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While we've been off stuffing our plants with special mix, Nintendo has been shovelling bytes into its roaring Virtual Console - adding a handful of new games on each of the last two Fridays.

Codemasters has released a new trailer for Turbine's upcoming Lord of the Rings MMORPG, which it's publishing later this year.

Uwe Boll is a legend in his own right. Yes he punches critics, but at least his films are rubbish.

The two Taito Legends compilations released over the past 18 months offer an almost exhaustive peek into the archives of one of Japan's most important publishers of all-time. For less than the price of a full-priced title, you can now easily pick up both and trawl through about 68 games spanning arcade glory years from 1978 to the less celebrated '90s.

If you are one of the many Eurogamer readers from across the pond who previously tried but failed to gain entry to the spring Halo 3 beta, do not despair! Microsoft has announced a further two additional paths to make your virtual dreams come true.

Following yesterday's news that Rare co-founders Chris and Tim Stamper have left the company to pursue other ventures, support for the Leicestershire developer has emerged from an unlikely source: Sony's Phil Harrison.

EA Montreal's Alain Tascan - infamous for his recent claim that Gears of War lacked innovation - says that his Canadian studio, and EA at large, realises the importance of new intellectual property and aims to cultivate it.

Whoopsy daisy. Looks like somebody didn't tell 2K Sports about the PlayStation 3's loss of vibration until too late. Either that or one of the copy writers was having a bad day, because a poster on the official PlayStation message boards has unearthed a page of NBA 2K7's PS3 manual that highlights its support for, er, pad vibration.

US lawyer Jack Thompson wants Bill Gates to take a personal role in shutting down sales of Grand Theft Auto IV later this year.

Eidos exec and industry veteran Ian Livingstone believes new technology is key to creating innovation in the videogame sector, as all current game genres are too crowded for new ideas to flourish.

Cristophe Gans has told French Magazine DVDrama that work on a second Silent Hill film is well under way, and he promises that it will remedy all of the problems of the first picture.

Having charted Sony's "early PR mishaps" yesterday, among other things (including your fondness for Uwe Boll and Paris Hilton), today's concluding instalment gets a little more sinister.

Electronic Arts finished 2006 in the same position as it started - with a number one title in the UK All Formats charts.

We'll have to wait until spring 2007 at the earliest to get our hands on beta versions of Halo 3, but not everyone has to - with US soldiers in Iraq given the chance to go hands-on with an early version over the Christmas break.

EA says that it's trying to work out how a teenager in Utah wound up exposed to a pornographic image when he turned on his Christmas copy of Madden.

Rare founders Tim and Chris Stamper have left the British developer as the company enters its 25th year, Microsoft has confirmed.

Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops has received rave reviews since its release in the USA late last year, and that coupled with comments made by an assistant producer suggest a sequel is definitely on the way.

Rally driving doesn't wait for anybody, not even Jesus. So, while we were indulging in the Christmas festivities, retro-heads at Microsoft squeezed this 1981 classic online.

If you've been waiting a hefty eight months for Funcom to release a demo for Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, then your wait is finally over.

Epic's Gears of War has out-gunned Call of Duty 2, GRAW, and Oblivion for the title of most played game in 2006, Major Nelson's blog-site reports.

Eurogamer gets through hundreds, even thousands of news stories every year, and quite a lot of them aren't just about games and how many polygons they've got in them - some of them are about whether they have motorbikes, too.

German publisher JoWooD has revealed that a sequel to PC shooter Soldner is in development and due out towards the end of 2007.

Comments from an animator working for Microsoft's internal outfit FASA - the development studio responsible for MechWarrior and MechCommander titles - suggest that the company is currently working on an Xbox 360 successor to classic Super Nintendo and Mega Drive RPG Shadowrun. Microsoft has officially declined to comment.

Microsoft and FASA Studios are set to run a public beta test for Shadowrun, starting in mid December and concluding in March.

Digital Extremes' next-gen shooter Dark Sector won't be appearing on PC after all, according to project lead Steve Sinclair.

Gran Turismo HD Concept has been released in the US and Japan over the Christmas break, offering "PS3 and automotive fans a glimpse into the future of Gran Turismo," according to series creator Kazunori Yamauchi.

You know, Christmas television is a lot like Bullet Hell. There's Remains Of The Day, sure, which is fun to watch back to back with Silence of the Lambs, but there are also 17 thousand episodes of Eastenders fired into your frame as you twist past the turkey and shake chocolate from the boss-tree.

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas on the PC is basically identical to Tom Clancy's Rainbox Six: Vegas on the Xbox 360. Since Kristan reviewed it across three pages, surely that means I can wrap up my first review of the year in record time and finally start my Christmas shopping.

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