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Once upon a time, Earth was a bit rubbish. So we left. We got on spaceships, and flew off to a place called E.D.N. III. I don't know why it is called that - perhaps they had a competition, and that was a little girl's entry, and the little girl had some sort of horrible brain cancer and they couldn't say no despite the fact nobody was really keen on it.

Reality Pump and Zuxxez Entertainment have revealed that their forthcoming PC and Xbox 360 RPG Two Worlds is due out on 7th March in Europe.

Vivendi Games has announced that Scarface: Money. Power. Respect.

The PS3 launch is likely to remain Japan's most unusual for many moons to come. The man on the street expected Sony to put its considerable marketing clout in full motion months ago, but the first PlayStation 3 commercial arrived only few days before the launch. No ads could be seen in the streets of Tokyo to inform the public that the launch of a new PlayStation console was imminent. In contrast, Wii is everywhere, but it's also true that Nintendo has to explain what it is about to introduce to market. So yesterday, Friday November 10, the day before PS3's launch, the absence of queues in Tokyo came as no shock. Just a surprise.

Those of you hoping to ditch your old PlayStations when the new one turns up might want to bear the following in mind: early reports suggest that the system maintains the region-coding that governed PS2 and PSone games.

Gears of War is now the most popular Xbox 360 game played on Xbox Live, but there are still more people playing Halo 2 overall.

A pamphlet included in the US retail PlayStation 3 hardware bundle has shed some light on the release dates for a few of the next-gen system's upcoming exclusives.

The Japanese launch of the PlayStation 3 has shed some more light on the contents of the day-one firmware update, 1.10, which had previously been billed as a patch to enable PlayStation Network access.

Rumours that Nintendo Wii launch title ExciteTruck allows for custom soundtracks have turned out to be true, with US review copies revealing the option.

Viva Piñata may not be out here until 1st December, but the game's launch in the US has prompted the game's first downloadable content.

It turns out that PS3 launch title Full Auto 2: Battlelines isn't exclusive to Sony's next-gen console after all. Shock! Horror! But quieten down, Sony folk, because they're just doing a PSP version as well.

Xbox 360 titles Forza Motorsport 2, Crackdown, Shadowrun and Too Human are now down for release before the end of June 2007, Peter Moore has admitted.

Microsoft may be happy with a second Christmas without next-generation competition from Sony, but it wants to go head-to-head with its rival so that consumers can finally compare the two console offerings.

Here's a nice treat for the weekend: a demo of Gothic 3.

Eidos is bringing back Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, and interestingly the PS2 version of the game will now support use of the Buzz! controllers.

Last week I was flicking through one of those rubbish free newspapers they've been jamming into my hands at the Tube station recently, and I came across a review of PlayStation 3. A review of a console. It advised me to wait until March and buy one, because the graphics look like real life and it's got a Blu-ray drive.

The map won't scroll.

William Shatner says that he only agreed to do the new Star Trek games published by Bethesda Softworks because he was begged so much he started feeling sorry for them.

Sony has whacked its PlayStation 3 User's Guide onto the Internet, giving you the chance to explore the console's functionality through the medium of badly worded paragraphs. (No change there, then.)

Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz' widely-read weekly newsletter, the GamesIndustry.biz Editorial is a weekly dissection of one of the issues weighing on the minds of the people at the top of the games business. It appears on Eurogamer a day after it goes out to GI.biz newsletter subscribers.

The latest studio to be approved by Microsoft as an Xbox 360 developer is Frozen Codebase, a Wisconsin-based independent developer which has been founded by veterans from a number of major studios.

GameShadow has today announced that Microsoft Visual Studio is the latest sponsor of the firm's Innovation in Games Awards - which aim to reward creative innovation in the interactive medium across a variety of categories.

Video killed the radio star. OR DID IT?

Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz' widely-read weekly newsletter, the GamesIndustry.biz Editorial is a weekly dissection of one of the issues weighing on the minds of the people at the top of the games business. It appears on Eurogamer a day after it goes out to GI.biz newsletter subscribers.

The US release of Gears of War is indeed region free as reported.

Lost Planet's multiplayer demo will be released onto Xbox Live Marketplace on 23rd November, Capcom has announced.

Ubisoft has released a pair of playable demos for the PC version of Splinter Cell: Double Agent, which is released in Europe today.

Can't be bothered to go down the shops? Interested in playing Heroes of Annihilated Empires? Then you might want to download Steam, as GSC Game World's using it to digitally distribute the game later this month.

Bethesda Softworks has revealed that the PlayStation 3 version of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has been delayed until the first quarter of 2007.

"Lemmings is a charming, simple, ingenious puzzle game that deservedly built an empire (and this was before empire-building regressed to the traditional rape, pillage and then beat-them-up-in-the-alley-to-get-your-money-back model)."