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Vivendi Sierra Entertainment Games Whatever has finally revealed that Geometry Wars will be heading to Wii and DS, having made such a name for itself since it launched alongside Xbox 360 in November 2005.

Guitar Hero developer Harmonix has donated USD 2,000 to help keep a fansite afloat.

Welcome back to the VC Lounge. You're looking well. Have you had a haircut? This week sees three new additions to the Wii retro broth, and we'll also be continuing our catch-up session by running our metaphorical tongue up and down the spine of seven titles already available. So pull up a stool, remove your stomach harness and let waves of retro carry you away.

Lingering lovingly on Eurogamer TV this morning is a new developer diary for Fable 2.

Ever since the arrival of PS3 on European shores, both Xbox Live Arcade and the Wii Virtual Console have significantly beefed up their downloadable output, which has to be good news for those of us addicted to bite-sized chunks of retro gaming. Of course, the old Virtual Console doesn't give you the option of trying a game before you fork over those precious points, so consider this your weekly guide to what's gone up, and whether it's worth your time.

Konami has launched an online league for Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops on PSP, which finally launches properly in Europe today following this month's earlier, botched attempt to get it out there.

Microsoft has revealed that the discovery of content featuring "partial nudity" was the reason the Windows Vista version of Halo 2 was delayed.

Fresh-faced publishing outfit CyberSports has revealed a new football MMO for PC.

The ESA has published a schedule of events due to take place at this year's E3, with Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo all set to hold conferences along with nine third-party publishers, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Nintendo has updated Virtual Console in Europe with Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES, 500 Wii points), Mach Rider (NES, 500 points) and Blazing Lazers (TurboGrafx-16, 600 points), which should give you something to do this weekend in-between all the sneezing and cursing the world.

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Wartech is one of those 2D shooting games that's unlikely to trouble the upper reaches of western sales charts, in spite of the rave reviews it received in its native Japan. Originally developed for Sega's Naomi arcade board, then given a few upgrades, then released on Xbox 360, it's now coming out over here thanks to Ubisoft's impressive eye for quality.

Tom Clancy's EndWar will be publicly beta-tested later this year, judging by comments made by creative director Michael de Plater in an interview with Eurogamer. Ooh, that's us.

Midway has whispered in our news ear this afternoon that Hour of Victory will be released on 22nd June.

With its console focus EndWar might seem like an obvious riposte to EA's Command & Conquer and Lord of the Rings strategy games, but speaking to creative director Michael de Plater at UbiDays, we're told that's not the case. There's no base-building, the camera's almost third-person, and the focus is on battle tactics, with Total War-style squads - infantry, artillery, tanks and the like - issued orders via pad and headset, and relatively limited reinforcement available to bail you out.

As promised during yesterday's promising, Colin McRae: DIRT demos are now available for Xbox 360 (768.9MB) and PC (875MB).

Nintendo has stamped a European release date of 22nd June on Kirby Mouse Attack.

Oh, dear. This isn't right, this isn't right at all. With Vista leaving gamers at best perplexed and at worst furious, getting out a game that actually used its trumpeted but unproven new DirectX 10 graphics, and that looked jawdroppingly, heartbreakingly, console-shamingly blinkin' gorgeous with it, was incredibly important. As DX10's leading lights, Crysis and Alan Wake, are still trying to work out what weekends they've got free to finally come visit, it's fallen to a port of Xbox 360 shooter Lost Planet to trailblaze the future of gaming graphics on PC.

Nintendo has revealed that Puzzle League DS will be released in Europe on 29th June.

Nintendo Japan has said that classic puzzler Panel De Pon will be heading to Japanese DS owners in April (providing they pay for it, obviously), although there's no news on an American or European release.

So! Sony's discovered the Internet! This is obviously good news (unless they're spending a lot of time on UK Resistance, obviously). PlayStation 3 ships in Europe with a big fat online service, and while some of our friends from "the Continent" haven't got their own shop yet, I understand immigration is pretty easy these days, so really there's no excuse for moaning. Particularly when MotorStorm is one of the games that offers hot 12-player Internet action from day one. It's bloody good.

We've been told all sorts of things about MotorStorm. To begin with it was simple: cars, bikes, buggies and trucks will drive around big tracks set in Monument Valley.

Square Enix boss Yoichi Wada has said that Final Fantasy XIII won't be released until at least April 2008.

FIFA 08 will be released on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, PC, PS2, DS, PSP and mobile this autumn, Electronic Arts said today.

Taito's entertaining PSP puzzler Exit is on its way to Japanese Xbox Live Arcade.

Apart from allowing it to pay off its bar tab and that, Konami's end-of-year financial report also brought news that Metal Gear Solid 4 is scheduled for release within the publisher's next fiscal year.

Microsoft has let fly that Halo 2 for Windows Vista will now be available on 8th June.

Revolution Software's Charles Cecil reckons games should move away from the one-size-fits-all approach because it's getting in the way of sales.

Valve Software's digital distribution service Steam has surpassed 13 million active users, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Super Mario Galaxy and DS title The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass are all still on track for release this year.