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Load Inc. has dropped us a line to let us know that its toy racer Mad Tracks is a whisker away from release on Xbox Live Arcade.

Sony Online Entertainment has stumped up the dosh to acquire Vanguard: Saga of Heroes developer Sigil Games Online, GamesIndustry.biz is reporting.

Sega has revealed the first shots of Virtua Fighter 5 running on the Xbox 360, and the good news is that the game is virtually indistinguishable from the PlayStation 3 conversion.

Microsoft and Bungie have anounced that Halo 3 will be released in North America on 25th September, with the European release a day later on the 26th.

Valve is approaching a "pretty big milestone". Chet Faliszek calls it "lockdown". It sounds like a big deal. Remembering back to the summer of 2003, when "September 30th" was starting to rust, I feel suddenly uncomfortable about effectively downsizing Valve by eight people for three crucial hours of team-based online zombie duckshoot. Oh well, it's their funeral. "We're pretty fickle gamers here, especially since we don't have much time to play games, and it's not hard to get people to play Left 4 Dead," says Erik Johnson.

A free content update for muddy PS3 marauder MotorStorm will be available to download on 7th June.

We recently visited the beautiful (alright, ugly, rainy and boring) city of Bellevue, Washington, just across the water from Seattle. Not to take advantage of the exchange rate, you understand, but to pay homage to the mighty Valve Software and take a look at a project it's been working on with sometime Counter-Strike developer, and AI specialist, Turtle Rock Studios. The game in question is Left 4 Dead, a fast-paced, co-operative, survival horror FPS, and we pretty much loved it - check out our first impressions.

When a company like Valve tells you it thinks it has the next Counter-Strike on its hands, you pay attention. Counter-Strike was - and is - an incredibly long-lived global online gaming phenomenon, despite originating as a shoestring amateur mod of the original Half-Life. Valve turns championing the little man into big business, so when the Seattle super-developer invited us to visit and play the fruits of its collaboration with Turtle Rock Studios - a tiny team responsible for AI bots and map design in recent versions of Counter-Strike - we jumped at the chance.

Microsoft is offering American 360 owners a gift this week - and giving three of its tea boys (well, we think that's what 'intern' means) a big pat on the back. It's releasing their project, side-scrolling shooter Aegis Wing, as a free download on Xbox Live Arcade this Wednesday.

Demos for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End and Viva Piñata can now be digi-pinched from Xbox Live.

Eurogamer unbows and the room straightens itself. There's a story that Tetsuya Nomura once told a games journalist, with distinctly un-Japanese frankness, that the questions were rubbish and he wasn't going to answer them anymore. Brilliant, obviously, but as such it's best behaviour and utmost politeness from us tonight as we sit down to talk about Final Fantasy Versus XIII, a counterpoint title to the main thirteenth game in the series, of which Nomura is director.

Three more retro rippers are sitting pretty on the US Virtual Console this week, only one of which we don't already have in Europe, Ninja Gaiden.

Microsoft has released an update for the Xbox 360 HD DVD player on Xbox Live.

Ubisoft has revealed details of Naruto: Rise of a Ninja, an Xbox 360 adventure based on the exploits of the popular anime and manga character. The game is being developed exclusively for 360 at Ubsioft's prolific Montreal studio, and is due for release in the autumn.

NanaOn-Sha boss Masaya Matsuura reckons the Wii is outselling the PS3 in Japan because Sony's console is "too big", GamesIndustry.biz is reporting.

Speaking in her keynote at this morning's Nordic Game conference, Sony's Paulina Bozek focused on "mass customisation" and how current trends have influenced the development of the PS3 instalment in the SingStar series, GamesIndustry.biz is reporting.

Microsoft Game Studios' Shane Kim has attacked the ambitious PlayStation Home service, stating that he doubts Sony can create a top-notch virtual world, GamesIndustry.biz is reporting.

There was a time when the Final Fantasy brand was reassuringly focused. Each new sequential release was appropriately numbered and sought little more than to better the previous game's scope and technical achievements. The setting and characters changed but the rules never did: Final Fantasy, as with most long-running Japanese products, was a series of incremental evolutions, and both developer and fans knew what to expect of one another.

Activision has announced details of the next game in its long-running skateboarding series, Tony Hawk's Proving Ground. The title will be released on Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, Wii and DS in autumn this year.

Final Fantasy XI is to get another expansion pack later this year, Square-Enix has announced.

Activision is enjoying the benefits of movie cross-promotion with this week's UK All Formats number one, as sales of Spider-Man 3 jump 26 per cent in its second week at the top, GamesIndustry.biz is reporting.

Croteam has revealed it's working on the next instalment in the Serious Sam series.

Namco Bandai's revealed that the Wii will house a new Soul Calibur game this winter.

Sony has today dismissed reports of a new PS3 firmware update as "speculation".

A vast next generation 'arcade' is set to open in the heart of Birmingham this summer, and will give the UK one of the largest gaming centres in the world.

Let's all take a moment. Resist, for once, the urge to squander it. Embrace it. It's an important time. This week - the last 24 hours, for some - has seen the passing of a great leader, a man so principled that he looked beyond the obvious and forged a path of great controversy; a man who gave his life to the lubrication of our hopes and dreams, and rarely splashed himself messily on the carpet of defeat in the throes of his selfless devotion; a man who, when you think about, ran towards the fire more often than a squadron of grounded moths.

Counter-Strike has become the latest game to offer in-game adverts of real world brands.

Square Enix revealed at last weekend's 2007 party in Japan that it would be resurrecting Final Fantasy IV for DS.

The latest Crackdown downloadable content included a bug that's been responsible for resetting saved game files.

Microsoft has revealed that Soltrio Solitaire will be this week's sole Live Arcade offering.