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The PlayStation 3 version of PSP racing game Gripshift is just around the corner, according to reports.

Unless you've spent the last week or so in a coma after being brained by a flying Wiimote, you're probably aware by now of just how successful the launch of Nintendo's latest has been - but a trawl of gamer opinion would reveal that among the hardcore, at least, there's still some skepticism over the long-term prospects for the console. That's not really based on any level of mistrust for Nintendo's ability to keep delivering great experiences for the Wii - the DS' track record banishes any lingering doubt in that regard - but rather on a well-founded concern over how third party publishers will cope with things like the new control scheme and the vast imbalance in power between this and other next-gen systems.

Why are yearly updates a good idea? Because content just swells on those discs. A game like NBA 2K7 couldn't be where it is today - at the top of the heap - without years of tweaks, refinements, tinkering, mistakes, polish and hard graft. It's difficult to know where to start with NBA 2K7 because there's so much of it. Seasons, tournaments, single games, franchise mode and a fat online offering easily make it the most comprehensive basketball title on next-gen, laughing off any semi-pro challenge that comes from EA's NBA Live effort. 2K Games' b-ball title is the shit.

The first commercially developed game for the GP2X is Payback, a "bloody crime caper" that originally appeared on the GBA back in 2004.

Blizzard's released a corking cinematic introduction movie for World of Warcraft expansion The Burning Crusade, ahead of the add-on's January 16 launch.

The potential of the Wiimote, as I will forever insist on calling it, is enormous, and for many excited developer puppies it will be overwhelming. While the new Monkey Ball wasted some opportunities with the crappy party games, the natural and instinctive use of a motion sensitive controller for the regular levels feels like this is how the series was always designed to be played. A skateboarding sim, however, does not.

Epic Games President Mike Capps has said that Gears of War will be supported by free downloadable content.

Ubisoft's first patch for its squad-based tactical shooter on the Xbox 360 has been released today.

Square Enix has confirmed that it's doing a new PSP version of Final Fantasy Tactics, while a second game, reportedly a sequel to the GBA FF Tactics Advance title, is also in development.

The Detroit Tigers (baseball, apparently) have admitted that one of their pitchers (ball-chucker) Joel Zumaya was sidelined recently not because of the aches and pains of the sport, but because he was playing too much Guitar Hero.

Actress Kristen Bell appears to have done what Ubisoft's been trying to avoid, and told everyone exactly what's going on behind the scenes in Assassin's Creed.

Former Bungie team lead Max Hoberman has told GamesIndustry.biz that his new studio, Certain Affinity, won't necessarily develop games exclusively for Xbox and Xbox 360 - despite a close relationship with Microsoft.

Nintendo has offered to replace more than 3.2 million Wii remote straps after users complained that the connecting cord broke too easily.

In making the leap from joypad to handheld, the perennially unremarkable Ford Racing series finally has something to crow about - it's one of the few games to actually expand during the transition, rather than being crudely chopped down to size. That's not to say that the flaws apparent in the most recent console edition (which I also had the honour of reviewing) aren't still present and incorrect but, for what it's worth, if you were ever tempted to give the series a spin, this would probably be the best version to try.

Film director Kevin Smith says that he wouldn't mind seeing a Jay and Silent Bob game, but he's clear on the fact that he wouldn't like to make it himself.

Looks like we won't have to wait long for more on Halo 3, with our old pal Internet reports bringing us word of a video set to go up on Xbox Live Marketplace next week.

Those jolly, secret-keeping experts at Microsoft have revealed that the list of soon-to-be-backwards-compatible Xbox games leaked earlier this week was in fact quite genuine. What's more, the update that makes them work on your Xbox 360 is now available. Hooray!

In the second part of GSC Game World's S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl developer diary, the team walks you through the origins of the game's story, and how it relates to the real-life events detailed in last week's first instalment. Look also to Eurogamer TV for an accompanying trailer, with a handful of new screenshots to be found elsewhere on the site.

Excuse the unpleasant analogy but Final Fantasy III DS, which has never previously been released outside Japan, is your grandmother in the aftermath of a miracle TV-makeover. She's had her face sculpted back to 18-year-old porcelain perfection, skin ironed so as to wipe away the wrinkled scrawl of merciless, advancing years. Her tweed, sensible trousers have been tailored down to rude mini-skirt; granny stockings swapped for provocative fishnets and that blue rinse bob repainted blonde, flowing and coyly curled. The transformation is terribly impressive for the cameras and, y'know, you kinda fancy her for it, but still... something is definitely Not. Quite. Right.

Ubisoft is bringing Rocky back for another round - this time on the PSP - to coincide with the release of what's presumably the last film about Sylvester Stallone's iconic boxer.

There is a long tradition of showing off new videogames by hiring a glamorous and/or swanky location, dishing out a few trays of canapés and sticking a few demo units in to show off an early version of the game. Presumably when PR and marketing departments do this it's because they hope that the grotty game journalists they invite will write something nice about the game that they're showing off. But actually you book a location like HMS Belfast at your own risk, because, as a grotty game journalist it's very difficult to avoid getting drawn into writing about how brilliant the location is, instead of writing about the game in question.

Having already appeared on PSP and PlayStation 2, excellent puzzle game Mercury Meltdown is on its way to Nintendo Wii next spring.

Fortunately for anybody smarting from the wait for Excite Truck (16th Feb), Wario Ware: Smooth Moves has now been dated too. It'll be with us on 12th January.

Those of you wondering where Excite Truck was at the European launch of Nintendo Wii have your answer: it was being held back until 16th February 2007.

Sony has admitted that a brilliantly terrible marketing blog masquerading as the personal website of two semi-literate youngsters is in fact a brilliantly terrible marketing blog masquerading as the personal website of two semi-literate youngsters.

Sony Corporation has said it is still on track to ship 2 million PS3 units by the end of the year, despite manufacturing problems and a failure to meet the day one shipment target for North America.

Lost Planet may not be out until 12th January, but Capcom's already setting admirable precedents for its first major online multiplayer game on Xbox 360.

Xbox Live Arcade is such an exciting lucky dip. It's like Microsoft has this big machine (probably called Guinievere) and spins it around once a week in front of excited retro gamers. Out plops a little ball with a game name and up steps a grizzled-looking Dominik Diamond to pluck the next lucky winner to be released into the masses.

Sony has released a little backwards compatibility update for the PlayStation 3, allowing US and Japanese gamers to play PS2 titles that require use of the hard disk.

The American games market saw more than twice as many Wii consoles sold as PlayStation 3s during November, according to data from research group NPD.