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As Mum sorry Lorraine put it in Back To The Future, a man should be strong. Good news, then, because this is a week of STRONG MEN. And I'm not just talking about Marcus Fenix, star of Gears of War on PC, or whatever the men are called in Call of Duty 4, stars of Call of Duty 4, and I'm not just not talking about them because we've talked about them a lot this week, although actually I am. In fact, for the purposes of this hastily constructed and evidently poorly thought through introductory paragraph, I'm not even just talking literally about men! A Lombax will do. Ratchet's a Lombax. And he's strong.

Super Mario Bros. 3 is this week's Virtual Console headliner, offering you a chance to hop, fly and swim around the eight worlds of the Mushroom Kingdom in one of the NES' best games ever.

MTV has confirmed that you will be able to buy individual downloadable songs from Artist Packs rather than buy the whole lot.

Sony has released a demo of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune for the US PlayStation 3 Store - but you might as well leave your console off, because your fake US account won't work for this one.

John Carmack reckons the DS would make a great proving ground for upstart programmers if only platform holders didn't stifle homebrew development.

Epic Games' Mark Rein says that he hopes Unreal Tournament 3 will be released on PlayStation 3 this year but he doesn't think it will make it to Europe until 2008.

The excellent new PC version of Gears of War introduces five new Chapters to help bulk out Act 5, Desperation. As one of Microsoft's "Games for Windows - LIVE" titles, it also offers unlockable Achievements which go towards a Gamerscore - you know, that thing your Xbox 360 chums have been claiming they're not bothered about despite having played a suspicious amount of "Open Season".

Take-Two has announced a proposed settlement to class action litigation related to the "Hot Coffee" controversy, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Every true fan can remember at least one incident where Star Wars brought tears to their eyes. By "true", we mean the kind of prequel apologist who will go so far as to agree that yes, Revenge of the Sith isn't as good as Return of the Jedi, but that's because it's even better.

Good old Lair for PS3 has been delayed by at least a couple of weeks according to retailers speaking to Eurogamer, with the game now listed as 23rd November by many.

Sony Europe has denied that 40 per cent of its 40GB PS3 consoles have been failing, spluttering, and conking out.

We love Gears of War like a child. A child with a face like a horse covered in the blood of underground aliens who look like extras from Dusk Till Dawn. Which is why we thought we'd capture some footage from the brand new PC version and let you gawp at it on Eurogamer TV.

Blizzard has whipped the wraps off its upcoming content patch 2.3 for World of Warcraft.

Super Mario Galaxy has unsurprisingly trampled all over competition this week in Japan, selling over three times more than its closest competition.

Nic Watt, creative director of Australian developer Nnooo Games, has spoken out on Nintendo's Wii Software Service, or WiiWare as it's known in the US and Japan.

NCsoft Europe boss Geoff Heath has said that a "City of" series unrelated to Heroes and Villains may be in the works.

PlayStation big cheese Kaz Hirai has said he is personally not satisfied with the current version of Home.

EA may be making a big song and dance about the full albums it will be selling as downloads for Rock Band, but Activision's Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock is due out this month and already there are downloadable songs built around particular bands - with Foo Fighters and Velvet Revolver packs going up today.

Sony has released PlayStation 3 version 2.0 firmware into the wild, if by wild you mean actual PlayStation 3s. You can watch a video of it in action over on Eurogamer TV.

SouthPeak Games has released a 566MB demo of Oblivion wannabe Two Worlds, giving you a chance to explore "a huge portion" of the game's "expansive single-player map".

Activision boss Bobby Kotick has revealed the company is working on a second Bond game, after he restated its commitment to revitalising the brand, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is shelling out piles of money to acquire developer Traveller's Tales and its parent company TT Games, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Call of Duty 4 erupts onto PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 screens later this week, so we've been rolling around in the mud and grass getting beads on contacts and foxtrotting tangos so you can watch some videos!

It's not the most optimistic vision of the future we've ever heard, but the back-story to Space Siege runs something like this - in the far future, humanity ends up getting its backside soundly kicked by the insect-like leg of a superior alien race. So soundly kicked, in fact, that at the start of them game they destroy the Earth, and manage to attach a pod full of teeming masses of over-evolved-cockroach baddies to the vast ship on which you're escaping, the Armstrong.

Microsoft will be treating us all to two new Live Arcade titles tomorrow.

Another good thing about Christmas is that you can kiss people by holding a twig with leaves above their heads, made all the more likely by the enormous vat of incredibly pungent mulled wine stewing in the kitchen. Similarly smile-worthy is that yes there are games on PS3 to buy this year, despite what James with his rival console says in the comments section while picking his nose and flicking it at his equally spotty friend.

Update: Sony has confirmed the firmware will be available tomorrow, and that all of the below is spot on.

Microsoft has told us that its Family Timer will be available for 360 in December.

The lack of vibration in the PlayStation 3's Sixaxis joypad has been one of the biggest thorns in the console's not inconsiderable side. Shorn of that often under-valued function, it left an awful lot of gaming experiences feeling strangely empty, particularly shooters and racing games.

Unreal Tournament 3 will be released in Europe for the PC on 23rd November, Midway confirmed this afternoon ahead of an official launch event in sunny Birmingham tomorrow.