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Electronic Arts has offered every Australian who bought Medal of Honor: Heroes 2 on Wii their money back.

Much like the '80s yuppie, frozen until they find a cure for boneitis, so the Virtual Console Roundup wakes from its slumber. Three weeks, three games. Don't strain yourselves, guys. The good news is that all three are well above average. The bad news is that, thanks to the curious way games are selected for the VC, all are also curiously inessential. Take my hand, and I'll explain why.

On a recent trip to Germany to see Left 4 Dead, of which more soon, we sat down with Valve's VP of marketing Doug Lombardi to talk about things. Things like Portal, and whether we'll see an Orange Box 2. Like everyone at Valve, Doug's job title is a bit misleading; he does a broad range of things across the company, and has even - as he points out here - dabbled in development to some extent. He also plays Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead with us when we fly over to see Valve, which is nice of him (it's nice of him to let us win all the time, too). Anyway, enough being nice about Doug - here are a few selected excerpts from our discussion, with more to come when we're allowed to talk about what the developer was actually in Germany to show off...

Speaking as part of an impromptu panel at the DICE Summit 2008, BioShock creative director Ken Levine sought to remind developers what they were really meant to be doing, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

With the PC version of The Club due out on 22nd February, Bizarre Creations has released a PC demo to celebrate (actually: to encourage people to buy it, presumably).

Bizarre Creations has unveiled upcoming downloadable content for Project Gotham Racing 4, set to launch on 14th February.

Capcom has temporarily pulled down the American PS3 demo for Lost Planet and shut down the multiplayer servers.

Remember Going for Gold? For our younger readers, and those who have never been unemployed or students, it was a BBC1 quiz show presented by Henry "What am I" Kelly. Contestants from all over Europe competed to answer general knowledge questions before the other competitors. Everyone was trying, trying to do the best that they could, but the British contestants had the considerable advantage of all the questions being in English.

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 the weekend after it goes out to GI.biz newsletter subscribers.

Hobble gobble gabble babble hocus pocus Go! Sports Skydiving. That's what the three witches said when I asked them what to buy this week. They said controlling a ragdoll diver and making it do all sorts of aerial acrobatics made them cackle and throw newts at each other, so I took it as a recommendation. Looks good too sonny, said one of them. The crones also seemed impressed when I told them about the four batches of weekly WipEout Pulse content for February, although I felt a shifty gaze when I told them the combined total would be around 14 pounds.

This week there is only one new game on the Virtual Console, and it is Lords of Thunder.

Upper Deck has decided to make a tabletop version of World of Warcraft, where you play with little lead figures that you paint up in your attic.

Gamers in Omaha have stood up to yet another pile of papers claiming videogames make teenagers violent.

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 the weekend after it goes out to GI.biz newsletter subscribers.

There's a twisted little corner, somewhere in our tarnished souls, that harbours a smouldering and undying bitterness about the fact that Tom Clancy has his name splashed over so many fine games. For a man whose talent is the ability to recite mind-blowingly dull technical information about military equipment with all the narrative skill of a drunken Dan Brown telling bedtime stories to a sedated chimpanzee, having his name on Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six really isn't bad going. After all, when we try going off on ten-minute monologues about attack helicopters, our mates tell us to shut up. Perhaps Tom Clancy doesn't have very many mates.

Full disclosure: I love Event Horizon. I own the odd-looking limited edition box set DVD, and cherish it despite it being precisely the wrong size to fit on any DVD shelves. I've seen it sufficiently often that I can probably lip-sync to most of the really good scenes.

Introversion has said that Multiwinia looks set for a summer 2008 release.

One of the original creators of Grand Theft Auto has shared his pictures with the whole Internet.

Codemasters has hired a historian to track down the descendants of a taxi driver that almost killed Winston Churchill.

Sony has said it will be releasing fresh tracks and craft for WipEout Pulse every week throughout February.

SuperVillain Studios has let everyone know its PSP version of flOw will be out in the USA on 6th March.

Eidos is collaborating with clever German man Reiner Knizia to make a DS game to challenge your brain.

Ryan Payton, an associate producer at Kojima Productions, has claimed he was misquoted with regard to Metal Gear Solid 4 sales.

Activision has confirmed a raft of new titles are on the way in a conference call following the publication of its latest financial results.

Nintendo hasn't won this generation of consoles yet, says Microsoft Game Studios' corporate vice president Shane Kim.

Koei has said Wii role-playing game Opoona will be out in the US on 25th March. Unfortunately, Koei's European arm was unavailable to comment.

Steam now has over 15 million accounts, according to Valve.

Activision's Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was selected as 2007's Game of the Year at the 11th annual Interactive Achievement Awards, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Ubisoft's Rainbow Six series will be finished with Vegas as a location once the team completes work on Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2.

Sky Diving is the GBP 3.49 downloadable game star of this week's PlayStation Store update on PS3, while PSP owners can download the WipEout Pulse Mirage Pack if they fork out GBP 3.49 on the PSP Store for PC.