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Sony has confirmed that Phil Harrison will be showing off new services and games for PS3 when he delivers his keynote address on Wednesday, 7th March, at 18:30 GMT.

Philips confirmed at GDC today its amBX gear will now work with virtual world Second Life.

The Xbox Live service has topped six million members worldwide, Microsoft has announced - demonstrating that the service is growing even faster than the company itself predicted.

I'm sure there's some deep, underlying psychological explanation as to why I always play Support class in Battlefield games. Integral to the team effort Support may be, but he's basically a walking ammo box - the rest of the squad's caddy, expected to come running when his more highly-regarded fellows run out of armour-piercing balls.

Since Microsoft announced plans to create a third videogame based on the pen and paper RPG Shadowrun, the fans have made their disappointment clear.

Ubisoft has confirmed that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will be heading to Xbox Live Arcade this month, and will be priced at 400 points.

Lego will provide the inspiration for a new online adventure, NetDevil has announced, confirming rumours that the developer was working on an MMO for a "major toy company".

Murder on the Orient Express is, of course, a famous novel by Agatha Christie. Probably her most famous, in fact. As with many acclaimed authors, everyone knows the big name stories, and yet there are often more obscure books penned which can be the true classics. I'll bet you've never read the lesser known GBH on the Gatwick Express, or experienced the powerfully woven narrative of Attempted Fare Dodging on the Stirling to Glasgow Sprinter.

Final Fantasy XII has held on to the top spot in the UK software charts for a second week, with the hugely anticipated RPG title continuing to hold off the challenge from Real Time Worlds' Microsoft-published action title Crackdown, which remains at number two.

Zee-3's co-creator Ste Pickford believes that digital distribution services like Xbox Live Arcade are still too conservative and inaccessible for independent developers.

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.

Electronic Arts' chief executive Larry Probst has predicted that Sony will see a decline in its market share in the current console generation - but he still expects the PS3 to come out on top.

Boom Boom Rocket will cost 800 MS points when it launches this Spring, Bizarre Creations has revealed.

There's a certain leap of logic which a lot of people - ourselves at Eurogamer included - made about the PSP when it was launched. Here, in essence, is a handheld PlayStation 2, with a disc format capable of holding far more data than any portable game format has previously managed. The PlayStation and PlayStation 2 have been the spiritual home of the Japanese RPG genre for over a decade; therefore, surely it would stand to reason that the PSP should continue this tradition, attracting RPG developers to weave their tales on Sony's ultra-powerful black slab of technology?

Like many people, I've got a friend who has a bit of a Michael Jackson thing going on. Not a crazy "We Love You Michael" type, before you start rolling your eyes. Just a relatively rational fan, who liked him back when the singing and the dancing were so good that we were all prepared to ignore the lightened skin and bizarre media reports. So, to her, it's still pretty exciting every time it looks like Jackson is going to hop back out on stage and do some of the dancing and singing again. Every time, she tells me, there's a whirlwind of speculation in Jackson fandom. This time, he's putting a decade of nasal necrosis, babies dangling out hotel windows, extraordinary court cases and flirtations with bankruptcy behind him for once and for all. He'll sing and dance again, and there might even be new material. It'll be back to the good old days.

Take-Two has announced it will bring comic-book inspired tale, The Red Star, to European PS2s on 6th April, 2007.

When there's something strange in the neighbourhood, who ya gonna call? How about a snooty and effete English detective with a weakness for floppy hats, violins and good old fashioned cocaine abuse?

Capcom's Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts heads up a trio of titles to hit the Wii's Virtual Console shop in North America this week.

While we'll gladly defend the proper Pokémon adventures against any and all misguided attacks and insults, we'd find it much harder to do so for many of the loosely related cash-ins that carry the illustrious brand name. Pokémon Channel, Pokémon Dash and Hey You Pikachu all fall firmly into this category of undesirables and while recent DS adventure Mystery Dungeon manages to scrape by simply on merit of its scale, Ranger doesn't do quite so well for itself.

Gaming audio legend Richard Joseph died yesterday at the age of 53, following a short battle against lung cancer.

Microsoft has announced a competition to find the best game created using XNA Game Studio Express. The winning entry will be published on Xbox Live Arcade and also bag the creator US$ 10,000.

In an effort to outline that we are a real company with real morals, and that we do actually give away prizes rather than snaffle them for ourselves, we've cobbled together the winners of some of our recent and biggest competitions for your discerning eyes.

God of War is heading to the PSP later this year, it has emerged.

A remake of Bitmap's 16-bit classic Speedball 2 is coming to the PC this Autumn, Frogster Interactive has announced.

More than five years after the first Climax-developed game in the series was released, a new MotoGP title is on the way this September. Once again, you can expect all the bikes, tracks, riders and liveries from the real life MotoGP season, and once again there are season, quick race, time trial and extreme modes. In other words, fans will find plenty here that's familiar.

Microsoft has kicked off proceedings at this year's Game Developer Conference in San Francisco by announcing a new 512MB memory unit for the Xbox 360, as well as upping the size limit for Live Arcade games.

Lumines Plus is, basically, a straight port of the original PSP release of the game that spawned about a billion thousand-yard stares. It's pretty much exactly the same as Tetsuya Mizuguchi's original Tetris-alike; the game with which millions of PSP owners have worn out their eyes and thumbs on their way to racking up insanely high scores. Sure, there are some extra skins, but this is essentially the game that launched a Lumines bandwagon that's (so far) seen the production of a PSP sequel, an Xbox Live Arcade version, a mobile phone variant, and plenty of freeware homebrew imitators.

Scarface is coming to the Nintendo Wii this summer, Vivendi Games has announced today.

It's when we see the crowd that my resolve fails. "Are you sure you don't..." I begin, before my friend cuts across me. "Is there a bookshop nearby?" she asks. "I'll pick something up and go and sit in Starbucks." I nod and direct her to Borders, across the road. I'll call her when we're done. She likes Final Fantasy, sure, and it might have been nice to meet some of the guys behind the game - but god, she doesn't like it this much.

Just when it looked like World War II games had been done to death, Eidos goes and releases one of the most ambitious and accessible ever made and scores a chart-topping hit in the process. Whodathunkit?