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"Ghoooost Squaard" intones the intro to AM2's light-gun shooter, like some quirky old Norfolk boy, inviting us to shoot members of the dismal Norwich City team for its failure to beat League One lightweights Bury in the FA Cup. Still, there's always mid-table mediocrity to play for, eh lads?

You're SEGA (bear with me). You've got arguably the best tennis game engine around from Virtua Tennis 3. You've got tons of iconic IP dating back more than 20 years. There's a gap in the release schedule, and pop SEGA Superstar Tennis emerges out of the delivery room fully formed, and with none of the desperate screaming and emergency surgery of a protracted labour.

Electronic Arts has told Eurogamer any similarity between the Burnout Paradise box and the cover of an album by US band Karate is "pure coincidence".

MTV has said more than 2.5 million Rock Band songs have been downloaded from Live and PSN.

Video Games Live has revealed its 2008 list of dates and venues, totalling 40 performances around the world.

Sony has confirmed to Eurogamer what some of you have been arguing about in our forum - that the European version of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune doesn't support 1080i resolution after all.

LAN tournaments are back in fashion with Multiplay unveiling its yearly monster i33 gathering.

Among Advance Wars' accomplishments - which are many, and notable - one of the most distinctive is that it made military strategy cute. Exuberant. Sort of... happy-go-lucky. Even when battling the creepy, gas-masked menace of the Black Hole armies in Advance Wars 2 and the first DS instalment, Dual Strike, you felt that you were annihilating each other in an atmosphere of playful sportsmanship and bug-eyed manga enthusiasm. The girls were sassy, the boys were silly, the villains comical, and you just wanted to hug those adorable little stubby-barrelled tanks. Aww, my own little death machine, to wub forever and ever.

Eidos has trickled out new information for its Highlander game.

Microsoft has released a European 1.2GB demo of Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom onto Xbox Live.

America's Army developer, er, America (?) has announced that one of its players helped save the lives of people involved in a "tragic car accident" last November because of the "combat medic training" he had completed in the game.

Nintendo has continued its winning streak in the US, finishing comfortably ahead of opposition for hardware sales in 2007.

Sierra has finally confirmed reports that it has a new Leisure Suit Larry game in production.

The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences has announced the nominees for its 11th annual Interactive Achievement Awards, with BioShock receiving a record 12 nominations including Overall Game of the Year.

Jane Cavanagh, Bill Ennis and Rob Murphy have stepped down from their respective positions at SCi Entertainment and left the company, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

This week's PAL PlayStation 3 Store update is headlined by demos of FIFA Street 3 and Sony's own NBA game, while the there's no let-up in premium downloadable content either thanks to a Folklore "Visions of the Tower" pack (GBP 1.49).

1080 Snowboarding for Nintendo 64! Man, that takes me back. Not to actually playing it, but to Martin who draws the website telling me about it on ICQ in about 1958. Sounded amazing then, and costs 1000 Wii Points today as part of your usual weekly Virtual Console update for Europe.

Everyone's favourite game about PEOPLE'S HERO PETER CROUCH has arrived on Xbox Live and - Sony confirmed later in the day - PlayStation Network in demo form.

Ubisoft is bringing back UbiDays!

Sony has issued a statement to Eurogamer regarding the current lack of songs on the SingStar PS3 SingStore, promising new content on 18th January and more to follow in early February.

It's a bit weird to be excited when a game is announced. You know nothing about it. Could be awful. But it works because you get to infuse the final outcome with unrealistic hopes in your head.

Oops: This is a very old story as some of you have pointed out. We are leaving it on the website so you can bask in our stupidity. Ah, the royal we.

The lawyer representing those angry Texans suing Microsoft claims he has never lost a trial and that he is "on the right side of this deal".

Square Enix will be releasing Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates on 21st March.

The wind is picking up and dropping rain off on our heads as we tumble into work each morning, but the good news this week is that we can quickly dispatch the raindrops from our raincoated shoulders by flapping our arms about to a bundle of new Wii games.

We told you so. No, not you, gentle reader - we never tell you anything that turns out to be true. No, we told you so, Mr. Games Publisher. We told you numerous times. And now we're right. Riddick makes us right. The key to making a successful game out of a film is exactly what we, and just about every other games journalist on the planet, have been pleading with you to do all along! You stop making games out of films!

These days, videogames are getting the blame for everything: for making people violent; for declining standards of literacy; for England being rubbish at football. One of the few things they haven't been blamed for yet, however, is making people worse at history.

Microsoft is looking at a ten-year strategy for success in Japan for its Xbox platform, key Xbox executive Peter Moore has told the official Xbox Japan website, with new strategies for the market set to be announced in six to nine months.

Microsoft has announced that there are now over a million users of the Xbox Live console online gaming service, which makes it into one of the fastest-growing online services of any description in the world.

Sales of Microsoft's Xbox console tripled in the UK in the week following its price-cut to £99, according to sources in the UK retail sector - bringing weekly sales of the system up to around the 15,000 mark.