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"We tried sticking the Wii Remote to the bottom of a sock. I used a needle and thread." This is how the producer of FIFA 08 chronicles the back-to-basics approach to football using Wii hardware. Brad Porteous is downbeat about the 'FIFA sock' - he thought it'd work. "It felt strange kicking air, if you didn't have contact with a ball. I still have it at home, though."

Boss of the UK Tony Blair has joined the debate over the Church's complaints regarding Resistance: Fall of Man, telling parliament that companies must jolly well take a bit of responsibility for the impact their products have.

The Halo 3 public multiplayer beta is officially over, and so the countdown begins to the full launch on 26th September.

Sony has used its new US blog to label rumour and speculation about a new PSP hardware revision and a possible PSP phone as, er, rumour and speculation.

SEGA has turned a blind eye to rumours that PSP game Crush could appear on other consoles, and is sticking to its guns with no comment.

SEGA has confirmed the new version of its filthy rally series will also be heading to PSP this September.

Majesco has told Eurogamer that a DS adaptation of popular PC online game Fish Tycoon will arrive in Europe early next year.

EA has told the world it's working on a new SimCity game for PC. Although it isn't quite what you're expecting.

Deep Silver told Eurogamer this morning that both Wii and DS "deserve" more adventure games.

Gears of War's next patch is set to go live tomorrow, 14th June, and introduce eight new Achievements for the "Annex" game-type and "Hidden Fronts" multiplayer map pack, along with adjustments to the "Roadie Run" controls that stop players snagging on walls. According to Microsoft's PRs, "The title update will also help squash multiplayer exploits and provide general housekeeping."

What with our intense love of staying indoors where it's cool and shady during the summer months (aka "Deathtober"), the news that Capcom's soothingly icy Lost Planet: Extreme Condition will be chilling our PCs with DirectX 10-compatible graphics come 29th June is cause for a celebration.

"When you see a guy running around in his urban camo with a camo weapon, you're gonna know that guy is a real badass." These are the words of Grant Collier, Infinity Ward president and the man in charge of ditching the successful WWII setting of the Call of Duty series and leading the fourth game into a terrifying near-future setting, already occupied by Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon.

With far more predictable sources of tabloid ire - Manhunt 2 or GTA IV, for instance - due for release on their consoles relatively soon, Sony can be forgiven for being blindsided by the latest headline-grabbing furore over games content.

Ubisoft has told Eurogamer that the new America's Army game won't be coming to Europe.

Okay. Brace yourselves. I've got some news. It turns out that between 1939 and 1945 there was something of a war, taking place all over the world. I did a bit of research, and it turns out this is called "The Second World War", or "World War II". If you find a more obscure, esoteric history book, you might find a few details about it. Well, it's certainly news to us here at Eurogamer - so we were more than intrigued to discover a game about it, played on the little-known device from Nintendo called the "DS"...

Prince of Persia Classic has launched on Xbox Live Arcade as promised. You can read a review of it elsewhere on the site today.

Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada has explained the thinking behind his company's decision to make the next instalment in the hit Dragon Quest series exclusive to Nintendo DS, GamesIndustry reports.

Midway Austin's Harvey Smith believes videogames are capable of the sort of sophisticated expression that would put them on the same footing as Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel "Maus", which told stories of life in Poland before and during the Second World War.

DICE Sweden front-man Ben Cousins says he expects the Battlefield team to avoid FIFA- or Tiger Woods-style annual updates despite owner EA's traditional success with that model.

Empire Interactive has finally stamped confirmation on Speedball II: Brutal Deluxe for Xbox Live Arcade.

Activision has announced some more of the tracks going into this summer's Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s.

Kick! Punch! It's all in the mind! And now on your PSP! The paradigmatic rhythm action original is back, along with all its Saturday-morning kooky cool: PaRappa and chums PJ Berri, Sunny Funny, Katy Kat return, as do PaRappa's musical mentors Chop Chop Master Onion, Mooselini, Master Prince Flea Swallow, Cheap Cheap the Cooking Chicken, and MC King Kong Mushi. Indeed this is almost precisely the same game that wowed the videogame world when it was originally released ten years ago: six songs, the original rhythm-action button-tapping game mechanics, and a still-superb sense of style.

A 15 year-old chap called Damian Fernandez who heard burglars going after his PlayStation 3 managed to fend them off last Friday with a samurai sword.

Forza Motorsport 2 has raced straight into first place in the all-formats software chart, becoming the third fastest-selling Xbox 360 title released so far, GamesIndustry.biz is reporting.

Sony Online Entertainment has officially confirmed the development of spy-themed MMO The Agency.

Red Storm, the team responsible for multiplayer in GRAW 1 and 2, has revealed it's working on a new America's Army game exclusively for Xbox 360.

Chalk me up as one Xbox Live Arcade gamer that was quickly losing faith in the whole concept. Deluged with sub-par, decades-old arcade shovelware, it was getting difficult to greet any classic re-release with anything than the full 800 points' worth of contempt and despair. But perhaps things are changing. Prince of Persia Classic is a 51MB-sized slice of redemption - a comprehensive remake that honours Jordan Mechner's brilliant concept by injecting its timeless appeal into a modern-looking, highly entertaining game that's well worth its diminutive price tag.

Following reports that hackers have cracked PlayStation 3's anti-piracy softare, SCEA has declared that it will "aggressively pursue" anyone caught engaging in such activity with legal action.

Work has yet to be completed on Midway Austin's promising first-person shooter Blacksite: Area 51, but already creative director Harvey Smith is thinking about ways to improve things for the (by the sound of it inevitable) sequel.

We've only just noticed this, but there hasn't been a good rally game since Rallisport Challenge 2 on the good ol' Xbox. That's pretty shocking really, especially when you consider that before that, you'd see a new off-road racing game every few months. Then again, perhaps that's precisely what killed off developer enthusiasm for the genre - as the market filled with uninspiring rally titles like Rally Fusion and Richard Burns Rally, the world just seemed to lose interest. Who better, then, to breathe new life into this ailing sub-genre than Codemasters, the guys who first showed us how well consoles and rally racing could coexist back in the early years of the PSone? And with the very same series that showed us just how exciting real rallying could be the first time around, no less. C-Mac in the house, y'all.