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Like a lot of EA's annual cash-cow staples, Need For Speed has been through more peaks and troughs than your average cardiograph. Perhaps inevitably, after last year's palpitating return to form with Most Wanted, Carbon's solid but formulaic approach to street racing struggles to raise the pulse for much of the time. The problem? It's just too damned easy and plays down the role of the police to the detriment of the game.

Few games can claim as much trickle-down impact as Grand Theft Auto. A cult game at a time when gamers themselves were a cult, the PC original spawned numerous spin-offs, expansions and clones, and has given birth to enormous, perhaps even deciding influence in two separate console generations. It's also responsible for me! I didn't decide to be a games journalist; I decided to make a Grand Theft Auto fansite. It was the interminable wait for the second PC game that drove me to write about other stuff. DMA Design has a lot to answer for.

That wireless Guitar Hero controller sounds nice then, eh? Doesn't it? Unfortunately, it's starting to look like an Xbox 360 version of it is unlikely.

Nintendo of Europe marketing director Dawn Paine has told our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz that the company is confident the Wii will be a sell-out success this Christmas.

Namco Bandai says that Q Entertainment has finished messing about with Gunpey's PSP and DS development and shipped it off to be stuffed into UMDs and game cards.

Eurogamer's second poker challenge heat took place last night, with 102 of you turning out to stake a claim for the US$ 500 prize pot and a place in December's grand final.

SEGA has revealed that the PlayStation 3 version of Virtua Tennis 3 will support the Sixaxis' tilt function to move around the court and play shots.

Electronic Arts has revealed that three new Sims games are in development at the moment, including a true Sims 3.

Nintendo has shown off a new Super Smash Bros. Brawl trailer at its Nintendo World event in Japan today, "comprised almost entirely of gameplay" according to reports.

Psychonauts design hero legend person Tim Schafer has tricked the Internet into talking about his new game even though he hasn't actually said anything about it.

EA may have dropped enough hints in its investor conference call this week to cater to every taste - from the Sims and SimCity to Road Rash, Rings and Black - but in the more immediate future the news was less positive, with both Crysis and Army of Two experiencing delays.

Having revealed that it's working on several new Sims games in its investor conference call this week, EA has also hinted at several other new titles.

Peter Molyneux has joined the bloated ranks of developers who admit they fancy a go developing for Nintendo Wii.

It's been bloody ages since we heard anything substantial about Bioware's original PC fantasy role-player Dragon Age, but it looks like the wait is nearly over. For details, anyway (the game itself is apparently due in late 2007 or 2008).

Konami UK has confirmed that it's looking into the problems some gamers are experiencing with online matches in Pro Evolution Soccer 6.

Glistening water laps at the harbour wall. A cool, clear light bathes a flight of dusty steps, picking out the baroque details of a portico above. A chainsaw passes through your abdomen and you explode in a shower of offal.

Despite being one of the best-looking titles for the PlayStation 3 at launch (unless you're Ridge Racer 7 fetishist Tom, it's between this and MotorStorm really), Insomniac Games' Resistance: Fall of Man will not be integrated with the console's online functionality, specifically the built-in buddy list - instead, it will use its own buddy list, clan management system, and so on.

Sam Fisher's daughter is dead, and understandably he's not too happy about it. But what's a special agent to do when faced with personal tragedy other than throw himself into his work, entirely abandoning his former life in the process?

Xbox Live Gold subscribers looking forward to the videogame version of Eragon can download a 415MB demo today to see whether it's any good.

Codemasters has announced plans to release Rafa Nadal Tennis for the Nintendo DS this December, which not only features touch-screen controls but also allows you to play with up to three friends on a single game-card. Ooh.

Nintendo Wii's become the latest videogame-related thing to feature in an episode of South Park.

I'm killing cubes of jelly. Dozens and dozens of cubes of jelly. They didn't attack me; I just went for them, because someone told me to. Fortunately for cube sympathisers, new ones appear more quickly than I can murder them - I would put this down to some weird asexual amoeba reproduction, but the trouble is the deer are doing the same. And, frankly, I don't even want to think about how the floating eyeballs breed.

The balanced individuals of the Internet were in uproar yesterday: some of them were downloading the new Xbox 360 autumn update and discovering that it broke their console completely.

With Need For Speed Carbon out this Friday, EA has kicked off its Xbox 360 downloadable content plans with the release of the Collector's Edition Upgrade and various smaller bundles.

Nintendo's moved quickly to reaffirm that Wii will output in 480p, after Official Nintendo Magazine suggested it would offer higher resolutions.

Lionhead's Peter Molyneux has admitted that he sometimes changes things in his games to match the things he's been quoted as saying by the press.

Following Halo 3 revelations in a Swedish magazine at the end of October, now the French are at it - with more multiplayer information seeping out in the French Official Xbox Magazine.

Microsoft has released the second beta version of its XNA Game Studio Express toolset, claiming it's "a near final version of the tool".

With Resistance: Fall of Man now finished and ready for the PlayStation 3's launch in Japan and the US this month, Insomniac is turning its attention to other things.

Ratchet & Clank appears to be on its way to PlayStation Portable - and in a fairly advanced state already.