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Ubisoft has confirmed to Eurogamer that the console version of PC shooter Far Cry Instincts is currently only planned for Xbox.

Io Interactive's second foray into the roll-your-own hitman concept is a lot better than its first, the most significant difference probably being our antihero's motives this time around. Instead of killing by trade, 47 is living out his days at a church in Sicily, helping with repairs and tending to the garden, whilst repenting his sins with the local priest, but nobody with as much history and skill as 47 ever truly retires, and our beloved hitman receives a quick jolt to his senses when his pal the priest is abducted and ransomed.

Ground Control developer Massive Entertainment is working on a new real-time strategy game for PCs featuring a scenario that presupposes the Cold War ended violently.

Nintendo of Europe updated its spring 2006 release schedule for Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance and GameCube.

We've been busy getting in the mood for Guitar Hero all week, talking to the developer and giving you the chance to win a drum head signed by Metallica's Lars Ulrich and an actual, proper Gibson SG Special guitar.

While some people find it exciting to lick the back of the Queen's head or let their tongue glide between the reverse contours of a beautiful mountain, it has to be said that we've never got off on postage stamps particularly.

Elder Scrolls developer Bethesda's unveiled e-commerce site obliviondownloads.com, where owners of the PC version of new title Oblivion can purchase downloadable content made available to their Xbox cousins.

Developer Telltale Studios, currently working on a Sam & Max game, has cut the price of its flagship Bone adventure series to $12.99 per instalment.

Eidos has released a playable demo of Tomb Raider: Legend over Xbox 360 Marketplace to go with the PC one released earlier this week.

Not so long ago, seeing "Tetris DS" on the release calendar would have provoked a pretty uniform response. "There they go again." "Another pointless cash-in." Etc. (And, I suppose, "What the hell is a DS?")

So there I am, standing next to one of my little female friends, and my mother turns to her neighbour and remarks, "Aw, don't they make a sweet little couple?" At the time, I was dressed as a rough boy from the mountains and her as a sheep.

You can imagine the conversation that took place in a hundred game studios across the world:

I love plasticine. It's a wonderfully versatile substance. You can make juvenile structures and appendages from it, explosives of various kinds, and can even create large-scale animated recreations of what it's like to live Up North with it. Indeed, it's the hand-modelled plasticine that gives the Wallace and Gromit animations so much of their visual charm; it's a great pity then that some of this charm gets lost in the [gaming journalism cliché alert] Inevitable Game Adaptation of what is a very enjoyable animated romp.

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe, or TCONTLTWATW as we'll call if for short [perhaps 'Narnia' might be snappier -Ed], is hotly tipped to top the gaming charts this Christmas. That isn't surprising, since it's a movie tie-in for a blockbuster film that promises to offer fun for all the family.

Sonic Riders begins as if upside down. Instead of cleverly introducing all its ideas one by one on the race track and relegating its paper-thin storyline to the manual (which is obviously made of paper and therefore ideally suitable), it stupidly spends ages introducing its paper-thin plot and relegates to the manual all the important details, like what the hell all the things on the screen mean, and how to turn corners without smacking repeatedly into the wall. (Incidentally, neither game or manual explains why Tails is still alive.)

It's hard to be brave when you're already winning. All you can do is lose (seriously - ask AC Milan). And PES, particularly in light of its commercial ascendancy, is most definitely winning. It's almost unimpeachable in its ball simulation, player personality and individuality, and tactical awareness. With PES5 now on the shelves, some have recorded that it's in decline. Don't listen to them. PES5 is harder and more technical. It's a genuine triumph of the series over the hype. My biggest fear about this version was that it would stray too far, buoyed by the commercial inroads it made against FIFA last year. Nope. This is Gianfranco Zola moving to Caligari.

There are many things which go towards making a game really really bad. Dodgy graphics and invisible walls, long loading times and unskippable cutscenes, repetitive missions and dull level layouts... We've suffered through them all.

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Bob Ross may not be familiar to readers in the UK, unless you're a particular fan of the Discovery channel, but over in the States the man's something of a legend.

It's coming up to three years since the EyeToy first appeared in our living rooms, introducing a whole new audience of people too young, too old or just too plain drunk to operate a Dual Shock to gaming. Since then, there have been all manner of variations: two more instalments in the Play series, a Chat title, SpyToy, Kinetic - some sort of fitness trainer thing involving Nike - and a rather rubbish hoverboarding game.

Ensemble Studios, the developer behind real-time strategy series Age of Empires, is currently working on ideas for a brand new MMOG.

Those of you playing The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion on Xbox 360 can log onto Xbox Marketplace today and get your grubby gauntlets on some armour for your horse - providing you're happy to pay 200 points, or £1.70, for the privilege.

Ignition Entertainment's set to publish SEGA's Puyo Pop Fever on PSP and DS this month.

Take 2's hugely acclaimed RPG The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has gone in at number one in the UK sales chart, beating off competition from EA's new release The Godfather, which takes second place.

Hitman: Blood Money will be released on Xbox 360 this spring alongside the previously announced PC, PS2 and Xbox versions.

SEGA has acquired Football Manager developer Sports Interactive.

Nintendo has confirmed that the new Opera browser which allows DS owners to surf the web will launch in Japan this June, according to Nintendo Power magazine.

"It's usually difficult to discern creative primacy in a situation like this," says Luke Jacobs, QA lead on Guitar Hero, Harmonix's guitar-powered rhythm-response PS2 game. "However in this case it's easy, it was me."

Just days after cancelling the release of controversial mobile phone title Office Massacre, Alten8 has announced that the game has been redesigned and is set to be released under a new name.

A group of Nintendo fans could be facing criminal charges after leaving a load of Super Mario-style question mark boxes lying around their home town of Ravenna, Ohio.