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Sony has confirmed to Eurogamer this morning that firmware version 1.6 will be available for PlayStation 3 when the console launches across Europe on Friday.

Nintendo has dismissed reports that it's going to release an external hard disk drive for the Wii so that people can transfer some of their stuff off the machine's internal flash drive, but it has confirmed that the DS is about to get a voice communication headset.

The continuing legal battle between publisher Take-Two and Jack Thompson became more aggressive over the weekend as the controversial Miami attorney threatened to "destroy" the publisher after it filed a pre-emptive lawsuit.

Last week Sony America seemed to put an end to the confusion surrounding WarHawk by announcing it would be released on Blu-ray as a full game.

Guitar Hero II for Xbox 360 is ready and set for a Good Friday release in the UK, senior retail sources told Eurogamer this morning, despite the fact that, er, most of the shops will be shut.

Pandemic is working on a stealth action game (wait wait, stay here) set during World War II (seriously - don't wander off), which sees you working as a saboteur in the French resistance. (See?)

"Fangs" are due this morning to Microsoft for word that Castlevania: Symphony of the Night will be arriving on Xbox Live Arcade this Wednesday at 9am GMT.

Welcome to Blitz: The League, where the rules are: there are no rules! Well, no, clearly there are rules. American football is a sport showered with a glittering pizzazz and promotion that our dreary rugby matches can only dream of. However, its rough and tumble nature is entirely at odds with the fundamental stop-start tactical style of play. You can't go two yards without being told to left-jink the ball in a 1-7-8 Godfather Part II full-on park-the-car-around-the-block squeeze-play and even the supposedly anarchic Blitz embraces those basics. The actual ‘no rules' part we're talking about here applies to the use of excessive physical force to get things done. It's an almost unique concept because, let's face it, that's certainly something you're not going to see in its chief competitor, Madden, any time soon, not since Electronic Arts gained exclusive rights to the NFL license.

Sony Computer Entertainment has dismissed reports that downloadable tracks for the PlayStation 3 instalment of SingStar will cost GBP 1.49 each.

Poor old Bomberman. No matter how hard he tries, nothing's good enough. "JUST LOOK AT YOU," bellows Mrs. Hudson, as he stands shame-faced in the doorway. "Millions of sales? You're just a party game. Mrs. Square round the way has RPGs and all sorts. She even has a 'chocolate bow chicken' and he's more popular than you. Dennis? Come downstairs and tell Bomberman about Mrs. Square's chocolate bow chicken." "Aye - very popular." "YOU'RE NO SON OF MINE."

Way back in the mists of gaming history, when Microsoft first announced that it was going to build a console, one of the more troubling accusations levelled at the Xbox was that it would be a death-knell for PC gaming. This, of course, was back when Microsoft was the bad guy, as incredible as that seems now. The accusation didn't hold water; sure, the likes of Halo may have been plucked from the PC release schedules, but we've seen plenty of top-notch platform exclusives on Xbox and PC alike in the last five years. Whatever other problems the PC may have had, the Xbox hasn't been one of them.

Microsoft has confirmed that three editions of Halo 3 will be available when the game launches later this year.

In an effort to get old players back to see what they've missed, Turbine is offering all ex-subscribers of Dungeons & Dragons Online a free weekend's gaming, starting this evening and finishing on Sunday.

When Nintendo got up on stage at (insert trade show/press conference/railway platform of choice) and told the world it wanted to make gaming simpler and more approachable, somebody at EA clearly wasn't listening. SSX Blur is about as accessible as an Arctic supply station with no doors. Even if you've played all the other SSX games top to bottom and then caught the chairlift back up again, you'll still need to plug around an hour into the tutorials if you want to do anything more complicated than standing up.

Being able to use DirectX 10 might sound like most obvious benefit of developing for Windows Vista, but BioShock lead designer Ken Levine has a different take on what makes the operating system so important to gamers and the industry at large.

Virtua Tennis 3 is due out on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 next Friday, 23rd March, but those of you diving around with Microsoft's next-gen console needn't wait that long to see how good it is, as there's a demo of it up on Xbox Live Marketplace this morning.

Bizarre Creations originally intended to give away Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved as a free download, but the developer's community and web lead Ben Ward told Eurogamer this week that he's glad Microsoft convinced them not to do so.

What did you do when you finished Twilight Princess? We had a bath. The developers, it seems, immediately set about ripping the piss out of it - even going so far as to spread random Miis across the land of Hyrule.

Hoisting the mizzen-mast this afternoon is Capcom, who has announced a new pirate puzzle-adventure on Wii for release this autumn.

Put your feet up and enjoy a free-bite of destructive strategy-action this weekend, with Codemasters' new multiplayer demo of Maelstrom.

Throwing handfuls of shurikens this morning was Tecmo, who insisted that the PlayStation 3's Ninja Gaiden Sigma was much more than a port of the 2005 Xbox hit, Ninja Gaiden: Black.

Onwards with the killing of mythic beasts! We're heading back into ancient mythology with more of the same thump and grunting that made the original Titan Quest so repetitious and yet so mesmerising.

Square Enix has stamped a big shiny release date on Final Fantasy III, which will sit on shelves across Europe on 4th May.

Bitmap Brothers' managing director Mike Montgomery has told Eurogamer that now is the right time for a Speedball 2 remake, one that will go head-to-head with the biggest and best the games industry has to offer.

Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz' widely-read weekly newsletter, the GamesIndustry.biz Editorial is a weekly dissection of one of the issues weighing on the minds of the people at the top of the games business. It appears on Eurogamer a day after it goes out to GI.biz newsletter subscribers.

Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz' widely-read weekly newsletter, the GamesIndustry.biz Editorial is a weekly dissection of one of the issues weighing on the minds of the people at the top of the games business. It appears on Eurogamer a day after it goes out to GI.biz newsletter subscribers.

Eidos has cuddled up to Valve to offer its biggest and best games on digital distribution system Steam.

Sony has announced that PlayStation 3's next firmware update will arrive at the end of March - and one of the key additions will be integration with Stanford University's Folding@home programme.

To paraphrase Marty Feldman, I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I would gladly eat a lawyer. I hate lawyers. An actual, real-life lawyer at a party once told me about a case he was involved in. "I was defending a pair of men who'd been caught leaving a trout farm with stolen fish," he blurted, as I tried to sever my radial artery with a handful of postachios. "In court, I simply asked the prosecution to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, where the fish had come from. When they could not, the men went free." Very clever, you might think, and he certainly thought (I humoured him by going into anaphylactic shock). But it's not clever. Think about it. Go back a sentence and try changing "stolen fish" to "someone's kids", and "trout farm" to "playgroup". Not so funny now, is it? It also doesn't make any sense now, but you can see the point I'm not making. That's the sort of reason I hate lawyers. Also: Ally MacBeal.

Love it or hate it, Xbox 360's "Achievement Unlocked" sound effect is the burst of noise most widely associated with Microsoft's next-gen console - although a torrent of profanity followed by the sound of "0800 587 1102" being punched into a telephone keypad is obviously a pretty close second.