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Sony has released a new trailer for LittleBigPlanet showing off a pirate ship level.

While no doubt some critics relish the chance to tear into a development team's latest creation with a firework display of cruel adjectives and poisonous put-downs, games journalists should always be reminded that behind every shoddy release there are many man years' worth of hard work, unpaid overtime and neglected families.

The IGF 2008 finalists have now been announced, but what of last year's winners? An excellent time to ask, actually, as Seamus McNally Grand Prize 2007 winner Aquaria has just been released. It's as if you knew!

Q-Games founder Dylan Cuthbert has been lending Level Up his perspective on the Japanese games market - about which he has an understanding somewhat more intimate than the average Westerner, having worked at Nintendo among other places - reflecting on the fact games aren't taken as "seriously" as they used to be, and revealing that the downloadable PlayStation Network service "really hasn't caught on".

Konami and Climax's PSP Silent Hill game, Origins, may be on its way to PlayStation 2.

Our friends at Bungie have been getting excited about some upcoming playlists, which should roll out tomorrow and next Tuesday.

A little while ago, our excellent friends at Double Fine ran a Halloween competition, and many of you asked us if we were going to highlight it using our esteemed organ. We thought about it, but obviously we completely ignored you, because no one likes a suck-up. However, when our boss walked in this morning and mentioned that Double Fine is running a Christmas competition and that some of the entries are "amazing", we knew we had to act.

A new job advertisement could offer a hint at the setting for the next instalment in the Call of Duty series.

As promised, Turn 10 and Microsoft have released a downloadable new track for Forza Motorsport 2 along with a bundle of new cars, including the legendary [picks one at random] Lamborghini Gallardo.

While most of the world was watching the Hitman's heroic near-victory over Floyd Mayweather this weekend, 2K Games was doing that thing where you hit the little swingy one that looks like a tonsil repeatedly very fast to herald the announcement of Don King Presents: Prizefighter.

Nintendo is considering pulling its television advertising campaign for the Wii console because the company cannot manufacture enough consoles to meet the demand, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Bungie Studios currently has "no plans" to work on any platforms besides Xbox 360, two of the developer's top men told Eurogamer readers in a LiveText interview this afternoon.

How long did it take them to come up with that title? Imagine the conversation. "So, it's a Shrek-themed game where you roll things around. What shall we call it?" "Hmm, I know, Roll Ogre Jackpot! No. Shrek, Rattle and Roll! No. Danny Hear'Say's Amazing Rolling Things Around Game! Wait, I've got it..."

Undertow is a side-scrolling shooter in which you must capture five checkpoints littered around the murky underworld in order to stave off attack by numerous types of bad guys. You take on the guise of Iron Marines, Nemodians (followers of Nemo of course!) and Atlantians. Your motivation for all this shooting is to survive a new water world that has been created after we all threw our fridges into the sea and the world warmed up thus melting the polar caps and drowning the planet. Ok, the 'we' is an alien race and the 'threw our fridges into the sea' is 'devastating attack' but you get the picture. It all sounds rather silly, and in fact it is rather, but sometimes I like a bit of silliness and this is one of those occasions.

After a few weeks of splashing about in the more obscure corners of TurboGrafx Lagoon and NeoGeo Reef, it's back to the familiar surroundings of Megadrive Boulevard and, er, SNES Street this week. Three decent new games - none of them brilliant, none of them awful - are all hoping to make you cough up 800 Wii Points to bask in their pixelly charms. Let's see what they're like...

Those of you hoping Sony and Ninja Theory plan to revisit Heavenly Sword would have been encouraged by a launch event for Andy Serkis' new games industry networking organisation Games Eden on Wednesday, where a spokesperson for Ninja Theory repeatedly and perhaps revealingly referred to the developer's only PS3 project to date as "Heavenly Sword 1".

Capcom has confirmed plans to release a demo of Devil May Cry 4 in early 2008.

If we were in a dusty old theatre giving a lecture about the roots of the word mana, we would probably start with speakers of the Oceanic language. These people, you see, use it as a way to describe mysterious energy within living and inanimate things that commands respect or wonder. Of course, we would then point out that if you were looking at it from a religious perspective you could interpret it as the stuff from which souls are formed. After that, we would lead into our topic at hand and tell you it actually means more to us as a magical pool of energy our videogame characters cast spells from. And then we would finally reveal that among the most relevant of these are the Mana series of games from Square Enix.

This week's Virtual Console line-up is all lined up and ready to be downloaded once you've forked over the requisite readies. Everything costs 800 Wii Points today, which is easy to remember, and of course starting today you can turn your old Nintendo website Stars into Wii Points. Cor.

Koch Media and Sony Online Entertainment have set sail on the Pirates of the Burning Sea open beta.

Nintendo has relaunched its www.nintendo-europe.com website, introducing new features like the long-awaited ability to swap your old loyalty programme Stars for Wii Points that you can spend on the Virtual Console.

CCP has pushed a faulty update on its EVE Online community, one which tampers with a crucial Windows file and breaks computer hearts.

Activision has promised Wii owners of Guitar Hero III that it will replace their fault discs early next year for free.

Nintendo has sent out a note this morning explaining that Nintendo software release dates issued yesterday for Q2 2008 and beyond "have not been finalised or confirmed", although it did describe Mario Kart's as "fixed".

Update: Nintendo issued the following statement earlier clarifying the below: "The Nintendo first and third party software line-up release schedule which was distributed by Nintendo on Thursday 6th December confirmed launch dates for Nintendo titles launching in Q1 2008.

Infinity Ward has rolled out a new patch for the PC version of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.

Transformers director Michael Bay believes the film industry prefers Blu-ray over its rival HD-DVD format.

Rockstar has released the long-awaited third proper official trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV, and you can watch it on Eurogamer TV right now! Convenient, eh? That way we get hits and everything.

Midway has announced that both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 owners can expect to download a map pack for John Woo's Stranglehold in the near future. Providing they bought Stranglehold and want some downloadable content in any event.

The first game may only have come out today, but Naughty Dog co-president Evan Wells says that Uncharted: Drake's Fortune is bound to continue in future.