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When deciding where to show off Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas to a band of journalists, Ubisoft opted against the obvious step of choosing a casino. They were probably mindful of the likely effects of exposing impressionable videogame journalists to too much temptation. Or maybe of the fact that any British casino is likely to feel very dowdy compared to the kaleidoscopic array of one-armed bandits and exotic architecture in the game (feel free to add your own political joke about Tony B. Liar, Tessa Jowell and supercasinos here).

Oh, how times have changed. Violence in media is now far more accepted than it was when Mortal Kombat first hit the arcades, but despite the fact that the world has moved on around it, Midway's once-celebrated fighting series has barely moved an inch in the fourteen years since its introduction. The comedy violence still raises a chuckle now and again, sure, but just as the world's attitude to violence has moved on, so have people's expectations of what a fighting game should deliver.

You might be a long follower of the Dragon Quest Heroes series - you know, in that really foul manner where you make sure everyone knows it in as smug a way as possible. "Well, this clearly isn't a patch on the Japanese-only Dragon Quest Heroes XVIII for the never-released Sega Catacomb, and frankly who are you to pass comment on anything in my awesome presence." Do be quiet. No one likes you.

Today will see the release of a new Kameo-themed deck for the Xbox Live Arcade version of UNO, and as with previous themed decks this does more than wrap the thing up in recognisable graphics.

Rare plans to release a second map pack for Perfect Dark Zero in the near future, having already stuffed a pair of the pack's maps into the new "Platinum Hits" re-release of the boxed game in the US.

Sony's Phil Harrison says the company is already working with developers on "about 40" exclusive titles that fit into its e-Distribution Initiative (EDI) - the PlayStation 3 equivalent of Xbox Live Arcade.

Nintendo has announced that 27 Wii games will be released in Europe by the end of the year, with a further 31 retro titles available via the Virtual Console service.

Sony has issued a warning against websites attempting to take advantage of PlayStation 3 pre-orders.

Those of you trying to get the most out of Mercury Meltdown - Ignition's excellent new PSP puzzle title - might want to cast an eye over a few exclusive new videos on Eurogamer TV.

With the Western release lists for Virtual Console taking shape, it turns out Nintendo's going a bit further in its homeland - with a different range of games to the ones we're getting, according to a report on 1UP.

Ubisoft executive Alain Corre has said he believes Microsoft is set to reap the benefits of the European PS3 delay this Christmas in the form of extra hardware and software sales.

Free Radical Design's David Doak has told our sister site GamesIndustry.biz that if the developer didn't own it's own intellectual property, it would have gone bust.

Nintendo says that American gamers will have the choice of around 30 Virtual Console titles for platforms like the Super Nintendo before the end of 2006, and has confirmed its own line-ups. Headliners include the likes of Super Mario 64 (N64) and F-Zero (SNES).

Those of you who still haven't tried The Ship, Outerlight's peculiar first-person murder mystery, will be able to check it out for free this weekend.

Microsoft has confirmed what retail suggestions yesterday led us to conclude: that in light of Viva Piñata's having gone gold, the game will appear on European shelves on 1st December. The US version is out on 9th November.

David Jaffe's forthcoming PlayStation 3 downloadable game, Criminal Crackdown, isn't called that any more. Instead, it'll go by "Calling All Cars".

THQ and Volition have released a patch for Xbox 360's Saints Row, aiming to sort out a bunch of multiplayer problems as well as some general glitches. The "auto-update" should download whenever you next fire up the game.

Ridge Racer 7 is the saviour of PlayStation 3.

Heres a phrase that you probably don't associate with the majority of videogame reviews:

It may only have managed to do about US$ 125 million in first-day sales on its way to selling north of 7.4 million units, but at least Halo 2 has been partly successful - with Bungie revealing that the number of online games played has skyrocketed.

As you'll know if you follow Italian football, last week was a good one for Juventus, Lazio and Fiorentina - and we're not talking about what happened on the pitch.

Sony has missed its intended shipment figures for the Japanese launch of the PlayStation 3.

Do you realise that, over the next few months, a racing game of some description is due out every Friday? Dates may change and you may not care about 90 per cent of them, but they all cross our desks and we have to give them all a bit of time and appreciation.

Codemasters has revealed a few more specifics about Clive Barker's Jericho, the next-gen and PC horror first-person shooter in development at Madrid-based Mercury Steam.

We've been here before. Back in the dim and distant days of the original The Sims, EA released a version of the game where you could give your Sims pets, and gave it the quite pun-tastic title of "Unleashed". And since no-one has ever accused EA of letting go of a sellable idea when they could release it again and again and again (and again, but with nicer textures), we get the rather more prosaically named "Pets", this time based on The Sims 2.

Hello and welcome to the latest in our run of Eurogamer podcasts (well, welcome to the item telling you what's in it, anyway), featuring a look at some of the key debates raging in the world of gaming.

Nintendo has confirmed to our sister site GamesIndustry.biz that there are plans to launch a new version of the Wii featuring DVD playback functionality in Japan.

If you haven't found your home in Football Manager 2007, Championship Manager 2007 or LMA Manager 2007, EA's inviting you to give FIFA Manager 07 a go in its new PC demo. (Well, they'd probably like you to go for their version first, but let's be realistic.)

Viva Piñata is finished and off to be manufactured, Microsoft announced last night, meaning that those of you in America will be able to buy it on or around 9th November.

Konami is preparing special edition Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops PSP bundles for Japan, including a special camouflage-skinned PlayStation Portable console.