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Sony Online Entertainment is fed up of men in tights and strangling itself in the fantasy genre, which is why its swapped maces for silencers, and delved into the world of espionage.

Everyone's favourite business reality game-show will soon be coming to PC, thanks to Legacy Interactive, which has announced The Apprentice: Los Angeles for release in March.

And so it begins.

Standing proudly amongst the realms of fantasy is Koch, which today confirmed to Eurogamer that Silverfall will be released on 9th March across Europe.

Dutch developer Codeglue is hoping to get its one-thumb mobile phone shoot-'em-up Jetpack Junkies onto Xbox Live Arcade.

A man accused of stealing an Xbox 360 during a burglary has been caught in New Zealand after he rang up Microsoft to register the machine and ask for a power cord to replace the one he forgot to steal.

Rockstar is keeping quiet about the possibility of a PlayStation 2 version of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, despite seemingly relentless rumour and speculation. Having already featured (albeit briefly) on the American ratings board ESRB website, before being pulled, the game has now shown up in the PS2 section of the PlayStation.com website. And been pulled. Rockstar has since said that it won't comment.

Rockstar can't confirm or deny reports that Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories is on its way to PlayStation 2.

Rockstar has pre-empted the headline writers by pointing out that Manhunt 2 is clearly an adult game destined for an 18+ rating from classification bodies.

Pushed into a tiny handful of provinces, regularly bothered by backstabbing Englishmen to the South and generating barely enough cash to keep the Shetland Islands clean, prospects for 16th century Scotland weren't good. And yet it was the first country to discover and colonise both North and South America. Go figure.

Jeff Minter loves a good animal romp, especially his project dubbed "Space Giraffe", which has now reached alpha stage.

Remember that Def Jam: Icon demo for Xbox 360? Probably not, since despite EA claiming it would be out recently, it wasn't. Not to worry though, because it may have come up hard but we are assured it will be appearing on Xbox Live Marketplace tomorrow.

As those of you with eyes sharp enough to cut shadowy throats may have spotted, Rockstar has released a little teaser trailer to go with last night's announcement of Manhunt 2.

It seems the partially torn document waved around the internet last week may have been legitimate after all, with details emerging today of Microsoft's plan to reward achievement-harvesters with actual prizes.

Reports suggest the Christmas 2006 production run of Xbox 360s could already be fitted with a new DVD drive, replacing the noisy Toshiba-Samsung and Hitachi-LG disc-spinners.

Joining the ranks of super-successful game franchises today is Kingdom Hearts, which boasts more than 10 million units sold across the world.

With the PlayStation 3 dangerously close to actually launching over here, we've been giving some serious consideration to the proposed software line-up. Amid a sea of titles that most seasoned gamers will already have played or ignored for a reason hides the odd interesting exclusive or update.

More and more developers are adopting PhysX technology to power upcoming games, and among them is Metropolis Software, which believes this physics solution is a big step forward for world simulation.

There's a clear thread which runs through the majority of Q Entertainment's games - not in terms of the lush, club-culture influenced presentation, which is an obvious link, but in terms of the philosophy behind the games themselves. In a nutshell, Q builds games that are almost dramatic in their simplicity- each of their concepts hinges around one instruction so straightforward that you wouldn't be surprised to see it in a Wario Ware mini-game, and one basic germ of an idea which blossoms into complexity as the game progresses, without ever actually changing at heart.

Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection is coming to the North American version of the PlayStation 3 Store "later this month", according to publisher Namco Bandai.

Dark Age of Camelot's fifth expansion pack has been released as afree download for all existing and former players of the MMO.

Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli expects that people with "two- to three-year-old" PCs will firmly enjoy Crysis despite its bias toward DirectX 10 and expensive graphics hardware, although he admits that he expects the developer to move fully to Vista in future.

Namco Bandai is planning to release a downloadable version of Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection through the PlayStation 3's online store.

Even among gamerpoint whores, some achievements just have to be written off. Getting 10,000 kills online in Gears of War, perhaps. Or just about flipping anything in Ridge Racer 6. NBA Live 07 certainly has one - it demands that you be "online with 1,000 people".

Gas Powered Games has released a playable demo of Supreme Commander, its hotly anticipated real-time strategy game, the full version of which is due out on 16th February.

Having attempted to 'revolutionise' Space Invaders, Bubble Bobble and Rainbow Islands, it was only fair that the Dreams studio should turn its attention to New Zealand Story.

Rockstar is working on a follow-up to controversial 2003 stealth-action game Manhunt, where players were tasked with violently murdering gang members to help make underground snuff films.

Eurogamer Network, publisher of Eurogamer.net and GamesIndustry.biz, is to hire a US editor as part of plans to expand the site's focus and provide 24 hour news coverage for the global videogames industry.

Like the apple guilty of making Eve pop her togs on, fruit has sprouted on The Divine website, a miracle eerily prophesied late last week.

You'll be able to play Virtua Tennis online 3 for the first time in franchise history on Xbox Live, SEGA has announced, when the game launches for the console in March.