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

When I was little, before girls and hair, me and my family used to march to a house full of old people and sing songs at them on Christmas Eve. Interesting creatures, full of stories and sticky toffee sweets, and if you played your cards right you might land your very first kiss. Funny smelling places though, like someone kept forgetting to flush the toilet, but then they are old so maybe it is forgiveable. Soap: another withered person smell. The moral is that old things are not useless and ready to be thrown away; my Grandma used to give me stacks of 20 pence pieces when I saw her. Back of the net.

Maybe it's just creative fatigue. Maybe it's just an attempt to go with what sells. Maybe it's just another US government conspiracy to train us to be elite super soldiers against an impending alien invasion.

Having released four Jak games in as many years (and four Crash Bandicoot games before that), it's hardly a great shock that Naughty Dog wanted to do something completely different on PS3. But the surprise is just how different Uncharted is compared to anything it has done before.

Microsoft has confirmed that Silver Xbox Live members will have to wait a week to access free downloadable content.

Sony is "definitely" looking at getting the PSP Store working on actual PSPs rather than asking users to access it via PC.

You can tell a lot about a game by its subtitle. Take the Turok series of dinosaur-themed shooters, inspired by the adventure comics of the same name. First there was Dinosaur Hunter: blunt, functional, dynamic and serious. It told you everything you needed to know about this punchy, atmospheric jungle FPS, a Nintendo 64 launch title. Then came Seeds of Evil and Shadow of Oblivion: epic, suggestive, but ultimately insubstantial. They sounded exciting but dissolved into nothing more than meaningless internal rhymes if you thought about them too hard, just as the two sequels lost their way in a maelstrom of nonsensical plotting and overwrought gore.

Doing anything on Friday afternoon? Of course you're not. So why not come along and interview some of the people who made Halo 3?

Square Enix producer Shinji Hashimoto has said we'll be revelling in the world of Final Fantasy XIII for a decade.

Square-Enix has unveiled two new Final Fantasy games currently in development for the PS3 to a packed pre-E3 press conference in Los Angeles.

With E3 just weeks away now, everyone and his blog's got a theory about what's going to be shown - and two of the most interesting rumours are about a pair of rather inevitable sequels.

Respondents to a survey on emotion in videogames have voted Square-Enix's Final Fantasy titles as the most emotionally rich games ever made, citing the death of Aeries in Final Fantasy VII as the series' most tearjerking moment.

Ex-God of War boss David Jaffe reckons his first solo project at newly formed studio Eat Sleep Play is a success.

French and German PlayStation 3 owners will have to wait until early 2008 to play The Orange Box, Electronic Arts said this week, despite confirming that it will be available in North America and Europe next week.

Hollywood director Michael Bay has lashed out at Microsoft and its HD-DVD format, claiming its purpose is to make other formats fail rather than succeed itself.

Eidos Montreal general manager Stephane D'Astous has given an interview in which he has more or less confirmed formats for Deus Ex 3.

Microsoft has dressed up like Captain Planet and asked you of the student world to dream up a sustainable environment without hairspray and open fridges.

Don Mattrick, senior vice president of Microsoft Interactive Entertainment, thinks the Xbox 360 is the best value for the money this holiday season, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

The organisers of the Independent Games Festival have announced the finalists for 2008 competition.

Koch Media has told Eurogamer it is excited about bringing new titles Sacred 2: Fallen Angel and Warhammer: Battle March to Xbox 360.

How is it that John Carmack is considered so cool? I mean, by us too - we think he's extremely cool. But if the world were a giant school playground, he'd be cowering by a wall, his thick-framed glasses broken above the bridge of his nose, his briefcase (he'd so be that kid) emptied out in a pile, his lunch stolen. Because he'd insist on wearing that black cape over his school blazer. This, by the way, is why videogames are great: that kid is our leader, while the bullies are left to stupidly drool through the latest Need For Speed: Look At The Boobies bought from ASDA.

EA has told Eurogamer it is looking forward to competing with mega-publisher Activision Blizzard when it is formed next year.

The promised BioShock patch for both Xbox 360 and PC has landed along with free downloadable content consisting of new plasmids, gene tonics and - in the case of 360 owners - an additional unlockable Achievement worth 100 gamerpoints.

Microsoft has skirted around future plans to add television content to the European Video Marketplace.

Microsoft has announced that the long awaited European launch of Video Marketplace on Xbox Live will take place on 11th December.

Need for Speed ProStreet has topped German charts this week while WWE SmackDown vs. RAW 2008 continues to dominate Spain, according to Media-Control GfK International data.

Need for Speed: ProStreet has moved up into pole position in the UK all formats chart, the place it's tipped to take for Christmas this year, according to sales information from Chart Track for the week ending 1st December, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Ageing rock lords Metallica will consider airing their new single as a downloadable track for Rock Band.

Sony Computer Entertainment America CEO Jack Tretton says that while there were "missteps" in the PlayStation 3's first year, "19 exclusives" for Christmas and the promise of games like Metal Gear Solid 4 and Final Fantasy XIII are a reason to be positive.

Q Entertainment has put its musical puzzler Lumines on PC casual gaming site WildGames.