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Those of you hoping for a bumper Virtual Console update on the back of this week's 36 new games in Q1 announcement are going to be disappointed, because Nintendo tells us Xevious is today's only release.

Looks like Konami isn't guilty of mass cancellations of Wii and PS3 projects, nor quietly deciding not to bother continuing with a handful of prototypes either: those games listed by Famitsu this week haven't been cancelled after all.

Blu-ray DVDs are to include a feature that will allow copies of films to be transferred to laptops or other devices.

EA has announced The Godfather: The Don's Edition for PS3, and The Godfather: Blackhand Edition for Wii.

Despite sounding like a dog biscuit, "Champs" is actually a free new map for Call of Duty 3.

Crazy Taxi's set to make a return this summer - with a PSP instalment mixing the content of the first two Dreamcast games and adding a few new features.

Having talked yesterday about the inclusion of a subsciption-based MMO mode for Hellgate: London, Flagship Studios CEO Bill Roper is now saying it's only one of the options being explored.

The bore of words continues! Having said this week that he doubts Sony "has the talent" to catch up with Xbox Live, Microsoft's Peter Moore now finds himself on the receiving end of similarly snipey comments from Sony America PR boss Dave Karraker - who also took umbrage at Moore's claim that it's "not in Sony's DNA" to get a software solution like Live up and running "from zero".

The speculation as to who will be publishing Q Entertainment's musical-puzzler across Europe is finally at an end (if it ever began).

Koch Media has announced details of its Vanguard: Saga of Heroes pre-order campaign, which is exclusive to GAME stores in the UK from tomorrow, 12th January.

Sony's Phil Harrison has admitted that the company "overreached" with its decision to include a Blu-ray drive in PlayStation 3.

Konami appears to have cleared the development decks a bit with the "cancellation" of several PlayStation 3 and Wii titles.

ELSPA has declared that the British videogames industry hit an "all time high" in 2006 with a 7 per cent increase in the number of games sold - bringing the total figure to 65.1 million units.

Sony America has explained away a misleading press release earlier this week suggesting its PlayStation 3 controller had won an Emmy by admitting it was confused about the technology being honoured.

Epic Games' Mark Rein has once again smacked down rumours of a PC version of Gears of War, after various blogs picked up on references to the game in drivers for NVIDIA graphics cards.

id Software's John Carmack says that he isn't sure Sony will come out on top in the next generation.

Microsoft games head Peter Moore launched an unprecedented attack on Sony's PlayStation 3 business at CES in Las Vegas yesterday, saying the company lacks the talent or the company make-up to ever deliver a suitable online console service for consumers.

The UK government has backed a project by Sony Europe and developer Relentless to create a spin-off of the popular Buzz Quiz for the schools market.

Gone are the cries of "I wish I'd seen his face," as EA announces camera support for the 360 version of Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars.

When we shoot things in videogames, we almost expect the downed foe to leave something shiny behind for us to pick up. It's practically a gaming law, with some of them designed to take advantage of our curious obsessive-compulsive desire to hoard thousands of pointless artefacts like the thieving digital magpies that we are. How many times have we gone back to games we've already finished, just to make sure we've hoovered up every last orb/crystal/coin/whatever? It's the first sign of madness, I tells ya.

How do you improve a game as good as Virtua Tennis 2? Even though it's been four or five years since its release, it's still the best tennis game on any platform, anywhere. The sheer simplicity of the series masks an astonishing achievement: by pinning down the physics of a tennis ball and tying it together with simple, effective controls the game boils down to position and timing. Which means it's basically as open-ended as the real thing, and each game - heck, each point - is capable of unfolding into infinite possibilities. So exactly how do you build on 'one of the most enduringly playable games of all time' (as it's been referred to in some very highly respected quarters)?

More details have emerged of Jeff Minter's XBLA game, Space Giraffe.

The Microsoft-backed Gamerscoreblog has posted a small advisory for players of Xbox Live Arcade's Texas Hold 'em: your leaderboards are about to be reset.

Having banged on yesterday about his desire to appeal to Diablo fans, Flagship Studios CEO Bill Roper has admitted that upcoming PC title Hellgate: London will still have plenty in common with an MMO - including a subscription fee.

Walking around dressed as a Murloc has its ups and downs. Fortunately for us we can be amongst our own kind this coming Monday evening, as we queue up outside Oxford Street's HMV for our exclusive copy of World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade.

Having given up howling with anguish, Sony's US public relations department is now trying to claw its own brains out using a Memory Stick. Or so we'd surmise - what they're not doing right now is responding to claims they misled the public about an Emmy award for the PlayStation 3 Sixaxis controller.

Those of you logging onto Xbox Live today - perhaps in search of new Live Arcade title Ms. Pac-Man, or on the hunt for the new Gears of War maps - might be surprised by a downloadable update for the Xbox 360 dashboard.

Microsoft will introduce videogame content to the Zune media player within 18 months, according to a new report.

Kuju has confirmed to GamesIndustry.biz that it has severed its publishing deal with LucasArts for upcoming PSP title Traxion.

Microsoft's Chris Satchell has dismissed rumours of revised Xbox 360 hardware sporting an HDMI port and a high-capacity hard disk, even claiming that photographs rustled up by our old friend Internet Reports mean very little.