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With the game having been quietly unveiled on Nintendo's website in September, Mario Party 8 has now been seen in the wild during the Nintendo World event in Japan.

UK company Gymkids has come up with an excellent new way to get children to play computer games: bribe them with exercise!

The second series of Scotland's best gaming television show (...) videoGaiden hits the air, so to speak, on BBC2 Scotland just after 11pm tonight.

Former Gizmondo executive Stefan Eriksson will be retried on counts of fraud and grand theft after his first jury couldn't reach a decision.

THQ CEO Brian Farrell has predicted healthy sales for the Nintendo Wii, confirming plans to release additional games for the console next year.

Following a low-key debut at E3 this May, the Nintendo Wii version of Fire Emblem is starting to take greater shape - with news from the Nintendo World event in Japan suggesting that it will use the Classic Controller.

Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved - poster-child for Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade - is on its way to mobile phones.

Xbox 360 and PC owning Oblivion fans wondering how much that new Knights of the Nine expansion is going to end up setting them back can rest easy - it's only going to cost US$ 9.99, or 800 Microsoft points on Xbox.

Warhammer: Mark of Chaos - Black Hole Entertainment's real-time strategy follow-up to Armies of Exigo - is now available to sample.

Here's the plot of Ace Combat X: a country called Aurelia is attacked by a country called Leasath, which has a massive army and advanced technology, including a super powerful flying fortress called Gleipnir, which is used to wipe out almost all of the Aurelian army, leaving a secret Aurelian airborne unit called Gryphus 1 to try to organise the unlikely feat of repelling the invading forces.

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Much like reviewing its prequel, Neverwinter Nights 2 offers you a challenge. Do you review it just as any old videogame - that is, the adventure in the box - or do you measure the power of the creation tool included into the box, and think about all the mods that'll result from it?

Like a lot of EA's annual cash-cow staples, Need For Speed has been through more peaks and troughs than your average cardiograph. Perhaps inevitably, after last year's palpitating return to form with Most Wanted, Carbon's solid but formulaic approach to street racing struggles to raise the pulse for much of the time. The problem? It's just too damned easy and plays down the role of the police to the detriment of the game.

Few games can claim as much trickle-down impact as Grand Theft Auto. A cult game at a time when gamers themselves were a cult, the PC original spawned numerous spin-offs, expansions and clones, and has given birth to enormous, perhaps even deciding influence in two separate console generations. It's also responsible for me! I didn't decide to be a games journalist; I decided to make a Grand Theft Auto fansite. It was the interminable wait for the second PC game that drove me to write about other stuff. DMA Design has a lot to answer for.

That wireless Guitar Hero controller sounds nice then, eh? Doesn't it? Unfortunately, it's starting to look like an Xbox 360 version of it is unlikely.

Nintendo of Europe marketing director Dawn Paine has told our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz that the company is confident the Wii will be a sell-out success this Christmas.

Namco Bandai says that Q Entertainment has finished messing about with Gunpey's PSP and DS development and shipped it off to be stuffed into UMDs and game cards.

Eurogamer's second poker challenge heat took place last night, with 102 of you turning out to stake a claim for the US$ 500 prize pot and a place in December's grand final.

SEGA has revealed that the PlayStation 3 version of Virtua Tennis 3 will support the Sixaxis' tilt function to move around the court and play shots.

Electronic Arts has revealed that three new Sims games are in development at the moment, including a true Sims 3.

Nintendo has shown off a new Super Smash Bros. Brawl trailer at its Nintendo World event in Japan today, "comprised almost entirely of gameplay" according to reports.

Psychonauts design hero legend person Tim Schafer has tricked the Internet into talking about his new game even though he hasn't actually said anything about it.

EA may have dropped enough hints in its investor conference call this week to cater to every taste - from the Sims and SimCity to Road Rash, Rings and Black - but in the more immediate future the news was less positive, with both Crysis and Army of Two experiencing delays.

Having revealed that it's working on several new Sims games in its investor conference call this week, EA has also hinted at several other new titles.

Peter Molyneux has joined the bloated ranks of developers who admit they fancy a go developing for Nintendo Wii.

It's been bloody ages since we heard anything substantial about Bioware's original PC fantasy role-player Dragon Age, but it looks like the wait is nearly over. For details, anyway (the game itself is apparently due in late 2007 or 2008).

Konami UK has confirmed that it's looking into the problems some gamers are experiencing with online matches in Pro Evolution Soccer 6.

Glistening water laps at the harbour wall. A cool, clear light bathes a flight of dusty steps, picking out the baroque details of a portico above. A chainsaw passes through your abdomen and you explode in a shower of offal.

Despite being one of the best-looking titles for the PlayStation 3 at launch (unless you're Ridge Racer 7 fetishist Tom, it's between this and MotorStorm really), Insomniac Games' Resistance: Fall of Man will not be integrated with the console's online functionality, specifically the built-in buddy list - instead, it will use its own buddy list, clan management system, and so on.

Sam Fisher's daughter is dead, and understandably he's not too happy about it. But what's a special agent to do when faced with personal tragedy other than throw himself into his work, entirely abandoning his former life in the process?