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Rising Star has confirmed that Nintendo DS RPG Contact won't be with us in Europe until February.

Eidos has announced plans to publish Zendoku - a Sudoku-based puzzle game for DS and PSP, currently in development at UK-based Zoonami.

As much as I love trains and aeroplanes, which is not at all, there is something to be said for allowing them, for they are the places where I can slide most completely under the blanketing layers of a complicated puzzle game, and find comfort and peace. In fact, the history of my affection for the genre is best plotted against advances in conveyance. Tetris was the rickety old National Express that took my Year 7 class to the Isle of Wight; Meteos was the Eurostar from Waterloo; and Lumines was the First Great Western to Bath Spa. Historic Bath, whose skyline is that manner of picturesque that calls for no other word, or at least so I'm told - I was close to 400,000 at that stage so I wasn't about to look up.

After the 'difficult' third album, the cathartic change of direction?

Microsoft's ambition to get a big-budget Halo movie into cinemas has taken a knock this week, with film studios Universal and Fox pulling out of the deal they had struck with the software giant after a last-ditch attempt to renegotiate terms was rebuffed.

Microsoft has released the "Advance Challenge Pack" for Lumines Live, just two days after the game's debut on Xbox Live Arcade.

The Nintendo Wii version of Wario Ware won't be released in the West until after Christmas by the looks of things.

Sony has told our sister site, GamesIndustry.biz, that the company will provide a service to replace wireless PS3 controllers "when and if" their lithium batteries degrade.

Electronic Arts has pledged strong support for Sony's PlayStation 3 by revealing it has over 30 titles currently in development for the next-generation system.

Battlefield 2142 is a game from the future, although perhaps not in the way you imagine.

Electronic Arts' FIFA 07 continues to hold its position at the top of the UK All Formats Charts, as it scores a third week at number one.

Sony aims to release every single PSone game there is through its online PlayStation Store, Phil Harrison said at the Sony Gamer's Day event last night.

Sony has unveiled the line-up for the American PlayStation 3's "launch window", encompassing the 17th November launch date and the vague period immediately following it.

I'm standing on a highway, in my underpants, half-listening to a gun battle about two blocks away. I can hear rockets impacting on palm trees, and the sound of AK fire getting closer.

Nintendo has announced some DS game release targets for early 2007, and slipped a few of its planned Q4 2006 releases into the new year as well.

SCE boss Ken Kutaragi has always been a bit outspoken, but even Sony's new, officially sanctioned Three Speech blog was a bit taken aback by his latest outburst - when quizzed about whether PlayStation 3 would outsell Xbox 360 and Wii, he simply said, "We don't care."

As well as unveiling the launch line-up for PlayStation 3, Sony also used its US Gamer's Day event this week to confirm peripheral pricing.

Konami and Microsoft are teaming up on a Pro Evolution Soccer 6 Xbox 360 premium hardware bundle, due out on 27th October priced GBP 299.

Microsoft is taking Xbox 360 on tour around six UK cities between now and the start of December, giving potential customers from Newcastle to Southampton the chance to try new games like Viva Piñata and Gears of War.

Peculiarly, perhaps, for a company called Rockstar, we don't generally associate the publisher's games with amazing and original music. Grand Theft Auto, its most successful series, has a few radio jingles and began life with music produced in-house, but since then has given this over to a flourishing licensing department whose endeavours have been compiled into huge soundtrack sets - the latest, San Andreas, featuring eight CDs of music. For Canis Canem Edit (née Bully), however, the company found it necessary to approach from a different perspective, as Rockstar soundtrack supervisor Ivan Pavlovich told Eurogamer ahead of the game's release.

Sony has warned that it will take legal action against anyone engaging in grey importing of its products after scoring a High Court victory over online retailer Lik-Sang.

Controversial developer Running With Scissors has announced that the third instalment in its Postal series of shooters, due out on PC and Xbox 360 in 2008, will use Valve's Source Engine.

Gears of War will not be released in Germany after USK, the German ratings board, declined to rate the game.

"If you've already played this on another platform it's not got much to offer, but for newcomers this verges on essential," is, as my friend pointed out to me last night, one of the most painful phrases a game reviewer ever has to reproduce, and yet here is where we find ourselves because, although its brilliance as a puzzle game is beyond question, Lumines' qualities are less important to the people within whose domiciles the PSP rests as commonly as the Xbox 360 (particularly those of you who stole both, because who's that at the door hide the stuff).

What do you get if you cross The Sims, Pokémon and Ground Force? A hundred million billion pounds, that's what.

Lumines creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi has defended the decision to offer a lot of the Xbox Live Arcade version's content as downloadable extras rather than including them in the full game.

With the event due to take place on 10th November, Ubisoft has opened sign-ups for the Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter tournament at FUSE '06 in Newbury.

With the PlayStation 3's launch less than a month away, review units have started to arrive with Japanese-language publications including Impress Game Watch, which kicked off its coverage with a tour of the system's multimedia functionality.

In order to set the scene, let's go back to the first couple of hours in Piranha Byte's third-person swords and goblins adventure and take a gander at my mission list:

Film director Guillermo del Toro is consulting on a pair of new games and has high hopes for the medium.