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Ninjas get away with murder. I mean, obviously, they literally get away with murder - that's pretty much their job - but, in gamey terms, their hooded presence has fooled many of us into giving certain series rather more of our affection than they strictly deserved.

An Eve Online developer known simply as "t20" has turned out his pockets and confessed to unlawfully obtaining in-game items, leaving himself with guilty-pie all over his face.

"Horde or Alliance? You decide," says Alienware, suggesting that the PC manufacturer certainly got as far as the character tool when it was putting together its epic new Warcraft edition PCs - ten of which it's giving away for free.

Bungie's latest Halo 3 update introduces a rather intriguing new function bound to the back button of the Xbox 360 pad. It sounds excellent.

Super Paper Mario will be released for Nintendo Wii on 9th April in the States, Nintendo told its American buddies this afternoon, confirming an earlier report in Nintendo Power to the effect that it would be out that month.

Mr Publisher pays the bills, and Mr Publisher wants a GTA game. What do we make? Well, let's have bigger guns than GTA, obviously. Let's have faster cars. Let's have more swearwords. And, I dunno, protection rackets? A better lock-on camera? It's not like you can do much else in a city!

Sony has announced that the first 500,000 people to register their PlayStation 3 on the PlayStation Network after the console's European launch will receive a free copy of James Bond film Casino Royale on Blu-ray.

Gracefully dodging our probing jabs this morning was EA, which remained covered-up over speculation that Fight Night will be appearing on Wii.

You'll soon be able to shake your way through a Sonic adventure on Wii, as SEGA has confirmed a 2nd March release date for the game.

Sony insisted this morning that all 30 of the games lined up for the PlayStation 3 launch will arrive on day one, despite the suggestion that releases will be staggered.

Turrican fans, wake up - Factor 5 boss Julian Eggebrecht says that PlayStation 3 might finally see the return of the '90s shooter.

You've got to love the games that know they're games. Take Urban Chaos: Riot Response last year. It knew what people play FPSes for, stripped away the pretensions of the genre and gave us set pieces where we threw meat cleavers into a man's face, in slow motion, while he was on fire, until he collided with a gas canister and exploded. With God Hand, Clover has performed a similar feat of removing the pole from the arse of a genre, giving us a third-person brawler that lets us kick gorillas into space. Awesome! But unlike Riot Response, God Hand is very, very clever underneath the idiocy. Brilliant!

Being the best isn't always great (or so I'm told). Sometimes, it's enough to make you cry. Or, er, offend people with disabilities. People like to pick on a winner - especially if he's clearly not as good as he could be. That's been the case with the Tiger Woods games for a while, culminating in 2005's totally rubbish Xbox 360 opener, which stumbled drunkenly onto the course with all the grace and vital content of a Fat Les reunion tour. This one's a big improvement.

Acclaim has clashed the ancient gong and opened the door to its martial arts MMO 9Dragons, inviting players around the world to high-kick their way into the beta test phase of the game.

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.

Once or twice a year a game like this comes along. A game so engrossing, so crafted and so life-affirming that nothing else in the world seems to matter. It's snowing outside, you say? Anna Nicole Smith's dead? England beat the Aussies? Meh. You're pregnant?! Hang on a minute, I've just got to finish off this section...

Tabloids will shriek with knee-jerk indignation at the release of Jack Thompson-bating fare like Manhunt 2; but the sinister, surreptitious mind-control peddled by MMO creators is shamefully waved on with tacit approval by a media blinded to the massive threat to humanity this subtly destructive genre represents.

Watch out, parents, because paedophiles are back - and this time they're coming through Nintendo DS. Those crazy paedophiles!

Is TOCA Race Driver 3 Challenge any good? We quite liked it. But hey, why should you take our word for it when you can download a demo? Apart from to help ensure our continued employment?

What with it being Friday and all, Buena Vista Games has been mucking about on the Internet and has clearly stumbled on one of those online deed poll websites - the result of which is that it now wants to be called Disney Interactive Studios.

Activision has remained coy and enigmatic after a recent conference call pointed toward the possibility of Guitar Hero appearing on Wii, with a spokesperson telling Eurogamer this morning that not all is as it seems.

Did I forget to do one of these last week? Silly me!

Sony Worldwide Studios boss Phil Harrison has shown off a few PS3 demos at the DICE Summit and hinted that we won't have to wait long before we're able to download content in the background like we can on Xbox 360.

Duck-loving Sony Worldwide Studios boss Phil Harrison has mentioned a LocoRoco sequel again during his appearance at the DICE Summit.

Sony has released another little update for the PSP, allowing those of you using its rather wonderful PSone emulation software to take advantage of a reset button.

Super Mario World and Zelda II: The Adventure of Link are Nintendo's two additions to Virtual Console in Europe today.

Radioactive rumours have been floating around that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. has slipped again, but THQ says that isn't so, insisting the game is still on track.

Another World wasn't your typical early '90s videogame. Almost entirely a solo project, visionary young Frenchman Eric Chahi fused his artistic talents with his programming nous to deliver one of the most memorable videogames of the 16-bit era.

Bohemia Interactive CEO Marek Spanel has said we can probably expect a second demo of Armed Assault (ArmA) after the game is released on 16th February.

Post-publication shouting: Attention! Sumo Digital made this game! We forgot to put that the first time! This is quite surprising as they also ported OutRun 2 and did OutRun 2006, which we usually mention at least once a day! Exclamation exclamation oneoneshift normal service resumes.