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Microsoft is bundling two free games with all new Xbox 360 and Xbox 360 Elite's sold in the US from the end of the month, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Empire Interactive has said that Speedball II: Brutal Deluxe will be on Live Arcade next Wednesday.

Infinity Ward will be releasing a PC demo for Call of Duty 4 on Thursday at around 5pm UK time.

The BBFC has again rejected Rockstar's Manhunt 2 despite the developer making cuts to the game after it was initially banned last June, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Danish developer Sirius Games has cobbled together a playable version of its gangster game Escape From Paradise City.

Sony has announced that once the current stock of 60GB PlayStation 3s has sold out, European regions will only have access to the newly introduced 40GB model.

Square Enix has said that Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings will be out in Europe early next year.

Square Enix has taken the wraps off of a fancy Star Ocean-themed PSP Slim & Lite in Japan, which it will release bundled with SNES remake The First Departure in December.

Naughty Dog co-president Evan Wells has said that Uncharted: Drake's Fortune will probably be released here in early December, with a demo due out before launch.

Flagship has said us Europeans will not be treated to a Collector's Edition of Hellgate: London.

Puzzle Quest will be this week's release on Xbox Live Arcade. Hopefully.

Polyphony Digital has reiterated that it plans to return to its PSP Gran Turismo project once it has done a bit more for PS3.

The Church of England has called on BAFTA to pull Resistance: Fall of Man from the nominations for this month's British Academy Videogame Awards.

Sony Computer Entertainment boss Ray Maguire has admitted those who shelled out GBP 425 for a PlayStation 3 earlier this year might feel cheated after hearing news of the price drop to GBP 349.

Sony has dropped the price of the 60GB PlayStation 3 to GBP 349 and introduced an "entry level" 40GB model to retail at GBP 299, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Driving games are like wasps. You can go for ages without seeing one, and then a thousand million turn up at once. That's how it feels right now, anyway. The last few months have offered PGR4, Sega Rally, Juiced 2, Forza 2, DiRT, Flatout: Ultimate Carnage, while shiny new models of Need For Speed, Burnout and Gran Turismo rev their engines, and rattle their stupidly wide exhaust pipes in the garage, waiting to join the scrum. What does it take to stand out in such an unseemly morass of speeding metal?

Every so often a game falls into Kristan's hands that has him falling back on trickery, charm, promises, threats and so on to get someone to review it (not all at once, Oblivion fans). But I was pretty happy to get Nascar 08. I was curious. I mean, I've never played a Nascar game before, and I couldn't figure out how it was that EA had successfully built a series about driving for dozens and dozens of miles and only ever taking gentle left turns. What was their secret? Turns out it's this: make the left turns really, really, really hard.

When it was the titular town of Guns N' Roses' 1987 tune, Mr. Rose sold us on Paradise City as an idyllic rocker's resort. The grass? Green. The girls? Pretty. What more did you need to know? Axl's promise of fertile, babe-abundant terrain moved millions of records for the rock group and the fictional burg's fictional tourism flourished in kind.

Brian Jarrard, Bungie's community and franchise director, spoke with GamesIndustry.biz about his company's divestment from Microsoft.

Do you like hitting people? Kicking them in the face? Maybe you prefer clobbering them with lead pipes or even an axe. If so, it's a good week in the VC lounge with no less than three fighty favourites joining the line-up, including the first fruits from Nintendo's new saucy romance with the beloved-by-hardcore-gamers Neo Geo format. There's also a clunky old helicopter and a fellow called Nigel. Don't pretend you're not intrigued.

Sony UK boss Ray Maguire says that money previously invested in PlayStation 3's backwards compatibility with PS2 is better spent on new game development or helping to support hardware price cuts.

Bungie is to become an independent company again, Microsoft confirmed today.

Activision has told us that persistent Call of Duty 4 fans from the UK have forced the publisher to release a special edition box here - just like we forced it to do a Beta Test here.

Just three weeks to go. Still, if you can't wait that long for a taste of the full game, fear not, as we've just returned from a four-hour playtest of the latest (approx 90% complete) PS3 code. We did try the 360 code, but bafflingly, the shoot and pass controls insisted on defaulting to the trigger buttons, making any kind of dissection virtually impossible. So without further delay, let's get to it...

THQ has said it will be unleashing demos for Conan next week.

Yesterday Eurogamer TV showed you what playing Team Fortress 2 as an Engineer would feel like: building turrets, fixing and upgrading machines, or shooting people in their silly faces with your shotgun.

The Gears of War film may be going too far over budget for studio New Line Cinema to stick with it.

The latest Microsoft release date listings show that Gears of War will be out here on 9th November.

It's been five years since Conflict: Desert Storm hit the shops. The first game in Pivotal's tactical shooter series received a warm critical reception (not least from the likes of us), and went straight to number one in the charts. The three sequels which followed also turned out to be best-sellers, despite (or because of) largely being more of the same.

Microsoft has put together a demo for Age of Empires III expansion The Asian Dynasties, which is available now to pop in your bags when the chap with the moustache is looking the other way.