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Nintendo has announced another game in the Pokémon Ranger series is coming to DS.

Rez doesn't sound like much on paper (or Internet). You travel along a predetermined path using a lock-on mechanism to fire upon up to eight enemies at once. Blue power-ups gradually increase your health, allowing you to "evolve" into different forms, with successful enemy attacks reducing your growth by one stage of evolution, while red power-ups add to your stock of "Overdrives", which blitz whatever's in front of you when activated. There's a boss at the end of each of the game's five biggish levels, followed by a boss-rush finale that concludes with a bigger set-piece battle against an AI called Eden, which - if you're bothered about the fiction - it's your job to reboot.

Handsome Apple computer Mac will be given some big games to play this year. Good grief.

Sadly, Team 17 has done away with promised downloadable content and online battles in Worms: A Space Oddity on Wii.

Team Ninja wants you to come up with some original Achievements for Ninja Gaiden 2.

Semi-official Sony blog Three Speech has let loose more details of the newly unveiled Resistance: Fall of Man sequel.

Microsoft has been slapped with a legal gag which stops the sharing of Live status updates with the community.

FIFA 08 was the most popular title on the shelves of GAME stores this Christmas, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Capcom has confirmed to Eurogamer that Lost Planet on PS3 will feature Luka as an exclusive playable character.

Funny developer Double Fine has made a new mini-game for all of you on the Internet. If you have Flash.

It's quite easy to put a release date in a quarter. You get three months to fart around with and it sounds closer than "2008". Seasons are even worse; no one knows when they begin or end. Yes really. The result is now, in the dreary, dark, damp and depressing months of calendar quarter number one, publishers need to own up and tell us if their game is actually soon to be released or if they were just telling porky pies to look better.

Two words strike fear and loathing into my heart in the world of gaming: light puzzle. Just like some people can't read maps (like me), and some can't roll their tongues (can't do that either, actually), I absolutely, completely cannot fathom light puzzles. My brain is completely incapable of processing such esoteric concepts as angles of reflection, and every single time a light puzzle crops up in a game I'm reduced to a helpless, gibbering mess in front of my television whilst my brain tries to escape my head from sheer embarrassment at my complete and utter spatial incompetence. Usually I have to call someone up and get them to come over and do it for me. It's terrible.

The Writer's Guild of America has announced the nominations for its inaugural videogame writing award.

Gamecock Media Group has announced plans for its second Expo For Interactive Entertainment, Independent and Original (EIEIO).

The organisers of GDC 2008 have announced that Microsoft's John Schappert will be presenting a keynote at the upcoming conference, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Let's ensure nobody is under any illusions: I love Chaos on the ZX Spectrum. Love it to bits. Were I to find myself compiling a list of super-splendid games, Chaos would be in there somewhere. If some terrible magnetic beast was systematically destroying every Speccy game in existence and I had the chance to save just one, I would not hesitate in snatching up Chaos and cradling it in my arms. Had Chaos been born a woman, I... well, no, that's getting a little disturbing.

As I write this, the third season of House is playing in the background. If you haven't seen this medical drama series, by the way, then go out and buy Season One right this second. It's a bit like a murder mystery, except the murderers are all ridiculously obscure and unlikely diseases and the chief detective is a sardonic bastard of a genius with a limp and some excellent one-liners.

After last month's depressingly formulaic episode, the prospect of another join-the-dots exercise in point-and-click adventuring didn't exactly get my blood pumping. Recycled locations, reappearances of characters that weren't funny the first or second time, (never mind the third time) and gags that had worn thin. Hrmph. So why, exactly, did I end up enjoying this one so much? Well, because Telltale wrote better jokes this time, and made the whole thing more endearingly surreal.

Factor 5 has said it will mark its return to developing for Nintendo hardware with a fancy new Wii game.

THQ has announced plans to deliver us two new Destroy All Humans! games.

THQ has decided to bring Big Huge Games in-house, after signing its big RPG project last May.

If you found yourself surrounded by hundreds of porn stars, what would you do? Why, you'd ask them about videogames, of course.

Last week saw God of War and Calling All Cars developer David Jaffe arguing for a unified gaming standard on his blog, but this week's talking head - Square Enix president Yoichi Wada - isn't so impressed.

Call of Duty, or COD (stay with it), is back in the all formats chart, or menu, at number one. You know, like fish. Tom said he would fire me if I said that.

The Club or Yakuza 3. Those are our pick of the new demos. You can probably scoot off now. Not a lot else to suggest unless you own a PC. Oh, you do. Better read on then!

Microsoft has popped up in our inboxes with trumpets and balloons announcing the impending launch of Boogie Bunnies on Xbox Live Arcade.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has expressed concern about violence in videogames - particularly when it comes to characters using knives.

Like the DS version (and we certainly did like the DS version), Geometry Wars: Galaxies on Wii is a collection of 60 or so levels built around the controls and enemies used in classic Xbox Live Arcade game Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved - which is itself bundled in both the Wii and DS versions. In fact, the content's mostly the same. "Galaxies" mode, as it's called, changes things like level shapes, enemy spawn routines, enemy types (and there are lots of new ones), and more to give each of the 60-odd a distinctive feel. Also like the DS version, Galaxies on Wii proposes an alternative to dual analogue stick control - which is just as well because the Wiimote doesn't have any analogue sticks and the Nunchuk only has one.

US attorney Jack Thompson has criticised Buzz! The Schools Quiz, claiming teachers should concentrate on traditional teaching methods instead.

Nintendo is no closer to narrowing down a European date for DS game Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney.