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World of Warcraft is a cow with golden milk, but despite its obvious grazing success, it definitely won't be seeing the light of day on Xbox 360 or PS3.

In the future we won't race in cars, we'll race in Xorbs, spherical vehicles that go proper fast, like. Ghostlight knows these truths, which is why its futuristic PSP racer Spinout is hurtling toward a 30th March release date, with no brakes!

UK based indie Icon Games, which says it is dedicated to innovation, originality, compelling gameplay and lavish visuals, has announced a new PSP and PS2 game called Spinout due out in "late 2005".

It seems gardening isn't the only the thing Rare can turn its hand to, as studio veteran Nick Burton confirms the team is working on an original IP for Live Arcade, due for release this year.

Buzz is back, ladies and gentlemen, showing Bruce Forsythe-like resilience as he embarks on his new show, The Mega Quiz, which is due for release in spring.

Soldiering is hard work. So is being an Ubisoft franchise hero, a Tom Clancy one especially. The French publisher demands its action stars march to the same annual beat as most virtual sportsmen, no matter how taxing and ambitious their adventures, whether they're grizzled spies or foppish Iranian acrobats. After Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter delivered an early hit on 360 in March of last year, 2007 was always likely to find Ubi demanding its brave men hit the (pay)dirt on the double.

Sticking up for the people this Christmas is none other than debonair rogue Zorro, who will be starring in his very own Wii game, The Destiny of Zorro.

Xbox Live Arcade followers hoping Castlevania would be the first of the next batch of releases will have to clamp hands over their ears to block out Kristan's merry hooting while they wrestle with their disappointment: it's Root Beer Tapper instead.

Do you have an American Wii? No! Me either! But Keza does, so let us all grumble unhappily to ourselves about how unfair that is before also noting that Super Mario World is now available on their Virtual Console.

Epic Games' Mark Rein has defended the console shift towards patching and post-release downloads, arguing that it's "not a bad thing".

Capcom has held onto the No. 1 spot in the UK all-formats software chart for the second week running as Xbox 360 exclusive Lost Planet continues to prove popular with consumers.

Crackdown was originally set to feature 200 unlockable achievements, but Microsoft wouldn't allow it, according to an MTV report.

UEFA Champions League 2006-2007's associate producer Chris Coates talks about the background to the game's "Ultimate Team" mode. The game is due out on Xbox 360, PS2, PSP, PC and mobile from 23rd March.

Mincing mega geek Bill Gates has committed the ultimate faux pas - he's told Charlie Rose that Viva Piñata is for girls.

Originally announced in 2001, and having missed its proposed 2003 release date by a considerable margin, you can hardly blame folks for suspecting that this long-awaited Iron Curtain shooter was little more than vapourware.

At the risk of annoying Jack Thompson for the second time in a fortnight (apparently I haven't been paying close enough attention to all the medical research that proves videogames are murder simulators - naughty me!), I must admit that from time to time I come across something in a game that I wish I had in real life.

Following on from last week's announcement that Electronic Arts will publish Mercenaries 2: World in Flames, we tracked down Pandemic Studios president Josh Resnick for a quick chat about the move, and how the game will improve on its critically acclaimed predecessor.

Konami has piped up about a new Wii game it's developing, provisionally called Dewy's Adventure. It's about a little water droplet that has to try and save the world from evil - by being tilted around a lot.

Those PGR-making men up at Bizarre Creations have taken a bit of time out from sneakily developing games behind big blackout curtains to explain what's going on with one of their lesser-heard-about titles, The Club.

Clemens Wangerin, director of development at Sony Liverpool, has confirmed rumours that his team is working on WipEout for PlayStation 3.

360 owners will be able to download the female spy skins for Splinter Cell: Double Agent from Xbox Live, dispersing rumours that the content was exclusive to the PS3 version.

Radiation - it's not all ice cream and sandcastles in February. It's also one of those rare occasions where we don't want the graphs to go up. Still, there's nothing wrong with fictional radiation, which - to some extent - is what S.T.A.L.K.E.R. will be peddling when it comes out on 23rd March.

Leading us down memory lane this morning is Konami, which has announced a DS compilation of arcade titles due for release in the autumn.

Leaving a nice little package on our freshly mown lawn this morning is GoPets, a new DS title from Konami, which is due for release in autumn.

Here's a daft hypothetical question for you. If, for the rest of the year, you could only play games made in one country, and that country couldn't be one of the big four (America, Japan, Canada, and the UK) which nation would you choose? Being a lover of strategy and simulations, Russia's pretty tempting (1C:Maddox, Eagle Dynamics, Nival...) as is Sweden (home to Simbin, DICE and Paradox). Ultimately though, I think I'd probably have to plump for the Czech Republic. Eleven months of nothing but Operation Flashpoint/Armed Assault, Hidden & Dangerous 2, Mafia, and Altar's UFO series would be rather agreeable I reckon.

Comic actor and, these days, professional tequila hawk Dan Aykroyd has dropped hints about a new Ghostbusters game due out in 2008.

Horror and confusion in the land of THQ! Reports over the weekend suggested that the company was set to resurrect the likes of Red Faction, and produce further sequels to Destroy All Humans and MX - all courtesy of a conference call involving CEO Brian Farrell.

The 1.5 firmware, eh? You all remember that crazy bastard. Japan-only smart-card payment solutions and the ability to select an image as a user icon. This is why we have wars, everyone.

"Look at the games on that," says random person about Xbox Live Arcade content, "I used to love playing [Retro Classic] when I was a [certain age]." It's a statement that's hard to argue against when you consider the catalogue of titles available from the Marketplace, but are these remakes pigeon-holing the service as one for just regurgitated gems?

As a lifelong fan of sitting in comfy chairs whacking things, I've been a massive proponent of the industry's push to outlaw running in sports games. Wii Sports? Brilliant, amazing - a revolution in fake exercise. So when my friend who works in a game shop told me that Rafa Nadal Tennis didn't seem to care about running either, and that Codemasters had quietly slipped it out the door while we were off on Christmas holiday, I was filled with confidence and excitement. My enthusiasm was only strengthened when Nadal himself got crushed in the Australian Open last month and said it was because he didn't run.