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It seems the great MMO monster has gobbled up another innocent sci-fi licence, as news of Battlestar Galactica Online emerges.

Let's be honest: the main reason we're interested in Pro Evolution Soccer 6 on the Nintendo DS is that it's easy to imagine a footballing catastrophe. And not your everyday footballing catastrophe involving 19-year-old girls and mobile phone cameras, either, but something to put even Craig Bellamy to shame, with artists pretending to be injured so they wouldn't have to draw faces, and programmers hacking away features like tipsy Norwegian ankles in the dead of the Portuguese night. Impressive, then, that Konami does better than we expected. Not much better, but still.

The future of Without Warning developer CiRCLE Studio looks unclear today after several sources told GamesIndustry.biz that the company is to close - a report which has been disputed by CEO Jeremy Heath-Smith.

In an effort to stop players breaking the rules of World of Warcraft, Blizzard has set out to sue WoW Glider creator Michael Donnelly and his company MDY Industries.

EA will be showing off Crysis, Hellgate: London, Mercenaries 2: World in Flames and The Orange Box - containing Half-Life 2: Episode 2, Portal and Team Fortress 2 - at a reception running parallel to the Game Developers Conference next month.

Cash and carry chain Makro has cut 80 quid off the price of the premium Xbox 360, allowing its members to buy the next-gen console for the usual price of a Core System.

id Software is unlikely to jump on the episodic gaming bandwagon any time soon, according to director of business development Steve Nix.

Bloggers got weak at the knees with excitement yesterday as an eBay auction with official ties seemed to point towards the existence of Halo 4, but Bungie has squashed these rumours, saying it's nothing but a "sad clunker of a gag".

A recent study by big-brains in New York has shown that surgeons with a videogaming background will outperform others in areas like keyhole and laparoscopic surgery, which involve skilfully guiding alien-like tools through a small incision in a real person's abdomen, using only a television screen for navigation.

Epic Games will be online this Saturday playing punters at Gears of War, and for some reason they're publicising this fact rather than wearing ski masks and generally hiding from the crazy Internet weirdoes.

Okay, admit it - you only clicked on the article because you want to know what on earth an MMORPRTS is (aside from the cack-handed hammering of a chimp on a Fisher Price keyboard, or a rather good tongue twister). We don't blame you - as vocal-cord mashing acronyms go, Swedish developer Lockpick's creation of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Real Time Strategy is a particularly heinous crime. It is, however, a pretty good summary of exactly what the firm's ambitious new online title Dreamlords actually is - a persistent world online game where you manage a civilisation and battle it out in strategic encounters.

Those of you who enjoy a good bout of rat-punching, like myself, will be pleased to hear that Bethesda has no plans to move out of the role-playing genre, according to voice-of-the-company Pete Hines.

Microsoft has admitted that Xbox Live Arcade won't be saying hello to a new game tomorrow morning, although Worms is thought to be very near to release.

Off to Voicelab this weekend? Or are you just going to drop it into conversation occasionally so people will think you listen to Radio 4? Either way, doing so will get you in good shape for the PlayStation 2's April release of SingStar Pop Hits.

After just one week at the top Eidos's Battlestations: Midway is down in eighth place as FIFA '07 takes the No. 1 spot in the all-formats software chart.

Members of Clover Studio's 80-strong Osaka development core, most of whom remain at Capcom, are working on a Nintendo Wii title fronted by Keiji Inafune, while others have moved onto Resident Evil 5.

Where lie your Samba de Amigo maracas? Displayed as a dusty trophy on the upper shelves of your bedroom closet, no doubt. Which cobwebbed corner of the attic have you stuffed your unwieldy Steel Battalion console desk? What treasure chest did you bury your Dreamcast fishing rod in after you'd fished all you had to fish?

Forget Alan Wake, Metal Slug Anthology showcases the best graphics ever seen in a videogame.

Xbox Live may have popped out for a smoke, but when it comes back in you should be able to get your hands on four free new agents for Crackdown, which is due out this Friday.

Xbox Live is going offline for three hours this morning for maintenance.

Guitar Hero fans may be interested to know that a third-party controller for the game is now available over at Lik-Sang.

Another Monday, another mutilated-handful of American Virtual Console games most of us can't play. Oh well - perhaps they'll offer us Eurogamers a hint of what to expect on Friday.

Arkane Studios, the brain-box behind Dark Messiah of Might & Magic, has revealed its next project will appear on Xbox 360 as well as PC.

It may already be out in Japan, but Armored Core 4 won't be with us in time for the PlayStation 3's European launch - with publisher 505 Games today announcing that it's due out on 27th April instead.

Rare concept artist Ryan Stevenson has been blabbing about Banjo Kazooie for Xbox 360, telling us to expect a whole new world built on new, next-generation technology.

Nintendo Wii's European Virtual Console could play host to games that were never released here, Nintendo has confirmed.

If you're a publisher, how do you show off a game that's as open-ended and sprawlingly emergent as Elder Scrolls? If the journey's the thing, how do you compress a week-long cruise into a half-hour commute? Well, one way is to let people play it - to experience the trip for themselves. But the three hours that publisher 2K Games recently granted Eurogamer to play the new expansion, Shivering Isles, was never going to be enough to experience everything that developer Bethesda has managed to fit into such a rich and vast world.

Excitement abounds as various internet-going monkeys uncovered Donkey Kong Banana Kingdom this morning - a Capcom-made cabinet that brings bongo-controlled three-player Donkey Kong to Japan's arcades complete with flying rhinos, endless spinning fruit and all the other trappings.

We mentioned recently that a modeller had lifted the lid on Naughty Dog's PS3 project, referring to it as "Uncharted: Drake's Fortune" in his online portfolio.

THQ has yet to announce it publicly, but reports in Swedish magazine Game Reactor suggest that a sequel to racing title Juiced is in development.