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It's hard not to wish Square-Enix would just set aside all this Compilation of Final Fantasy VII nonsense and announce the near-inevitable PS3 remake of the seminal RPG from which it all stems. The company's collection of FFVII-themed new titles, delivered across myriad different media - game, film and anime - comes across as unfocused and grasping more than considered or generous. The unlikely (and un-requested) excursions into new genres on distinct platforms is also confusing to both newcomers and fans alike. It's as if the company knows it has a goldmine of an IP on its hands but is unsure as to quite how best to excavate it.

Another title to come out of the Sony America Gamer's Day was Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow.

Teenagers thrive on random chaos. You don't need an extensive market research report to tell you that. But Sony went ahead and commissioned one anyway, found out that the kids also like creativity, community, competition and other c-words, and the result is a new physics-based "action comedy" game built by Idol Minds called PAIN. It's due out exclusively on PS3 Store this Christmas.

A financial analysis of EA's bank vaults has let slip that Godfather 2 is in development.

Sony plans to plug one of the most obvious holes in its online offering by introducing a PSP online store to deliver content directly to its customers.

Valve co-founder Gabe Newell says that the recent launch of in-game advertising plans for Counter-Strike is part of an effort to ease the distribution of smaller games.

Half-Life 2: Episode Three is in pre-production and Valve doesn't anticipate gamers returning to City 17, according to marketing director Doug Lombardi.

Sony America has been showing off a new fantasy adventure called Folklore at an event in San Diego.

The next game in the Splinter Cell series will be called Conviction, and it will be heading to Xbox 360 and PC at the end of the year.

On the main forum which I while away my working hours, there's a thread. It's about City of Heroes, though is currently named "City of Hot Mammas". That'll have inevitably changed by the time this review hits the net-presses; the moderators are taking great joy at changing it randomly whenever boredom strikes, just to keep things interesting. At the time of writing, it's just shy of 1,500 posts. Cute, you may think, but no biggie.

You're not getting any younger. Or are you? Best ask Dr. Kawashima, who's back with another round of braining training next month on Nintendo DS. "More Brain Training from Dr. Kawashima: How Old Is Your Brain?" is due out on 29th June.

Nintendo is releasing Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (SNES) and Mario & Yoshi (NES) on Virtual Console this week, and gamers in some European territories can already download them.

These public beta tests are a good idea, it seems, and Sony's decided it wants to do one for WarHawk.

Sony has confirmed that SOCOM will be heading to the PlayStation 3, although a European release date and details were MIA.

SEGA has signed Epic Games' Unreal Engine 3 for use in a selection of titles currently in development, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Microsoft soothed angry mobs last night by releasing an update to fix an issue that prevented you from downloading the Halo 3 beta from within Crackdown.

GSC Game World plans to unveil "several subsequent new products in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. universe" at the E3 Media & Business Summit in mid-July.

Hudson has finally given in to our child-like pining and revealed that Bomberman will be revamped for Xbox Live this summer.

Who could fail to be outraged by the poor score awarded to Scooch at the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday? All right, they may a bit Steps Lite, or perhaps even Steps Lidl, but their entry had it all - stupid dancing, stupid outfits and stupid lyrics about flying flags and fellatio. And yet they were ignored by almost all the judges across Europe, rendering this year's contest even more of an absolute travesty than usual.

In 1949 the New Statesman held a contest inviting readers to send in parodies of the great novelist and playwright Graham Greene. So distinctive and unique was his writing style that it apparently invited parody. A few weeks later the publication announced the winners and, to both their and his surprise, second place went to Graham Greene himself, who had written in secretly using a pseudonym.

Konami has unveiled deeply unsurprising details of its Marvel Trading Card Game this afternoon.

Eurogamer TV is hosting two exclusive in-game trailers for Forza 2 this afternoon, captured by our very own cameraman.

Koei has confirmed this afternoon that the third game in the Atelier Iris series, Grand Phantasm, will be coming to Europe in July.

After months of small-talk, Microsoft will finally open the Halo 3 multiplayer beta to the public today.

Rockstar has announced Midnight Club: Los Angeles will be the fourth game in its street-racing, ride-pimping series, and the first to hit the current generation of consoles.

Ninja Theory co-founder Tameem Antoniades has told Eurogamer that a multiplayer mode for Heavenly Sword could pop up sooner than we thought.

Look, you're probably about as enthusiastic about reading a review of yet another mini-game title for the EyeToy as I am writing it. But read on. As an incentive for sitting through, Eurogamer will be providing free coffee and Jaffa Cakes for all its readers at the end. You can't say fairer than that.

Ubisoft has announced that it will release a remake of the original Prince of Persia on Xbox Live Arcade early this summer.

As everyone who's reading this sentence for the second time knows, Mercury was originally designed to work with a PSP motion sensor that never made it into production, so Mercury Meltdown Revolution is a very logical release. Other developers have had to sit around making up reasons for you to flap your arms; Ignition Banbury already had one, and a very good one, too. Critically acclaimed on the PSP even without the sensor, the second game won itself 9/10 just a few short months ago, as we reasoned that while it may be good at raising your temperature, it's still a timeless example of how to pit player against environment. Can it repeat the trick on the console that might as well be its home?

So you've read the first impressions here. This Beginner's Guide walks you through each of the three new maps, pointing out scenery of note, general level structure and the odd tip that could possibly stem the inevitable early shame of being owned by someone with a gamer tag such as Wank Static. Or Girls Gun Wild. Think of this as a Rough Guide travel journal, relayed by Louis Theurox running around like a headless chicken in an intergalactic warzone.