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Released in May 2002, the GameCube has arguably underachieved all its life. Right from the off, games like Wave Race: Blue Storm and Super Monkey Ball were struggling to find their feet - despite widespread acclaim from the likes of us. While many of them limped up towards respectable figures by the end of the year, few if any enjoyed the sort of success that console launch titles - and particularly Nintendo titles - traditionally had.

What a brilliant sales pitch: "Feeling lonely and bored?" asked the email newsletter. Of course I am! I'm sitting at my computer, aren't I? I'm reading a newsletter about import games, aren't I? Well then, the email went on, why not check out some newly available English-translated Japanese Adult Dating Games? Why not indeed? Up until now, if you wanted to feed your Hentai videogame fix you'd have to brush up on your kanji and search out seedy game stores in the side streets of Akihabara. Not any more. In recent years, companies such as Peach Princess and JAST USA have been making English-language eroge (as it's also known) available to American gamers. Now, Play-Asia is making them easily available to us European lot.

It always happens eventually. Console debuts at £299.99, the hardcore early adopter rushes out and buys it, sales drop off. Forced to pep things up, within the first nine months or so a chunk is lopped off, and maybe just over a year or so later it's a hundred notes cheaper. By the next Christmas, maybe £159.99, then £129.99, and finally hits that magic mass market sweet spot of £99. Yesterday was that day when the current generation finally became bargain basement fodder in preparation for the Christmas season, and the new dawn in two year's time.

Sony has confirmed to Eurogamer that a PS2 version of PSP title Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters is coming to Europe this spring.

In addition to announcing the release for free of Undertow on Xbox Live Arcade in not-compensation for the problems Xbox Live may or may not your honour have experienced over the Christmas break, Microsoft has also unveiled the first Xbox Live Arcade Awards.

Sony has declared PlayStation 3 had a bumper Christmas in Europe, with more consoles sold over a five-week period than ever before.

Filings at the Federal Communications Commission have indicated the Ceramic White PlayStation 3 is on its way to North America.

505 Games has announced plans to launch Draglade in Europe this spring.

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games has returned to the number one position in the UK's All Formats Top 40 chart according to data released by Chart-Track, as SEGA's duplication presumably gets a second wind.

A survey by the Data Center of the China Internet and Internet Society of China expects the number of online gamers in that country to surpass 59 million in 2008, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

There's one small feature - inconsequential, really - that we noticed during our playtest of the next Metal Gear Solid that really sums the game up. Maybe even the whole series. At certain moments during cut-scenes, when a familiar character appears or there's a reference to some past event, a button prompt appears in the corner of the screen. But it's not an invitation to skip (although you can - and for the first time, you can skip codec conversations, too). It's not some kind of simon-says scripted action moment, or 'cineractive', in the uniquely horrible term coined for them this year. No: it's a flashback button.

We hope you like a spot of football, or dinosaurs, or dinosaurs with hoof boots for playing football. Can you say hooves? Or were they claws or paws or feet or big stampy scalers? Tom says it's not important. But it is to me. And the dinosaurs. Just because they're dead. Ellie says shut up and get on with it.

A new demo for DS puzzler Exit has appeared on the game's official website.

Times journalist Janice Turner has accused videogames of being "Satan's Sudoku" and "crack cocaine of the brain".

Capcom is going to be giving Japanese punters a taste of Street Fighter IV on 15th and 16th of February.

Rockstar is at the centre of mainstream criticism again for its upcoming Wii and 360 release of Bully: Scholarship Edition.

As an interviewer, you live for these magic moments. 30 minutes after walking into the Wii Flat, Nintendo's slightly stilted attempt to recreate a hip, trendy young socialite's disturbingly Wii-focused living room, things have taken a peculiar turn.

Slick Entertainment has announced that puzzle-platform hybrid N+ will soon be available in an Xbox Live Arcade near you.

EA has announced it will be releasing a free Battlefield Heroes game in the summer.

Quake co-creator John Romero has bitten back at Mike Wilson for the open letter attacking his personal life.

So, we've been a bit slack in covering the PSone games that sporadically appear on the PlayStation Store. Sorry about that. In our defence, it's not like Sony has managed to build up much momentum with the European PSN offerings and also that business with the first batch of games being all broken meant we didn't dare download anything else in case our PS3 started shooting pins at our eyes from the USB port or something.

The Stonehenge Chronicles update for Hellgate: London is going live today.

Funcom has told Eurogamer that Age of Conan has been pushed back to 20th May.

Bad news for Counter-Strike and EverQuest players living in Brazil - both games have been banned after a judge ruled they are "harmful to consumers' health".

Those PlayStation 3 owning dinosaur-lovers among you who are "a bit slow" in the old downloading US demos directly department will be pleased to hear that the PAL version of last Thursday's American Turok demo is currently on course for a 7th February release on PSN.

A mysterious gamer from Germany has hit the World of Warcraft gold limit.

Turok is the most exciting young animal strutting around the US PlayStation 3 Store this week in new-demo form, as for once our American brethren are forced to play a bit of catch-up in other areas.

Remember that free Xbox Live Arcade game we were all promised to thank us for our loyalty? It's Undertow.

There's something quite odd and unsettling about the rehabilitation of pirates as a centrepiece of popular culture. The extensive rap sheet of the profession doesn't exactly endear itself, after all - it was, after all, mostly devoted to thieving, burning, raping, murdering, pillaging, more raping, drowning, slaughtering, and bad doses of scurvy. Piracy was vicious and brutal; its signature, comedic aspects, like walking the plank, are entirely the invention of fiction. Disemboweling, crucifixion and the likes were more common ways to meet your end at the hands of Johnny Depp's late seventeenth century role models.

Beware - this glitz-free government sim from lone coder Cliff Harris may alter the way you think about politics. This morning I started the day the way I always start the day - in the company of the Today programme's tireless truth-seekers. The first story to crawl inside my earhole concerned a plan Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has devised to give free English lessons to vulnerable immigrants. Instantly, I found myself visualising the policy through the filter of Democracy 2. There was the 'Free English Lessons' icon nestling among the other welfare policies. There, emanating from it, was a red dotted line ending at the 'patriot' vote and a green dotted one ending at the 'liberal' vote.