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Despite the heavy focus on the next-gen consoles at this year's E3, the less-attention seeking PC more than held its own as far as quality of software was concerned.

Every good fairytale starts with heartless cruelty - a small child orphaned, a princess sent into the woods to be killed - and the Final Fantasy games follow much the same formula. But in the case of Final Fantasy IV Advance, the twist of the knife is even more brutal.

For all right-minded folk, it's understandably difficult to think about anything other than The Beautiful Game right now - but another great sporting event is also just around the corner, with Wimbledon fortnight serving up as the World Cup enters its knock-out stages.

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has defended the name of Nintendo's next-generation console, saying he's glad he helped come up with it despite all the criticism bandied about.

Sports Interactive's preparing Football Manager 2007 for release this Christmas, and aims to deliver over 100 new features across PC, Mac, Intel Mac, Xbox 360 and PSP.

Later this year we'll see the release of Justice League Heroes for Xbox, PS2 and PSP - and, Eidos has just revealed, for Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance.

Square-Enix's Tetsuya Nomura has revealed that Final Fantasy XIII will make use of the motion-sensing technology in the PlayStation 3 controller.

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has revealed that the Wii will connect wirelessly with the DS, allowing for all sorts of exciting possibilities.

Nintendo has filed a new patent which suggests that you'll be able to chat to other Wii owners via some an instant messaging program.

Konami and Microsoft have released a playable demo of Rumble Roses XX, available now through Xbox Live Marketplace. The demo weighs in at 854.31MB and apparently allows you to battle people over Xbox Live too - although we're still waiting for the blummin' thing to download, so let us know if that's not the case eh?

EA's planning to have more than one of its sports titles available at the launch of PlayStation 3, the company said yesterday.

It's been out in Japan for ages, but Microsoft's finally announced that Western gamers will be able to get their hands on Xbox 360 exclusive Ninety-Nine Nights this August. Well, the yanks will anyway - there's still no word on a European date. Bah.

Friendless? Fed up of Dungeons & Dragons Online? Tired of having to pal around just to make progress? Bored of lusting after loot, and only being able to get at it by stalking the entrance to a tasty dungeon in a sailor suit offering Stormreacharounds? Good news then, because Turbine's planning to release some solo-friendly content in a new update.

Xbox 360 heavyweight Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter is set to receive a boost later this month as Ubisoft prepares to release a pack containing four new maps, five new weapons and plenty of other extras.

The festival of ultimate shame and disappointment that is the FIFA World Cup gets underway this week, sending even the most sober football fan on a delirious month-long booze-fuelled crusade to support a bunch of overpaid and overrated multi-millionaires in the vain hope that some of them might, one day, live up to their star billing. And that's just the Ivory Coast fans. They've got Drogba to sweat over, for gawd's sake.

GOA, the videogames publishing division of France Telecom, has secured the exclusive European publishing and online operational rights for Mythic Entertainment's Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning.

Our old friend Internet Reports is claiming that classic ZX Spectrum game Jetpac is coming to the Xbox Live Arcade.

Summer. Time of sun. Fun. And fire. Bush fires, to be exact. And probably kidnappings and murders and poodlecides. Also, yesterday I kicked a stone and it hit a man by accident and I looked away before he could turn around and he started having a go at a small child. Through which rich visual tapestry I'm trying to weave the notion that we need superheroes. We need them more than ever. To sort all this summer rubbish out.

Datel has announced the lauch of the MAX Media Dock, a new peripheral that will allow you to play music and movies on your DS or DS Lite.

"You won't just finish one fight - you'll finish all of the fights that you started in Halo 1." That's Bungie explaining what Halo 3's going to be like in a new video talking about the making of the game's E3 trailer - which you can check out on Eurogamer TV now, with high-definition downloadable versions available on Bungie's website.

It's rare for a videogame sequel to really screw up. We're used to secondary-suffixed movies being dull, trite or rubbish having lost narrative momentum, integrity, directorial vision or a big-name star somewhere in-between the first's poignant ending credits and the second's dollar-hungry whored conception. But videogames are usually a little different in that, to be a success (providing the first was), gameplay need only be gently tweaked and streamlined and a few simple new features introduced to meet with player expectations.

Eidos has confirmed that Tomb Raider: Legend is due out on PSP this Friday across all PAL territories.

Those of you still waving choppers in each other's faces night after night can pull your pants back on and start playing Battlefield 2 again - providing you're interested in new "Booster Pack" Armored Fury, which is now available.

Movie director Uwe Boll, best known for producing big screen adaptations of videogames such as Alone in the Dark and House of the Dead, has launched a lawsuit against the distributors of his latest film.

Sony Computer Entertainment Ireland MD Niall O'Hanrahan has declared that the company faces tough competition in the next-gen console cycle - adding that there's no guarantee it will retain the position of market leader.

It's all change at the top this week as Hitman: Blood Money knocks FIFA World Cup Germany 2006 from the number one spot, giving Eidos its second all-formats chart topper of the year.

A lead designer at High Voltage Software (the people who brought us Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude) has spoken out on on what makes bad games bad - and why it's not always the fault of the developer.

Bethesda's released its promised Oblivion patch, sorting out a number of bugs in the PC version of its critically acclaimed RPG.

Take-Two's quietly canned drug kingpin strategy game Snow.

Bungie Studios has reported that more than 500 million games of Halo 2 have been played online since the game launched in November 2004.