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Cartography is a profession woefully under-represented in videogames. We're used to having our in-game maps fully charted and available right from the start of a level (or, in the case of Zelda at least implausibly awaiting discovery in some remote treasure chest). As a result, few modern gamers will have experienced the antiquated and inimitable enjoyment that comes from painstakingly mapping a level, square by square on school maths paper.

Facedown on the carpet, arms locked straight down the body, torso a furious exclamation point knocked horizontal. Blood vessels throb as we wail in hot indignation and disbelief: Eurogamer's not had a videogame tantrum like this in many, many years. The cat pauses in the doorway. She cocks her head, eyes the scuffed controller lying near her paws, then moves on, disinterested. Stupid, ignorant, non-space fighter pilot cat.

Nintendo of America has said that The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass will be released exclusively for Nintendo DS on 1st October.

Atari has announced that Missile Command will be this week's addition to Xbox Live Arcade, with the game set to go live on Wednesday, 4th July at the usual time. It will cost 400 Microsoft points (GBP 3.40 / EUR 4.65).

If you deliberately set out to hurt our friends at Nintendo Europe by buying a SUPER ILLEGAL American Nintendo Wii instead of getting one from down the normal shops, then you can today avail yourself of Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES), Ecco: The Tides of Time (Megadrive) and Dragon Spirit (TurboGrafx-16).

NCsoft has revealed that Guild Wars: Eye of the North will be available on 31st August for GBP 24.99.

Telltale Games' Kevin Bruner believes that licensed games are great - providing you don't waste your time turning James Bond into a mass murderer or "make Star Wars games about hacking".

Lost Planet is a game designed for the Xbox 360. And in its PC incarnation, it's going to let you know this just about as often as possible. And by any means possible. This might be having a game mechanic entirely designed for a console, or it could be a screen-sized image of a 360 controller splashed intermittently throughout the game. Just don't you forget its origins, okay?

Bulgarian developer Black Sea Studios has unveiled a new real-time strategy game for PC.

Next time there's a silly public outcry about a storyline in one of Britain's miserable soap operas, take a moment to shake your head sadly at just how low the national drama has gone. It was so different a few thousand years ago, when the contemporary equivalent of the soap opera was the pantheon of the gods - a crowd of incestuous, violent, criminal, seductive, tricky con-artists whose antics were enough to make Pat Butcher's earrings fall off in shock.

Australian outfit Auran Games is unleashing its Fury this week. In the form of a closed beta test.

Insomniac Games' Ted Price believes that PlayStation 3 has "become the whipping boy for the press" because "it's human nature to want to take down the guy on top".

Ubisoft has apologised to Rainbow Six: Vegas owners who paid 800 Microsoft points (around seven quid) for five downloadable maps last week. It turns out they were meant to be free.

Sony's Phil Harrison has warned that it's "dangerous" to make predictions about the success of a console based on the software released for it at launch.

With most anime licences being turned into turgid or impregnable beat-'em-ups, its good to see a developer go down a different road once in a while in an effort to keep things fresh. Kudos, then, to Cavia, because Uzumaki Chronicles does just that. It is, in essence, an extremely gentle action-RPG, with the emphasis very much on the action side of things. And while the pummelling might not be up to the dizzying standards set by the likes of Ninja Gaiden or Devil May Cry 3, it's still surprisingly robust, especially for a game with such a young demographic.

Sean O'Connor has spent the last fifteen years making the PC strategy games Sean O'Connor wants to make. For GBP 26 he will sell you the fruits of his labour - a bundle of nine different titles that play a whole lot better than they look.

The phone rings. Oh god. It's her again, isn't it? She'll want to talk for hours, wittering on about how great this was, remember when we did that, how we should do it again sometime. Better not answer. But...what if it's important? What if one of my parents has died? Or I've won the lottery? Or a talent agency saw me in the street and wants me to be the face of Persil or something? Crap. I'd better answer...

Blimey. It's all gone a bit sparse around here, innit? After six weeks of gorging our hamster cheeks on the 100+ games loitering with intent inside the glowing cocoon of the Virtual Console, we're back to just covering the new stuff. Which is just as it should be, of course, but I can't quite shake a feeling not unlike that which accompanied those high school parties where it's all going mental, and someone is playing Voodoo Ray again, but suddenly it's "My parents are back!" and everyone just vanishes and it all goes eerily quiet. That's the sort of desolate hush I'm experiencing right now. Although that may be the two litres of supermarket-brand cider I just necked before passing out on a pile of coats.

UK-based repairs specialist Micromart has told GamesIndustry.biz that it has had to refuse to service Xbox 360 consoles that display three red lights, dubbed the Red Ring of Death.

Ubisoft is pulling DS game Mind Quiz off the market due to comments in the game which have been labelled as offensive, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

The Game Factory is bringing Pet Alien to UK shops on 14th September.

In a message of thanks issued to its supporters, Rockstar has defended controversial title Manhunt 2 and argued that games should be judged in the same way as other forms of media, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Anger! Vitriol! Rage! Fury! Shift-F7! Ire! Spleen! It's that kind of week. PR people have shouted at us, dogs have bitten us, additional supporting examples have deserted us, and there are approximately 874 very cross-looking games pouting their moody way over the finish line and into shopland, including The Darkness (pure evil), Overlord (ironic evil), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (angst/blasphemy), Lost Planet: Extreme Condition (angst/blizzards), and Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition (people emailing us to complain that Dave McCarthy is wrong because they've seen it on YouTube and he's biased and shut up).

Petroglyph's upcoming real-time strategy title Universe at War: Earth Assault will join the growing number of dual PC/Xbox 360 releases to offer cross-platform multiplay through Microsoft's "Games for Windows - LIVE" initiative.

Super Stardust HD has been released on PlayStation Store today priced GBP 4.99, having picked up a whopping 9/10 review from us just a few days ago. Sadly there's no sign of a demo.

Sony has updated PlayStation Portable firmware to version 3.51 after hackers found a way to bypass security in its most recent update and downgrade firmware.

PaRappa the Rapper creator Masaya Matsuura reckons that the games industry has a tendency to neglect the musical side of games because it's far more personal than the graphical side of production.

It's just as well Tomb Raider fans are a patient bunch. For the large part of the past decade it seemed like the interminable wait for some kind of return to 'form' was never going to happen. But last year's polished but undemanding Legends was certainly a promising step in the right direction. All it needed, you felt, was to get back to basics - back to the sort of fiendish design vision that made the series such a phenomenon when it burst onto the scene in 1996.

My bank manager's frowning. Were I smart, I could have spun this out for two reviews and doubled my profits. Instead, I'm doing it for one for the simple fact that this dual PC/Xbox 360 release is the same. In fact, I could probably sum up the major differences in one paragraph. Let's give it a shot.

There's a moment in the first Charlie's Angels film, that underrated and (literally and figuratively) flab-less movie, when Drew Barrymore tumbles semi-naked from the sky into a suburban garden. Two young teenage boys are sat playing Final Fantasy VIII in the front room inside. As they catch sight of her unexpected curves through the double-glazing, the pair pause the game and stare, mouths agog, as this fallen angel slinks off into the night and their forthcoming puberty-soaked dreams.