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Microsoft's chief financial officer, Christopher Liddell, has declared that the company is still on track to sell 10 million Xbox 360 units by 2007.

Square Enix is gearing up for a busy first few months of next year - with Final Fantasy III on Nintendo DS now down for release in the spring.

Will Wright reckons Spore is on track for release in the second half of 2007, having recently reached the stage where EA people outside the core development team are able to play it from beginning to end.

And so we return to one man's excitable quest to get you all to buy Viva Piñata, because it's great and I need someone to send me a crowla because I broke my last one.

Having already done a multiplayer demo for both Xbox 360 and PC and a single-player demo for the latter, Ubisoft has completed the set by uploading a single-player demo for Splinter Cell: Double Agent to Xbox Live Marketplace.

As promised, RoboBlitz has popped up on Xbox Live Arcade, offering you 19 levels of physics-based puzzle-solving and a bit of action in the latest Unreal Engine.

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Codemasters MMORPG ArchLord is to do away with ongoing subscription costs, which will no longer be required from the start of next year.

Let's hear it for turn-based strategy. Too often decried for being a plodding throwback to the 16-bit era, it's a tried and tested gameplay format that is long overdue a comeback. Real-time strategy is all very well but, a few notable exceptions aside, most RTS games are more about the real-time and less about the strategy. Frantically harvesting resources and churning out combat units before click-dragging the whole bloody lot and flinging them at the enemy - there's not really much room for nuanced thought in that equation. By using the lowly chess approach, turn-based games force you to ponder, to think and to - hey! - strategise.

Remember when it was all just about the games? The Sony/Microsoft face-off has become a no holds barred battle for the very living room itself, with both companies hell-bent on making their machines the full-on media 'hub' of choice, capable of handling your pictures, music and videos... and now, next generation DVDs.

Games Workshop co-founders Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone are planning to launch a new series of games based on the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks for DS and PSP, our sister site GamesIndustry.biz reveals today.

Sony has started to offer PSone games as downloads on its PS3 Store, although you can only play them on the PSP at the moment.

Factor 5 is set to work on games for PlayStation 3's e-Distribution Initiative (EDI) service once it's done with Lair.

The much anticipated Halo 3 trailer has gone live - you can watch it on Eurogamer TV and it's also available in high definition through Xbox Live Marketplace.

PlayStation Portable has helped deliver console-style experiences to previously uncharted locations: up mountains, on the train, over there a bit, next to a tree I expect. But on the back of a motorbike?

Electronic Arts' FIFA 07 has cemented its position at the top of the All Formats charts this week, while the publisher's Need for Speed: Carbon digs in behind it at number two.

RoboBlitz will be this Wednesday's 8am GMT addition to Xbox Live Arcade, says Microsoft, after all we got last week was a patch for Texas Hold 'em. Cheapskates.

The very business-oriented district of Yurakucho isn't Tokyo's most popular weekend destination - especially at 5am. So when a large number of people turn up on the very first train of the Yamanote Line, you can tell something's wrong - or at least out of the ordinary. On Saturday, 2nd December, the Wii launched in Japan - and its draw turned out to be quite remarkable.

Launching the Wii with just one big first party title is something of a calculated gamble for Nintendo. It knows that enough hardcore early adopters will be more than content to plough through Zelda over Christmas - but at the same time it has to try and gently educate the casual audience about how to use a Wii remote without being too patronising about it.

There are usually two ways that an adult reviewer will approach a kids game. One is to scoff at the reduced gameplay and juvenile aesthetic, and make no effort to put it in the context of its intended audience. The other is to play it for ten minutes, lose interest and assume that it's probably pretty good if you like that sort of thing. Both result in a safe score of around 5/10 and the overused qualifier "but kids will probably like it".

Bookmaker Paddy Power has predicted that EA's Need for Speed will top the all-formats software chart for the third year running this Christmas.

Sony Computer Entertainment America has agreed a deal with thatgamecompany, developer of downloadable PlayStation 3 game flOw, to produce additional titles.

Hurrah for David Jaffe! Not only did he make the excellent God of War, but he also drinks like a fish and then shouts at his PR minders when he's being interviewed at the Playboy Mansion.

It may have come out in June, but that hasn't stopped FlatOut 2's diligent owners not getting round to releasing a PC demo until December.

Nintendo has announced the release of four more titles on its US Virtual Console service, with Donkey Kong Jr., Victory Run, Columns and Ristar going live in the US today.

Firaxis' Sid Meier has hinted at the possibility of console and handheld based versions of his famous Civilization series - and he's not averse to the idea of episodic gaming either.

Australian consumers have racked up over 30,000 pre-orders of the Nintendo Wii ahead of the console launch later this week.

Napster founder Shawn Fanning is to launch a social networking site for online gamers, born from a frustration at the lack of communication tools in World of Warcraft.

The most hilarious thing about that weirdo who claims to have 100,000 Gamerscore points was the fact that he'd allegedly scalped 1000 of those points from playing Eragon.

Small Arms has been billed as Smash Bros. with guns, and that's a reasonable summary (unlike the weather outside these days, which is unreasonably wintery), but where you might imagine some sort of collusion between platforming combat and shoot-where-you-go gunnery, the controls are actually dual-stick, closer to something like Robotron.