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Nintendo UK has said that 36 new games will appear on the Wii's Virtual Console in Q1 of 2007, including Ocarina of Time, Mario Kart 64 and Super Mario World.

Ignoring the howls of anguish emanating from his public relations department, Sony president Kaz Hirai has been saying things again - and guess what? He reckons PS3 is the most powerful games console, that Blu-ray is ace, and that Sony is amazing.

SEGA has renewed its Virtual Console vows in a lavish press release, tossing glittering flowers of hope into a crowd of gullible nostalgics as it streaks away in a car made of money. Yes, there'll be some more SEGA games up in the next three months.

Kristan squealed with delight this morning when he learned that this week's addition to Xbox Live Arcade would be Ms. Pac-Man, set to waka-waka way onto the download service tomorrow morning at 9am.

Philips launched its upcoming amBX gaming hardware at CES in Las Vegas yesterday, kicking the whole shebang off with a Supreme Commander demo and promising console-related announcements at GDC in March.

When exactly is the best time for a bogey? Why on Earth are animals flying fighter planes? These are important questions that Vivendi wants to answer with its freshly announced PSP game, M.A.C.H.

Perhaps, on reflection, Sigil Games might feel that putting the word "Saga" into the name was asking for trouble. Calling a game a "Saga" of anything, aside from inviting silly jokes about old age pensioners that don't play very well beyond England's shores, also practically guarantees that your development process will indeed become a Saga - a long, drawn out and somewhat painful experience abounding with whispered half-truths and vague generalisations. Still - even given the number of misconceptions and conflicting views which exist on the topic of Vanguard, Sigil's developers can at least count themselves lucky that they avoided the "Forever" pitfall, eh?

The moment you've all been waiting for (not very patiently, by the way - there'll be no supper for you) has arrived: we're giving away Vanguard: Saga of Heroes beta keys.

Konami's Nintendo Wii debut Elebits will launch in Europe this spring, but you won't be able to find it under that name - instead the game you'll be looking for is "Eledees".

Microsoft uber-king Bill Gates delivered a CES keynote in Las Vegas this morning that kept gaming at its core and showed an extended vision for connectivity between Xbox 360 and Windows Vista.

Epic Games has confirmed that this week will see the release of a Gears of War patch and two new downloadable maps, as well as an "introductory video" starring lead designer Cliff Bleszinski.

2K Games aims to release Bioshock in the US and Europe this June, although the US date is more certain than the European one, inevitably.

Sony Computer Entertainment America has announced that 1 million PS3 units were shipped across North America in the six weeks following launch - breaking the record previously set by PlayStation 2.

Hideo Kojima isn't bothered about high definition gaming, arguing that Metal Gear Solid games "tend not to care about how clean the screen looks".

Sony Online Entertainment has done a deal with Midway to bring a sextet of ageing arcade titles to PlayStation 3's network store in 2007.

Wario Ware is one of the simplest games we've ever played. The wafer-thin premise is that Wario has decided to cash in on the popularity of videogames by starting up his own developer, and - for some reason - the player has to move across town playing through a series of the townfolk's five-second long minigames using the D-pad and A button for control, culminating each time in a protracted boss fight of a minigame and eventually coming head-to-head with the master designer himself. He'll smack ya.

If ever there was a game that has been played to death, it has to be Everquest and its myriad of expansion. With a legion of passionate, nay obsessed followers (or should that be apostles), you could say that anticipation over Vanguard: Saga Of Heroes, the next project from the creative minds of EQ, is running high.

Commercial deployment of Xbox 360's IPTV service is being trialed with groups including BT and Deutsche Telekom - suggesting we won't be left behind as we were with Video Marketplace - while UNO will be among the games that Windows Vista users can play against their Xbox 360 counterparts, but Halo 2's functionality may be more limited.

ELSPA director general Paul Jackson has called on Boris Johnson to take a closer look at videogames following the Tory MP's outspoken criticism of the medium.

EA has announced a collector's pack for Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, which will be released alongside the standard PC version in March.

If you go down to the woods today, or to Eurogamer TV, you'll find a feathery new trailer of a Griffin, one of several flying mounts that players can choose from in Vanguard: Saga of Heroes.

Sigil Games' upcoming MMORPG, Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, will enter an open beta phase next week, and Eurogamer will be the only place to come for keys.

Those of you who dilly-dallied back in November about whether or not to buy Killzone: Liberation, can now try it out for yourselves.

In parts one and two of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. diary, Ukranian developer GSC Game World talked about the history of Chernobyl and the origins of the game's story. In today's instalment, the team describes how it decided to utilise the region as a backdrop, and the steps it took to ensure believability without becoming tedious. You can also check out some comparison images - demonstrating real-life locations next to their in-game equivalents - as well as another EGTV trailer this morning.

Outspoken Tory MP Boris Johnson has declared that it's time to "garotte the Game Boy and paralyse the PlayStation", blaming falling literacy rates on the rise of videogames.

Early magazine previews have spilled details about Oblivion's first real expansion, Shivering Isles.

Sony bolstered the ranks of games flashing about its American PlayStation 3 Store overnight, giving those of you with import consoles and, er, import credit cards the chance to try the PS3 version of PSP puzzle-racer GripShift.

Analyst Michael Pachter has said that he doubts Rockstar will bother doing a sequel to Canis Canem Edit, despite all the critical acclaim.

Britain has a great way of dealing with the less glorious episodes in its colourful past - it doesn't talk about them. Ask the average Brit to name a conflict that ended in defeat for the UK and chances are they'll struggle to come up with one. I'd probably struggle too if it wasn't for the fact I'd just spent a pleasant and highly educational week in the company of American War of Independence wargame Birth of America.

Japanese shootermeisters Treasure are primed to work on Nintendo Wii, but not right now because they're busy.