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Microsoft's Peter Moore has issued an open letter to the press with the aim of getting us PUMPED about the impending launch of Windows Vista - and primarily emphasising just how important the company believes games will be to the operating system's success.

Dave will be pleased: less than six months after the original version of the sequel, Samurai Warriors 2 Empires is due out here on 16th March.

Early access to the full version of Vanguard: Saga of Heroes will be offered to players who've pre-ordered from 26th January at 10am PST (6pm GMT), Sigil Games announced overnight.

Mario Kart 64 will be next week's addition to the American Virtual Console for Wii, bringing the total of currently available US titles to a massive 42.

Nintendo was pretty reluctant to release a follow-up to the NES. Having commanded a vice-like grip on the North American and South-East Asian game markets, it waited until its opponents had all shown their hands before trumping all of them with the Super Nintendo - or SNES as it became affectionately known.

Kicking off a series of regular updates on the Virtual Console releases, we thought we'd check out what the NES channel has to offer, and see whether these old 'Famicom' relics offer anything more than blind nostalgia appeal to a few veteran gamers out there.

To the wide-eyed European gamer in the late 1980s, the idea of owning a machine capable of playing arcade perfect ports seemed like a fantasy. But if money was no object, the release of the TurboGrafx-16 in Japan on 30th October 1987 went some way towards fulfilling that fantasy.

Ubisoft's first Driver game since it acquired the licence in 2006 will be for the PSP.

It still hasn't really sunk in that we're sitting here playing SEGA games on a Nintendo system. Sonic and Mario holding hands. The mere concept of it bends the laws of gaming physics so far out of shape that it has created a cultural black hole that's busily dragging the past kicking and screaming towards it. The last remaining hope is that these games are strong enough to withstand the force, or else we face the prospect of SEGA's rich 16-bit legacy becoming another footnote in the amorphous mass of gaming history.

The BBC is planning to launch a virtual world suitable for children between 7 and 12 years old to muck about it.

Team Ninja boss Tomonobu Itagaki has been leaking words again, talking about everything from the misunderstood Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 to how much he likes Wii.

Kororinpa, Hudson's Marble Madness-esque Wii title, is due out on 23rd February via Nintendo, the platform holder said this week, helping boost the Wii's sporadic schedule of post-launch exclusives.

Nintendo's starting to roll out its heavyweights on the US Virtual Console, with this week's Super Nintendo addition of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past among the heaviest yet. I'm not saying Link is fat like, just, you know.

'Why bother releasing Ms. Pac-Man when Pac-Man's already on Live Arcade?' is a not an unreasonable question to ask. Well, for a start, Ms. Pac-Man is by far the better game, offering four different maze variations. "Four, you say?" Yes, four. As in four times as many as dear old Pac-Man, therefore, four times as much fun. 32/10!

As promised, Xbox Live Gold members can this morning say hello to a playable demo of Real Time Worlds' Crackdown.

Super Columbine Massacre RPG!, is a homebrew RPG in which players take on the roles and actions of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the two killers in America's most deadly school shooting. The game has attracted worldwide criticism for its subject matter despite the fact numerous award-winning books and films based around the event have been released. Last week the Slamdance Independent film festival announced it was removing the game from its Guerrilla Gamemaker prize short-list citing fear of public backlash as its reasoning.

Certain Affinity's Max Hoberman says that Halo 3's Xbox Live features are "years ahead of everything that's out there".

Blizzard's World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade has becomes the second fastest-selling PC game in chart history, taking the number one spot in the All Formats charts and accounting for 30 per cent of all PC game sales last week.

The PlayStation 3 is set to receive another backwards compatibility boost in the next couple of days, as Sony readies a version 1.5 firmware update for the US and Japan.

Harmonix has officially confirmed reports that it's not working on a third game in the Guitar Hero series.

Much like brains tumbling out of a Zombie's sandwich, adventure title Gray Matter has slipped into Q1 2008.

You're about to have dinner in the living room, but you're in the kitchen. You've got a large plate of steaming vegetables. You pick it up with your right hand and start walking towards the door. But oh no! A potato is rolling towards the abyss! Quickly and expertly, you adjust the angle of the plate. The potato goes flying out of the nearest window.

PopCap Games had a successful 2006 on Live Arcade, crowned recently with the release of Heavy Weapon.

Not content with committing the ultimate sin and mentioning unannounced games the other day, Blizzard's vice president of development Itzik Ben Bassat has dropped hints about the company's next MMOG.

Microsoft has confirmed to the US press that Tenchu 360 will be available on American shelves sometime this year.

Squeeze the R-trigger and you peer around the seat in front. On either side of a sweet-wrapper-strewn gangway passengers yawn at in-flight movies or snore from beneath grey blankets. Stewardesses giggle huddled and preoccupied ten metres behind you. Tick tock and Carpe Diem: the moment has arrived. You tap A and the seat belt and adrenaline unclasp.

The Internet has spoken! To us! Using a form! And the results are further down this page. And across the next four. We thought, what with it getting on a bit, we wouldn't keep you in mega suspense and would instead splurge your favourite games of the last year all in one go. As with our own staff votes, you were asked for a list of your favourite games, and votes were compiled based the games' presence and their respective popularity with each of you - so Viva Piñata at number one, for example, was a bit more valuable than Mario & Luigi at five. Thanks once again for your involvement, and thanks to whoever at the TrackMania forums tried to cheat the game to the top of the chart. Finally, thanks to the chap whose wonderful typo brought us all a bit of January cheer. Altogether now: Destroy All Hymens!

Reports suggest that Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia will be released for Xbox 360 and PC on 3rd April, 2007. In America, anyway.

Hideo Kojima has admitted that he has a "strong interest" in working on Xbox 360. Interestingly, he also says he'd like to work on the PC.

Konami has announced the launch of a series of Metal Gear Solid 3 tournaments using the multiplayer mode in the recently released Subsistence version.