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Unless the worst comes to the worst, and they settle their differences and agree to form a new brand of "superworst", and then successfully defend themselves against the Bavarian wurstmacher ubermanguild's charges of copyright infringement and get some swanky business cards printed on the cheap by the man who painted my entire house for £50 and claims he can get me all sorts of crap even though I didn't ask for it GUNS I kid you not, God of War II really should be out this Friday. Not that that's any guarantee of anything, since it could also go cock-a-hoop. The extrapolation of which, in hindsight, would have made for a funnier rambling introductory paragraph.

Once upon a time, Burnout games were about driving fast and close to the edge. They were literally about the burnout: successive speed boosts triggered by following a racing line that steered perilously close to the path of danger for far longer than was sensible. With the third game in the series, the focus shifted away from this knife-edge racing line and towards a brash blend of bumper-car takedowns and slo-mo vehicular violence. It didn't make the games any less enjoyable, but it certainly made them different. Burnout Dominator, however, turns the clock back a little. While it does take some of the design sensibilities from Takedown, it blends them with the return of the burnout to create a game that's not half bad.

The "father" of EyeToy, Dr. Richard Marks, believes the best new feature of the PlayStation Eye is its microphone.

According to Xbox Live's King of Ping, Major Nelson, Eets: Chowdown struggled in its first week on Arcade, failing even to topple crud like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Presumably that's because it has a rubbish name (I doubt Halo would have sold five million copies if it was called Skyhole: Floodpoker). It certainly isn't because it's a bad game.

Sony has scored its second No. 1 in the all-formats software chart with PlayStation 2 exclusive God of War II, says our old friend GamesIndustry.biz.

Sony has revealed that a camera add-on for PSP will be available on 16th May.

Bethesda Softworks has finally released a patch for Oblivion expansion Shivering Isles to fix the "FormID" bug that was ruining some people's games.

Ken Kutaragi, the 'Father of PlayStation', has revealed that he already has a vision for PlayStation 4, 5 and even 6 - despite having announced his imminent retirement, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Microsoft continues to make good on its promise to deliver more Xbox Live Arcade games more often, announcing that tomorrow at 9am GMT we'll be getting three: Catan, Centipede and Millipede. Yes, we can hardly contain ourselves either.

Nintendo of America did a bit of catch-up this week with the addition of Castlevania (NES, 500 Wii points) and The Legend of the Mystical Ninja (SNES, 800 points) to the US Virtual Console ranks.

It's really not fair. There should be a law against two ball-related games going out within a week of each other. There are only so many puns we can use, people. Won't someone think of the reviewers? Looks like you get off lightly this time, then, as we skip the traditional double-entendres and dip straight into a world where whacking balls with flippers is a very serious business.

It was going to be so hilarious. You'll have to trust me on this. I had the intro all planned out. I was going to smuggle in some fantastic references to the Simon and Garfunkle classic, Mrs Robinson, but change the words to Meet the Robinsons, and then sniffily remark that I expended more mental effort thinking up those jokes than I did while playing the game.

NCsoft has told Eurogamer the new Invention System addition to City of Heroes is "imminent", suggesting it's just days away.

Future Publishing has confirmed to GamesIndustry.biz that images branded as "depraved" by the Mail on Sunday will be removed from 80,000 copies of the Official PlayStation Magazine.

Electronic Arts has unveiled the title of the fifth game in the Burnout series. It'll be called Burnout Paradise, and is due out on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 this winter.

GamesIndustry.biz has learned that Sony is to conduct an internal inquiry after hitting the headlines for displaying a decapitated goat at a press event for God of War 2.

They can't all be Gods of War and Legends of Zelda, so with that in mind we take a dip into five PC games that you might not have heard of, and emerge with some scores. Let us know if the format appeals.

It's been nearly three long years since Konami blessed us with a Silent Hill title, and almost four since the last 'proper' game in the series was released (The Room was only given the Silent Hill brand as an afterthought). You could say it's been a pretty lean time for survival horror junkies, so we're inclined to grab hold of any scrap of information that we can get about one of our all-time favourite series.

Don't forget to check out part two later in the week.

Activision has unveiled the first trailer for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.

Although plenty of comic book properties have made the transition from paper to game disc or cartridge over the years, only a few stick in the mind as being any good - and at this particular moment, we can't seem to find their sticking spots. In other words, we can't think of any. Fortunately, The Red Star, based on a comic drawn by a chap called Christian Gossett, seems to be heading in that direction though, so if we're ever forced to retread this meandering introduction at any point in the future, hopefully we'll know where to go. (What were we talking about again?)

Alert! Alert! The Red Star's box comes complete with an enthusiastic quote from our very own adorable site. "Ingenious and fresh," we call the game. B...but I haven't even reviewed it yet! What madness is this? Worry not, readers, the publishers have simply performed that age-old underhanded trick of turning conjecture into criticism, and pulled words out of a preview. We're above such tactics, though. The only reason I wanted to bring it to your attention is that these words were written in 2004, nearly three whole years ago. At this point, I think we can discount "fresh."

The Internet's at it again - this time with rumours that two new Call of Duty titles are currently in development for PC, PS2, PS3, Xbox and Xbox 360.

Activision has confirmed long-running rumours that Infinity Ward is working on a Call of Duty game in a contemporary setting.

A treatment for New Line Cinema's Gears of War film has made its way onto the Internet.

Game God Denis Dyack, boss of Silicon Knights, believes that the games industry needs to radically reconsider the way it markets its output.

Former programmers at Korea's largest game developer NCSoft are at the centre of an investigation into the theft of software code, says GamesIndustry.biz.

Blizzard has told gamers that they will have to wait until 19th May to find out whether the company's next big announcement is a follow-up of some form to legendary real-time strategy title StarCraft.

Halo 3's public multiplayer beta will allow you to play split-screen on one console in addition to all that online tomfoolery.

At 9am one June morning in 1989, the rocky but brilliant career of a 38 year-old engineer at Sony almost came to an untimely end. The venue was the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and despite the early start - 9am isn't a popular time in a city with as many partying opportunities as Vegas - the main hall at the event was packed.