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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.

X Games star Dave Mirra is aiming to make his name in gaming again - seven years after the console and PC "Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX" and several months after nobody really noticed his latest game come out on PSP.

The Wii's first Naruto fighting game from Eighting will feature exclusive mini-game content when it arrives in the West, and will allow players to fight one another by performing "ninja-like movements" with the Wiimote.

Last week we heard that WarHawk would be an online-only game, leading to speculation that the game would be offered for download via Sony's PlayStation Store.

Hiromichi Tanaka is one of the unsung heroes of Japanese game development. Since dropping out of university at the age of 21 along with his friend Hironobu Sakaguchi to join the fledgling game developer Square, Tanaka was a key figure in the creation of the first three Final Fantasy games - and went on to lend his significant talents to critically acclaimed and much-loved titles including Secret of Mana, Seiken Densetsu 3, Xenogears and Chrono Cross.

I've always considered Wario as one of the most unusual characters in Nintendo's roster; while he plays a stock baddie in Nintendo's sports and party game titles (little more than an evil, palette swapped Mario) he's starred in two innovative series of his own, making a mark with the Wario Land series before the celebrated Wario Ware games made him a bankable star in his own right.

MumboJumbo boss Paul Jensen believes Europe is an under-served community, and that casual gaming here is set to explode.

Nintendo has confirmed that Wi-Fi multiplayer on Wii will be powered by GameSpy, which will provide publishers with fancy new technology to integrate community features - like friend lists, advanced matchmaking capabilities, and leaderboards - into games.

Nintendo has confirmed that Pokémon Battle Revolution will be the first Wii title to make use of Wi-Fi connectivity when it's released across the U.S. on 25th June.

It's been the subject of fairly hot debate recently about what the adventure game needs to do to be relevant these days. Some, like Telltale, have taken a "if it aint broke..." approach, and revisited the early '90s formula that we all loved.

Ankama Games believes gamers are tired of being unable to affect change and evolve the environments they play in - something it hopes to change in its freshly unveiled title, Wakfu.

SCE UK managing director Ray Maguire has confirmed the platform holder's intentions to release a redesigned version of its PlayStation Portable handheld.

Game Factory has confirmed that French television series, Code Lyoko, is being fiddled with for release on Wii at the end of this year.

So get this. Samurai Warriors 2 Empires is actually the third game in the Warriors Empires series, but it's the fifth game in the Samurai Warriors series, and about the 19th game in the overall Warriors series, depending on how many spin-offs you include when you're counting. But despite that 2 in the title, it's actually the first Samurai Warriors Empires title, which means it's the first time that Koei have applied the strategic dimension introduced in Dynasty Warriors 4: Empires and refined in Dynasty Warriors 5 to the Japanese setting of the Samurai Warriors series. Got that?

In another outrageous outburst of initiative, Nintendo Japan has announced that games developed by students from its Game Seminar 2006 course will be made available to download from the DS Station.

As part of a meaty campaign to promote its avatar-creation system, Nintendo Japan has Mii-ified two popular Japanese comedians, Shuzo Matsuoka and Sanma Akashiya.

It's taken a while to happen, but Viva Piñata has finally arrived on Xbox Live Marketplace in demo form. Depressingly though, it's only available to US gamers.

Ubisoft's sequel to the BAFTA award-winning Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter has stormed to the top of the All Formats charts this week, knocking Square Enix's PS2 exclusive Final Fantasy XII off the number one position.

While defending the strengths of the PC market, Half-Life 2 developer Valve has questioned Microsoft's Games for Windows push.

Digital Eclipse's latest Xbox Live Arcade conversion - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - will be released tomorrow morning, Microsoft confirmed this week.

Ever fancied taking part in a live action video game? Us neither, since it generally seems to involve smart-arse students with nothing better to do . Ubisoft's invitation to such an event, however, was not one to dismiss lightly.

When publisher Codemasters and developer Bohemia Interactive split, BI got the Le Creuset saucepans, the ride-on mower, the foot spa and the dog, but not the right to use the name of their stalwart soldier sim Operation Flashpoint in future games. Unperturbed, the studio has gone and made a sequel anyway.

It's probably tattooed onto Peter Moore's face, but Halo 3's release later this year will be big. Bigger than all of us. Bigger than Tom's credit card bill. And as with the very biggest games, the information drip-feed would torture even Jack Bauer into confessing that, yes, he prefers the Xbox 360 to the PS3.

Being able to 'see into the future' as we are often called to do in spreading the word about the best upcoming games is a real mixed blessing. Yeah, we've had a fair few bouts on the wonderful new Virtua Fighter 5 but coming home from SEGA's offices to the semi-crushing realisation that we'd have to go back to VF4:Evolution in the interim was, in a word, nasty. To try and fill that gap a little, we decided to catch up with SEGA's ever-spectacular AM2 team to lay to rest our list of 'if...'s, 'why...'s and 'what if...'s - this is what they had to say for themselves on the subjects of new characters, online options and making allowances for old men.

After getting a chance to check out FASA Interactive's fantasy cyberpunk online-only arena-based first-person shooter first hand, Eurogamer sat down for a chat with the developer's studio manager, Mitch Gitelman to discuss how to turn an 18-year-old pen and paper RPG into a fantasy cyberpunk online-only arena-based first-person shooter.

Microsoft challenged four community developer teams to create four games in four days at this year's GDC, in an effort to show how simple it was to use the XNA Game Studio Express tool.

Dished up today on the American Virtual Console platter are three new games for one new week, headed by that fast-footed hedgehog, Sonic.

Konami has moved to reassure European gamers that Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence servers will remain online for multiplay, despite the company's decision to switch off the American ones.

Paradox has popped out a new demo for its imminent World War II shooter Frontline: Fields of Thunder.

It is, as Elton John once warbled about cartoon lions, a circle of life kinda thing. The first Fast and the Furious movie brought the underground subculture of import car modification into the mainstream, and it didn't take long for the impact to trickle down to our little gamesy paddock. Established racing titles suddenly went all hip and urban, as if they'd always had a neon green rear spoiler in the garage but had only now realised what to do with it. Yes, Need for Speed - we're looking at you.