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Platinum Games, the studio established by former Clover Studio staff, has revealed it is hard at work on a new project.

EB Games Australia has denied it's having a big old fight with Microsoft over busted Xbox 360s.

SouthPeak CEO Melanie Mroz says she isn't worried about slowing sales of Xbox 360 hardware in its second full year on sale.

French developer Load Inc. is back for another crack at an Xbox Live Arcade racing game with Things On Wheels, due out in summer 2008 via publisher SouthPeak. Exact pricing has yet to be revealed.

Woolworths has said it will no longer stock the HD-DVD format in its stores from March.

Every day when I go out for lunch I get assaulted by one of those fiendish charity fund raiser types with a clipboard of strategies on. It usually starts with a frustratingly attractive lady saying hello. Oh but I cannot hear you because I am looking in this shop at, er, knickers. Now she has me, she knew this would happen. The only way out is to pledge a donation and walk off convinced I have helped. I eat the rest of lunch in misery. And now walk in the road.

Nintendo has told Eurogamer the latest rumours to emerge about Mario Kart Wii are nothing more than speculation.

No More Heroes has been troubled by some severe message-board turbulence lately, after news broke that Rising Star, publishing the game in Europe, would be sticking with the clean, bloodless Japanese version over the gore-fountain that Ubisoft is releasing in the US. Teeth were gnashed and wailing was typed over fears that the Manhunt 2 controversy and the relentless barrage of gutter-press opprobrium were driving gaming into the arms of the censor.

Sony has said Gran Turismo 5 Prologue will be available in the US on 17th April.

Marvel and EA have ended their agreement to make games based on the comic book licence, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Codemasters Online Gaming has revealed its next big project as a space MMOG from Auto Assault developer NetDevil.

Rock stars just can't help themselves. Having conquered the music charts, the next step is to widen their appeal (and their bloated heads) further by gatecrashing other media, such as TV, films, and yes, videogames.

Sony is facing a legal headache over its Buzz! series of quiz games.

Koei has said it will be bringing Persona 3 to European shops on 29th February.

With most of the games industry still hitting snooze on the 2008 alarm clock (if not choking on corn flakes and having to can half a dozen games and studios or fire the management team), it's been a relatively quiet few weeks for demos, but that came to a howling close on Thursday, 24th January as Capcom rode into town on a gleaming motorbike wearing PlayStations and Xboxes.

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has told our sister site GamesIndustry.biz there are no plans to introduce a 120GB PlayStation 3 round these parts.

Ubisoft has pushed the release of Dark Messiah of Might & Magic Elements back one week to 15th February.

Remember Hot Coffee, the filthy naked mini-game found hidden in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas? In November, you may recall, Take-Two reached a settlement in the matter. The publisher promised to spend at least USD 1 million on compensating those who were "offended and upset" by the whole thing.

Touchstone has confirmed it will remove a feature in Turok which rewards players for murderising their team-mates.

Activision has registered the trademark "Guitar Hero On Tour" in the US, but the publisher's British representatives had no comment to make on that this morning.

Futuremark, the company behind PC graphics software 3DMark, has announced the formation of a new development studio.

2K Games has announced that the Wii version of Civilization Revolution has been put on hold indefinitely.

EA has remembered what the 'a' in its name stands for and announced a trio of downloadable prog-rock songs for Rock Band, celebrating the boundary-breaking work of the likes of Rush, Coheed and Cambria and Smashing Pumpkins.

NanaOn-Sha's Masaya Matsuura has said developers in Japan are getting a bit concerned about the longevity of the DS and the audience to which it appeals.

Atari has decided we all need some good old retro Namco games on Nintendo consoles.

Burnout Paradise has smashed its way to the top of a UK all-formats chart littered with pre-Christmas releases.

Xbox Live Arcade will be athumping and achin-stroking this Wednesday as Xbox Live fans tuck into Rez HD and Chessmaster Live from 9am GMT. That's 30th January, in case you're dozing.

Microsoft money man Chris Liddell has said that Xbox 360 owners possess an average of seven games for the console, which he reckons is a record.

Korean developer Blueside is teaming up with Phantagram to create a Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders sequel.

Steel Penny Games has been accepted into Nintendo's WiiWare stable of developers, GamesIndustry.biz reports.