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JoWooD has released a playable demo of Panzer Elite Action standalone expansion Dunes of War, which is being developed by Zootfly.

Battlefront.com has released a demo of turn-based strategy title For Liberty!, which came out on July 4th and is available through digital distribution.

The next major Quake 4 patch will make a number of changes based on "feedback from the people playing it the most," according to id Software.

Here's a thought for you: we've been waiting for the next Elite for over twenty years now. No, not literally. We got that when Frontier appeared, and that wasn't the next Elite in the way we're currently yabbering about. What it means is a game which immediately and obviously dominates the gaming landscape and consumes the social life of pretty much everyone.

It's almost the weekend. Which, given the sore heads sported today by certain members of the Eurogamer team after sister site GI.biz' summer party last night, can't come soon enough.

Ignition will be bringing NeoGeo Battle Coliseum to European PS2s this autumn, the UK publisher announced today.

After wondering around in a daze for about six months having sworn it'd forgotten something, Konami arrived breathless in our inbox this morning to announce the European release date for Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence.

As promised, EA has released a demo of The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth II through Xbox Live Marketplace.

Need For Speed Carbon and Madden NFL are already on their way to Nintendo Wii, but that's not all the publisher has in mind - with Tiger Woods, The Godfather, SSX and Harry Potter all set to freestyle.

The summer of 1999 was an exciting time to be a WW2 flight simulation fan. Dynamix, the makers of the iconic Red Baron, were beavering away on Desert Fighters. At Looking Glass Studios, the talented Flight Unlimited team were busy with Flight Combat: Thunder Over Europe. Microsoft were in the midst of a Pacific theatre Combat Flight Simulator sequel. Oh yes, there was also a small Russian outfit with no sim track-record whatsoever, working on a game about an obscure Soviet ground-attack aircraft.

Midway's chief marketing officer Steve Allison has shed a bit more light on the publisher's decision to can Fear & Respect.

When Mark Rein speaks, people listen. When Mark Rein spoke at the Develop conference in Brighton this week, people shouted back. His comments on the emerging business model for episodic gaming were incendiary, to say the least.

Sony has come up with another way of encouraging consumers to buy 1GB and 2GB Memory Stick Duos - and has, in the process, demonstrated how PSP movies can be distributed in rights-managed digital format without resorting to UMD discs.

If the intriguing and arguably somewhat terrifying warrior challenge - performed by the New Zealand rugby team before matches - is what's missing from your gaming life, we've got some good news for you.

Turbine has announced the availability of a second free expansion pack for Dungeons and Dragons Online: Stormreach, offering gameplay enhancements and a horde of new enemies to slay.

A little ambition is a dangerous thing for a videogame these days. Any game that tries to shake up narrative structures, mess with the player's perception of timelines, and throw a mass of different characters at you had better be worth the ball of confusion that comes with it.

Not content with bringing us a "Noble Pink" DS Lite (due out on July 20th), Nintendo's preparing to release Final Fantasy-themed hardware to celebrate the launch of the DS Final Fantasy III remake in Japan.

Those of you keeping an eye on Bioware's latest, Xbox 360 exclusive RPG Mass Effect, can now watch a demo walkthrough video.

David Jaffe has indicated that God of War may eventually become a trilogy of games.

Xbox 360 owners who've dispensed with yesterday's Frogger release and picked their way through all the other recent demos might want to check in with Live Marketplace anyway later - as a Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth II demo is likely to make an appearance.

Aimed at biking aficionados (and aficionadas - you can fiddle with the rider's leather you know), Tourist Trophy is meant as a counterpoint to Polyphony Digital's exhaustive Gran Turismo series. The set-up is immediately familiar - a series of "licence tests" to familiarise yourself with the concepts, a garage area where you can house and tune all the bikes you've acquired, and an enormous range of races in a variety of locations. The idea is to reapply Polyphony's renowned attention to detail, and biking fans sick of lightweight simulators are understandably excited.

The Xbox Live Arcade version of UNO has received an update that fixes issues with multiplayer matchmaking and improves support for themed decks, according to developer Carbonated Games.

Over in the US, Electronic Arts is currently showing off its sizable 2006 line-up - and just in case we hadn't noticed they've sent over a list of some of the games on display.

A number of famous artists have been signed up to supply music for the forthcoming Lumines II, acclaimed game designer Tetsuya Mizuguchi has revealed - with details of the talent involved likely to be emerge in the coming weeks.

Several videogame publishers, including Sony and Electronic Arts, turned down the chance to make a videogame based on hit horror movie 28 Days Later, DNA Films producer Andrew MacDonald has revealed.

One of the good things about being a youngster and a 16-bit Internet hack is that I've never had to talk about pumping coins into an arcade machine. Coins? Get lost Granddad! My memories are better. For example, I used to play Frogger on my Dad's Amstrad PC in the garage. Sometimes it had spiders in it. And when Konami people threw Frogger t-shirts at my head during E3, I didn't raise them to my face to help choke back the tears of nostalgia; I threw them back and knocked over a cardboard Solid Snake.

Bethesda is throwing more content into the world of Oblivion this week, this time focusing on the night walker community with a secret underwater lair for those afflicted with vampirism.

Sony Online Entertainment has announced a new expansion pack for its long-running MMORPG, EverQuest, available via digital distribution from September.

I eat a lot of weird stuff with glee; as I've often reflected half in jest and half with a heavy sense of sorrow, you don't get a figure like mine by being picky with your food. Ever since the discovery that a childhood of refusal to eat fish had somehow left me ravenous for sushi by my early twenties, I've made it my duty to explore the culinary fringes of the world and try everything at least once, and probably twice if I was drunk the first time. My kitchen contains spices and sauces whose names I cannot pronounce, and I'm whole-heartedly of the opinion that eating out is no fun unless the mere thought of at least one of the dishes would have given my dear old gran a heart attack.

Namco Bandai has confirmed that PSP and DS title Gunpey will be coming to Europe.