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Major electronics retailers PC World, Currys and Dixons have refused to stock controversial Rockstar title Bully, renamed Canis Canem Edit in Europe.

Electronic Arts has confirmed that it will be closing its North West Studio in Warrington as part of a creative decision to consolidate UK studios and create stronger development teams.

Released in July and exclusive to Japan, the 'bit Generations' Game Boy Advance games are simple game concepts offered at budget prices. They create a feeling of great refreshment in the audience, unlike these repetitive bit-G review intros.

Microsoft could barely contain its glee at being able to confirm exclusive downloadable content for next year's Xbox 360 version of Grand Theft Auto IV - but PS3 fans need not fear, as it seems the Sony release is also firmly in line to receive its very own dazzling additions.

Microsoft EMEA veep Chris Lewis says the company is already working on its next next-generation console because "we have to".

Elite Beat Agents - the Western take on brilliant Japanese DS rhythm-action import Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan - is due out on 6th November in the US and finally we have the track-listing.

Launch titles for the PlayStation 3 are already "getting up close" to the 25GB limit on current Blu-Ray discs, according to Sony's worldwide studios boss Phil Harrison, who was responding to criticism of the PS3's adoption of Blu-Ray.

TimeSplitters developer Free Radical, currently working on games like Haze for Ubisoft and clearly bored of posting job adverts, has decided to do a sort of Gong Show for games design.

THQ will have four games available at the Nintendo Wii launch on 8th December, the publisher announced this week, although the most exciting on the list is probably Disney Pixar's Cars.

Scary. At 6.30 yesterday evening I fired-up GTR2 intending to grab a few swift screenshots, then quit and begin this review. Around seven that sensible plan somehow morphed into the much less wise 'Let's see how low I can get my TVR lap-times at Magny Cours, Monza, and Donigton Park'. In the end it was gone one by the time I finally managed to drag myself away to bed.

There's been some canny identification of what did and what didn't work in previous instalments of this sci-fi RTS. What did - robots. Big robots, small robots, fat robots, skinny robots, flying robots, robots with spinning drillbits for hands, robots with giant laser guns, steam-powered robots with teeth... What didn't - well, not a whole lot actually, but the Imperial Guard, the new race in Dawn of War's last expansion, were a little vanilla. Men and tanks may well be a staple part of a decent war, but honestly, they're just not as much fun as robots.

Activision has announced UK release dates for Call of Duty 3.

Enthusiastic developer Peter Molyneux has revealed how he thinks the games industry needs to innovate in order to grow - by creating games that make a player feel loved.

Motion capture has been the backbone of animation in sports games like FIFA for years and years, but in and of itself it's incredibly boring - as you'll know if you've ever watched one of those behind-the-scenes videos they stuff around the edges of the disc as an unlockable.

Looking for something to do on Thursdays? Then why not join in with the Eurogamer PKR Challenge 2006 poker tournament, which we're announcing today with great happiness (cunningly masked behind a veneer of icy concentration, naturally).

Despite the best efforts of anti-games crusader Jack Thompson, a judge in the US has decided against banning the sale of Rockstar's Bully (renamed Canis Canem Edit over here) in Florida.

And so the Xbox Live Arcade classic arcade bandwagon rolls on this week with the release of yet another cheap and cheerful Namco port. Cheap, in that it's 400 points, and cheerful in its ability to make us feel happy with its goofy tune and unfettered simplicity 24 years on from release.

More details have emerged of regarding Capcom's decision to close Clover Studio, the developer behind the likes of Viewtiful Joe, Okami and God Hand.

With Splinter Cell: Double Agent due to debut on Xbox 360 this Friday, Ubisoft has whacked a multiplayer demo up on Xbox Live Marketplace.

If the bell's tolling for UMD then Sony UK boss Ray Maguire hasn't heard it, because he reckons the PlayStation Portable's maligned movie format is ace, and doing well.

Anticipation is building ahead the release of Lumines Live with the release of the list of Xbox 360 achievements offered in-game.

The Entertainment Software Association has announced that next year's E3 will take place in July, with a new name and new criteria for entry set to be introduced.

It's hard to take a game asking you if you want to install a MySQL ODBC Connector as a sign of good times ahead. Especially when the game then tells you it won't actually work without this superhappyfuntime-sounding application, thus making the previously offered choice entirely futile. Why bother you with something that a) will probably bewilder and alarm you and b) you clearly don't even need to know about anyway? Do they really think you might have some deep-seated prejudice against MySQL, so overwhelming that its presence has to be flagged up separately from the inevitably gigantic and tedious EULA you already agreed to when you started installing the game?

The debate about online gaming is over. (Although the debate about whether one can be "face to face" with a capability will perhaps linger.) While we've spent the last five years - and longer, in some cases - talking about whether online functions were actually important to games, that discussion is now at an end. Online won, although perhaps not in the way that its most loyal adherents had hoped for. Every next-gen console, and even every recent handheld console, now sports an online service out of the box; networks are becoming a core element of what we could, if we were being a bit pretentious, call "the gaming ecosystem".

It's been a little while, but now that the team has settled down again from weeks of jet-setting and globe-trotting, we've found time to gather everyone around a microphone and record another podcast for your aural pleasure.

The creator of Civilization, and granddaddy of prefixing game titles with the lead designer's name, then suffixing it with inexplicable exclamation marks, has won back a lost child. The Railroad Tycoon series departed from the station and ran off with another developer after his company, Firaxis, fathered the first one in 1990. Now though, it's come back to Papa, and is retitled as Sid Meier's Railroads! On the eve-ish of its release, Eurogamer chatted with one of videogaming's oldest and most respected luminaries about trains, hats and Stairway to Heaven.

Good news for those who like games, like Eurogamer, and don't like going down the boring old shops - we've teamed up with Metaboli to launch a new Games on Demand download service.

Sony has told GamesIndustry.biz that reports the PlayStation 3 could be delayed in Europe until May next year are "categorically not true."

Nintendo has announced the launch of LiveMove, a new development tool designed to make the process of producing titles for the Wii easier and faster.

Perhaps unaware that Microsoft was going to haul down Xbox Live for the whole of Tuesday, SEGA has a Phantasy Star Universe open beta planned for Xbox 360 users - starting this weekend and ending on Wednesday, 18th October.