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Respected US movie critic and grumpy old man Roger Ebert has stuck by his guns, insisting that videogames are definitely not art and have "more in common with sports".

EA has accidentally let slip that this week's Xbox Live Arcade offering will be Wing Commander Arena, which will cost 800 Microsoft points (GBP 6.80 / EUR 9.30) to buy.

Hardcore flight sim enthusiasts can switch off now, because this particular program contains aircraft physics of a disturbing nature. They're extremely basic, but then they're supposed to be, as Attack on Pearl Harbor has been designed to be a pick up and play arcade game. The controls amount to tapping the space bar to take off, then banking and firing.

You may already have queued for the launch of the new Harry Potter book, but when it comes to kid-packed London launches surely you've just gotta catch them all - which is why we're telling you about Nintendo's pre-launch event for Pokémon Diamond/Pearl in London this week.

Well-known introvert and occasional US rapper 50 Cent is suing an internet advertising company for USD 1 million claiming it used a picture of him in an interactive advert. Which is a "videogame", according to Associated Press, and therefore a "page impression" according to us.

Bungie has responded to reports that it's uncertain about whether Halo 3 will have online co-operative elements by saying that a decision has yet to be made.

An Xbox 360 demo of Starbreeze's excellent The Darkness is now on offer through Marketplace, having appeared and then disappeared for some reason late last week.

If one game makes absolute perfect sense on Xbox Live Arcade it's Bomberman. Taking the age old concept of blowing the bejesus out of one another in a series of top-down arenas, and then expanding that to an online-focused game could well make it one of the most essential titles to go ahead and download.

Glory Days 2 is built upon one of those fabulously unrealistic videogame propositions: that the person directing the battle is a bloke in a warplane blitzing the front. Each level is a fight between two columns of tanks and infantry, which trundle steadily towards one another from opposite ends of a 2D, side-scrolling map, capturing a scattered crop of control-points along the way, with the eventual goal of toppling the other side's base. Your role is simultaneously to fly above them bombing the enemy, and to decide when best to deploy reinforcements, fire V2 rockets or parachute troops into gaps to capture territory. Given your twin roles as the most and least expendable units on the battlefield, you're in a unique position to control the war.

Are you still enjoying Paper Mario? I hope so, since there's not much this week to tempt you away from its flappy embrace. And that's a weird thing to say, since two our of this week's three new games are worthy of note, but their downloadable appeal is somewhat dimmed by the inscrutable VC selection process. You'll see what I mean...

Aw. This one takes me back - to a time when cheeky chappies Ocean [a.k.a. Imagine] used to lovingly port all of Konami's arcade hits to every 8-bit format going. Sadly, for every Green Beret, Hyper Sports or Mikie, there was a Comic Bakery, Shaolin's Road or, urk, Yie-Ar Kung Fu. Folks: if it wasn't that great back then, you can bet your bottom dorrar that 22 years on it won't be the best 400 points you could feasibly commit to spending down at the Xbox Live Arcade.

2K Games has released a demo for the second Civilization IV expansion pack Beyond the Sword.

Gallop, sidle, sneak, punch and buff - but definitely don't walk in the direction of this week's pile of new game releases, which teeter menacingly on this page like some sort of poorly spelled nipple adjustment clerk with a facial disfigurement.

Atari has secured the official licence to the, er, Fédération Equestre Internationale, and has "announced its intention to move into the horse-themed videogame market" with its first release scheduled for multiple platforms this autumn.

Television giant BSkyB wants to give you cash for being good at computer games.

Konami is boasting this afternoon about signing struggling striker Michael Owen to front Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 in the UK.

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has refused to confirm or deny rumours concerning announcements the company plans to make at next month's Leipzig Games Convention, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Sony has confirmed that the new slimline PSP will launch in Europe before it arrives in Japan and will be priced at EUR 169 as announced by David Reeves at E3 last week, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Ubisoft has announced that Far Cry 2 is in development for PC and due for release in spring 2008.

The episode of South Park that showed the familiar potty-mouthed children becoming hopelessly addicted to World of Warcraft has been nominated for an Emmy.

Following the decision to set aside USD 1 billion for Xbox 360 repairs, the year-end loss for Microsoft's entertainment and devices division has reached 1.89 billion - up 47 per cent from last year, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Microsoft is quoting a September date for Project Gotham Racing 4, but it sounds like they'll have a fight on their hands if Bizarre Creations wants more time, with business director Brian Woodhouse telling Eurogamer: "This one, we're not letting go 'til it's done."

BioWare Austin has announced it will be using technology developed by Perpetual to make its upcoming massively-multiplayer online game.

Unreal Tournament 3 won't be using Games for Windows LIVE, the Xbox Live-style service Microsoft rolled out with Windows Vista.

Rockstar plans to release Xbox 360 and Wii versions of Bully this winter, promising new content on top of the free-roaming schoolboy antics that made the PS2 version such a critical success.

Street Fighter II' Turbo: Hyper Fighting heads up this week's European Virtual Console update, joining the ranks of SNES titles by demanding 800 Wii points for the pleasure of its company. Its little brother, regular SFII, is already available.

Sony's PlayStation Network shop has been updated with a playable demo of The Darkness in the UK, while the US store welcomes the addition of a PS3/PSP-compatible Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.

Developer Silicon Knights has filed a breach of contract lawsuit in North Carolina against Epic Games, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

World in Conflict (WiC) isn't like other RTS games, as developer Massive Entertainment has been at great pains to stress throughout its development. Set in an alternate reality where the Cold War went critical, the game purports to be the antithesis of Supreme Commander's mega-complexity. With a plot penned by Clancy cohort Larry Bond, the single-player game pits the player against a Soviet force on American soil, theoretically focusing on layering ease-of-use and bite-size gameplay over deep, fast-paced military strategy and the allure of tactical nukes.

Eidos has popped the kaleidoscope to one side and revealed a new psychedelic puzzler for Live Arcade.