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A trio of exclusive Uncharted videos have been sprinkled generously across the mighty Eurogamer Empire, capturing our early progress in Naughty Dog's anticipated PS3 adventure.

Codemasters is lining up three slugs of downloadable content for Overlord on Xbox 360, and all three are due out this month.

Sony has said we will get the European demo for Uncharted: Drake's Fortune before the end of November, although when exactly is still not decided.

When you're Britain's premiere Womens In Games apart from the other four, attending press events can be a tiresome business. As almost invariably the only woman there, you'll find yourself endlessly photographed and filmed. You'll flatter yourself this is because you are so attractive, but then you'll remember an ex-boyfriend once describing you as looking "a bit like a white Bill Cosby", and realise it's about your novelty value. Just as you did back then. A picture of a lady playing a videogame, apparently, is always more interesting than a picture of someone who looks like 90 per cent of people who play videogames playing a videogame.

Dutch developer and publisher PlayLogic is working on a mysterious first-party game with Sony Europe, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

The first poster for the Tekken film has appeared online.

EA has kept quiet over speculation that it has signed a big-money deal with racing star Lewis Hamilton.

Following on from yesterday's exciting news about Viva Piñata: Party Animals squaring up to roundly smash the hanging casket of our dreams over the fires of despair, Microsoft has announced that Viva Piñata will be released on PC on 16th November as well!

Sony has released a new patch for PS3 shooter Resistance: Fall of Man.

Arcades were great. The carpet used to make you feel sick and chewing gum was always just where you happened to be leaning. The games were alright, though. It wasn't as though someone always used to win on that coin-rolling machine you had just emptied all your ten-pences into, or that bigger kids seemed to know just when to muscle you off the game you had so very nearly finished.

Though munching pills and shaking your booty to repetitive music might be quite a common Saturday night out for today's youngsters, who's to say that we might find ourselves staring at a few less bleary eyed alleged young adults if it wasn't for the 1979 release of a little title known as Pac-Man.

It's slightly weird how the staff of Beautiful Game Studios - the development team behind the current Championship Manager games - refer to 'The Split'. There's always the tiniest of pauses before someone mentions it, and it's pronounced slightly softly, with a teeny bit of trepidation. Everyone else even stops reaching for the little bowl of Celebrations in the middle of our meeting room. It's as if 'The Split' they're referring to was when the lead designer's mum was cut in half by a car crash.

Bungie is getting into the Halloween festivities by letting loose the spooky infection game type onto Halo 3 servers.

Midway has confirmed on its official website that the PC version of Unreal Tournament III will be out in the US on 19th November.

Capcom Japan has soothed the Sony mob by unveiling a new Monster Hunter game for PSP.

EA has signed up more Hollywood talent to appear in Command & Conquer 3 expansion Kane's Wrath.

The prototype spaceship built by John Carmack and his Aerospace Armadillo team went up in flames during the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge at the X-Prize competition this year.

Having a third-party developer make the expansion pack for another team's latest magnum opus is hardly an uncommon occurrence. It's an odd practice, but I can understand the thinking behind it - "we spent all this time making this game; can't we just sit back and enjoy the big pots of cash for a while? Hey you, here's a biscuit - go make me some levels." It's rare that such cases suffer the complete quality breakdown of the direct-to-DVD movie sequel, enthusiastically but cluelessly directed by the original's lead stunt guy or chief tealady, but it's really rare to call in another superstar developer to do the money mop-up the first guys can't be bothered with. To continue the movie analogy, Big Huge Games (Rise of Nations/Legends) stepping in to handle this latest expansion for Ensemble Studio's long run of Age of Empires games is like James Cameron directing the sequel to Ridley Scott's Alien. And like Aliens was to Alien, this is flashier and lighter - almost a different prospect entirely.

Capcom has said over one million copies of Resident Evil 4 have shipped for the Wii across the world, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Given that The Simpsons has been on TV for longer than most of the TV channels that show it, you could forgive EA for pillaging the existing scripts and building another dull, 5-million-selling platform game to fit. Fortunately they haven't done that. Instead, they've come up with new scenarios, recorded tons of new dialogue and proper animated sequences, and, er, built another dull, 5-million-selling platform game to fit.

Guitar Hero and Rock Band creator Harmonix is hard at work designing a new game not based around matching pre-recorded music using plastic peripherals.

Lots of games do the trick of asking you to dodge things with one thumb while you shoot back with the other. Robotron and Geometry Wars, for example, or the first two Mutant Storm games for another. These are by no means isolated examples. And I'm not just talking about the way I grouped them in little pairs, either - two-stick shooters are so common these days that you could slap a few public footpaths on top and call them green-space.

Xbox Live director of programming Larry Hryb has urged 360 owners not to loan their accounts to friends and acquaintances for whatever reason and not to tamper with Gamerscore and Achievements - or else.

Konami Japan has delayed the release of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots by pushing it back to the second quarter of 2008 (April - June).

Viva Piñata: Party Animals will be trampling all over my memories from 16th November onwards, Microsoft said this week, as the game launched in the US to dire reviews. (Poor choice of w... actually, I'll leave it.)

Nintendo is planning to roll out a range of DS features that will transform everyone's favourite dual-screen handheld into more of a "tool", according to president Satoru Iwata.

Mass Effect developer BioWare has officially announced a partnership with publisher LucasArts for a new "interactive entertainment product", GamesIndustry.biz reports.

I'm not entirely sure what kind of feudal system encourages knights to mount gigantic birds and whizz around inside a volcano, but it's precisely the kind of bizarre tournament of which arcade dreams are made.

It's a common adage by both gamers and game journalists alike that graphics alone do not necessarily make a good game. Fair comment you might say, but Fairlight proved both camps unceremoniously wrong back in 1985 when its outstanding visuals blew everyone away. Gamers rushed to the shops in droves to purchase this title on its beauty alone.

The surge of titles appearing in the arcades continued through the 1980's with each new game intent on pushing the boundaries of technology; offering the player increasingly challenging and graphically rich games to play. The 8-bit computers could only look on with a glint of envy in their digital eye.