so apparent that the balance of power has shifted from Japan to the US for kleptomaniac thrills.

Explosions. Hostages. Despair. Confusion. Blood. Lots of sand. Just another quiet day in Iraq? Well, yes...err, but the last time, not the current one. Except not quite the last time either, because the makers of 1992's Desert Strike were curiously cagey about using specific names - whilst at the same time making it extremely obvious what they were on about.

Finally putting Dark Messiah to rest at 2.15am this morning was a mighty relief. Apart from being tetchy and desperately in need of some sleep, I was grateful I wouldn't have to endure another day of draining exasperation. For its considerable flaws and its ability to wind you up, you'll want to kick Dark Messiah: Elements into the inky abyss.

Atari has said that it plans to ship Alone in the Dark for PlayStation 3 during its 2008-2009 fiscal year, which begins in April and ends next March.

Criterion has popped a cap in the ass of rumours it is working on a sequel to Black, the first-person shooter released for PS2 and Xbox in 2006.

Speaking exclusively to Eurogamer, Maxis's Patrick Buechner has explained why the game is to be released in Europe on 5th September, two days earlier than in the US.

Sony has confirmed to GamesIndustry.biz that the PlayStation 3 has sold over one million units in the UK.

Rockstar has denied suggestions that Grand Theft Auto IV will only feature multiplayer on Xbox 360.

Colour-matching puzzle games have always been a regular feature on the videogame release schedules but, in recent times, with the advent of Xbox Live Arcade and the success of the DS, Puzzle Quest and Bejeweled, a perennial trickle's become a torrent. Cheap to make and easy to execute, they require just a couple of tweaks to the formula, a cutesy re-skin and Puzzle Bob's your uncle. Boogie Bunnies is no different in that it boats a couple of headline inventions to mark it out from being a straightforward Puzzle Bobble clone but, perhaps inevitably, these detract from rather than add to the wining formula.

Just Cause 2 lead designer Peter Johansson has revealed that the game will launch without multiplayer.

Electronic Arts has sneakily revealed plans to release a Nerf gun peripheral for Wii.

Square Enix has announced plans to behead, in a legal sense of course, wholesalers ripping off the weapons featured in the Final Fantasy series.

NanaOn-Sha's Masaya Matsuura would like to see Rock Band developer Harmonix open up its game so that people can use their own music.

"Will really wanted to make a single-player MMO." With this blunt and baffling statement, producer Thomas Vu sums up the last, most remarkable thing of the many remarkable things about Spore. This is an entirely solo, yet massively multiplayer experience. At no point in Spore do you compete or co-operate with other players. But you're in their company - or that of their creations, at any rate - every step of the way, and it's a profoundly social game.

Microsoft Entertainment boss Don Mattrick has given everyone the impression that online multiplayer in Grand Theft Auto IV will be exclusive to Xbox 360.

Red Alert 3 appears to be the big Command & Conquer secret producer David Silverman has been promising to announce at the end of February.

Fighting games and beat-'em-ups have been a staple diet of many gamers for 25 years. But they've also carved out a dichotomous genre that sits alone on one side of a gulf separating it from the rest of the gaming community.

There was a palpable sensation of change permeating the arcades and game shelves in 1985. Fighting games, of all varieties, were a proven entity and we waited impatiently for the digital realisation of kung fu cinema and cheeseball action flicks. Once the lull turned into the torrential bone-storm of videogame violence we so desperately anticipated, the industry would never be the same.

North American retailer Best Buy announced that it will be prominently showcasing Blu-ray hardware and software products, recommending it as the preferred format to all of its customers, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Electronic Arts has extended its licensing deal with the National Football League and NFL Players to create and distribute American football games until 2013, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Zombies, much like pirates and ninjas, have been bled dry by the Internet equivalent of the office joker. "LOL!" they e-scoff, as they email you a link to that Amazon-for-zombies spoof site for the millionth time. Or they make you regret ever registering at Facebook or MySpace by bombarding you with cutesy nonsense. Nothing has me hitting delete faster than the phrase "Dengar3425 has sent you a zombie bite!"

Given the involvement of hotshot RPG superstars like Final Fantasy creators Hironobu Sakaguchi and Nobuo Uematsu, it should come as no surprise that Lost Odyssey is utterly, utterly traditional. There's no fannying around with real-time combat here, like there was in Final Fantasy XII, just reams and reams of random battles, exploration and cut-scenes. Over the course of its 40-odd hours, it progresses at a glacial pace, taking a good few hours after you fire it up just to reach the barest semblance of a plot (which, just so you know, involves an immortal called Kaim trying to discover why he's been alive for so long).

Having upset the Church of England with its depiction of Manchester Cathedral in Resistance: Fall of Man, Insomniac Games has said that Resistance 2 will see it getting right back on the cross [surely "horse" - Ed].

Spore will be released here for PC on 5th September 2008 and in the US two days later on 7th September, EA has confirmed to Eurogamer. Europe first! Woo!

Let's keep this one brief. We've all got better things to do. I, for one, will be trotting around Lost Odyssey later, even if I keep calling it Lost Planet and referring to the other Sakaguchi game as Blue Planet. Anyway, our Lost Odyssey review is up now, and it scored well and so I am more excited.

Both Street Fighter IV and the remake of Bionic Commando will be on show at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco next week behind closed doors.

NovaLogic has put a teaser on its website advertising a previously unheard of Delta Force game for release this year.

Sony has told Eurogamer it's aiming for a late March release for Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, with an exact date and price are still to be confirmed