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Having turned a blind eye for some time now, Microsoft is finally moving to clamp down on people who set up foreign Xbox Live accounts in order to download content they can't access locally.

Sifting through the ranks of obscure Japanese videogames used to be the sole preserve of the risk-taking importer; the chancer with a smidgen of kanji tumbling around his brain, some product listings cut from the back of a magazine, and a wacky bridge adapter for fooling his hardware into compliance. But now, thanks to the massive success of Nintendo DS, more of these games than ever are turning up locally, as small publishers like 505 Games take one look at Nintendo's figures (23 million DS consoles sold in the last 12 months, 123 million software sales, casual games outselling Mario) and start cutting cheques to Japanese companies like Taito, Success and Star-Fish. Budget-priced and in some cases roughly translated, the six titles reviewed on the next few pages are all available in this country, either this week or next, and it's all thanks to that man at work who says games are rubbish but secretly plays Brain Age with his girlfriend. You might have to look behind a few Nintendogs to find them, but they're there. The question is, will you want any of them?

The latest Episode of the globe-trotting EGTV is all about Guns, Guys and Guitars. Sadly not all in the same game, rather shoulder-to-shoulder in a packed half-hour of televisual temptation.

Disney Interactive has decided to celebrate 25 years of Tron by releasing the retro classic on Live Arcade.

Impossible Mission will be the first non Virtual Console title to be downloadable from the Wii Shop Channel.

Big Huge Games is working on a role-playing game for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC.

Gamers no longer want to play games that last 60 or 100 hours according to Silicon Knights president Denis Dyack.

As promised, the Gears of War "Hidden Fronts" multiplayer map pack has pitched up on Xbox Live Marketplace.

An American student who made a Counter Strike map of Clements High School has been arrested and sent to an "Alternative Education Center".

The night before going to see Forza Motorsport 2 I ran nine miles. It was fairly tough. But not, as I was to discover, as tough as the all-over body and cardio-vascular workout you get from driving for 20 minutes round the UK's biggest indoor karting track, which is where Microsoft decided to show off the game to a bunch of games journalists. Fortunately, Forza 2 is rather more forgiving, in spite of its hardcore simulation credentials. In fact, speaking in one of the raceway's swanky corporate-hospitality meeting rooms, Game Director Dan Greenawalt declares: "The goal of this game is to really turn gamers into car lovers and turn car lovers into gamers and create a really big community that gets excited about games and excited about cars."

Evidence is mounting that the next game in the Splinter Cell series will be called Conviction.

Alex Seropian, co-founder and former CEO of Halo developer Bungie, has said he's relieved that E3 has been downsized into a smaller event - adding that it benefited publishers much more than developers.

LucasArts and Day 1 Studios have unveiled Fracture, a third-person shooter built around terrain deformation set for release on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in summer 2008.

2K Games has unveiled a new expansion pack for Civilization IV, due for release in July.

Given that the series has been going for the past eight years or so, you've probably long since made your mind up about DDR (or Dancing Stage, as killjoys Konami insist on calling Dance Dance Revolution in Europe). For some, prancing around on a dance mat has become not only a favoured gaming experience, but also an important social outlet. Entire communities have sprung up around the DDR scene, and the machines can still draw huge crowds of teenagers in the arcades and bowling alleys in which they're found.

If you were magical you'd probably know that Eurogamer TV is showing an exclusive video of The Witcher.

NCsoft has revealed that a closed beta test for Tabula Rasa is under way.

Retro arcade action will be heading to DS and PSP this year in the form of Boulder Dash - Rocks!

Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi reckons the PlayStation 3 is too fiddly to develop for, and that Microsoft's advertising in Japan has been rubbish, GamesIndustry.biz is reporting.

Devil May Cry 4 producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi has said that Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the game will be "pretty much identical".

Acclaim Games is celebrating more than one million registered users for its online robot fighting game BOTS!!

Electronic Arts is working on a mini-game compilation for Wii and DS that's being tentatively called EA Playground.

Sony Europe has confirmed to Eurogamer that downloadable PS3 game Calling All Cars will miss its 25th May release date following a round of last-minute bug-fixing over in the States, where former God of War director David Jaffe and pals have been tweaking it. "We're currently tracking an early June release," a spokesperson told us.

A 20-minute documentary of Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars is now available on Xbox Live Marketplace.

Between frenetic bouts of Speedball 2, as related in our earlier feature, we had a chance to chat to Mike Montgomery of the Bitmaps and discuss the long history of Brutal Deluxe's legacy.

Puzzle Quest is on its way to Xbox Live Arcade!

The "Hidden Fronts" map pack for Gears of War will be released on Live Marketplace this Thursday.

Sony has confirmed to Eurogamer this afternoon that PaRappa The Rapper will be coming to European PSPs.

Freshly formed developer Colony Studios has revealed that it's working on a sci-fi MMO for launch in late 2009.

Nintendo has confirmed that Super Mario Galaxy and Metroid Prime 3 will be among dozen Wii titles to appear in Japan this year, GamesIndustry.biz reports.