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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.

If I was about to die I would be chuffed if a lovely lady appeared before me and asked if I wanted to go and fight for the gods up in the sky. I would tell her that yes it was perfectly acceptable and maybe she would also like to kiss me if it was OK with her. We could live in heaven-place for ever and ever and make little semi-god children who would be able to choose to go to school with mortals or immortals because we are understanding parents and the facilities might be better there anyway.

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".