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VRX Industries has created a wonderfully senseless arcade machine for us to poke fun at.

Nintendo has denied that full DS games will be downloadable via Wii, claiming that a New York Times report citing comments made by company president Reggie Fils-Aime was inaccurate.

Sony Computer Entertainment has announced that it will introduce Skype features to the new slim PSP, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Sony Computer Entertainment America has revealed it sold over 1.2 million PlayStation 3 units during the holiday period from 23rd November to 31st December, 2007, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

BT and Microsoft have teamed up to allow Xbox 360 owners to access BT Vision - the telecom provider's TV-on-demand service with those annoying adverts - through their consoles from the middle of 2008.

Midway has put new maps for Stranglehold on Live, using its long and rather delicate fingers of giving.

Could Team Bondi's moody-looking LA Noire be on its way to Xbox 360 as well as PlayStation 3? That's what raincoat-clad Internet detectives believe after a job posting on Gamasutra sought a lead animator and listed both platforms in a section about job details.

Rockstar has added its not inconsiderable PC games catalogue to Valve's digital distribution service Steam, offering a ten percent discount on all its available products until 11th January to celebrate the launch.

The Xbox 360 and Wii versions of Bully - Canis Canem Edit on PS2 in Europe - will be released here on 7th March and Rockstar has specified what we can expect over and above its original release.

Those of you staying up to see what Bill Gates has to say in his final Consumer Electronics Show keynote speech alongside Robbie Bach tonight - 6.30pm PST, which is 2.30am GMT - will be able to watch it live on the Internet.

Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski is to keynote this year's D.I.C.E. Summit, taking place in Las Vegas, February 6th to 8th, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Microsoft has denied that it plans to announce a new Xbox 360 model featuring a built-in HD-DVD player following widespread speculation.

Warner Bros. has announced that it will be releasing movies exclusively in the Blu-ray format this year, phasing out HD-DVD production by May, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

I hadn't noticed how much Xbox Live Arcade was populated by short, uneventful, casual games. True enough, that's a significant part of its charm and an aspect that broadens the 360's horizons in a way that would be difficult to achieve with commercial, off-the-shelf releases. But now Metal Slug 3's arrived we've found the sturdy middle ground 'twixt hard and fast gameplay and involved console devotion.

As will be endlessly discussed in a thousand Best Games of 2007 lists, Portal was more than the sum of its parts. It's just a puzzle game about jumping through holes, if you ask me. Of course, there's no question that Valve's baby could have ended up technically impressive yet emotionally bland in lesser hands. Instead, excellence in the form of a sharp, witty script and an inspired design aesthetic (collapsing brilliantly from order into chaos in parallel to the sanity of your nemesis) nailing it on the head perfectly.

Earlier this year, Ubisoft threw a special event in Paris to show off its new games. These included Rayman Raving Rabbids 2, the sequel to one of the Wii's more successful launch titles. The Ubidays press conference climaxed with some real live rabbits being thrust onto the stage to mark the game's announcement. Actually thrust, as in you could see human hands pushing the rabbits back if they attempted to crawl off the stage.

With this, the first Pokémon game for the Wii, the last remaining member of Nintendo's holy quartet of heavy hitting franchises has finally reached the hand-waggling wonder and ooh, just in time for Christmas as well. Mmm, convenient. However, while Zelda, Mario and Metroid all gave fans many good reasons to be happy, Pikachu and pals can only offer what amounts to a prolonged and expensive advertisement for the DS rather than a Wii game in its own right.

The original Tomb Raider was the first game that ever made me yelp with fear. Since then I've played them all. I've spent hours running and jumping, shooting and swimming, pulling levers and pressing switches. I've spent hours marvelling at Lara's grace. I've spent hours wanting to murder her for refusing to do what she's told. I've visited Angkor Wat wearing my hair in a plait and short shorts and big boots (though I drew the line at suspenders and water balloons), and been told off by a security guard for trying to swing on a vine. I love Lara. Yes, a bit like that.

What's this? An on-rails zombie shooter as good as The House of the Dead II? In 2007? Shame it's taken Capcom eight years and four attempts to get it right. Shame the genre is as outdated as 56k modems. Shame it's so short and that there's not a single new idea in the entire game. But hey, it's never too late to have fun shooting undead Umbrella employees between the eyes. Right?

The Soldier of Fortune games have clung to the slender thread of infamy for one reason only - gore. A product of the late '90s FPS boom, the selling point of the original was that you could shoot the limbs off enemies using an arsenal of lovingly recreated weaponry. It wasn't bad, as such things go, but there were clearly better games around and they justifiably attracted most of the attention. A similarly average sequel followed in 2002 and now, apropos of nothing, here's a third instalment.

Google "Valve's Gabe Newell and PS3" and you'll see why I approached this review with some trepidation.

'This is how the world ends, not with a bang but with a whimper'. So ends T. S. Eliot's 1925 poem, The Hollow Men, a sentence also chosen to start and conclude the Halo trilogy's overarching marketing campaign.

When cuddly old Bob Hoskins said that it was 'good to talk', he was trying, in his loveable Cockney kind of way, to get us to rack up enormous phone bills. He wasn't advocating that using endless exposition was the best way to get you into space fairing action RPG epic. He'd probably politely tell them to 'shut iiiiit'.

A few years ago, a friend of mine gave a popular Japanese videogame 8/10 in a British magazine. I like it more than that, and I was surprised by the response, so (it occurs to me you're going to like this story) I asked what stopped it getting a higher score. The answer came back: "I wasn't sure if people would like it the way I do."

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SEGA has whipped out its new Hollyoaks calendar and nailed down its release dates for the first quarter of 2008.

Real Madrid Football Club has signed an exclusive deal with Virgin Play to develop three properties running across gaming consoles, online and mobile, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Criterion has boosted the online content in the recent Burnout Paradise demo, adding 13 new Freeburn challenges and upping multiplayer support from four to eight people.

So here it is, Merry Christmas. Everybody's having fun. No wait. That was last year. Did you have fun, or were you too busy lying in bed with Man Flu (like me, sigh) to be festive? Anyway, just because it's 2008, that doesn't mean games that fell through the cracks can get away without a thorough cavity inspection in the barren wasteland of January. Step forward Ice Station Santa, the first episode in the 'eagerly awaited' second series of Sam & Max adventures.

Konami wants us to shoot our fears in the face in new Wii Zapper outing Target: Terror.