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That Day of Defeat: Source Summer Update we've been banging on about has been released.

Oh, Canada. Really, have you nothing better to do with your time? Why don't you join in with a war or something like us? It might be morally wrong but it's great fun and it'll keep you occupied for ages. Much like...

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has posted a new job advertisement which suggests that a next-gen instalment in the WipEout series is on the way.

Microsoft has said it has "nothing to announce" when it comes to retail version of Xbox Live Arcade games, despite Ellie's old pal Internet Reports banging on about a boxed "Xbox Live Arcade Unplugged" title for over a week.

Namco Bandai's working on a PSP sequel to Ridge Racer, and it should be out in Japan in just a few months' time.

Following yesterday's unedifying spectacle, we return for another round of Warren Spector's thoughts on game development. Obviously we jest. It's all about edification. If I had a biro for every time I've been edified by Gabe Newell and Warren Spector over the last month, I'd be able to doodle my way through every editorial meeting for the next 50 years even when none of them worked. Seriously. It's edification city and these two are a coalition administration, lowering my imagination taxes one headcrab or convincing shadow at a time. All of which horrendous metaphorical gibberish should suffice for an introduction. And read part one of the interview if you haven't already.

"Welcome to Miami - bienvenida a Miami." So sang Will Smith once, or rather Will Smith and some hispanic ladies, before going on to "rap" about jetskis, cinnamon tans, the lovely sunny weather and all that sort of thing. But if you think life in Miami really is "every day like a mardi gras", you're much mistaken - or so Oxford-based Rebellion would have you believe.

It seems the war of words between Sony and Microsoft is far from over yet - now SCEA boss Kaz Hirai has declared that he's sick of MS copying their ideas.

Sony has announced the launch of the official PlayStation 3 website.

A big fat row has broken out over the discovery that prison inmates have received compensation of around £200 each after their PlayStation 2 consoles were confiscated.

Take-Two has announced that highly anticipated PC and Xbox 360 title Prey will go on sale next month.

A group of developers who worked on last year's PC and Xbox title Advent Rising have teamed up to form a brand new studio - and they're already hard at work on a brand new game.

Atari and Namco Bandai are teaming up to bring PS2 fighter Saint Seiya: The Hades to Europe later this year.

Xbox boss Peter Moore has hinted that Microsoft could be working on a new Xbox 360 controller which is simple enough for even simple children to use.

British director Paul W.S. Anderson, the man who brought us the Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil movies, has declared that it's no easy task to put games on the big screen - since gamers are a seriously demanding lot.

Earlier this month, we talked to Valve Software about Half-Life 2: Episode One and all manner of things to do with game development. At one stage, Gabe Newell said that Valve wanted to "get people through as much entertainment as possible".

Australia's Office of Film and Literature Classification has released a statement explaining why forthcoming movie tie-in Reservoir Dogs has been refused a rating - and thereby banned from sale.

Valve has released a video showing off Colmar, one of the two new maps due to be released as part of the Day of Defeat: Source Summer Update later today.

Rockstar and Take-Two are in the dock again - and this time it's nothing to do with secret mini-games featuring doings with naked ladies, oh no.

Atari has done a deal to publish Namco Bandai's DS version of Point Blank in Europe later this year.

Nintendo of Japan has announced the addition of a brilliantly named "Noble Pink" colour scheme to the range of DS Lite handhelds available over there.

Downloadable extras. For cash. There's a lot of that this year, isn't there? While most of the attention has circled around Valve (positively, for its excellent Episode 1) and Bethesda (less positively, for its less excellent give-horsey-some-armour), it's not just the first-person developers who are getting involved. Creative Assembly's Alexander is the most notable example of a strategy developer trying this, and while not up to Episode 1, it's in a position to snort at horsey-armour. That it's about our favourite always-entertaining top-ancient greek bisexual conqueror's another bonus.

Those of you still playing THQ and Relic's World War II title The Outfit will discover that you've to download a mandatory update - in other words, a patch - when you next load the game if you want to continue playing online.

The simplest games are sometimes the hardest to review. Taken at face value there's very little to Shadowgrounds and it does almost nothing that has not been done better elsewhere. Run around, shoot stuff, have half-arsed plot about aliens on Ganymede explained to you via uninspiring cut-scenes. It's not even a new idea - everything here has been around a good ten years. That kind of summary could land almost any game with a crappy score and a textual kicking, but nevertheless I found myself rattling through Shadowgrounds' birds-eye-view shooter levels with a smile. I expected to dismiss it as a waste of time, but instead I've been zapped by a retro ray and landed somewhere between fond memories of the 16-bit era and love of things that go bang in 2006.

Bizarre Creations is planning to release another 12-car downloadable content pack for Project Gotham Racing 3 in the near future.

Ritual's released an update to Sin Episodes: Emergence through Steam which adds a new game mode, Arena, and four maps to go with it.

Games Workshop has agreed to let Cyanide develop a series of licensed games based on its Blood Bowl tabletop fantasy football game.

The arse end of London might not sound like a brilliant vantage point (particularly bathed in heat haze as it often is at the moment), but somehow the team that composed World Tour Soccer 2 has formed a realistic view of the football sub-genre - and the result is a game that sidesteps the traditional PES/FIFA dichotomy of simulations with aplomb.

The DS Lite is proving pretty popular with UK gamers, it seems - more than 35,000 units have been shifted since the redesigned handheld launched here on Friday.

Australia's Office of Film and Literature Classification has refused to grant movie tie-in Reservoir Dogs a rating - which means it won't go on sale down under.