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Twenty years. That's an awful long time for a videogame series to lie dormant. Since it appeared in arcades in 1987, and in fuller form on the NES in 1988, Capcom has resolutely ignored its arcade platformer (besides allowing Nintendo to make a Game Boy Color version of sorts, called Elite Forces, in '99).

Atari has said that the first downloadable Adventure Pack for Neverwinter Nights 2 will be out before the end of the year.

Decisions, decisions.

With Guitar Hero III around a month away, clever Internet men have found a way for you to download a demo, burn it to CD and DVD and then play it on your totally unmodified, normal person Xbox 360.

Take-Two has issued an official statement blaming a Sony Europe employee for leaking Manhunt 2 code onto the Internet.

Microsoft has adopted its usual silence amid rumours it is making an Xbox 360 with a built in HD-DVD drive.

Ironically, perhaps, for games sporting such an ambitious title - roll "Empire Earth" around on your tongue a bit, and then come and tell me it doesn't simply drip with grandeur - this is a series that's always been overshadowed somewhat by its rivals.

Flagship Studios has poured out more details about what you will get for your money in the subscription-based Hellgate: London multiplayer mode.

As we pointed out earlier, retailers have been promising us Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock on 23rd November for a little while now, but now Activision's officially saying the same thing. Hurrah!

The latest Smash Bros. Dojo update reveals plans for a Super Smash Bros. Brawl level based on Nintendo DS text communication app PictoChat.

This week you will be able to see big pictures of 10 of the most influential people in the GamesIndustry as part of the London Game Festival 2007. Is our spacebar broken? What's happening?

It's only been out in the USA and Japan for a matter of days and the stupid slack useless tosser postal service hasn't delivered my import copy yet, but Namco Bandai has already released downloadable premium content for owners of Beautiful Katamari based in Asia.

Namco Bandai has remained quiet on rumours that Beautiful Katamari will be released exclusively on Xbox 360.

Beautiful Katamari will launch on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in the US "later this year", Namco Bandai said late last week, following official confirmation of the game's development.

Start humming those catchy songs, because Namco Bandai has finally confirmed Beautiful Katamari Damacy for Xbox 360 and PS3.

Those of you with brains like computers will probably have worked out that you can use your Portal gun in other Source-powered games like Half-Life 2 and its pair of episodes.

Warhawk game director Dylan Jobe has said two patches to improve game performance are currently being worked on.

It's been a good many years since we've seen a character roster quite so embarrassing as that offered in Street Trace: NYC. The hopeful protagonists (dubbed 'tracers') line-up in front of you begging selection, each seemingly lifted wholesale from a 'street cool' 3D model library disc that fell off the front a second rate CG magazine in the mid-nineties. Token black man, Mack ('Can't nobody stop me now' he blurts when you select him), rubs shoulders with the peroxide blonde, wrap-around shade-wearing Rocket, while Hotrod, his unbuttoned Hawaiian shirt flapping in the breeze, stares with nonchalance through hollow eyes. Meanwhile the girls pose all awkward gait; shoulders thrust back so their breasts balloon forwards, poor texturing and low polygon frames shifting the intended titillation to something closer to queasiness.

Let's get the inevitable comparison out of the way. Brunswick Pro Bowling for the Wii is a bit like the bowling game in Wii Sports, in that it's a bowling game for the Wii. It's not as good though.

Even among videogames fans - who are hardly in a position to poke fun - the mention of Dungeons and Dragons conjures up an image of, well, nerds. It's not exactly a fair image; okay, so there are plenty of socially awkward and hygenically challenged virginal males who get a bit too excited about pen and paper role-playing, but there are plenty of perfectly nice, friendly, interesting people who enjoy the pastime as well.

Extreme Justice is one of those slightly apologetic sequels, a sort of "sorry, this is the game you were supposed to get first time around". Thankfully, it retains the killer hook from the first Pursuit Force - that there's an elite police unit that believes the most efficient way to combat organised crime is to wait for crimes to take place, chase down the perpetrators at reckless speed and then jump onto their car, shoot them and grab the wheel. It's a brilliantly demented concept, but the game itself was let down by lacklustre execution and a horribly wonky learning curve. When Kristan reviewed it almost exactly two years ago, his enthusiasm was dampened by the "horrible driving experience and some tedious difficulty spikes".

Listening for news in these last five days has been a bit like me trying to hear whether there is still a mouse in my flat. Quiet, in other words. But that doesn't mean nothing has happened.

The second of the Magic Knight titles, Spellbound marked the point at which the series deviated from an action-platformer approach and adopted a more cerebral feel. Before Dizzy had even stretched his eggy legs, David Jones and Ron Hubbard's character was pioneering object-based puzzle shenanigans. They were also among the first developers to release a quality game straight to budget - meaning a price tag of £1.99-2.99, rather than £9.95.

The Eurogamer TV multiplex today draws back the curtains on four utterly joyous new trailers for Super Mario Galaxy. If the extended Japanese trailer, Japanese player demo, and TV spots 1 and 2 don't have you grinning like the proverbial idiot, then it's time you gave up on gaming and took that job in the funeral parlour. You're as dead inside.

EA bigwig Gerhard Florin has said he wants one single platform rather than a handful of incompatible consoles.

Some reviewers were a bit rough and ready with Pursuit Force, BigBig Studios' PSP action game, including our very own Kristan, who wrote: "Pursuit Force has some really great ideas implemented reasonably well. Leaping from vehicle to vehicle like some sort of crazy offspring of Evil Kinevil and The Six Million Dollar Man is a lot of fun for a while. But then a combination of a horrible driving experience and some tedious difficulty spikes drain all the fun out of it, and you're left scowling about missed opportunities." Returning this year with the sequel - this time for PS2 as well as PSP - BigBig aims to sort out all the bits after the "But" and help Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice reach the critical heights the first game couldn't. We caught up with lead designer Chris Whiteside to find out what's in store.

I've noticed a subtle but undeniable change in the Virtual Console over the last few months. Look back to when the service launched, and the games on offer were generally colourful, cheerful efforts, clearly aimed at capturing the sort of family market targeted by those plug-in TV games and Press The Red Button fare on Sky.

Microsoft has popped its Santa hat on and revealed a new deal to get people buying its HD-DVD player, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Auran and Sierra Online's Battlestar Galactica game has finally popped up on DRADIS and should be within purchasing range by the middle of next week.

Nintendo has ushered three more oldies onto the Virtual Console, lead by NeoGeo fighter World Heroes.