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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.

Sony's bringing Q*bert back, for some reason, with a downloadable PlayStation 3 version of the '80s arcade game due to hit the PS3 Store next Thursday.

Sony worldwide studios boss Phil Harrison has dropped serious hints about downloadable TV content for PlayStation 3.

Nintendo has added Excitebike to the UK Virtual Console to help promote this Friday's release of full Wii title Excite Truck (reviewed elsewhere on the site today).

Shigeru Miyamoto has finally convinced his wife to have a go at the odd computer game - and it's all thanks to the Nintendo DS, predictably.

All sports are rubbish. Football? That's crap. Once you've kicked the ball in the goal once, what's the point? Golf's even worse. You're allowed as many shots as you like. Don't even get me started on snooker. It's not just sports either. All board games ever are pointless. Babies are a waste of time. Self-betterment is an act of folly. The universe will stop expanding eventually and begin falling back in on itself, rendering all human endeavour meaningless, so why bother doing anything at all? There certainly isn't any point playing Excite Truck after you finish it. It's only incredible fun. Might as well throw it in the bin. You've finished it, after all.

Descending gracefully over the hills of the internet today is Myst Online: Uru Live, which will be the first game in the puzzle-solving series to venture into an MMO setting.

Rockstar has cleared the charges against Vice City Stories this afternoon, confirming that the game will retail for GBP 19.99 when it launches on 9th March, which leaves you enough spare pennies to start your very own crime syndicate.

One thing that's obvious from the outset is that The Darkness is not a game that's aimed at kids. Whether it's the gloriously bump-mapped trailer depicting a trenchcoated hitman laying waste to a room full of criminals, or the potty mouths of the game's protagonists (it's all motherclucking this, motherfugging that - and wall to wall fecking assholes), this game is being aimed squarely at a mature audience.

Rockstar has finally announced a PlayStation 2 version of PSP hit Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.

Bonkers bunnies clearly aren't done bouncing, with Ubisoft having announced that Rayman Raving Rabbids will be appearing on Xbox 360 and DS in March.

Whilst meditating on the merits of the Lightside this morning we sensed a new website for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, which confirmed the game's development for unspecified next-generation consoles, as well as PSP, PS2 and DS. The page tentatively lists November 2007 as a release date.

Where does a developer like Gas Powered Games go after a title like Supreme Commander? Into comedy, according to CEO Chris Taylor, who has said the team's next project will be a side-splitting affair for consoles, which will appear two years from now.

Every other game I ever play for the next, I dunno, million years, is going to feel flat and small and boring. Why? Because they'll only be running on one monitor. Thanks to its ingenious graphical trickery, I can play Supreme Commander on two monitors, and it does funny things to my brain. Something in it I don't usually use is being exercised, but it feels good. I feel totally in control of the game this way. I'm not entirely sure how to describe the way I'm thinking when I use those two screens. It's nothing anywhere near as static as the average DS approach of here is the action / here is the map. Rather, it's more like I'm right in on a battle one on side, while on the other I check to see if a frigate's finished building - not skipping my focus between the two, but somehow watching both at once. Only it's ever-shifting, like I have a pair of robotic eyes zooming coolly in and out at will.

7.30AM. A secluded clearing a few clicks inland of South Sahrani's coastal highway. A man heavily laden with weaponry moves from the zebra-stripe shadows of the spruce forest to a beat-up pick-up truck parked in the centre of the clearing. He gets in and drives away.

Former Capcom designers Shinji Mikami, Atsushi Inaba and Hideki Kamiya have emerged at a new Japanese dev studio called Seeds.

Star Wars is heading to next generation consoles (yes we're shocked too), with LucasArts' UK distributor Activision today confirming reports that a next-generation adventure is in development.

A game editor for Silverfall will be available to download soon after the game's 9th March release, developer Monte Cristo confirmed to Eurogamer this morning, though most of the advanced features are yet to be finalised.

Japan's biggest-selling Xbox 360 title, Hironobu Sakaguchi/Mistwalker's Blue Dragon, is set to receive a burst of downloadable content tomorrow at 8pm local time.

Sony has another pair of downloadables hoping to drive interest in the PS3 Store today, with a demo of Full Auto 2: Battlelines and a downloadable version of PSone title Destruction Derby due to appear. Wasn't it clever how we used the word "drive"? We're real pros.

Struggling to make headway in Battlefield 2142? You might want to dig it out this weekend in particular, then, because Electronic Arts is planning to unlock all of the weapon upgrades for everyone.

Relic's field medic has made a dashing fix to what was last year's finest World War II game and last year's finest RTS, Company of Heroes, with a 1.5 patch that soothes a number of ills.

Valentine's Day may have been and gone, but that hasn't stopped German publisher dtp sidling up to us like the woman in the pub last night who thought we were drug dealers, announcing that it wants to give us a Kiss Before Midnight.

Guitar Hero II will boast "more online content than anyone has ever seen in a game to this date," associate producer Ted Lange has boasted, referring to the downloadable add-ons set to be offered after the game's release.

Marc Ecko's an American chap famous for making ideas turn to gold, particularly his urban street-wear collections. You may remember him from Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure, which was released across Europe by Atari last year.

All good things come in threes, which must be why SouthPeak has announced UK release dates for The Con, Monster Madness and Two Worlds, each one month after the other.

Some of the most exciting games in football have taken place in UEFA's money-spinning Champions League - with the last two seasons alone bringing us Liverpool's astonishing comeback against AC Milan and Arsenal's outrageous defeat at the hands of stupid Barcelona. Just don't, alright? It still hurts.

The war between the GDF and Strogg has spilled over into console territory, as Activision has announced Enemy Territory: Quake Wars for PS3 and Xbox 360.