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Eagle eyed web-spotters have noticed an update to the Entertainment Software Ratings Board website in America, perhaps unmasking the first post-release batch of Virtual Console titles for that territory.

Bo Stefan Eriksson, the one-time Swedish gangster who co-founded the ill-fated Gizmondo handheld gaming startup, has been sentenced to three and a half years in jail in California.

Electronic Arts' racing franchise Need for Speed once again debuts at the top of the UK All Formats Charts, with latest offering Carbon claiming pole position with a lead over its nearest rival of just over 1000 units.

Microsoft's going commando again this morning with the Xbox Live Arcade release of Konami's '80s arcade classic, Contra - with the port once again carried out by Digital Eclipse.

Encouraged presumably by the success of its collaboration on We Love Katamari (oh), Namco Bandai's come back to EA for help with publishing Flagship Studios' PC debut Hellgate: London in Europe and North America.

Microsoft has once again denied that it's doing a high capacity Xbox 360 hard disk.

They're back! Oh, happy days. Phoenix and Maya, once more talking utter gibberish at each other, while solving murders most strange. Snoopy dance!

Look, it's not just a World War II game with aliens in it. It's really not. It looks a bit like a World War II game sometimes, and then sometimes it looks a bit like Halo or Half-Life 2, but more importantly the game's hook is none of these things: it's that Resistance is a first-person shooter made by the mentalists who invented Ratchet & Clank.

Old heroes never die - they just get updated with brand new content that makes them all fresh, sparkly, new and interesting. Actually, that's probably not true of old heroes in general, but it's certainly the case for City of Heroes (and/or Villians), which is due to receive its eighth update, Issue 8 - To Protect And Serve, in the coming weeks.

Former DICE Canada boss Fredrik Liliegren has told our sister site GamesIndustry.biz that he understands why EA closed the studio down, saying it "did not fit within the mould".

Racing specialist 10tacle studios has signed a deal with Italian sports car manufacturer Ferrari to develop games based on its brands and product palette.

Buena Vista Games has made a bold statement of support for Nintendo's hardware, opening a new studio dedicated to projects for the Wii and DS systems.

The roads north of Kiev are relentlessly bleak. A capital's spattering of wealth gives way to a dark, eastern European quaintness as the setting morphs to rural Ukraine outside the city, then to abject poverty. Farming towns turn to villages then to hamlets. Cow herds thin. Geese gaggles vanish. Blue painted roofs become fresh metal, as bright as can be expected under such a ghoulish sky, then holey rust. Broad-faced men with deep-set eyes stare back at us from monolithic concrete bus shelters. Shops sell nothing but dull oranges behind muddy glass. A woman wearing a torn floral headscarf sits in the heaving rain underneath rotting beams next to a milk bottle. She doesn't even look up. The coach thunders on. Humour peters out. There are no modern cars here, just 50s trucks and green ambulances hung-over from the USSR. The driver slows and we pass a road-sign bearing a right arrow. The word "Chernobyl" even looks ominous in Cyrillic.

THQ and Saints Row developer Volition have released a downloadable multiplayer map for the latter's Xbox 360 exclusive gangster-'em-up.

The many surprising changes to the Final Fantasy series which Square Enix introduces with Final Fantasy XII are a little less surprising when you look at the pedigree of those involved in creating the game. The original man at the helm of the project was Yasumi Matsuno, creator of Ogre Battle, Final Fantasy Tactics and Vagrant Story; having never directed a "number series" Final Fantasy title before, he was given the roles of both director and producer on XII, and immediately set about the creation of a game which would bring to life the world of Ivalice (from FFT and Vagrant Story) and redefine many core things about the series as a whole.

Eidos has announced that Championship Manager 2007 will be released on Xbox 360, PlayStation 2 and PSP in Q1 2007.

The PlayStation 3 may be a few months off yet in Europe, but the third-party elements of the launch line-up are starting to take shape.

Microsoft and Sony have started slagging each other off again - this time because Xbox 360 will soon play host to TV and film downloads.

Xbox 360 will soon allow American gamers to buy TV shows and rent films thanks to licensing agreements for standard- and high-definition content signed with major TV and film companies.

Yesterday we heard that Activision had dumped the rights for Iron Man and SEGA had picked them up, and today it's the turn of Fantastic 4.

Nintendo's been quiet so far about the possibility of the third game in the Mother RPG series appearing in the West on GBA, but comments from one of Nintendo of America's localisation team suggest it's probably not worth holding our breath.

Xbox 360's HD-DVD player took more work than you might imagine, with the software-based player pushing the system harder than any game besides Gears of War.

Stardock has announced that the beta test for the Dark Avatar expansion to Galactic Civilzations II will start on 16th November.

Stardock has delayed the release of Galactic Civlizations II expansion Dark Avatar until February in order to cram in a bunch of additional features.

SEGA has done a deal with Marvel to produce games based on the Iron Man comic books and the forthcoming film due out in May 2008.

Media Molecule co-founder Mark Healey has told our sister site GamesIndustry.biz that smaller developers can benefit from working with big publishers and platform holders.

Cliff Bleszinski and Mike Capps from Epic Games have dropped a few hints about a sequel to Gears of War.

By now everyone's seen the Ghosts in action, ducking and diving through the streets, working as a team to take down terrorist scum. Heroes all. But what would happen if a normal everyday person went through that sort of ritual, ducking through hedgerows and running up hills and doing all that nonsense hiding behind walls and so on?

Square Enix has confirmed its release date for Dirge of Cerberus - Final Fantasy VII, which had been down for release on PlayStation 2 this month.

The barrage of old-days arcade games is set to continue on Xbox Live Arcade this January with the start of a run of six Atari titles.