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Epic Games' Mark Rein has said not to expect a demo of Gears of War prior to the game's release in November.

Midway has decided to keep John Woo's Stranglehold in development for a bit longer, with the release date now set to be sometime in Q1 2007.

Atari and Obsidian have announced plans for a pair of Neverwinter Nights 2 closed beta tests, which you can sign up for right now.

Konami is bringing Castlevania: Symphony of the Night to Xbox Live Arcade.

A quick and handy digest of some of the interesting things people have said this week. And of course stuff we've been aching to make fun of.

Sony Computer Entertainment UK has condemned the leaking of forthcoming PSP title Gangs of London to the internet, after copies of an internal beta of the game appeared on BitTorrent sites overnight.

Halo 3 might not be there waiting to ambush PlayStation 3 this November, but Gears of War will - Microsoft's just announced it's due out in the UK on November 17th.

Ah, the inevitable World Cup tie-in title. Sing along with the national anthems of each nation, hitting all the right notes to demonstrate your patriotic fervour! Test your vocal skills on tricky numbers like "La Marseillaise", "Das Lied der Deutschen" and "God Save the Queen", then finish with a flair by wrapping your vocal cords around the unlikely South Korean syllables of "Aegukga"!

The decision not to support Street Fighter Anniversary Collection for the original Xbox through backwards compatibility can be seen in two ways. Firstly, it's an oversight of a niche game lost among demand for more popular titles. Looking down the compatability lists, this seems unlikely - other ‘lesser' games like Sniper Elite and Deathrow make the cut while the inclusion of Acclaim's turgid Vexx over Anniversary Collection just makes us cry. The second way of looking at this is a slightly more cynical one - why would Microsoft and/or Capcom let gamers play Street Fighter 2 online for free when it can be put up for sale again first? But despite our minor outrage, we invested in some Microsoft Points and hit the download button within seconds of Hyper Fighting appearing on the Live Arcade service. Damn it, we're weak.

Sega has released some new screenshots for Wii title Sonic Wild Fire - and if you've been wondering how the game will work with the remote controller, they're worth checking out.

We're still waiting to play Naruto: Ultimate Ninja over here, but that hasn't stopped Namco Bandai lining up a PS2 sequel.

Midway has confirmed reports that Rampage: Total Destruction - its modern update to the arcade title of the same name - will be coming to Nintendo Wii "this winter".

Electronic Arts has released three new maps for the Xbox 360 version of The Lord of the Rings, Battle for Middle-Earth 2.

Taking a cue from the game's title, THQ has been on something of a PR crusade of late as it leads us on a whistlestop tour of Relic's second Dawn of War expansion.

Speaking in an exclusive interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Atari CEO Bruno Bonnell has confirmed that the publisher has no plans to release any PS3 games before 2007.

A US district judge has dismissed claims by a Los Angeles strip club that Rockstar Games breached copyright by designing a similar looking virtual strip club for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

What a difference a week makes. Even as I wrote an editorial last week on the topic of the forthcoming Games Convention event in Leipzig, encouraging the industry to support it on its own merits rather than comparing it to the self-defeating concept of a "European E3", a vote was underway behind closed doors in the United States on whether E3 itself was to continue to exist as the industry's biggest annual event.

At first glance, Shinobido is to Tenchu what Saint's Row is to Grand Theft Auto. If you ask Volition, GTA is a genre, and Saint's Row is a game in it. If you ask me, that's nonsense - but you can understand why they'd want to make the argument. GTA is a wonderful template with room for improvement. Tenchu, you're expecting me to say, is not.

What the crivens is this? A Pixar game-of-the-movie not based on familiar kleptomaniaical platforming jolliness? Currently number one in the nation's charts, you say? Outselling Grand Theft Auto while borrowing its sandbox game structure? Someone cancel E3! What? They did? Hurrah!

Eidos has revealed to our sister site, GamesIndustry.biz, that it is currently considering whether or not to take legal action over Lava Kroft - a new game from Singaporean publisher Ozura Mobile.

Nintendo has identified $49.99 as the potential price point for its first-party Wii titles, according to Electronic Arts executives.

SNK Playmore could wait as long as four years before releasing a PlayStation 3 game, despite having already pledged titles to Nintendo Wii.

NCsoft and ArenaNet hope to garner new interest in their non-subscription massively-multiplayer Guild Wars series with a new, shop-shelf "pre-release bonus pack" that's effectively a demo of the first two games and some bonus items for the new one. If and when etc. etc.

The building of Tilted Mill's new city-builder Caesar IV is ongoing, but you can see for yourself how it's shaping up with a new two-minute trailer showing on Eurogamer TV.

Remember that scene in Friends where Ross and Mike (Paul Rudd) decide to try and "bond" while Rachel and Phoebe go out on the semi-lash, and what actually happens is that they turn out to be so complimentarily tedious that they just end up picking at the labels on their beer bottles and making funny noises in an increasingly desperate spiral of shared silent embarrassment and terror?

Good news for fans of quirky Japanese RPGs - DS title Contact is to get a Western release later this year.

Avatar Films has teamed up with Sekretagent Productions to secure the movie rights to Cold Fear, Ubisoft's survival horror adventure for PC, PS2 and Xbox, according to Variety.com.

Capcom's much-heralded Xbox Live Arcade version of Street Fighter II' Hyper Fighting has finally made it out today.

Super Smash Bros. won't be the only way to stand triumphant over your toppled friends waving the Wii remote control around - Midway's admitted that the next Mortal Kombat will appear on the new Nintendo console too.

Still playing PGR3? Fancy one of those spangly PGR3 faceplates, but didn't win one in last month's competition? Never mind - here's another chance.