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Author Cooper Lawrence has apologised for publicly attacking the EA over the sexual content in Xbox 360 title Mass Effect.

Empire Interactive has announced FlatOut: Head On is coming to PSP on 14th March.

Xbox marketing bigwig Jeff Bell says Microsoft has been talking to Blu-ray about the possibility of a partnership all along.

Sony has teamed up with tech company Nichia to develop a smaller, cheaper Blu-ray laser unit.

Sony Corporation boss Howard Stringer has said he's confident PlayStation 3 is on track to beat Xbox 360 in the console war.

Five schools in Worcestershire have been using the Wii in physical education classes to encourage youngsters to get active.

New data has revealed that Call of Duty 4 was the best-selling game worldwide during 2007.

Valve has popped out a fresh update for the PC version of Team Fortress 2.

Real-time strategy franchises tend to attract fanatical followings, from the legions of Command & Conquer fanboys to the near religious fervency of Total Annihilation devotees. None more so, however, than Blizzard's WarCraft series - and its futuristic spin-off, StarCraft - a series of RTS games which have honed to perfection a formula which balances relatively simple gameplay with surprisingly complex mechanics, innovative graphics and a healthy dollop of bizarre humour. It's a long time since the last game in the series grabbed the attention of the strategy gamer, making WarCraft III one of the most anticipated PC titles ever; can it possibly live up to the legacy of its forebears?

The thing about arcade gaming that people often forget is that you were totally at the whim of your local arcade operator. If they decided, for whatever reason, not to buy in a particular cabinet, then that was that. You never got to play with it. And such was the case with Tron, a game that my befreckled early '80s self was never exposed directly to. This makes reviewing Tron on Xbox Live Arcade in 2008 trickier than it might be, but I suppose it also means I'm less blinded by the inevitable ingrained nostalgia that easily deflects critics from fairly re-evaluating these relics.

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.

Every year, Eurogamer staffers compile their best-of lists for the preceding 12 months, and using magic and glue we put together our Top 50. This year, Portal triumphed over all, with Super Mario Galaxy and BioShock in close attendance.

There should be no shame in sticking to a formula. I can bake a cake if I do what Delia tells me. And those cars seem fairly content rolling around on those wheels. Even cheating in exams still works perfectly. So why should Wanako have to make hover boards for Arkadian Warriors? It's just a bite-sized action role-playing game for Live Arcade after all. And so, unapologetically, it hasn't.

Gosh, must have slurped one coffee too many. Eyes a little pinned open and beginning to see things and best not try too hard to think but just plough on and fill some of this space with some words. Lots to talk about if you consider Nintendo and its generation-leading sales figures, or if you are roused into debate by Rockstar and its continued efforts to get Manhunt 2 in UK shops, or if Fox News and its ignorance towards nudity in Mass Effect boiled your blood, or if Sony saying PS3 will beat 360 in Europe by summer makes you frisky. Or, or, or.

US publication The LA Times believes game narratives are too weak to be turned into successful films.

Rockstar has questioned the High Court of Justice's decision to send Manhunt 2 back for re-evaluation.

A man on the inside has told Eurogamer that Okami Wii will be out here in summer. He sleeps in the walls.

Lost Odyssey will be out in Europe on 29th February, although Microsoft hasn't jumped up and down about it in its usual public manner.

Fox has bitten back at EA, claiming the publisher has ignored invitations to stand up and defend itself on TV.

Nintendo's GameBoy Advance has sold more than one million units in the UK since its launch in June 2001, the platform holder is delightedly reporting today. The GBA's popularity has grown with the release of (go on, lynch me for saying it) killer applications such as Advance Wars and popular revamps like Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2, which shipped last Friday. Since just prior to the console's launch, this website has published over 25 reviews. If you want another useless statistic, GBA software enjoys one of the highest average scores of any system covered, apart from the Neo Geo Pocket Color, for which all the games were golden and the sun shone out of its expansion port. Bless you, SNK. The recently released Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 is currently one of the five most popular games in Europe, according to the ELSPA. Related Feature - GameBoy Advance reviews listing

Kuru Kuru Kururin was one of those inspired game concepts that just plain worked, and worked over and over again, standing up to literally hours of frustrated replaying of the same levels. It was a brutally unforgiving premise - you guide a spinning stick through a maze without brushing the sides - but its thirty or so levels and cute, anime-style characters with propeller heads all came together to create an off-the-wall cult puzzle hit. Unfortunately, the Yanks never got it. This isn't some juvenile dig at their mental capabilities (but thanks for planting the seeds to kick that one off), it's a simple fact. Kuru Kuru Kururin was released in Japan, and then in Europe, but if you live in the United States you can't buy a domestic copy. And Nintendo is very sorry. To make up for this fact, the Japanese gaming giant has in fact unveiled Kururin Paradise, which is either a sequel or an enhanced version of the original game - it's difficult to tell. IGN makes mention of a couple of new sub-games not included in the original. One of the levels apparently has forced side scrolling with obstacles strewn about, no doubt piling on the pressure, and in another there are rows and rows of cannonballs hurtling towards you. A further level still consists of mowing a lawn with your rotating stick. If Kururin Paradise can live up to its lineage then this could be another hit for Nintendo. Due out at the end of the year, we're certainly looking forward to it. Let's just hope and pray that Nintendo doesn't reverse its previous decision and deprive us of the game instead. Related Feature - Kuru Kuru Kururin review

If you thought that Nintendo's E-Reader device sounded a bit childish, prepare to revise your opinion. E-Reader plugs into GameBoy Advance and reads data from an embedded data strip in cheap trading cards, but it wasn't until recently that Nintendo confirmed the sorts of things which will appear on these cards. Due out on September 16th in the US priced $39.99 including one card, E-Reader will play host to a number of things, including a series of NES E-Cards. Sold in packs of five (priced $4.95), the cards will include the likes of Donkey Kong Jr., Balloon Fight, Pinball, Tennis and Excitebike according to IGN. Other E-Cards will feature Game & Watch titles, Pokemon The Card Game software and an Animal Crossing E-Card which can talk to the forthcoming GameCube release via the GBA-Cube linkup cable.

Nintendo is sitting pretty on top of the Japanese hardware chart once more, with DS leading and Wii close behind.

Nintendo of Japan has pointed out that neither the forthcoming Game Boy Advance SP nor the Game Boy Player peripheral will work with games that use the built-in tilt sensor. This means that writers' favourite Koro Koro Kirby (Kirby's Tilt 'n' Tumble to you and I) will be off limits.

A new edition of the Game Boy Advance SP modelled after the NES console is set to launch in Europe on July 9th, alongside eight classic NES software titles which are being released at a budget price point for the system.

SimplyGames is offering the Blaze TV tuner for the ridiculous price of £10.99. Quite how this is the case is a little beyond us, but there we are.

The long-awaited GBA version of Grand Theft Auto will be released before the end of this year, but won't be a direct port of the 1997 original, it has emerged.

Nintendo's Game Boy Advance title Mawaru Made in Wario has topped the Entertainment category in the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs' annual Media Arts Festival.

UK tabloid The Daily Mirror today leads with a story of a tragic holiday accident, with a half-page headline stating: "Killed by Xmas Game Boy."

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