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Eidos parent SCi has decided to hold the new Tomb Raider game back until the fourth calendar quarter of 2008.

It's nostalgia that binds me to the Contra series. Since I first played "Gryzor" in a caravan park's amusement arcade in the late '80s I've been a fan of the series, enjoying a great Amstrad CPC port, the brilliant 16-bit Probotector titles and then gritted my teeth through 13 years of terrible Contra games.

Ubisoft has signed up to distribute Soulcalibur IV for PS3 and Xbox 360 and Soulcalibur Legends for Wii. All three SKUs will be released in summer 2008. Did you like our use of "SKUs" there? We always feel clever when we say SKUs.

BT has confirmed the new set-top box for Xbox 360 won't allow you to view or record live television.

You won't be shocked, but Valve has announced the acquisition of Turtle Rock Studios.

Soon to be sort of retired Microsoft chief Bill Gates has called Xbox 360 the most reliable console on the market.

Rare has rather predictably refused to say anything about GoldenEye making its way to Live Arcade.

A lot of pain happens to other people in the PlayStation Network game named PAIN. You were probably expecting that. It's been available in the US since late November, but should be launching in Europe and Asia in early 2008.

SEGA has signed up to do the official Olympics 2008 game for PC, PS3 and 360.

Former Civilization IV designer Soren Johnson, currently hard at work on Spore, reckons PC gaming "should be like Punk Rock" for developers - rich with variety.

The dates for this year's Tokyo Games Show have been revealed, and organiser CESA has decided to push it back from last year's September slot to October 9-12, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Majesco has revealed plans to serve more Cake Mania on both DS and Wii.

Square Enix has revealed that Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker will be with us on 14th March.

Atari has said it will be dishing Beautiful Katamari out across Europe in February.

Monkey Island mastermind Ron Gilbert has finally found a publisher for DeathSpank: Episode One - Orphans of Justice.

WiiWare, Nintendo's download service for original content, will launch in March according to Engine Software, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

We may have seen the last of Xbox 360's backwards compatibility updates, according to group marketing manager Albert Penello.

NVIDIA has struck gold by entering into a new agreement with Valve to collaborate on development and distribution of its games.

Burnout 3: Takedown will be making its debut on Xbox Originals on Monday, 14th January at 2am PST (10am GMT), according to the Microsofties at Gamerscoreblog.

Sony Japan has announced that it is to discontinue the 20GB and 60GB PlayStation 3 SKUs after a final shipment in January, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Nintendo's Wii Fit exercise package has sold one million units in Japan, in just over a month on sale, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

McDonald's UK boss Steve Easterbrook reckons videogames are helping make people obese.

Nintendo has finally made its move and presented us with details and screenshots to show off Wii Chess, which is due out in Europe on 18th January.

So yes, the obvious frame of reference is LocoRoco. There's that clean, crisp, 2D visual style, a similar cast of quirky little imps tumbling around the screen, and it's all accompanied by a joyous sort of shouty singing noise. That's not entirely surprising given that the two games have been developed by some of the same people, apparently. But actually, Patapon bears very little comparison to almost any other videogame (apart, perhaps, from the similarly odd collision of genres to be found in Odama). That's because it's a rhythm-action real-time strategy game, in which you perform the duties of a deity, guiding a tribe of warriors called Patapons to fight their way through the ranks of their enemies, the Zigoton, to find the end of the world.

The US Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB) is crying out for attention again, hinting at a quartet of upcoming Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network releases including Street Fighter Alpha and Peggle. (Update: And it looks like they're onto something, as a PopCap rep has confirmed the latter as an XBLA release set for Q2 2008 in conversation with Shacknews.)

Edward Carnby hops into a car. The woman demoing the game to us explains that everything in the car works. We sort of tune out a bit. Is this really relevant? It's nice that you can look in the glovebox for a gun. It's nice that you can operate the wipers. But is it that important? It's not like games haven't done this before. You could play the harmonica on the Plok title screen. Stupid PLOK RIP-OFF.

Sony has confirmed to Eurogamer that LittleBigPlanet will be released in September.

Captain Olimar is the latest to join a host of Nintendo celebrities in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

EA is well aware its December Need For Speed ProStreet patch is irreparably corrupting PS3 and PC versions of the game.

The highly sought-after in-game PS3 CrossMediaBar could be out this year. Which is a little unsurprising, given rumours hinted it would be included in previous firmware v2.0.