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If you ever want to learn the meaning of the old adage 'Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind' read a good history of the Third Reich. In 1945, the tide of evil that Hitler had unleashed on the Soviet Union in '41 rolled back into the Fatherland like a karmic tsunami. The unstoppable Red Army, taught to look upon Germany as the lair of the beast, stormed through neat and prosperous Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia, destroying, looting and raping as it went. Insane orders from Berlin forced tens of thousands of Axis soldiers and Volkssturm (a civil defence force of old men and boys) to stand in its path and perish. The horror and the suffering was unimaginable...

While Playing Rise and Fall I find myself thinking about the poetry of Shelley, and not just because I'm an irremediable ponce. You see, this is Empire-Earth creators Stainless Steel Games swansong, having closed down before its release. Well before. Several months before its release, meaning it's only a swansong because someone's holding the bird's neck up, moving its jaw up and down and doing a little ventriloquism. Whatever state the game was in when Stainless Steel went down, it was passed over to Midway itself who finished it off.

First things first. Nintendogs: Dalmatian & Friends is exactly the same as Nintendogs: Chihuahua & Friends, Nintendogs: Dachshund & Friends and Nintendogs: Labrador & Friends, with one rather obvious difference.

Details on Need For Speed Carbon have been monoxidously thin since its name first appeared at E3 last month, but a few scans have popped up from US and UK magazines this week offering more of an outline.

Just last week, you may recall, Psychonauts developer Double Fine was in the news complaining about the fact that you still can't play the Xbox version of the game on the Xbox 360.

With just days to go before the DS Lite launches in Europe, Nintendo has confirmed to our sister site, GamesIndustry.biz, that a shipment of units bound for the UK has been stolen.

Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima has offered up his take on the next-gen consoles, comparing the big three to other forms of entertainment - namely cinema, DVD and TV.

DICE has announced that a new patch is currently in development for hit PC shooter Battlefield 2 - and that it'll offer new content as well as bug fixes.

Xbox 360 may be more of a focus, judging by the oodles of content due out later this month, but Ubisoft's announced that Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter's PC followers aren't being entirely left out - with a "Multiplayer Pack" on the way "shortly".

Steam has announced that two new multiplayer maps for Day of Defeat: Source are on the way - and they'll be here by the end of the month.

SEGA has announced the cast list for forthcoming PS2 brawler Yakuza - and topping the bill is none other than the artist formerly known as Luke Skywalker.

The Mehrunes' Razor dungeon Bethesda trailed a fortnight ago for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has been released on PC and Xbox 360. It's $2.99 for the PC version, which requires a recent patch to work, and apparently costs 250 Microsoft points if you want to play through it on Xbox 360 - although I can't test that right now because my 360 keeps freezing up in disgust this morning.

Q Entertainment has apparently only just begun its evolution of the hypnotic puzzle game Lumines, with creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi hinting that yet another version could be in the works for PlayStation 3.

Why, look who's here! It's our old friend Internet Reports, with a brand new rumour for us to mull over - and this time it revolves around highly anticipated next-gen title Grand Theft Auto IV.

Videogame westerns... hey, look at that tumbleweed. The few that do come trotting out of the creative desert really don't do much to break the drought. Recently we suffered Gun, which was a peculiar misfire of ideas that failed to inspire and ended up being slung out of the saloon doors by a disgruntled Eurogamer posse. It's easy to see why that particular mixture of ambitions was frustrated, but Desperados 2 could have been, should have been, more straightforward.

If, like us, you've committed your eyeballs to a strict diet of World Cup action over the past week, there's a good chance (you know, the kind Michael Owen seems incapable of putting away) you'll have missed many of the other visual treats doing the rounds.

Great news for fans of games about Eastern European nations taking over the galaxy - 2 Bad Design is offering you the chance to playtest their latest effort, Romanians In Space.

The co-founder of Mindfire Entertainment, the Hollywood production company responsible for the House of the Dead, Fear Effect and Dead or Alive movies, has revealed that a third HotD film is on the way.

Nearly 20 years after his first videogame appearance, Mega Man is to star in a brand new series of games for the Nintendo DS.

Majesco has announced plans to publish what they're billing as the first wrestling game for the Nintendo DS.

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.