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A patch for Crackdown should download automatically the next time you run the game while you're hooked up to Xbox Live, if it hasn't already.

The Halo 2 maps Bungie promised everybody back when it announced the public beta test for game number three will materialise on 17th April - and you'll be able to buy and download them using either an Xbox or Xbox 360.

Project Gotham Racing 4 will feature approximately 200 tracks built around 10 locations, with new Xbox Live initiatives, improved in-car animation and weather effects and a bigger range of vehicles.

Microsoft has stayed close-mouthed over recent outbursts that Mass Effect will launch in Europe on 22nd June, telling Eurogamer this afternoon that it has nothing to announce.

Nintendo and SEGA have confirmed to GamesIndustry.biz that Shigeru Miyamoto will have a hand in the development of forthcoming title Mario & Sonic at the Olympic games.

Whether you like to curb- or kerb-stomp your adversaries, the newly announced Gears of War 2007 Global Xbox Live Tournament ought to appeal. Thanks to a collaboration between Microsoft and the World Cyber Games, it could see you jetting off to Prague to do some all-expenses-paid stomping of the grand final variety, too.

FlOw, from Sony's Santa Monica labs and developer ThatGameCompany, is a welcome sign of innovation and experimentation being injected into the PlayStation Store. It isn't so much a game as such, more a trippy ornament of sorts for your PlayStation 3; a bizarre Fantastic Voyage of an experience that propels you into a microscopic fluidic world where cell-based organisms fight for life, all the while evolving into ever-larger, more beautiful creatures.

There is a serious, fundamental problem which lies at the heart of PC action RPG gaming. It's a problem which dates back over ten years - to 1996, in fact, when Blizzard dropped its own take on the action RPG genre, Diablo, in our decade-younger laps. It's a simple problem to describe, but seemingly fiendishly difficult to solve.

Rockstar has released the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV, and you can watch it now on Eurogamer TV.

The real Spartans were some of the Ancient World's most brutally effective soldiers; a fiercely disciplined and heavily armoured military force. In Zack Snyder's movie of Frank Miller's graphic novel, 300, they wear swimming trunks and sandals and have CGI six-packs tracked on to their abdomens as they swan around spilling gallons of Persian blood with balletic grace and slow-motion abandon. The game of the film of the comic book is an attempt to distil that Hollywoodized historical violence into a handheld battlefield brawler with a similar sense of style.

If you ever feel the need to document all the possible uses of the word "pimp", then this otherwise dreadful MTV spin-off comes highly recommended. Over the course of the game "pimp" is used with reckless frequency as a verb, a noun and an adjective. So if you're a stone cold pimp who wants to pimp your car for some pimpy pimpin', you're in the right pimpin' place. What the game never ever does is use the word in its original intended form, so those looking for some vehicular whoring should move along.

Earlier this week the official BioShock site promised us a limited edition of the game if more than 5,000 of you signed a petition.

THQ wants to get us all into the ring this afternoon, as it announces a fresh instalment to the WWE SmackDown vs. Raw series.

EA has released a second patch for Command & Conquer 3, which addresses a number of critical technical hiccups relating to the patching process and lobby system.

It's Friday, you've just been paid and you want a new game for your Wii. We know, we understand; it's been a bit barren for the last couple of months, after all. So for the benefit of those popping in to see if we've reviewed MOH on the Wii before heading down to their local game emporium, here's the executive summary:

Xbox 360 shooter Bullet Witch has been beefed up today with the arrival of some downloadable content, Atari has announced. Perfect for those, like myself, who enjoy a bit of dressing up in their spare time.

Outerlight has announced the latest patch The Ship. Apparently there were some leaks that needed addressing. [oof - Ed]

So, a first-person physics-based horror action-adventure. Don't get many of their kind around here, which may have something to do with most folks' idea of gaming physics being Crackdown-style kicking a man into a car so hard that it explodes, or watching a corpse flop slowly down a flight of stairs then laughing at how its legs spasm when they shoot it repeatedly in the crotch. Which is admittedly enormously entertaining, but nowhere near as clever as having mouse gestures directly translate to moving objects that behave in accordance with Newtonian physics. In practical terms, this means, for instance, try and open a door by pulling on its middle and it'll swing really, really slowly, if at all. But grab it by edge (no, not the one with hinges on) and one swift downwards movement of the mouse will open it at speed. Penumbra tries to apply such thinking to puzzles, with varying results.

Konami has revealed that David Hayter will be returning to voice the ageing Solid Snake in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriot.

Rockstar's lips were tightly sealed this morning, following last night's debut trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV.

Smashing its way into our news face today are three new updates for European Virtual Console, lead by the comical-slugger Punch Out for NES.

It's only logical for us to tell you that Nintendo has today confirmed Picross for Europe, and aims to pop it in our DS slots on 11th May.

It's probably fair to say that the impact After Burner made on young gaming minds back in 1987 was only partially down to the hectic high-flying gameplay. Yu Suzuki took the forwards rush of the sorely overrated Space Harrier and tweaked it into something more visceral. Arriving to an audience already primed for bombastic fighter pilot thrills by the cinematic release of Top Gun the previous year, After Burner also boasted the sort of monstrous eye-catching arcade cabinet that guaranteed fevered playground word of mouth.

Let's be honest: it was hard to know what to expect from the UK launch of PlayStation 3. It's been a hard road for Sony - why, it was only last week that the police were raining on their planned midnight parade, worried about those pesky muggers seeing PS3 launch events as an ideal opportunity to further their careers.

Vivendi and Sony have come under fire from an American woman who claims Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly caused her son to have an epileptic seizure, which has left him with permanent disabilities.

505 Games has pulled out the rolling-pins and announced Cooking Mama for Wii, due for release on 11th May.

Koei has just galloped into view with new information about upcoming Wii horse adventure, G1 Jockey.

Sony has told Eurogamer this afternoon that it currently has no plans to produce an 80GB PS3, despite emerging reports that it filed with the FCC for the model.

2K Games has confirmed to Eurogamer this morning that The Darkness will launch across Europe on 29th June.

Unfortunately us Europeans will have to sit and watch from the sidelines as US and Japanese gamers enjoy a demo for Ninja Gaiden Sigma next month.