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THQ has announced it will be bringing de Blob to Wii and DS next February.

Nexon has launched MapleStory across Europe, attempting to add to its 67 million registered users in the US and Asia.

We've been playing Age of Conan for only a few minutes when it happens. Padding through the tangled jungle of a tropical island, I happen upon a slaver camp - a cluster of tents and small fires, filled with unpleasant types who would rather end my break for freedom now, clap me back in chains and sell me off to the highest bidder.

Nintendo has recalled all copies of Mario Party 8 in the UK due to it containing an offensive word, GamesIndustry.biz is reporting.

What with all the excitement at last week's Microsoft conference (let us not forget Viva Piñata: Party Animals), you'll forgive us for not picking up on this one instantly, but the platform holder also slipped out some lower-key peripheral announcements - a release date for the Xbox 360 Chatpad and the promise of some new Xbox controller colours.

SEGA on Xbox Live Arcade? About bloody time. Having lovelessly thrown anything and everything onto the Megadrive channel of the Wii's Virtual Console - complete with those wonderful 50Hz borders we know you all love - we knew it was only a matter of time before it started repeating the trick on the Xbox 360. And with typical determination to eke every last cent out of its biggest franchise, it has rolled out one of the big guns first. Yes, the inspirational Yuji Naka Mega Drive masterpiece, which catapulted the firm to worldwide success way back in 1991, Sonic The Hedgehog. Truly, if there were a proper gaming Hall of Fame to speak of, Sonic would be one of the first entrants.

Say what you like about SEGA, but it certainly knows how to milk its back catalogue harder than pretty much anyone else. Released on every gaming system from the ZX Spectrum and C64 to the Wonderswan and GBA over the past 16 or so years, Golden Axe is not a game that's exactly been given a chance to build up dewy-eyed nostalgia for. Seemingly every few months, this tired old hackandslash is ported to yet another format, and we're given the task of re-running through this 1989 arcade 'classic'. Makoto Uchida must have laughed until milk ran out of his nostrils when he found out about its arrival on Xbox Live Arcade. Coming soon to digital watches...

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has said he believes the Wii could outsell PlayStation 2 over the course of its lifetime to become the most popular console ever, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Capcom has acknowledged a "conflict" between the latest PSP firmware, 3.5/3.51, and Capcom Puzzle World, which causes the game to crash.

Firaxis chose not to do a PSP version of Civilization Revolution because it didn't have the resources necessary to complete that in addition to Xbox 360, PS3, Wii and DS versions, all of which are being handled in-house.

Sony has clarified comments made by Sony Europe boss David Reeves at E3 to the effect that the USD 499 price point for the 60GB PlayStation 3 will only last until stocks are exhausted, with a new US statement claiming that stock will last "for several months to come".

Guerrilla Games has revealed a few more details about Killzone 2 in light of the game's impressive unveiling at E3 last week.

Electronic Arts' chart-topping Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix videogame is now up on Xbox Live in downloadable demo form, so if you're into that, accio like a mother-f-.

Ubisoft and Left Field Productions announced Nitrobike for the Wii last week - a fast-paced motorbike (sorry, "/\/\0+0]231|{e") racer that aims to repeat the success of LF's own Excitebike 64.

RedOctane's offering Guitar Hero II Xbox 360 owners another slice of the original game in the form of the fourth track pack on Xbox Live Marketplace.

Bomberman Live and Yie Ar Kung Fu will be this Wednesday, 18th July's Xbox Live Arcade releases, Microsoft said late on Friday while we were busy sneezing somewhere over the Atlantic, wondering how exactly we'd managed to catch a cold in Los sodding Angeles.

Guns are an integral part of life in the US, children take them to school and parents use them to solve arguments. But not everyone has what it takes to blow holes in things, as Eurogamer TV found out, so in Episode 15 we decided to pop into Midway to see John Woo action game Stranglehold for a lesson or two.

The first game I ever reviewed, way back in a distant time they called the early-to-mid nineties was the A500 version of UFO: Enemy Unknown for Amiga Power. I gave it an over-generous 36 per cent. You may be confused on two points. Firstly, if you're an American, you may not know that what you know as X-Com: UFO Defense went under that particular title in the UK. Secondly, you may be wondering why such an well-loved classic got such a low mark. The A500 version simply didn't work properly, which made me - as you'll know if you follow that link - get all het up in a late-teenage manner and sniffle. I always wanted to review a version which worked, which makes me really glad to play UFO: Extraterrestrials. Because - y'know - it's UFO: Enemy Unknown.

Oh my giddy goodness. While the gaming world's eyes may be fixated on the undulating rump of E3, at least the Virtual Console has set aside a little bit of attention for those of us in Europeland. It's only bloomin' Paper Mario, the N64 RPG that's hovered around the VC release list for several tantalising months. We're even getting it before the Americans, although they have, of course, been playing the all-new Super Paper Mario on the Wii since April...sassen rassen frassen. But let's not get led down that angry road. Nintendo has finally done something very nice for us. Smile and say thank you. Now wash your hands.

When even the cornerstone franchises of the 2D beat-'em-up are trying to stay alive by making the unnecessary leap to polygonal combat, you have to wonder what the future holds for the ailing sub-genre. With a huge community surrounding many of the finest representatives of the oeuvre and services like Xbox Live Arcade rejuvenating faith in what has long been considered a dying genre, could it be that sprite based fighters are on the verge of making a timely comeback? Unfortunately, probably not. But as long as companies like SNK are committed to supporting advances in this extremely quiet field with excellent titles such as this, you have to say that there's always a chance that the simplicity and accuracy of the 2D fighting world could well win over a whole new audience.

Disney Interactive has splashed out and acquired Warren Spector's Junction Point Studios.

Having spent over six years getting Stalker into shops, GSC could have kicked back for a bit. They deserved the chance to, for want of a better phrase, zone out. At least for a bit. Instead they've come back with a game that's just as big. It's not even an expansion - it's a full-blown prequel. And it won't take them six years this time, according to Oleg Yavorsky and Valentine Yeltyshev, demoing the game at E3, neither of whom looks particularly worn out despite the developmental trek and the long flight from Ukraine. Perhaps, for them, the journey's the worthier part. (Bound to be more fun than talking to me, either way).

Nintendo 64 RPG classic Paper Mario has joined the Wii Virtual Console line-up today.

Irish bookie Paddy Power has cancelled all bets made on the outcome of the Euro PS3 price cut - refunding your original stake and a giving you a free one of same value, GamesIndustry.biz is reporting.

In all the furore of E3 you may have overlooked the release of four new demos for download from Xbox Live.

At a special E3 event this evening, Sony Europe boss David Reeves announced a new PS3 bundle for Europe. Comprised of a console, two games and a second Sixaxis controller, it will cost GBP 425 / EUR 599 - the same price as the standalone machine previously retailed for.

Admist all the E3 hype and fluff, Microsoft snuck out the latest of its Backward Compatibility updates, with some of the very best Xbox games ever made now fully compatible with the Xbox 360.

It's easy to dismiss the Nintendo 64 now that we have the PlayStation 2 and GameCube. Watching some of the latest Xbox games in action, you could be forgiven for thinking the N64 a relic of a past era, and Nintendo don't seem all that keen to drag it out either. But they do have a couple of good titles left in them. Paper Mario was given a rapturous reception by fans of the console when it hit the States earlier this year, and the PAL version has finally been released this October in Europe. For N64 fans, it's the game of the year. One of the hallmarks of Nintendo's success with the Super Nintendo was Super Mario RPG. It was widely criticized by diehards, but it had a lot of in-jokes, plenty of cameos from famous Mario characters and above all else it had class. It was a one-time crossover from the collective talents of Nintendo and Squaresoft, and it showed in its cutesy graphics, expert battle system, spellbinding atmosphere and excitable storyline. The only thing it lacked was Square's trademark muddling complexity, and was that such a bad thing? Paper Mario is a vastly superior game to SMRPG. It starts out innocently enough; Mario and Luigi receive an invitation to join Princess Peach at her castle for a party. Finding her alone in her private chambers away from the hubbub of her guests, Mario and the Princess share an intimate moment, and then with a crash the whole world starts slipping away from them.

Last week's routine trawl of the DVD trade-in dug up a £2.50 copy of Rob Zombie's horror film debut House Of 1000 Corpses. Like its demented follow-up The Devil's Rejects, it was a crass lesson in subversive terror, spooning out the splatter in big, thick globs. Limb amputation, bloody scalping and wide-awake brain surgery, all orchestrated on whiter-than-white victims by deranged, dribbling killers, whose mockery of classic genre convention saw them not only kick shit in such hideous fashion, but get away with the whole damn thing too. Another day in the age of the sado-horror flick.

Club Nintendo fans in Europe have been told this week that they risk losing their entire stock of Nintendo 'Stars' if they don't agree to new privacy terms.