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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.

An unwitting modeller at Naughty Dog has accidentally revealed the name of the team's upcoming PlayStation 3 game in his online portfolio, referring to the upcoming 2007 release as Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.

Halo 3 will be released for Xbox 360 this autumn.

Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime has dodged a question about when exactly Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is due out for Nintendo Wii, having previously said to expect it "early in 2007".

Irrational Games is known to be hard at work on BioShock at the moment, but our old pal Internet Reports has been digging about a bit and seems to have come up with some clues as to what else may be happening in the developer's US and Australian studios.

Capcom plans to bombard Lost Planet fans with additional multiplayer maps over the course of the "coming months", with a total of seven set to light up Xbox Live Marketplace and help thaw any gathering disinterest.

Peugeot's competition to design a car for Project Gotham Racing 4 has already done a lot for the game. Inadvertently announcing it in the first place, for example. And now it has a winner, we can all marvel at a car you'll actually be able to drive when the game launches.

Console steering wheels are prima donnas. Awkward buggers, they park their clunky bottoms on tabletops where they immediately demand pampering: cables snaked all over the room, clamps tightened, options selected and then all of that done in reverse whenever they're to be put back in the cupboard. Because you can't leave them out, or they constantly get in the way, and probably teach your budgie rude words when you leave the room.

Destination Games' upcoming NCsoft-published MMORPG, Tabula Rasa, is on track for release during 2007 according to founder and developer Richard Garriott.

Absolutely appalling.

I'm really glad I missed most of the all-conquering Atari 2600 era. Not because most of the games were unforgivably rubbish, but because they cost an absolute fortune. I clearly recall my chocolate-stained fingers pressed up against the glass display case in Woolies, looking longingly at games like Pitfall and Enduro, and crying inside at the £29.99 price tag. If I didn't eat sweets, catch a bus or read any comics for 10 weeks in a row I might be able to afford one if I was lucky. But ten weeks in the life of a nine-year-old is too long to comprehend, so I settled for the hand-me-down copy of Space Invaders, Night Driver and Centipede and wasted my money in the arcade instead. A far better idea, as it turned out.

You must play Arthur and the Invisibles. The human race depends on it.

First impressions can be a killer. Especially when that impression is, say, a really long, boring anecdote, told by someone with zero storytelling ability and a tendency to spray bits of half-chewed food over you when they speak. Poor Maelstrom doesn't quite know how to behave in polite company, and as such it's going to find it very hard to make friends. That's a shame, because underneath its crooked yellow teeth, shabby posture and tendency to drone on a bit, it's got a good heart. It'd probably make you very happy, if only you were able to get over those flecks of spittle at the corners of its mouth.

Another week, another gaming classic hits the Xbox Live Arcade. Classic? Yeah, Tapper was definitely one of those when it hit the arcades back in 1984. Completely original, charming, and a typical example of a game that you could just pick up and play with no explanation, it still holds an indefinable addictive appeal even this far down the line.

US retailer Gamestop has taken out a full-page advert in USA Today to highlight its ongoing commitment to stopping minors buying games about slaughtering hookers and that.

Microsoft's Phil Spencer has advised gamers not to get overexcited about the Halo 3 multiplayer beta this spring, despite heavy promotion in the media.

UK developer Introversion has reiterated that it plans to chart a path to consoles sometime in the near future.

Details have dribbled from Konami's Arcade Operators' Union 2007 trade show in Japan about a shooty Silent Hill coin-op game. Mind you, given how much games cost to play in the arcades last time we went, it might well be a note-op by the time it arrives here.

Lots of magical things happen when you drink more alcohol than you can realistically handle, such as having ideas for a television series involving a talking milkshake, meatball and pack of chips. This, bizarrely, turned out to be such an impressive light-bulb of inspiration that Midway has decided to make a game about it.

Prepare to moo-ve on down to the shops and horn in on Harvest Moon DS, because Nintendo has finally sown the seeds of release with the announcement that it's out here on 13th April.

Forza Motorsport 2 is due out here in May as well as the US, Microsoft said today, and we now know a bit more about the cars you'll be driving, too.

Hideo Kojima may be busy working on a new Metal Gear Solid title for PlayStation 3, but that hasn't prevented him from floating another of his peculiar ideas. This time it's a zombie game where you pay to not play it.

Pronto Games' Destiny of Zorro title for Wii is due out later this year, with publisher 505 Games telling Eurogamer today that "all the gameplay stuff will be announced at GDC" at the start of March.

Tactical fact has spilled from Ubisoft's mouth again, this time highlighting the difference between console and PC versions of GRAW 2.