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Warren Spector says that he may only end up working on three more games in his life due to the amount work and time they take to produce.

PSP title Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters appears to be on its way to PlayStation 2 next year, judging by reports from retail and the US ratings board.

The British Board of Film Classification has applied for a judicial review regarding the successful appeal made by Rockstar Games against the Manhunt 2 ban, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Infinity Ward has detailed changes expected in the upcoming patch for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare on Xbox 360.

Jack Tretton, CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America, has hit out at publishers who have suggested that console manufacturers need to lower the price of their hardware to improve sales, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Activision is set to offer seven new songs in various downloadable content packages during December on both Xbox 360 and PS3.

US magazine Nintendo Power has revealed new details about the upcoming Mario Kart game for Nintendo Wii, most notably that it will feature 16 new tracks and as-yet undisclosed new weapons.

NCsoft has announced the release of the largest expansion ever for Lineage II.

Looking for something perfect for your PC-loving friend this Christmas? Or, more likely, something perfect for your PC this Christmas? Then Steam appears to have just the thing: the Introversion Anthology, featuring Darwinia, Defcon and Uplink for just USD 19.95, which includes a one-week discount of USD 10.

Atari has released a demo of The Witcher, giving you a chance to poke around the early bits of Geralt's monster-slaying adventure through the world created by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski.

After what seems like two and a bit months, Valve has finally started selling Weighted Companion Cube plush toys. And then stopped selling them after everyone bought all of them.

Microsoft has released an Xbox 360 HD-DVD emulator for film studios and disc authoring companies, enabling content to be tested before committing to burning an expensive HD-DVD disc, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Even as his company, GDI, is developing a new platform for videogames that enables the downloading of games in a much shorter time, CEO Roger Walkden doesn't foresee the death of "bricks and mortar" retailers any time soon.

I bought my first PC for thirty pounds off a friend who was getting a new one. It worked. Just. You had to sort of balance it against the wall at an angle and thump it if it ground to a halt. Got me through minimal schooling though, before I made some real money and bought a proper machine. Been through a few since then - costly little devils. Which is why I am looking wistfully at this star prize and wondering why on earth we are giving it to you lot.

Without order, there can only be chaos. A terrifying, dark whirling maelstrom of chaos, tearing through our thin veneer of humanity like a banshee's wail. Chaos. So, Mr Nintendo, when you've established a neat rhythm of Friday Virtual Console releases, don't go and confuse me by releasing a new game on a Tuesday. It throws the very equilibrium of my being off kilter, and leaves me feeling lost and scared. And hungry.

First, SingStar transformed home entertainment for starry-eyed pop tarts, allowing us to realise our wildest Pop Idol fantasies. Then along came Guitar Hero, turning a generation of fret-wank wannabes into living room rock gods.

How are you feeling this afternoon? Proudly old? Bored of the now? Then why not have a look at the Amstrad CPC - Arcade Conversions video roundup that our chums at Eurogamer:Retro have knocked together? Here is what Eurogamer:Retro end-boss Chris Wilkins has to say about it:

Bundled in with The Orange Box as an experimental bonus, Valve's Portal has proved the surprise hit of the year. And the strategy has attracted admiring glances from Gearbox Software boss Randy Pitchford, who reckons it could be the way forward for his studio.

Classic fantasy RPG franchise Heroes of Might and Magic is to make its way online in the form of a web-based online game, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Telltale Games has listed the names and release dates for the next three episodes in the second season of Sam & Max adventure games.

Overdose. It's a suggestive word, dripping with the promise of lethal excess. The original Painkiller was a glorious throwback of a shooter, a game that followed the likes of Serious Sam in favouring relentless violence and ludicrous gibbing over narrative sophistication. When you apply the phrase "overdose" to such a prospect, the result should be pure gaming adrenalin.

Agetec has announced plans to publish the excellently named "Puzzle Guzzle" for PSP from Irem next spring.

Mankind, as a whole, is a gigantic failure, hovering above a pit of depression on stilts of pretence and obfuscation. We have massive summits about deciding how much to try to stop polluting the world to death, and then don't decide anything. We pull milk out of cows, transform it into spread and drape it across cooked bread to avoid being slightly peckish when we turn off BBC Breakfast and walk to work 20 steps behind the fit one from the 5B. We have little internal debates about whether this is stalking. We forget to ring the council, so we look up what that song is from Sky Sports News (it's Requiem for a Tower, Movement 4 by Corner Stone Cues) and order a DVD of Congo. We go to bed wondering if we've got enough hats. What we don't do, no matter how bad it gets, is buy new games on 14th December. At least, that's what videogame publishers think, which is why less than a handful of them have bothered to release anything today.

It's Friday, and that means Nintendo has lined up another pair of ageing beauties to glide Sophia Loren-like across your router's DMZ into the beckoning, slightly sweaty arms of your Wii's onboard flash memory. This week it's Mega Man 2 and the amazingly brilliantly named Top Hunter.

The Burnout Paradise demo and quirky downloadable puzzle game Piyotama are the highlights on the PlayStation 3 Store in Europe this week, while a WipEout Pulse demo is basically it for users of the PSP Store for PC.

Sony CEO Howard Stringer handed the Internet a loaded gun, painted a target on his chest and declared PlayStation 3 offers "infinitely more fun" than the Wii.

Eidos has kept quiet over suggestions that new Lara outing will be called Tomb Raider: Underworld.

US magazine PLAY has revealed new details of the rumoured Tomb Raider Underworld game in development at Crystal Dynamics.

Activision has struck back at claims made by Rock Band developer Harmonix that it is holding up the release of a patch that would allow its Guitar Hero III peripheral to work with the PS3 version of the competing title, arguing that Harmonix and its owner MTV would not be in this position if they had accepted "Activision's offer to reach an agreement" about compatibility. Presumably by "reach an agreement", they mean "hand over the money all of it chop chop".

PlayStation 3 sales increased 285 per cent from October to November according to NPD Group sales data, marking the largest sales increase of any hardware platform.