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Codemasters Online Gaming has had to add a new world to RF Online to cope with so many new people wanting to play.

Sierra Entertainment has told Eurogamer that the European multiplayer TimeShift demo will be on Live this Thursday.

Paradox Interactive has revealed that Europa Universalis: Rome will support up to 32 of you online.

It's pretty pathetic seeing the best and brightest UK games journalists after they've just played The Club. These are the people that play games for a living. They shouldn't have any trouble with a shooter that's been stripped to the bare bones of running and gunning, especially not one with levels the length of a pop song. But it was like being in an old people's home after a daily ten minute session of callisthenics. Word for word, here are a couple of things I overheard:

If you pre-purchase Shadowgrounds Survivor on Steam you will get the original Shadowgrounds game for free.

Diff'rent Strokes star Gary Coleman is selling his US GameCube on eBay, and he has signed it with a pen.

Naughty Dog has very kindly fixed the problem that stopped us all playing the Uncharted: Drake's Fortune demo on the US PlayStation Store, so now we can all use our pretend accounts to grab it.

Bungie has rolled out a new feature for its Halo 3 website that lets you see exactly where everyone dies in multiplayer using "heatmaps". Just the thing for a chilly morning where your breath freezes into icicles and you accidentally stab someone I'm in prison.

SEGA has narrowed down a date for Phantasy Star Universe expansion Ambition of the Illuminus.

Valve has said it will be selling a real life cuddly Weighted Companion Cube in its store soon.

Tesco has blamed an admin error for an online offer that bundled the Xbox 360, two games and an extra controller for just GBP 34.99 (EUR 50), GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Bungie studio manager Harold Ryan says that the developer is working on non-Halo games - including one that ran parallel to Halo 3's development - having decided a while ago that it doesn't work if you let one project swamp you completely.

Excellently-named Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick has rebuked news organisations like this rubbish one for reporting that Grand Theft Auto IV's release date is more up in the air than it actually is.

Telltale Games has released the first episode of Sam & Max: Season Two, Ice Station Santa, and of course there's a demo to go along with it.

I'm not sure whether he was feigning surprise or what, but Dan was rather upset when he found out Wing Commander Arena was rubbish. Xbox Live Arcade may have lots of shoot-'em-ups, but it was short of the sort of thing WCA offered: quick-fire online dogfights in famous spaceships. Battlestar Galactica seems to be going after the same niche, and cocks it up just as spectacularly.

Forrest Gump was wrong. Life is not like a box of chocolates, it's like a collection of mini-games. Some bits are dull and frustrating (traffic jams, trips to Ikea, Wii Sports baseball). Some bits are fun and exciting (rollercoasters, Wii Play air hockey, how's your father). All bits are best enjoyed with at least one other person.

We're not sure how deliberate the choice of venue for our second look at Ascaron's forthcoming action RPG, Sacred 2, has been - but we're quietly impressed nonetheless. We're in a bar just off Oxford Street called Jerusalem; a city most notable for being, well, sacred, to three of the world's biggest religions. Nice touch.

For the past twenty years answering the question "What game would you recommend to someone desperate to drive a steam train on the old Somerset & Dorset railway has been dead easy. Evening Star by Hewson Consultants. Now, thanks to the arrival of Rail Simulator, confusion reigns. What's urgently needed is one of those old-fashioned head-to-head comparison reviews. You know the sort of thing - categorised analysis, parallel pics, too many scores...

A few years ago I came this close to joining the army. I'd passed the medical and the psychometric test and was minutes away from signing on the dotted line when the subject of uniforms came up. I happened to mention that the Mk6 helmet really didn't suit me and that I was planning to wear a camo-pattern Trilby, or one of those Prussian jobs with the spike on top, instead. When the aghast sergeant pointed out that bespoke millinery was strictly forbidden I realised I'd picked the wrong career.

I've just spent the past few days writing up this mammoth Mario retrospective, which you may have already seen. Or not. I have no idea how these internets work. Either way, my head is a-jammed a-full of all things a-Mario so you can imagine my joy when the shining jewel in this week's VC update was...a Mario game.

Hellgate might be a bit like Diablo and similar to Titan Quest, but then it is made by ex-Blizzard staff. Besides, Diablo was fantastic anyway - and now we have sumptuous graphics to dress it in.

Twentieth Century Fox has approached Mark Wahlberg to star in its Max Payne film, according to a report.

What with Gears of War launching on PC today (read our review or they won't pay me), we thought it would be a good idea to ask Mark Rein for the umpteenth time whether the five new chapters are ever going to come out on Xbox 360.

Koei has decided that what you want is a PSP version of its strategical role-playing series Disgaea.

The PlayStation Store has been savagely attacked by new content.

SEGA has unveiled a new Brain Assist game for DS.

EA has finally released its Be A Pro: Online Team Play patch for FIFA 08.

Sony has overcome whatever issues were holding it up and stamped a 7th December release date on SingStar for PS3 in the UK, with European versions arriving on 12th December.

EverQuest II is growing again with the Rise of Kunark expansion, and you have the chance to leave your mark on it by joining the beta test.

The Japanese launch of Gundam Musou inspired a surge of interest in the PlayStation 3, with the 170,000-odd copies of the game that shifted in its first week on sale helping to double sales of Sony's console. That's because the game marks a conjunction between the massively popular Gundam anime series and the massively popular Musou videogame series. When the time eventually comes for the game to come out over here, it will no doubt inspire only a ripple of indifference - a mark of the stubborn apathy with which western audiences view both Gundam and the Musou series (better known as the Dynasty/Samurai Warriors series in the west). It's their loss: Gundam Musou - Dynasty Warriors: Gundam to you and I - is absolutely brilliant.