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Those of you patiently waiting for a patch to let you play PES6 against your friends using your shiny new PS3 will probably be twiddling your thumbs until a fix appears in a firmware update.

Over 11 years since the original was released, Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars has entered the All Formats charts at number one, knocking software for the newly released PlayStation 3 down the charts, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Those of you experiencing problems when trying to play Battlefield 2, 1942 and 2142 online will be pleased to know that EA is aware of the problem, and normal service should resume around midday.

Shigeru Miyamoto says there's a lot of interest within Nintendo at the prospect of using Miis to expand the Wii's online offering.

StarFox 64 - Lylatwars to its European friends - heads up this week's additions to the American version of Nintendo Wii's Virtual Console, meaning there's every chance it will be propping up our own update this Friday.

Nintendo has confirmed that there will be a Virtual Console update in Europe on 6th April despite the fact that many will be celebrating Easter this weekend, with Good Friday a public holiday in many countries.

LUXOR 2 will be this week's addition to Xbox Live Arcade, so ready up your 800 Microsoft points if you fancy puzzling your way through the game's 88 levels and 13 bonus rounds when it goes live at 9am GMT tomorrow.

Fancy going to the E for All Expo in Los Angeles later this year? Okay, then we feel the need to stress, again, that it's not what you think. Unless you think it's a consumer games show that Nintendo is headlining. You may pass and discover the cost of tickets.

Ever fancied beating up a developer? Right: there he is, officer! Get him!

Capcom is preparing another icy burst of content for Lost Planet: Extreme Condition in the shape of two new downloadable multiplayer levels, both of which are due for release on Xbox Live Marketplace on 6th April, this Friday. Good!

As those of you who read around the subject will know, coming up with good names for games has grown increasingly difficult ever since Sony used up "Dropship" in 2002. The situation is now borderline-worth-writing-about. In an independent survey conducted while driving to Aylesbury last weekend, average dads were asked to try and identify what a game was about based only on its name. Fed the titles of all this week's releases, respondents were only able to identify 18% - even when pollsters agreed to accept answers in the broadest terms possible, and when pollsters got frustrated and started doing hand actions and drawing little pictures in grime on the dashboard.

Eurogamer, Eidos and Funcom are proud to announce that this website is the only place in the UK that will offer you a secure place in the Age of Conan beta test, which is due to start in late spring.

Following weeks of speculation and yesterday's Japanese unveiling, SEGA Europe has finally owned up to NiGHTS' existence - with the Wii-exclusive sequel to the Saturn classic confirmed as due for release this autumn ("fall") in the US and winter in Europe.

Why is it that every time we play A,N. Other management game we feel the urge to talk about Football Manager, to compare it to by far and away the leading title in the genre?

Being a stuntman is not easy. Those of us who've tried it - well, spent a day on a press trip trying to be a stuntlady, if that counts - should know. Judging by our experience, it involves fear, tears, vomit, being shouted at by a lot of very serious men and almost getting full-body third-degree burns. (All of which is instantly forgotten the moment Sean Connery's stunt double ruffles your hair and says, "Well done, love.")

Metal Gear Solid 4 will feature psychological effects and battles, according to creator Hideo Kojima, who was waxing lyrical at last weekend's GO3 Entertainment Expo in Australia.

NBA Street has always been the coolest kid on the EA Sports block. Granted, that's hardly difficult: one imagines the EA Sports block as a bland paradise of picket fences, tidy lawns and clean concrete, where everyone wears pastel smart casual and buys the same car as the neighbours each year. Everything is orderly, efficient and prosperous, and all NBA Street has to do to be the coolest is show up: in a pair of Air Jordans, naturally, and ambling along in its own sweet time. (Two years between updates? Two?)

Before you go and get your hopes up, the dates on the UK PlayStation site for Heavenly Sword and Lair are, in fact, wrong.

If you asked my eight-year-old self what he thought about dinosaurs, he would have told you that they were brilliant. Hell, they still are. But in that primary school time of your life they take up a special significance. How can any schoolkid not admire their commanding majesty, their imposing mass, and the time that T-Rex pulled the guy off the toilet in Jurassic Park? They were educational and fantastical all at once. A history lesson from the edge of time played out in your childish imagination as much as it did in books, toys, films and museums. Is it any wonder at all that they played as significant a role in my childhood obsessions as Pokémon did to those in the next generation.

We know next to nothing about Grand Theft Auto IV or what you'll do in it, but that hasn't stopped various politicians and other public figures in New York from warming up their disapproval. Or rather, it hasn't stopped the New York Daily News from ringing them up and painting a picture.

Harmonix will apply the skills it acquired developing Guitar Hero to a new series created in conjunction with owner MTV and Electronic Arts called "Rock Band".

Ryu Hayabusa's unstoppable path-beating will continue away from the beaten path in the near future, with a DS version cunningly-titled Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword now officially unveiled and detailed. There are screenshots and everything.

According to recent reports, there more than 80,000 people in Britain's prison system, but despite games obviously causing all their problems in the first place (evil things), they won't be allowed to mess around with Sony's new PlayStation 3 to help wile away the time.

The Xbox 360 Guitar Hero controller - based on the Gibson Explorer - features an as-yet unused port designer for use with an effects pedal peripheral.

We already know that Forza Motorsport 2 is due out next month, but now we're told to expect a demo version within the next few weeks.

Officially, SEGA continues to evade the question of whether NiGHTS is coming to Wii, but following more mag reports last week Japanese magazine Famitsu has now "confirmed" it, with a new name, logo, and a quote from Sonic Team USA producer Takashi Iizuka.

Optimistic NiGHTS fans have seen their hopes of a sequel dashed once again, after Sonic Heroes director Takashi Iizuka effectively withdrew a promising comment made in an interview with yankee rag Electronic Gaming Monthly.

Epic Games will unveil a new Gears of War multiplayer mode this week, due to launch as part of a forthcoming Xbox Live patch. Oh, and it will be free. Those guys.

SEGA plans to release a Medieval II expansion called Kingdoms this autumn, promising "over 75 hours" of new gameplay. We'll be counting.

You may not have heard of Q-Games, but you've probably seen something they've done. The Japanese company is staffed by veterans of StarFox and Ape Escape, put together the recent StarFox Command DS game and also worked on the PlayStation 3 operating system. And now they're doing some games for the PS3 Store.