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PopCap's planning to show off the Xbox Live Arcade version of PC/web-based side-scrolling shooter Heavy Weapon at E3 next week.

Guitar Hero has a spangly guitar, Dancing Stage a blinking dancefloor and Gran Turismo a steering wheel that, when you push it, pushes you back. Samba De Amigo has tequila-fragranced maracas [sniff... Lies! - Ed], Maestromusic an erect conductor's baton and Steel Battalion a huge cock-off robot dashboard. These are all videogames that have seen their manufacturers carefully pipe plastic into (mostly) recognisable real world shapes: an effort to normalise that most alienating abstract interface - the videogame controller.

Ubisoft's outlined its line-up for E3 and promised, among all the many things it's announced recently, to spend some time showing off its forgotten-about collaboration with TimeSplitters developer Free Radical Design.

Speaking to our sister site GamesIndustry.biz, Nintendo's UK boss David Yarnton has praised the "fresh, all-inclusive and all-encompassing" nature of the Wii name for the firm's new console, and dismissed criticism of it as "juvenile."

Ubisoft's announced details of the fourth game in the Rayman series - which will be released on current and next-generation formats - and highlighted the fact that it'll be a Nintendo Wii launch title.

Sidekicks are doing it for themselves; standing on their own two feet, or occasionally crawling on all fours in this case, and starring in their very own platform adventures.

Namco Bandai's announced a deal with Dark Horse to do a comic based on Hellgate: London - Flagship Studios' debut PC game.

Warner Bros and Eidos have done a deal to bring Justice League Heroes to Europe on PS2, Xbox and PSP this autumn.

Namco Bandai's announced that its first E3 line-up since the merger will be headlined by the likes of Xenosaga Episode III, Tales of the Abyss and Mobile Ops: The One Year War. In all the company's got 19 games down to show, covering more or less all the consoles, PC and handhelds.

Who'd be a worshipper? You scrimp and save, pray and dance, and then get allocated a random "humorous" name by your puerile god, before being squished to death when he accidentally drops a tree on your head. Even then your body is forfeit, dropped into the sacrificial altar (if yon deity has time) so the godhead can get to grips with the really crappy fireball throwing technique.

EA has stormed back into the top of the charts this week with next-gen sales of FIFA World Cup Germany 2006, Miss Croft stepping down to enjoy the footie after three weeks at the top.

Take-Two has announced the official closure of Amped developer Indie Built, citing uncertainty surrounding the console transition as the main reason for the studio's demise.

Sony Online Entertainment's announced a new expansion pack and a new adventure pack for EverQuest II, and if you think those are the same thing then you need to get the hell off my news item right the hell now.

Quest Online has announced it's doing an MMORPG called Crusade, which will plunge players into a fantasy world of magic, gods and warring factions. It's due out in 2008.

Having already released Tomb Raider: Legend on PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360 and PC, with PSP and GameCube versions on the way, Eidos has announced plans to complete the set with DS and GBA versions this autumn.

Eidos has released a playable PC demo of Crystal Dynamics' new Tomb Raider game, featuring what sounds like the opening level, which is set in Bolivia.

Activision's announced details of the new maps it plans to release over Xbox Live for Infinity Ward's 360 version of Call of Duty 2.

Kuju and Atari are bringing the world of Dungeons & Dragons to PSP this Christmas in an extensive RPG with wireless multiplayer modes on top.

SNK's pledged its support for Wii and DS, starting with a collection of Metal Slug arcade titles for Nintendo's next-gen home console.

Funcom's planning to hop on the digital distribution bandwagon and flog Dreamfall: The Longest Journey through its website.

Death Jr developer Backbone's working on a brand new Sonic title for PlayStation Portable, SEGA announced this morning as part of its run of pre-E3 announcements.

Onimusha might well represent the most successful foray made by any game into the surreal world of traditional Japanese Kwaidan storytelling. However, behind every favourite there tends to be an underdog, a role Kuon quietly adopts. It's a position that would take a great deal of work to escape.

Microsoft's given the clearest hint yet of what it plans to show off during E3 week.

Ubisoft's just announced a brand new PlayStation 3 game called Assassin's Creed - due to be shown off at E3 next week and due out next year.

Most Haunted surprised us all a couple of years back by being one of those rare breakouts from cable television's dirge of bored housewife programming. At its zenith it took a slouching nation on a couch-driven gawk-thru of Britain's spookiest spots with a presentational style bordering the right side of rampant hysteria. Watching Yvette Fielding and Derek Acorah scream in terror if so much as a floorboard creaked or a badger snuffled was a testament to non-event TV everywhere.

Codemasters is encouraging you to be evil again. Having already signed ArchLord - a game in which one player gets supreme control over an entire MMO each month - now it's peddling Triumph Studios' Overlord, in which players take on the role of a big nasty bad guy and order minions around to do their bidding.

EA's announced that its first original title for next-gen systems is a principally co-operative action game called Army of Two.

Take Two label 2K Games has signed a deal with Marvel to publish a game based on Ghost Rider in 2007.

Metal Gear Solid will become a movie, says Hideo Kojima, but he can't say when yet.

Koei will have a trio of next-generation games at E3 next week, including its Canadian-made racing game Fatal Inertia, which it first showed off at the Tokyo Game Show in September.