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Every now and then a game comes along that shatters the long-held notion that movie-based titles are generally a bit of a cash-in waste of time. Sadly, Spider-Man 3 is not that game.

Going all retro this afternoon is Activision, who's whacked on the sweat-bands and announced that Guitar Hero: Rocks the 80s will be heading exclusively to PS2 this summer.

Square Enix has been spilling the beans ahead of its weekend party in Japan by announcing two new games.

The Nintendo DS Lite has sold more than 10 million units in Japan according to research by Famitsu.

Crave Entertainment has acquired the licence to publish games based on Napoleon Dynamite, the cult comedy from Fox Searchlight, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Realtime Worlds has detailed the contents of its upcoming downloadable content for Crackdown.

Let's not procrastinate here. Your time is valuable, and I'm not going to make you wade through four paragraphs of concept nonsense this morning before actually telling you anything about this little mystery of a game - due to its numerous name-changes and constantly shifting release date, it's already gotten everybody confused enough. So, the facts: Innocent Life is the first Harvest Moon game not to be developed by Marvelous Interactive, and it bears no relation to the previous games in the series. It's a diversion, if you will. As you'll know if you read our Harvest Moon interview the other week, its development was handed over to a tiny, completely unknown development studio called ArtePiazza in an effort to create more innovation and variety within the series.

Nintendo has confirmed that Mario Party 8 will be disco-dancing onto European shelves on 22nd June.

The demo version of Forza Motorsport 2 has popped up on Xbox Live Marketplace as promised by admins on the game's official forum, who posted last night. "That's what we've been told," we were, er, told.

Sony Japan will be offering pre-paid PlayStation Network cards across Japan in June.

EA is working on a new Simpsons title that parodies the likes of EverQuest, Grand Theft Auto and Medal of Honor.

Microsoft today announced that Shadowrun - the first Xbox 360 and PC shooter to feature cross-platform multiplay - will be released on 1st June in Europe. The PC version has a suggested retail price of GBP 29.99, while the 360 version comes in at GBP 39.99.

I hate to bring this up, but my conscience just can't let this one go. Three years ago, Atari rather generously (and sensibly) packaged together all of its 70s and early 80s output into one great value Anthology package. Released on the Xbox and PS2 , this exhaustive compilation featured an impressive 85 games in total, comprised of 67 Atari 2600 games and, more interestingly, 18 arcade titles from the era. All the early Atari favourites were there: Tempest, Battlezone, Asteroids, Crystal Castles, Missile Command, Gravitar, and even really old stuff like Pong and Super Breakout. Oh, and Centipede and Millipede. For the retro completest who hadn't dabbled in MAME (is there anyone left, seriously?) it was a well-rounded offering, even if revisiting many of these titles was a pretty harrowing experience in reality.

Microsoft's preview event at the Raceway Docklands allowed Eurogamer to get its hands on Forza Motorsport 2. First though, there was an opportunity to sit down with the series Game Director, Dan Greenawalt.

Places are still open for the UK heat of the Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2007, Konami told us today, so if you're playing what we thought was "a superb card game, and arguably the best portable one we've seen in years", pay attention.

I can't cook to save my life (which is why I usually swim towards the light rather than sealing myself in pastry). Fortunately, the Wii's charm lies not in its ability to render activities realistically, but rather in its capacity to rend our preconceptions and deliver entertainment regardless of how skilled we might actually be in the activity we're performing. Little surprise then that within minutes of putting a flame to Cooking Mama I was chopping, peeling, frying and mincing with the best of them. Grilled bonito, pierogi, paella, lasagne, popcorn - when it comes to the console that makes surgeons out of tennis players, it's all in a day's wok.

Microsoft games boss Peter Moore has indicated that the company would seriously consider running a research project similar to Sony's Folding@home initiative, on the Xbox 360, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Flagship Studios and EA have finally decided on a pricing model for Hellgate: London's MMO mode.

The first of Microsoft's biannual Xbox 360 updates for 2007 should start to filter through to users at 10am UK time this morning, 9th May, the platform holder said while we were trying to get some bloody sleep you'd think they'd turn the thing off at 3am wouldn't you.

Google has launched a version of its Reader product specifically designed to work through the Wii's web browser.

In case today's double-serving of Xbox Live updates - Double Dragon's confirmed release and the console's Spring Update - aren't enough, Microsoft has also thrown up a list of six games rapidly approaching the vaults of Live Arcade, all due out "later this year".

Konami has yet to announce a new release date for Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops after it failed to launch last Friday.

Codemasters Online Gaming has magically revealed that Book 9: Evendim will be the first of many significant expansions for Lord of the Rings Online when it arrives sometime this month.

Sneaky Mexican-shooting ghosts can spook their way over Xbox Live Marketplace this afternoon to avail themselves of seven new battlegrounds.

A financial paper from EA has revealed that Spore has slipped out of fiscal 2008, meaning that we won't see it until at least next April.

There were plenty of reasons not to like Lost in Blue. Personally I adored the game for its charming sense of adventure and unique, oddly touching ambiance, but it had definite problems that quite rightly turned many people away from it within the first few hours. Sexism, though, really wasn't one of them for me. Although the (universally male) game critics who criticised its man-hunt, woman-cook-and-clean portrayal of gender roles deserve points for effort, I really don't believe that there was anything malicious or genuinely upsetting about Lost in Blue's character roles; I think it was probably going for sweet co-dependence, but sadly it did end up coming across as a bit unenlightened.

Eidos has unveiled Nervous Brickdown - a new puzzle game for Nintendo DS built around "classic bat-and-ball gameplay".

As promised, CellFactor: Revolution FPS - designed to showcase Ageia's physics-acceleration hardware - has been released for free to PC owners. It should work fine even if you don't have a PhysX card - the idea being to show you how important proper in-game physics can be and hopefully convince you to part with some cash for the added hardware. Propel yourself like an apple falling from a tree towards www.cellfactorrevolution.com for download links.

Activision's multiformat movie tie-in Spider-Man 3 has swung to number one in the UK All Formats charts, knocking Sony's God of War II off the top after just one week, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Empire Interactive's arcade conversion of Double Dragon is this week's new addition to Xbox Live Arcade, arriving on the service this morning at 9am UK time, with a demo version available and a full-version price of 400 Microsoft points (GBP 3.40 / EUR 4.65 / roughly the cost of Salt & Vinegar crisps on Virgin Trains 2.58 to Morecambe).