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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.

While our American friends dance around with High Velocity Bowling, Wild Arms and even a silly holiday in November, fortunes are mixed for European PlayStation fans this week - with a Kane & Lynch demo the main PS3 Store highlight.

Soul-slurping Sony and Game Republic effort Folklore is set to benefit from a pair of downloadable add-on packs this month, with the possibility of more to come.

Sony's latest US update for the PlayStation Network's PS3 and PSP stores introduce a few interesting bits, including the Sixaxis-controlled High Velocity Bowling (USD 9.99) for PS3 and Sony London's downloadable PSP MP3-playing rhythm-action game Beats (USD 4.99), which you may arrived on the European PSP Store at launch.

The State of Texas has filed a federal lawsuit against Future US, operator of the Gamesradar Web site, pursuant to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

What's New would like to apologise for using teething problems with Eurogamer's New Office as a foil for bad jokes in last week's edition of What's New.

If you're making a videogame about pirates, there are two other pirates you can't ignore. One is Sid Meier's Pirates!, the other is Pirates Of The Carribbean. Both breeds of pirate are present and correct in upcoming MMORPG Pirates Of The Burning Sea. Can I possibly say the word 'pirates' any more times in this introduction? Oh, probably. Pirates. Piratespiratespirates.

Tom Hanks has a lot to answer for. Films about talking to Volleyballs, living in an airport concourse and leading a platoon of soldiers to their death just to deliver a letter have brought him numerous gongs and induced a few good kips. But he almost got it right in one of his high profile movies. Sat at a bus stop wearing ill-fitting trousers and looking exactly like my old geography teacher, he delivered a line that pretty much sums up any compilation (be it music, games or anything else). Tom eulogised "Life is like a box of chocolates", which is wrong, but we get the sentiment. Everyone knows that a box of chocolates is for special occasions or to make up for some indiscretion, so the saying should really have been a little more accessible. I therefore prefer to go with "Life is like a bag of Revels". And so is Konami Arcade Classics.

Q-Games has said PixelJunk Monsters will be out worldwide on the PlayStation Network in January.

Codemasters has told everyone its new in-house engine is called EGO. Still raining, here.

Bungie has shipped out a batch of shots for its imminent Heroic Map Pack, which may or may not feature real life heroes from television series 999.

EA has told Eurogamer that Burnout Paradise will be out here on 25th January.

Details have finally emerged about how Street Fighter IV will work and, indeed, what it looks like.

Rockstar Games is fiddling with Sellotape and generally fastening up the final bits of a new Grand Theft Auto IV trailer, which is set to go live tonight at 8pm GMT, which is noon in some other part of the world or something.

The net was abuzz (or perhaps a-blinking, since it's all routers and people with hay fever) earlier this week as reports, I dunno, beamed around that Nintendo had mentioned a new Donkey Kong game for Revolution in the latest edition of Japanese magazine Famitsu.

Electronic Arts has revealed that in addition to PS3 and Xbox 360 versions, FIFA Street 3 is also on its way to Nintendo DS and will be released "early next year" - the same time as the others.

SEGA is working on a Phantasy Star game for PlayStation Portable called Phantasy Star Portable, due out in 2008.

A backlash was inevitable.

Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo in the US, has hit back at claims that shortages of the Wii console may have been artificially created in order to generate marketing hype, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

UK brain-injury charity Headway believes patients playing Wii are recovering more quickly.

Tablua Rasa creator Richard Garriott believes offering a large open beta so early on was a mistake, a bit like his haircut.

Harmonix has finished work on a patch for the PlayStation 3 version of Rock Band which adds compatibility with existing guitar controllers. Like the Guitar Hero ones, everyone hopes.

Epic Games has nearly finished work on the 1.1 patch for Unreal Tournament 3 on PC, and while it's lolloping around test servers Planet Unreal has been nice enough to share details of what it fixes.

Following the controversy over the firing of long-time editor Jeff Gerstmann, GameSpot's management has answered questions regarding the circumstances surrounding his exit, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

The UK parliament's Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee has announced a new inquiry into the potential risks from harmful material on the Internet and in videogames, GamesIndustry.biz reports. Quick Tom, hide!

Could Medal of Honor Heroes 2 be the first-person shooter Wii owners have been waiting for? Well, it's another World War II game, the missions are unoriginal, the levels are linear, the AI is terrible and everything is brown. So no. But for those Wii owners who aren't after a realistic, intense experience, who just want fast-paced arcade action, and who don't mind all the brown, Heroes 2 has a lot to offer.

Electronic Arts has been running around the world gathering up games again and this time it's come back with something called Ninja Reflex for Wii and DS, due for release next March.

Majesco Europe has whipped the wrappers of Blokus Portable: Steambot Championship for PSP.

Research into the US games industry has concluded that ratings are still not being taken seriously enough.