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Hello and welcome to What's New: Written In A Hurry Before Lunch Edition, where we relive the excitement of Wednesday night's football success (Crouchigol!) by splitting the games into two teams and making them chase a punch-line around the page until the final word-count. First, over to Trendy McZeitgeist with the team news!

Sometimes you have to back to go forward, or at least that seems to be the rationale behind Climax's somewhat by the numbers take on the Silent Hill franchise. Origins acts as the starting point for the entire series, taking us back to events before the 1999 PlayStation classic and helping to shed a little more light on the mysteries surrounding this fog-bound town.

Eidos has confirmed to Eurogamer that Tomb Raider: Anniversary will be out for Wii on 7th December.

Eidos has whipped the downloadable version of Tomb Raider: Anniversary onto Xbox Live.

Ubisoft has whipped the wrappers off the three factions in real-time strategy console game Tom Clancy's EndWar.

Obviously we're not going to tell you anything. Ubisoft has worked hard to make sure that you're not only excited about playing Assassin's Creed, but that you're also dying to find out what's going on. What are all those glitchy graphical effects in aid of? Are you really in the Third Crusade at all? You want to find out for yourself, so go ahead.

Atari has opened its hangars and wheeled out a whole army of fresh aircraft for Ace Combat 6.

Space Giraffe developer Jeff Minter has said he's going to stop writing about game development on his blog after taking a bit of a shoeing for a late-night post earlier in the week where he complained bitterly that the Xbox Live Arcade version of Frogger was outselling his latest game "by more than ten to one".

The star attraction on the PlayStation Store this week has to be the Uncharted: Drake's Fortune demo, which is now available for people who were too scared to download it from the US Store.

Condemned then. Chances are if you have a memory of the original Condemned: Criminal Origins it'll be a hazy thing consisting mainly of beating tramps to death with locker doors. You probably won't remember the story either, since towards the end of the game the plot collapsed like so much dunked digestive. The narrative never quite managed to make two more interesting characters than 'The Locker Door' and 'The Tramp's Face'.

Visits to the seaside during the 1980's offered more than a wetting of one's feet in the salty, clear blue waters of the Pembrokeshire coast.

Ellie Gibson - Eurogamer's only qualified scuba-diving instructor - tells a good joke about divers. "How do you know when you're sat next to a diving instructor? He'll tell you."

So, Super Mario Galaxy is here. You've bought it, of course. What do you mean, you haven't? Can't find a Wii in any shops? What sort of excuse is that? Why do you think God invented burglary? Get out there, get a Wii, get Super Mario Galaxy and get back here.

Activision has released a remix of the Halo theme for Guitar Hero III. It's now available on Live and it won't cost you a penny.

Hello and welcome to Eurogamer's Live Text Interview with Naughty Dog co-president Evan Wells! Unfortunately you're a bit late for the actual interview, but never mind because you can read over the entire transcript below and see what the Uncharted developer had to say about a whole host of things, including the possibility of Jak for PS3. And why he hasn't got a proper job yet.

Mario Party DS has danced its way to the top of the Japanese charts by flogging more than 116,000 copies, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

A Sony representative has told GamesIndustry.biz that reports of a PlayStation Phone are wide of the mark.

Bethesda mouth Pete Hines has said Oblivion expansion Shivering Isles will available to download for PS3 soon.

Hell's Highway is the third instalment in the Brothers in Arms series and the first for next-gen machines. As Tom found out earlier this year, developer Gearbox has paid attention to criticisms of the previous games and is working hard to address them. And as we found out when we talked to president Randy Pitchford recently, the studio is confident they've not only moved the Brothers in Arms series forwards but also the entire WWII shooter genre.

KOEI has told Eurogamer that futuristic racer Fatal Inertia will be a better game on PS3.

Sony has said its continued close relationship with Ericsson has made a PlayStation phone a "plausible" prospect, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Electronic Arts has told Eurogamer today that The Orange Box for PlayStation 3 will be released in Europe next month on 14th December.

HMV has told GamesIndustry.biz that the Nintendo Wii is selling out within minutes of going on sale, as consumer appetite for the console continues to massively outstrip supply.

Everybody loves a great action double act: Mario and Sonic, Ratchet and Clank, Steve McClaren and a giant baseball bat to the face. We can't be sure whether Kane or Lynch, eponymous stars of IO's new third-person action-fest, would think it a good idea to give a 22 year-old goalkeeper his competitive international debut in a qualify-or-die clincher. But they sure know how to handle a firearm.

Valve has said a demo for The Orange Box should be making its way to Xbox Live today.

Epic boss Mark Rein has confirmed that the PS3 version of Unreal Tournament 3 will not be out in Europe this side of Christmas.

So, how many Stars have you got? It's not like there's a shortage of other good games to play; we just can't put the plumber down. (Well, except for Kristan - he blames an excessive workload, but we all know it's because there's no Gamerpoints in it for him, the whore).

The newly-launched PlayStation Store for PC does not spell the end of the road for Sony's Universal Media Disc (UMD) format, according to Darren Cairns, head of online marketing for Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.

And another thing: I hate the way the sun always gets in my eyes in winter. Sometimes it feels like the whole world is against me; it did last night when I glided unaware through some dog mess. Got right in the tread. Will probably need a toothbrush to get that out - I hope my flatmate doesn't mind. Still, when you run yourself a hot bath and sink into a cosy bed you can almost forgive the biting cold and animals - escaping the winter is what makes it memorable.

The Sony PSP Store for the PC launched last night with a downloadable line-up headed up by a PSP version of PS3 titles Go! Puzzle and Go! Sudoku, downloadable versions of UMD games B-Boy and Fired up, and something else - a rhythm-action game called Beats. We had a quick play to see what it's like.