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First eBay US introduced restrictions on the sale of PS3s - now eBay UK has banned users from offering them altogether.

I walked six miles in order to get my hands on an American copy of Guitar Hero this time last year. Despite having THREE separate pre-orders, the damn thing was so scarce at launch that come November 8th, 2005, I was completely lacking in miniature Harmonix-branded plastic guitars. I had to wander for an hour in search of a mysterious import shop in some creepy suburb, which had a sole unreserved copy left under the counter. Of course, now Guitar Hero is all popular, obtaining the sequel was an absolute breeze - two different copies made their various ways to my door before the game was even out. This is not how it should be. We should all have to walk six miles across some Godforsaken corner of Dorset at the beginning of November without a coat on, but nooo - now any old person can wander into a shop and buy eight copies of Guitar Hero, thanks to its tremendous and entirely deserved success.

If you'd asked me a year ago what I thought the first bit of Viva Piñata would be like, it's very unlikely that I would have guessed correctly that Earthraper and Soilhumper would have given birth to Conceivedinsin, and that I would then get Earthraper to have it off with Conceivedinsin to bring Incestibrate into the world, and then flog Soilhumper to a dodgy old lady so I could buy a lamp, before serving Earthraper and Incestibrate up to Flutterface and Gallantflaps so they could do the deed and produce Wingwrong.

Nintendo has declined to confirm whether a new version of the Wii with DVD playback feature will go on sale outside of Japan - despite a "worldwide agreement" with tech provider Sonic.

In what's turning into a bit of a banner day for EA downloads, the publisher has thrown a few more downloadable Need For Speed: Carbon vehicles onto Xbox Live Marketplace - each priced 80 Microsoft points.

Judging by my friends-list activity some of you have already spotted this, but there's a demo version of Electronic Arts' Superman Returns on Xbox Live Marketplace at the moment.

eBay has taken steps to limit the pre-sale of PlayStation 3 hardware units in the USA, as unscrupulous individuals inevitably swarm the auction sites trying to make a bit of extra money.

Electronic Arts has released a playable PC demo for NHL 07, which came out a couple of months back on about 58 different formats.

November 15, 2001. With PlayStation 2 dominating the console market, software giant Microsoft - renowned for its Windows operating systems and PC gaming titles - takes its first, bold steps into the console gaming arena with the US launch of the highly anticipated and much vaunted Xbox.

Chris Benoit is the best technical wrestler alive today. Stone Cold was better than the Rock. And the Big Show will kick Hogan's wrinkly old arse at Wrestlemania 23.

Rome mayor Walter Veltroni wants Rule of Rose banned from his country because it's violent and unsuitable for children.

Yar might be interested to hear that 2K Games and Firaxis have confirmed the upcoming February release of Sid Meier's Pirates! on PSP.

THQ has announced plans to release its first expansion for PC hackandslash Titan Quest in early 2007.

It's not just Xbox's fifth anniversary today, it's Halo's - and to celebrate the Bungie chaps have announced plans to do a public multiplayer beta of Halo 3 on Xbox Live next spring.

Ahead of the launch of the PlayStation 3 in the US, Lazard Capital Markets believes Sony will only be able to ship between 150,000 and 200,000 units to retail shelves.

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Lorne Lanning has told our sister site GamesIndustry.biz that games need to appeal to a mass market, and that part of the problem at the moment is failure to appeal to adults.

Looking like something of a cross between Jedi Starfighter (which is no bad thing) and Incoming (which is), with a twist of Battle Engine Aquila, Yager Developments has put its name to a game that promises originality and a rich storyline along with absorbing flight-combat. Sounds alright doesn't it? It is!

Having previously pledged both Sonic the Hedgehog and Full Auto 2: Battlelines to the PlayStation 3's US launch, now it turns out SEGA won't be there with either.

Defender will be this Wednesday's Xbox Live Arcade release, Microsoft's announced.

Sony Online Entertainment has decided to rename its forthcoming PSP shoot-'em-up Cash Money Chaos for reasons unknown.

SEGA has joined the ranks of publishers using Valve's Steam service to distribute games, introducing Medieval II: Total War to the service - but only in America.

Microsoft's casual games boss, Kim Pallister, has told our sister site GamesIndustry.biz that he doesn't believe the growth of digital distribution will have an effect on retailers - at least not in the near future.

Phil Harrison has signalled Sony's intention to make user-created content a significant aspect of the PlayStation 3 platform - and he's not just talking about wacky avatars.

David Braben believes that people shouldn't write off Sony (or on them), arguing that the machine's versatility may lead consumers to regard it "more as a cheap PC than an expensive console".

Enterbrain, publisher of Famitsu, has revealed the the tie-in ratio of software to PlayStation 3 sales is 0.98 - less than one game per console.

A new report by analyst Compete has revealed that almost half of US consumers considering the purchase of a PS3 are in for a surprise when it comes to the console's price.

Yesterday we invited you all to come back and talk to Lumines and Rez creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi at lunchtime. Unfortunately, the PR firm setting it up tells us that he can't join us today and needs to reschedule.

Sports Interactive and SEGA have announced that the Xbox 360 and PSP versions of Football Manager 2007 are finished and due out on 1st December.

With an extra boost due to the Xbox 360 release, Need for Speed Carbon has held on to the top spot of the UK All Formats Charts, despite two new entries from popular franchises Call of Duty and WWE Smackdown Vs RAW.