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Mexican film director Guillermo Del Toro has been getting himself all worked up about a Halo film.

Who would you like to play Chun-Li in an upcoming new Street Fighter film? Kristin Kreuk, eh? Well, good news, because an Internet website declares that Smallville's Lana Lang, aka Kristin Kreuk, will play Chun-Li in an upcoming new Street Fighter film!

Did you get what you wanted for Christmas? That's a shame. But Sony was looking out for you - sneaking a 1.7GB-shaped demo of The Club under the celebratory bristles of the PlayStation Network tree with the sort of festive love and care glaringly absent from other elements of this boringly appointed sentence.

One weekend left before Christmas. [Note to readers: This is no longer true. Do not be alarmed.] One last mad dash, one last vicious Oxford Circus scrum, one last chance to be elbowed in the face by an angry, red-faced slapper in your local shopping centre as you reach for that last bottle of perfume the missus has been dropping unsubtle hints about since September.

Microsoft has said a demo for Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom will be out in Europe in mid-January.

This may very well be the last time I sit cross-legged on my living room floor, laptop perched on a pine box, footses wrapped in blankets, tapping humorously away into a Word processor for the sake of new game releases.

Welcome yourself back to work today by downloading Metal Slug 3 from Xbox Live Arcade - as said in a Somerfield-advert-like way.

Those of you still lost in the whirlwind of Christmas will be glad to know Codemasters Online Gaming has fixed issues with Sensible World of Soccer on Xbox Live.

So this is Christmas. [Off to a good start. -Ed] Which must mean that it's time to crack open the Advocaat and get on with a board game. But which board game? If the only traditional board and card games you know about are the ones you play at Christmas, you might be surprised how far they've evolved since the last time you played. They've had to. With today's fickle audiences able to access almost every spectrum of gaming entertainment from their game consoles, or internet browsers, or even from the pages of facebook, many manufacturers of traditional games have found themselves falling back on technology to make their games more attractive.

So that's it. Another year over. And what have you done? If you're reading (or, indeed, writing) this, the chances are you'll have spent most of it arguing with strangers on the internet about games you haven't played yet. Just like last year, and the year before that, and the year before that. So in the spirit of the New Year, perhaps it's time to make a change? Perhaps it's time to, I dunno, stop arguing with strangers on the internet about games you haven't played yet. A daunting prospect for anybody, I know, but here to help you are some ready-made resolutions for you to follow, to help make 2008 an even better year than 2007.

Here's part two of our 2007 news round-up. Read on to reminisce about all the fun of E3, Leipzig, the Halo 3 launch and more. Here's part one, by the way, if you missed it.

What a year it's been in the world of videogame-related news. All the platform holders have enjoyed highs and lows. Microsoft had the Halo 3 launch, but also the ring of death fiasco. Nintendo sold billions of machines and games about maths, but can't make enough Wiis to go round. Sony won GDC, but... Hmm, just can't think of anything. In particular.

D3Publisher / Sandlot / Xbox 360

Ubisoft / Ubisoft Montreal / Xbox 360, PS3

D3Publisher / Infinite Interactive / DS, PSP, Xbox 360, PC

So then, Eurogamer's Top 50 Games of 2007.

You knew that, eventually, it was coming. Perhaps the only surprise is that it came from a relatively obscure French team rather than one of the mega-publishers. You'd have thought that - say - Electronic Arts would have figured that getting paid twelve times a year may be a better bet than getting paid once for an update. But no. It's developers F4 - in a joint venture with the financial muscle of Sports Marketing company Infronts - who have had a crack.

With the Wii still in short supply, this year I'll be doing the same thing I did last Christmas. I'll put my sought-after console in a sturdy plastic case and take it to a nearby children's hospital. For two glorious hours on Christmas morning, I'll allow these miserable pallid waifs to look at my Wii from a distance of no less than three metres, and imagine the fun they could have with such a device, were their wretched parents able to sit all day on the internet waiting to see which retailers have the magic white brick in stock.

Ubisoft and Microsoft have stopped getting off under the mistletoe (sorry, money hat) long enough to upload an Xbox 360 demo of Dark Messiah of Might & Magic: Elements - or DMoMaME, as everyone calls it.

The marketing motto for Unreal Tournament III seems to have been something like "simplify and improve", at least if you listen to Epic's bossmen speak their brains. They've told us that they wanted to take the best features from all the previous games and make it faster, tighter and (presumably) more macho. Or maybe that's just fallout from the enormous success of Gears Of War...

Although the tools to let people prepare their own PS3-compatible mods and maps are waiting on "some paperwork from Sony", Epic's Mark Rein has announced the very first downloadable user-created content for Unreal Tournament III on PlayStation 3. You can find download links in his forum post.

Namco Bandai has released six downloadable aeroplanes for downloading on Xbox Live Marketplace download place. Each of them costs 200 Microsoft Points, except the one that costs 400 Microsoft Points, and the other one which is free. So, several of them cost 200 Microsoft Points. Get off my back.

LAST TIME, ON NEWS ITEM: "I can't live without you, reader. Only now, as we are trapped under this pile of Dan who puts the screenshots up's Travel Hungry Hippos packaging, do I see that clearly for the first time." "Better than Halo lol." "Pass me that non-sequitur, I'm unaware of any cabbages." And now, the thrilling continuation, where it emerges that the US PlayStation 3 Store has more downloadable games than us this week.

Tecmo has said that the Nintendo DS version of Ninja Gaiden will be released in March 2008, assuming you and I aren't killed in a freak news item accident where oh no oh no watch out it's fallifslddsfikdgfgfjldgfjlgfgf. It's okay. We're trapped, but we're alive. We must now form amazing bonds of friendship as the harsh reality of our situation becomes apparent and I have to eat your leg.

This Christmas, spare a thought for our war veterans. Still on active duty, and deserted by their commanding officer, these brave men and women fight on in the face of intense media cynicism, wanting nothing more this yuletide than something to send to the kids back home.

Nintendo has staggered out of the kebab shop dressed as an elf just in time to put three more games on Virtual Console this Friday, including two for the NES and one for TurboGrafx-16. So not really "including" so much as "consisting of" but there is no time we cannot go back forward forward forever never stopping paragraph.

Spare a thought for poor old Sony, still slaving away over the hobs of Internet-based file distribution, brow moist with the grimy sweat of a hundred peeled videogame trailers, arms caked with the grease of the fires of user verification wrappers, breath shallow with the [get on with it - Ed] - and all so we can play Toy Home (GBP 4.99) and the PSone's Populous: The Beginning (GBP 3.49).

Nokia has announced another delay in its N-Gage First Access platform, originally scheduled for a November launch, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

As long-time fans of Dancing Stage, we had high hopes for the first next-gen instalment in the series. Some of these might have been a bit too high, like the one about a dance mat that lit up like the floor in Saturday Night Fever. But how about a decent track listing, a solo mode that makes sense, proper online play? Is that too much to ask? Apparently so.

Activision has made it clear that the reason it is blocking the release of a patch to let PS3 owners play Harmonix/MTV's Rock Band with the Guitar Hero III controller it created is because it wants compensation.