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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.

Like the belt buckles of a Hawaiian marathon-runner who's been denied water for a week, Europe's Virtual Console line-up found a couple of notches it couldn't previously reach overnight.

January looks like it's going to be another solid month for Japanese Wii owners, as the Virtual Console line-up promises another 12 retro-dazzlers.

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.