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Those of you still clinging to the rotting carcass of the old-days adventure genre might be interested in Restless, from Yorkshire-based developer Viperante.

Those teasing minxes at Vivendi have stuck up a new F.E.A.R. web page, and it's counting down to something.

Ever tube-surfed? It's great. You plant your feet on the floor of a moving tube train as if you were a bona-fide surf/skater dude and attempt to gain a few stolen minutes of handheld gaming without falling over in an embarrassing heap.

Astonishing fact of the day: Tom had never played Galaga until it popped up on Live Arcade this morning, which is the gaming equivalent of never having seen, I dunno, Blade Runner. After a while you just assume everyone must have come across certain cultural icons, but today's confession just goes to show how wrong you can be.

Sony is launching a new PSP download service this Friday, offering everyone who can get to a participating store the chance to grab free game demos, music tracks, movie trailers and more.

Industry new-boy Lexicon Entertainment has sewn up the rights to publish the PC version of American McGee's Bad Day LA in the UK and other PAL territories in Q4 2006.

Amidst all the arguments over PS3's hefty price tag, how much the world really cares about Blu-ray, and how important Xbox 360's steadily growing lead will prove, self-styled 'industry loudmouth' and Epic boss Mark Rein has revealed an interesting take on the next-gen battle from a developer's perspective.

Atari has stepped up to distribute Naruto: Ultimate Ninja on PS2 in Europe this November.

DVD printers of the world revolt: EA's The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-Earth II is to receive a PC expansion. It's going to be called (actually, we should probably move it to its own paragraph)...

Microsoft wants to deliver a new game to Xbox Live Arcade every week - and believes it's possible, too.

Kerberos Productions has released a demo of its upcoming strategy title Sword of the Stars, which aims to streamline the "4x", Civilization-style genre to make it more accommodating for newcomers.

It's been a hell of a month for Italian football. As I type, an Italian court is delivering its verdicts on the appeals made by four clubs caught up in Calciopoli - the Italian football corruption scandal - which has seen three of the country's biggest football sides relegated, two then reinstated, all four docked points, and only the Milanese allowed within half a mile of European competition. Italy won the World Cup on Sunday, 9th July. Within a week half the players involved were looking for new jobs. Fans went ballistic - taking to the streets, and, in Fiorentina's case, blocking off a railway line after Franco Zeffirelli appealed to fans to "cut Italy in half".

Nintendo of America has outlined its DS release schedule for the fourth and final quarter of the year, and since it features several games absent from Nintendo of Europe's recent counterpart and you'll be wanting to import them, you'd best pay attention.

Yep, it's that time of the week again. Another "Xbox Live Arcade Wednesday", and this time it's Galaga from Namco.

We do hope you're not sick of being told it's coming soon, but the Rockstar Table Tennis demo is coming soon. Very soon. Wait, we've done that one too. Okay, how about: it's coming today.

A graduate from the University of British Columbia has published his honours thesis on racism in games, claiming that negative representations of ethnic minorities are far too widespread.

Tetsuya Mizuguchi has revealed that the Rez trance vibrator was his idea, but that he didn't create it with any particular "sexual meaning" in mind.

Rockstar shed a tiny bit more light on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories this week, revealing that it will cost $49.99 in the US and £34.99 in the UK, and releasing the box artwork for both territories.

Are you looking for a new job? Perhaps you're bored with your current one, or perhaps you still haven't bothered to go down the job centre since returning from university and your Mum's threatening to throw you out on the street?

At last, the real reason Brazil was knocked out of the 2006 World Cup has been revealed - well, providing you believe anything that's printed in The Sun, anyway.

A new update which allows players to unlock achievements has just been released for the Xbox 360 version of Final Fantasy XI.

"Our development team, when we saw the various GTA games coming out, thought Rockstar had created a genre."

The creator of the DS music composer Electroplankton has come up with a new harebrained scheme that could be the best thing to happen to music since the stylophone.

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.

A new 'Making Of' trailer for forthcoming movie tie-in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is now showing on Eurogamer TV.

Gears of War developer Epic Games is planning to make a big announcement next week, according to a post made by Mark Rein on the game's official forum.

Tecmo Team Ninja boss Tomonobu Itagaki has hinted that he might make another Dead or Alive beat-'em-up once he's done with Dead or Alive X2.

The next instalment in the Grand Theft Auto series will be titled GTA: Vice City Stories - at least, that's if three new applications filed with the US patent office are anything to go by.

Rockstar has announced Vice City Stories, a new instalment in the Grand Theft Auto series exclusive to the PSP, which will be available in the UK on October 20th.

BBC2 Scotland has announced that the second series of videoGaiden - the TV evolution of Consolevania which Ellie always tells me off for liking - will return to TV and the Internet in November.