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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.

Another week brings another trio of retro-rippers to the Virtual Console, lead this time - whaddya know - by those four raucous reptiles, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Videogames: give them an inch and they'll take a reality if you're not careful. The good ones, obviously, but never underestimate a mediocre game's ability to overpower you - crack the door open for a quick look and before you know it you've been broken into, had your time stolen and your mind held to ransom.

The new name for Spark Unlimited's alternate-reality shooter is Turning Point: Fall of Liberty, Codemasters has revealed. The game's scheduled for a Q4 launch on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC this year.

Marylebone Police are offering advice for anyone planning to attend the midnight launch event for PlayStation 3 following concerns about public safety.

High street retailer GAME has confirmed that a poster in one of its stores comparing PlayStation 3 with Xbox 360 has been taken down.

Lexicon Entertainment has snaffled up the rights to Private Moon's "Agon" adventure series, and aims to bring the first of the games, The Mysterious Codex, to PCs across Europe on 27th April.

Former Take That cheeky-boy Robbie Williams has teamed up with Microsoft to offer some of his choice music videos for download on Xbox Live Marketplace.

Nintendo has admitted that it is still struggling to meet consumer demand for the Wii as the console continues to sell out at retail just as quickly as it arrives.

Nostalgia can be a harsh mistress. Reeling out that sentiment in a review for yet another Live Arcade disappointment brings with it a certain Groundhog Day vibe, but never is it more true than when talking about arcade games from the cultural dead zone known as the Late Eighties.

PlayStation Portable is completely failing to keep pace with Nintendo DS in Japan, Bloomberg reports today - with sales of the Nintendo handheld outstripping PSP by around three to one.

Koei has unveiled a new and original title exclusively for Wii.

Commodore Gaming - which bought up the venerable "Commodore" brand in 2005 - has launched its range of gaming PCs at the CeBIT technology show in Germany today, and, thanks to a flexible new case-painting process, is inviting gamers to customise the exterior of their machines as well as the core components.

Those of you hoping that Nintendo would implement a unified friends list for Wii online titles might want to suck on your cheeks for a bit: Wii friends lists will need to be set up for every game you play.

Nintendo's Eiji Aonuma has confirmed that The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass will be playable over the Internet via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.

Activision has confirmed that Downhill Jam will be spread on PS2 this spring.

Epic Games VP Mark Rein has taken on Sony's critics, saying that he believes the strength of the PlayStation brand and the company's ongoing strategy will ensure PS3 is a success.

Cheyenne Mountain has revealed that Stargate Worlds is now in full production and due for release sometime in 2008.

It might be fun to giggle at American games journos howling and hollering at unveilings like a pack of drugged monkeys but personally I think they've got the right idea. The dignified professionalism of the European games press is cute but sometimes I want to whoop at that screen, damnit. Keeping that excitement bottled up is frustrating. I'm sick of having to hide any little gasps I make by following them up with thoughtfully chewing on my biro. So I'd like to thank Activision for showing Spider-Man 3, a game seemingly based entirely around the concept of "awesome", in a darkened auditorium. The notes I took are totally illegible but I was able to safely grin like a loon the entire time.

Just a week after Australian developer Perception cancelled its almost-finished Stargate SG-1 game, a new MMORPG based on the hit TV series has been announced.

Rockstar has teamed up with hip-hop big-shot Timbaland to bring Beaterator to PSP this summer.

When I got back from holiday and Kristan asked me to review Worms, my shoulders slumped a bit. "I expect I know why that is," he said. "It's because you think that - having slaved half to death while you sunned yourself on a beach somewhere - I am deliberately punishing you with a game that a) everyone has played, b) the two people who haven't can download off Xbox Live and try out anyway, and c) that is probably exactly the same as it always used to be."

Legendary game creator Warren Spector has two new titles currently in development at his Junction Point Studios, one a Hollywood collaboration, the other based on a world he created with his fantasy-writer wife.

Following this morning's announcement that "Games for Windows - LIVE" - the PC version of the Xbox multiplayer service - is set to launch in just a few weeks time across the pond, Microsoft has confirmed a date for the rest of us: 18th May.

"Games for Windows - LIVE" - the PC take on Xbox 360's multiplayer and community services - is due to launch in the USA on 8th May.

Midway Games is being sued over its 2004 title Psi-Ops by a screenwriter who claims the character and plot were stolen from a script he wrote in 1998.

A rather belated follow up to the highly praised 2003 point-and-clicker, Runaway: A Road Adventure, the unfortunately titled Dream of the Turtle flies in the face of gaming convention by changing pretty much everything from the original. For those who missed it, the original Runaway told the story of Brian Brasco, a geeky New York college student who crosses paths with Gina, a mysterious woman being pursued by the Mafia. As the title suggests, they had to run away. It was pretty good, all things considered.

Sony's Phil Harrison reckons "everybody just needs to calm down", telling our sister site GamesIndustry.biz that the strategy behind PlayStation 3's backwards compatibility with PS1 and PS2 is still in place.