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Ubisoft has released a four-map premium content pack for Rainbow Six: Black Arrow, adding more multiplayer scenarios for Live subscribers to duke it out on.

Ubisoft has released a freely downloadable multiplayer map for its budget-priced Xbox Tom Clancy-thon, Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow - which it also claims is the most popular game on Xbox Live right now - and plans to release a premium "Assault Pack" of four more multiplayer levels in due course.

Either Ubisoft Montreal is growing, or they can walk, chew gum and develop about 15 games all at the same time. Whatever - once again the celebrated Splinter Cell studio is connected with a big Xbox project, and this time it's the next instalment in the popular Rainbow Six series, known as Black Arrow. It's due out in Europe this August.

Bungie's shed some more light on the PC version of little known FPS Halo 2, including the fact that you'll be able to track your Xbox 360-style achievements using a mobile phone thanks to Microsoft's Live Anywhere technology.

Speaking to Eurogamer this morning, a Sony spokesperson has dismissed rumours that the PlayStation 3's hardware specs are to be downgraded as "ridiculous".

Rebellion has confirmed the signing of a new agreement with SCi Entertainment to purchase the staff and physical assets of Core Design, the Derby-based studio behind the original series of Tomb Raider games.

RedOctane president Kai Huang says we can expect the publisher's music games on next-generation consoles to include downloadable content and online play.

Even if the game turns out mediocre at best, you have to admire publisher Atlus for repeatedly taking risks in bringing some of the most curious, interesting and leftfield Japanese games to a western audience. Having scored its greatest coup with Strategy-RPG wunderkind Disgaea, bringing Nippon Ichi to a quickly enamoured audience, Atlus has gone on to champion titles such as surgeon ‘em up, Trauma Centre: Under the Knife to become one of the most notable diminutive publishers today.

Midway has acquired the rights to some of the titles that make up Epic Games' back catalogue - and plans to release an "Unreal Anthology" this autumn.

A developer working for Microsoft's Game Technology Group has declared that that the war of the next-gen consoles will be won or lost on the battlegrounds of Europe.

Football is once again dominating the charts this week, with EA's FIFA World Cup Germany 2006 back in first place despite an overall slump brought on by a combination of warm weather and World Cup excitement.

I didn't always want to write about games, you know. For example, earlier I wanted to eat some crisps. Then I wanted to go to the loo. I've achieved all these things and more. And, if Big Brain Academy is to be believed, that's only the tip of my potential, which floats along on a sea of genius ripping the hulls off the schooners of failure.

Blizzard has issued an official statement dismissing rumours that MMO versions of Starcraft and Diablo are on the way.

All the best crack peddlers know that you must speculate to accumulate - offer the first hit for free and two weeks later they'll be begging for more and borrowing money off Carol Vorderman's loans company to pay for it.

There's no way to tackle an old favourite of '90s JRPG players and its eventual arrival in the West without preamble. Oh such preamble we shall have... long, meandering and highly informative the preamble shall be.

Turns out we're not the only ones who want Psychonauts to work on Xbox 360 as well as Xbox - excellent-game developer Double Fine Productions wants you to email Microsoft pretending to be dying children so they'll sort it out.

The Xbox 360 version of UNO has achieved highest daily demo-to-sale conversion rate of any game on Xbox Live Arcade at the moment, eclipsing even Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved.

Call of Duty 3 producer Sam Nouriani has confirmed that while the Wii version of the game won't be as graphically exciting as its PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 counterparts, it will use the controller's unique features.

Sony's planning to sell PlayStation Portable consoles and games through vending machines in American shopping centres and airports, the company's announced.

The do-they don't-they care about backwards compatibility saga has been something of an ongoing soap opera for Microsoft ever since the 360 launched nearly eight months ago.

As regular visitors to Eurogamer will attest, we like Beyond Good & Evil. In fact, a couple of months back, Tom was moved to give the PS2 version a coveted 9/10, mentioning Michael Ancel's latest creation in the same breath as the revered The Wind Waker. So seeing as Ubisoft kindly sent us a preview version of the forthcoming Xbox version I took the opportunity to have a play through this critically acclaimed game myself.

Photo website Flickr has become a target for criticism after it emerged that one of its community guidelines renders it impossible to search archives that consist of more screenshots than photographs - but there may be light (and screenshots) at the end of the tunnel.

Graphics card maker NVIDIA is hosting an updated 1.2 version of the Tomb Raider: Legend PC demo offering you the chance to enable the game's "Next Gen" graphics option, which was absent from a previous PC demo.

Forget everything you know. Whether you liked Burnout or not, it matters not. The simple fact of the matter is that its sequel will change your perceptions of the driving game genre, and the capabilities of the PlayStation 2.

Fans of motor racing, heavy metal and games with the word EXTREME in the title could be in for a treat with the forthcoming release of Earache Extreme Metal Racing on PC, PS2 and PSP.

SEGA has announced that the latest expansion pack for Rome: Total War will be available for download three days before it turns up in the shops.

It seems that cheating within online games still abounds as both Blizzard and Square-Enix take steps to stop naughty gold farmers and gil traders in their tracks.

An Xbox 360 version of Tetris will arrive before the end of this year, a THQ spokesperson's told IGN.

Some new snippets of info regarding DS titles Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl have emerged.

Right, that's it. Enough is enough, Pac-Man. It's time for you to be packed off to Namco's Shady Pines Retirement Home for Rubbish Old Game Characters, where you can spend the rest of your days playing Bridge with the blokes out of Time Crisis and knocking back all the pills you like for all we care. Oh, and you can take that joke about pill popping in darkened rooms to the sound of repetitive beats with you, thanks very much.