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After narrowly escaping the sandy confines of 'The Pyramid', Fantasy Software's "Ziggy", sets off on yet another one of his travels - this time, to the imposing fortress of 'Doomsday Castle'.

When released back in 1983, Flight Simulation flew (pun intended) off the shop shelves selling more than 130,000 copies to would be Spectrum pilots that fancied a trip into Britain’s cloud infested sky.

Every system has its recurring characters. In the Spectrum's case, one of the most memorable was a jittery, boxing-gloved egg with an uncanny ability to lose track of his girlfriend. Beloved by many, hated by a few, through the late 80s and early 90s this unassuming egg was ruling the roost in Spectrum-land.

Sony has confirmed that the PlayStation Eye will be out in Europe on 7th November.

Rare has told GamesIndustry.biz it has nothing to say about rumours that Perfect Dark 2 is in development for Xbox 360.

PS3 sales have rocketed up 178 per cent after the introduction of a new model and a price cut, GamesIndustry.biz is reporting.

When Nintendo unveiled its revolutionary control scheme, even the most cold-hearted of gamers turned their heads. We had high hopes that the Wii would be our saviour. This would be a bold frontier in gaming; the first step towards a utopian goal of brilliant games that were intuitive and accessible enough for everyone to enjoy.

SEGA has confirmed that NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams will not be out in Europe before Christmas.

Microsoft has trumpeted that Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom will be out across Europe on 1st February.

A bit like when my mouse cursor goes to sleep, or when Nanna rings to ask why I'm not married yet, the original price of Lumines Live was met with shouting. Good news then for those of you who didn't bother with it, because Q is permanently cutting the price on Wednesday, 17th October.

Every Extend Extra Extreme (E4) and Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe are this week's Xbox Live Arcade releases, and should be waiting for you to fling 800 Microsoft points (GBP 6.80 / EUR 9.30) at both of them this time tomorrow morning.

FIFA 08 has topped the UK charts for a second week running, reflecting its enormous success across Europe.

Analyst Michael Pachter believes Sony America is holding back on announcing the 40GB model so it can sell more of the older 60GB units across the region, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

THQ has oiled up a new demo for WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2008 and slipped it onto Xbox Live.

Rare has questioned owner Microsoft and its decision to pour more money into marketing Gears of War rather than Viva Piñata, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Playlogic has snapped-up adventure game Simon the Sorcerer 4: Chaos Happens, and will be publishing it all over the world in Q1 2008.

If you show up at the Plus International Design Festival in Birmingham this week, you will be able to take part in an enormous and life-sized game of Pac-Man.

I have to give Mask of the Betrayer this: its qualities were enough to make me decide to restart the original Neverwinter Nights 2, so I could go all the way through the game and into the expansion pack in an enormous fantasy quest. This says something. It's a big fantasy PC videogame quest like Grandma used to make.

Bizarre Creations has kept its lips tightly sealed over suggestions that its new character-based game is one for an existing Activision IP.

Will Wright will become the first videogame "celebrity" to be awarded the Fellowship BAFTA; joining the ranks of recognised and household names like Dame Judi Dench, Alfred Hitchcock and Steven Spielberg.

Epic Games and Midway have popped an open beta demo for Unreal Tournament 3 on the Internet.

EA UK has distanced itself from comments suggesting that Rock Band peripherals will not be sold separately until early 2008.

Bungie says work on "new maps for future downloadable content" is "progressing".

Nintendo's handheld is the best-selling hardware in Japan for the week ended October 7, overtaking Sony's PSP, according to data from Media Create, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

David Braben doesn't mince his words. He believes Theme Park-style games are as fashionable as shooters, and that we haven't seen a truly next-generation game yet.

Don't buy this game. Which is to say, don't buy the game called Zelda no Densetsu: Mugen no Sunadokei. The game we've struggled through in Japanese, with the aid of a dog-eared printout from GameFAQs, in order to bring you this import review.

You might think that writing a review of an annual sports title would be as easy as creating the game itself. In other words, take last year's version, include a few new elements, fix what people didn't like last time...or ignore it if it cannot be fixed...slap the relevant year on it, and voila! Isn't that how publishers usually do it?

What the hockey gods giveth, they taketh away. Last season's innovation, the skill stick, gave us a clean control to rack up goals. "Finally," the fans spoke, "something fun and fluid to play with on offence." Making the right analog an analog for your player's stick was as good a design decision as we'd seen in sports games, and for a while, this advancement was enough to overlook other faults.

When Star Wars Battlefront II touched down on the PSP, alongside popular console and PC versions, there was a general sense of "why bother?" After all, what's the point of converting a game based around large-scale multiplayer skirmishes only to remove the online play? Battlefront II had other issues but the truncated PSP version offering support for only four players via a local ad hoc network was a pretty major one.

Aaaah. That's the sound of contentment. That's the sound I make whenever one of Nintendo's truly classic games pops up on the Virtual Console. That's the sound I'm making right now. Admittedly, it's also the noise I make when I have terrible trapped wind, which confuses matters somewhat, but I'm 99% certain that I'm making the noise right now because Super Metroid has finally morph-balled its way to virtual European shores. Aaaaah.