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The Microsoft blogging corps has comprehensively dismantled rumours that Gears of War is on its way to the PC.

Online retailer Amazon.co.uk opened its long-awaited pre-orders for the Nintendo Wii this morning at 09.37 - and had closed them by the time the clocks rolled around to twenty to ten, with the firm's entire launch day allocation already sold out.

With the PSP now capable of playing old-days PlayStation games downloaded using the PS3, Sony has announced when it's, you know, going to release some to download.

A Microsoft ad-man looks to have inadvertently confirmed Epic Games' plan for further Gears of War titles.

Hironobu Sakaguchi has said that he's already looking toward a sequel for Xbox 360 exclusive RPG Blue Dragon, which is due out in Japan on 7th December.

Nintendo has revealed that the DS has sold over seven million units across Europe, with six titles breaking the one million units sales mark.

Veteran game designer David Braben has said that he believes there's still very much a future for independent studios, despite a more cautious attitude from publishers.

Karl Jeffery, CEO of developer Climax, has told our sister site GamesIndustry.biz that Sony must act to reverse poor performance of the PSP before publishers begin to abandon the format.

It's tempting to write a big long introduction about how decidedly average the first Killzone game was here, but that wouldn't be very fair. One article in an official magazine came out calling it a Halo-killer and suddenly everybody in the world was expecting it to be the PlayStation 2's Second Coming and no wonder it was such a let-down when the poor fanboys actually got to play it rather than lying about how amazing it was on forums. Admittedly it was disappointing, but it wouldn't have appeared nearly as disappointing had it not been smothered in such completely unfounded hype, and now it's come to be something of a poster-game for Sony cynics . Poor Killzone. It wasn't its fault.

There are always things you can rely on in life. Michael Schumacher on the winner's podium, and an annual Formula One game from Sony. But although interest in F1 videogames continues to tumble from their peak ten years ago (when, incredibly, Psygnosis' F1 game was the biggest all format seller in the UK in the entire year), the quality of these often overlooked games remains as high as ever.

Sony has released its version 3.00 firmware for PlayStation Portable, adding the ability to play emulated PSone games bought in the PlayStation Store and to act as a remote control for the PlayStation 3 among other things.

Agents from the FBI have raided and shut down the L2Extreme website and servers, which operated an unauthorised server for NCsoft's Lineage II massively multiplayer game, and claimed to have half a million registered users.

Tecmo's Tomonobu Itagaki has reportedly confirmed that he plans to create a fifth game in the Dead Or Alive beat-'em-up series.

Gastronaut Studios' Small Arms is due to debut on Xbox Live Arcade tomorrow morning, where it will retail for 800 Microsoft points - with the usual trial version available to help recommend it.

SCEA veep Jack Tretton has implied that Sony passed on the opportunity to bind Grand Theft Auto exclusively to PlayStation for another generation.

Microsoft and Epic have claimed the Chart Track All Formats number one with Gears of War – the fastest-selling Xbox 360 title to date.

Yep, we're home on the range again, back in the big country, checking out all the pretty horses, and hellbent on restoring law and order to Dodge City in old California (sort of), thanks to Activision's decision to enlist the help of a hired hand to convert last year's western, GUN, for Sony's little big man, the PSP. British developer, Rebellion (not a bad company) has shown true grit in porting the title, with some technically impressive results, but unfortunately while the game's got a fair bit of good, it's also got it's share of the bad and the ugly too. How's this concept intro working out for you by the way? I'll level with you: it's not going as well as I intended. Am I (un)forgiven?

Being a games journalist, I spend much of my time on my own with only a PC and my numerous games consoles for company. It's sometimes a lonely life but I love it and really wouldn't have it any other way. My flat might be tiny and cluttered, stuffed to the gills with consoles, code and DVDs but it's home and, unlike many journalists, I thrive on the isolation.

Early adopters of the PlayStation 3 have reportedly managed to get a variety of emulators up and running on the system - including hugely popular arcade machine emulator MAME, and a NES emulator, with videos of games such as Super Mario Bros and Pac-Man being posted to YouTube over the weekend.

Strategy First, who publish a variety of PC strategy titles (bet you didn't see that coming), have announced that they're going to knock 20 per cent off their entire range between now and the end of November, for orders placed online.

Nintendo of Canada exec Pierre-Paul Trépanier has told our sister site GamesIndustry.biz that the company is already raking in the cash following yesterday's launch of the Wii.

There has been a conspiracy today to remind me about the Video Games Live concert; first a press release trumpeting the involvement of Richard Jacques in the event, and then a near-miss when I almost managed to empty my ticket for the event into the bin during a much-needed purge of about seven hundred supermarket receipts and Nectar point statements from my wallet.

The next-gen console battle has officially kicked off in North America following the launch of the Nintendo Wii - with Reggie Fils-Aime handing over the first console.

While the PS3 launch may have made headlines due to stock shortages and lengthy queues, the situation couldn’t have seemed more different for the launch of the Nintendo Wii in Canada just two days later.

Whatever you or I may think of the PS3, GTA publisher Take Two loves it - and unlike "all men", who I am informed by a female friend are "weaselly little rats, oh except you of course", Take Two isn't afraid of commitment.

Wow. They actually did it. They actually found a way to make MK Armageddon even less necessary. While the new game might have vast rosters of characters, the simplicity of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 and its wealth of classic finishing moves make it the far better game and for far less cash. We don't want dodgy third-person adventure modes, half-baked creation modes or reams of unlockable artwork. We just want to beat gallons of blood out of silly-looking characters then make them explode in a shower of bones and offal. Is that such a bad thing, really? Perhaps it is, but as far as guilty pleasures go, UMK3 is right up there.

The American version of the PlayStation 3 backwards compatibility database is now online, allowing you to search through hundreds of PS2 and PSone games and see if they work on Sony's new console.

Xbox Live's director of programming Larry Hryb says that Gears of War has finally overtaken Halo 2 and become the most popular game on Microsoft's multiplayer service.

Pilot Academy is a game about flying planes. It's got civilian planes, military planes, new planes, and old planes; it's got missions, challenges and lessons; and it's got records and achievements and multiplayer modes. It's an extension of the Japanese flight sim series, Pilot Ni Narou (or Let's Become A Pilot!), which has been brought out over here by Rising Star Games, a publisher with the admirable mission of releasing lesser known or niche Japanese titles in the west. But on balance, they probably shouldn't have bothered with Pilot Ni Narou.

Sony has told on the people trying to sell its PlayStation 3 console to European consumers. Again.