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Factor 5 boss Julian Eggebrecht has said he was surprised by the negative reaction to Lair from the hardcore audience.

Codemasters has rather unsurprisingly decided to follow up its Race Driver DS success by announcing a handheld version of GRID.

Veteran designers responsible for work on Halo and Battlefield games have formed a new company called Tyrant Studios and are already talking to publishers about a first original project, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Tomorrow will also see Commanders: Attack of Genos added to the Live Arcade catalogue, we just forgot to tell you about it yesterday because of, er, all the earthquakes.

Cult film The Princess Bride has been entertaining children, parents and hungover people for more than 20 years now, so isn't it about time there was a videogame adaptation?

Devil May Cry 4 has become the first instalment in the action series to reach the top spot in the UK All-Formats Top 40.

Peter Moore - you know, used to be boss of Xbox, is now boss of EA Sports, bald, nice tats - has started a brand new blog.

Microsoft Game Studios boss Shane Kim has confirmed that the Marvel Universe MMO has been canned.

Developing Fallout 3 might sound like a lot of hard work, but evidently it's not because all Bethesda Softworks seems to do these days is make new maps for Portal. Here comes another one.

Having played most of the Seumas McNally Grand Finalists for the Independent Games Festival next month, I really don't envy the judges. Entirely smitten by what I played of World of Goo, I presumed it was a shoe-in. Then Walker let me have a crack of the code of Crayon Physics Deluxe which is plain magical, and technically an enormous leap on from what I'd played in the freely available early prototypes. Finally, with Jim acting as a facilitator, I found myself introducing Audiosurf to my MP3 library. They may be getting married. It's technically and conceptually a tour de force. Any one would be a worthy winner.

PC rhythm-action game Audiosurf is set to be released on Steam this Friday, 15th February, with the music from The Orange Box included for playing along to. The game will cost USD 9.95, with a 10 percent discount available on pre-orders.

Sony has confirmed to Eurogamer that Riff: Everyday Shooter will be released on the European PlayStation 3 Store this Thursday.

It's not even out yet - we haven't even played it for more than forty minutes - and Army of Two is already a guilty pleasure.

In December 2007, Microsoft launched the Xbox Originals platform. Part of Xbox Live Marketplace, it allows you to download Xbox 1 games for 1200 Microsoft Points (GBP 10.20 / EUR 12.00) apiece, with the likes of Halo, Psychonauts and Fahrenheit among the launch titles.

On Friday, I cut some ham too close to the edge of the table and the plate flipped over and landed on my lap then tumbled onto the floor. That's not my best story, but I thought it was more interesting than the new demo line-up this week.

NetDevil is planning to launch persistent online space game Jumpgate: Evolution in the second half of 2008.

US film rental site Netflix has decided to stop offering HD-DVD movies because it feels the industry has already picked Blu-ray as its winner, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

It's been a while since we've done one of these and, since each new console generation usually results in older hardware being passed on and great software going cheap, it seems like a good excuse to have another dig around in the archives for some of the PS2 games that never really got a fair deal. The games that were maybe too innovative to stand out in an industry increasingly devoted to predictable franchise-building. The games that were deemed too weird, or were sunk by poor marketing. This, then, is not a list of the greatest PS2 games ever made, even though several here certainly deserve that praise. Many more are solid 7/10 efforts that fell by the wayside. All are recommended for adventurous souls with a taste for the eclectic.

Mark Rein says that former EA Chicago man Kudo Tsunoda's installation as general manager for Gears of War "is a normal reorganisation at Microsoft" and that he's looking forward to working with him.

Since we posted our thoughts on Amplitude (not a review, boss!) a little while ago, various readers have been in contact. "That's very nice dears," they generally concede, "but what's new in Amplitude that wasn't in Frequency?" Well, mortals, it's very simple: different music, more levels, twisty tracks, a spaceship, and online play. That's about it really. And yet it's still so much...

Blonde pop singer turned actor Luke Goss has said he will be starring in the Tekken film.

Sony has popped two new PSP demos onto its American PC Store.

THQ has deployed a multiplayer Frontlines demo on Xbox Live Marketplace.

Eurogamer.net is very happy to announce that it has appointed Oli Welsh to the newly created post of MMO editor.

Capcom strategy bigwig Christian Svensson has said Okami Wii is playable all the way through and could come out as soon as March in the US.

If there's one fictional pirate who made us want to play this more than any other, it was the most recent-decent: Johnny Depp's rather wonderful Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean. Everyone loved Jack. When Orlando Bloom ran off with Keira Knightley to live happily and boringly ever after, Jack said "Nice hat". When he got his hands back on his ship at the end, we smiled.

If you were to clone John Holmes one hundred times, and then park your creations at the business end of some of the porn industry's finest, you'd still fail to recreate the ferocity of genital eruption that greeted the first promo trailer for Dead Or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball in May 2002.

As Nigel Tufnall so memorably uttered in the legendary Spinal Tap 'rockumentary' "It's like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black."

Rockstar has drenched the Internet in five new videos of Grand Theft Auto IV, letting us a little closer to the main characters in the game.

Disney has said Discs of Tron will be on Xbox Live Arcade this Wednesday.