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Alain Tascan, general manager for EA Montreal, has revealed that he thinks Xbox 360 title Gears of War has been overrated by reviewers - with one or two exceptions.

Sony Worldwide Studios boss Phil Harrison has declined to offer a guarantee that the PlayStation 3 will hit Europe in March as previously announced.

Is it bad form to start a review with the word "awful"? Should I adhere to convention and at least warm you up with some foreplay first, maybe recap the place Family Guy holds in the annals of animated sitcoms? That was my intent, back when I assumed that this tie-in would simply be yet another forgettable licensed platformer.

The new technology Electronic Arts has developed to make game characters look more lifelike is so good that Tiger Woods failed to realise he was looking at a CGI version of himself.

Uwe Boll will direct a sequel to BloodRayne 2, but Kristanna Loken's done a runner and will be replaced by Natassia Malthe of Elektra and Dead or Alive, er, fame.

The move to developing on next-generation consoles is "as big a step as we've made since we all went 3D," according to Free Radical Design boss David Doak - who told our sister site GamesIndustry.biz that the industry had "underestimated how big a leap this generation was going to take".

Internet terrorists report that the US version of Gears of War actually works on PAL Xbox 360 consoles, which is good news for anybody who can't be bothered to wait until next Friday's European release.

Speaking at the Montréal Games Summit, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime has said that more and more developers are turning their attentions to the Wii - and away from rival consoles.

PlayStation 2 has sold more than 40 million units in Europe, Sony has announced - besting by over a million the amount of PSones the company managed to flog.

Blizzard has announced that World of Warcraft expansion The Burning Crusade will be released on 16th January in both Europe and North America.

Electronic Arts has decided not to pursue its plan to port NBA Live 07 to PlayStation 3, deciding instead to focus on the upcoming next-generation version of NBA Street.

The Japanese always look so friendly and courteous on TV, don't they? Lies. Have you seen that new Fast And Furious film? Filthy. Scratch the surface and it's wall-to-wall sass over there - and we're onto them. Indeed, it's with F' And F' in mind (however hard we scrub), that we imagine there's been a sizable backlash in Nippon. The language barrier means we're not subjected to it, but there has to have been one - after all, they've only got 80,000 units.

Sony has said that PlayStation Portable owners who plan to use the handheld as a remote media player for PlayStation 3, or to use it to play games downloaded from the PS3's online network, will need to download the version 3.0 firmware due out later this month.

It's that time of the week again! Yes, it's time to try and take your fellow readers' money in our weekly Eurogamer PKR Challenge heat.

The PlayStation 3 version of Sonic the Hedgehog has been delayed slightly and will no longer be around for the console's 17th November US launch.

Reports from the US suggest that Konami's first Nintendo Wii title, Elebits, has been pushed back to the middle of December and will miss launch as a result.

Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime says he isn't bothered about the battle between Sony and Microsoft for the "centre of the living room, entertainment hub," and he thinks comparisons between Wii and its competitors is pointless.

Microsoft's new US-only TV and film distribution mechanism for Xbox 360, which will see everything from South Park to Superman Returns sold through Marketplace (often in high definition), will act as a springboard for the rest of the world's services.

Valve reports that there's a patch available through Steam for Dark Messiah of Might & Magic, which should sort out a number of tedious bugs. And if you bought the game in a box rather than an internet, you can download a patch for that too.

Team 17 boss Martyn Brown has revealed that the Xbox Live Arcade version of Worms is in "final certification stages".

Microsoft's campaign to reinvigorate PC gaming received a welcome boost yesterday with the news that Windows Vista is now finished and being packed off to manufacturing.

Sony America boss Kaz Hirai says it's "full steam ahead" with the US prices of 499 and 599 dollars for PlayStation 3.

Q Entertainment's Tetsuya Mizuguchi has called on the games industry to welcome new talent and ideas in a speech which also touched on his affection for late eighties Norwegian pop combos.

How d'you make a somewhat by-the-numbers, forgettable RTS better? Well, you could always just throw in some hypnotised bears. In fact, you could make a total raid of every book on Native Americans in the children's section of the library, and cheerfully shoe-in just about every fact, myth and cliché concerning the USA's long-suffering original inhabitants. So, as well as those mystically bewitched urisdae, we get similarly tamed cougars and wolves, spirit dances and magical medicine men. Everything short of transforming into a spectral hawk, in fact, but that may only be because Prey already tried that trick. Even so, this really isn't your large-bearded, pipe-smoking, stuffily accuracy-obsessed daddy's Age of Empires.

Buena Vista Games has shed some more light on Novadrome, after Microsoft said that it would be one of the last few Xbox Live Arcade titles released in 2006.

Inhabitants of Second Life will soon be able to sit around with their virtual friends watching real TV, including programming from Channel 4 and the Sci-Fi Channel.

Every game on the PlayStation 3 will use the same universal sign-in and the same online ID, Sony has confirmed - even titles which do not use the central buddy list and messaging systems offered by the console.

Take-Two has confirmed that it is working on a brand new Fantastic 4 game to coincide with the release of the next film in June 2007.

Still rubbish at Need For Speed Carbon? Then EA's offering the chance to download a few cars that you're too rubbish to unlock in the Career mode. You disgust me.

RoboBlitz, soon to be released on Xbox Live Arcade, has been released for the PC through Valve's Steam system.