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Nintendo won't necessarily attempt a simultaneous worldwide launch of Revolution, despite Sony and Microsoft's next-generation console tactics, according to president Satoru Iwata.

Astropop is yet another simple, fun game to make a seamless transition from Microsoft's original Xbox Live Arcade over to the 360, beefing up the puzzle line-up and giving us yet another game to compare high scores in the process.

A new trailer for The Plan - Eko System's forthcoming title for PC, PS2 and Xbox - is now available on Eurofiles. You'll also find some screenshots here.

The sneaky, stabby, thinky Commandos series has delivered some of the most tactically interesting PC games of the past decade. Using the abilities of a small group of men to overcome all kinds of complex World War II scenarios has been a consistent delight, even if many of the isometric challenges have been 'a bit tricky' to master. However, that mild trickiness is as nothing when compared to the task of converting this real-time strategic opus into an FPS. Such an ambitious idea was never going to be easy to realise, and it's a little disappointing to report that it only just works in Strike Force.

The Magna Carta, that historically crucial legal document that bound the power of an English Monarch by law so that today the Queen can’t just wee down your chimney or execute left-handed people willy-nilly, was signed off in 1215. To say that this, its namesake videogame, appears also to have been created 791 years ago would be a mostly unfair joke; but one just funny and true enough to make it worthwhile. After all, its developers live in Korea and that’s far enough away that they can’t punch us or anything.

Chatter at the Game Developers Conference in San Jose last week strongly suggests that Microsoft is on the verge of signing a deal to acquire British developer Lionhead, with rival bidder Ubisoft reported to be out of the running.

More than a decade after the original PlayStation went into production and with more than 100 million units sold worldwide, Sony has confirmed that manufacturing of the 32-bit console has finally ceased.

Blizzard has decided to "indefinitely postpone production" on StarCraft: Ghost, its action-oriented StarCraft spin-off for consoles, "while evaluating opportunities for utilising the additional power of the new and upcoming console systems".

Bioware's continued saying exciting things about Mass Effect, it's real-time action-RPG for Xbox 360 - revealing that it plans to keep things ticking over between instalments in the trilogy by releasing premium content on Marketplace.

Half-Life 2: Episode One is now due out on May 31st according to Valve, although it'll still launch simultaneously on Steam and at retail, priced $19.99.

Sony has announced more details of Tekken Dark Resurrection, the first PSP instalment in the hit beat-'em-up series.

Satoru Iwata confounded expectations during his GDC keynote comments - but not necessarily in the way some commentators expected.

Visual Concepts has been working on basketball sims since NBA Action 98 so it's had plenty of time to perfect the sport. Sprinkling a little pinch of arcade speed on top of a rules-heavy recreation of the game, while constantly refining controls, has enabled the developer to hold its own and in some cases, topple the competition, even under the guiding hand of a variety of different publishers and branding. You can change the packaging all you like, but the core game has been keeping its head up, dribbling with the fingertips and driving the lane for some years now.

Ubersoldier's Nazi-icon themes and lavish level design put it well ahead of many of its fellow low-budget shooters. Someone on the Burut team has a real flair for pseudo-occult Nazi science, as well as for creating grim facades of a burnt-out 1940s Europe. In places it's really quite beautiful, with intricate textures, gloomy, brooding architecture as well as some decently animated and beautifully modelled evildoers to populate it.

Microsoft has greeted reports of a hack to run pirated Xbox 360 games by claiming that the "core security system" is intact - and, unusually, the hackers themselves seem to be in agreement.

Electronic Arts continues to enjoy strong success at the top of the UK Charts as FIFA Street 2 "does a Fulham" and holds on to a slim lead its over big-hitting rival. EA is unlikely to mind about the competition in any case, since its big-hitting rival is one Fight Night Round 3 - the latest from EA Chicago.

At GDC in San Jose today, Sony Worldwide Studios head Phil Harrison outlined plans for a versatile online gaming service with considerable potential for digital distribution of content, and demonstrated real-time game demos for PlayStation 3.

Microsoft's Scott Henson says that the Xbox group is considering how to improve the Xbox 360 dashboard and multimedia features - and is currently looking at and prioritising requests made by users.

Condensed reviewer mode: on. Act of War: Direct Action. C&C Clone. C&C Beater. Explosions. Techno-thriller. Terrorists! Conspiracy! Actually really good. So-bad-they're-good cut-scenes. Should have sold more. Expansion pack!

Last night Nintendo unveiled a new DS Zelda title, The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass - and we've got a trailer of it for you to check out on Eurogamer TV.

Speculation prior to Satoru Iwata's keynote last night focused on whether the Nintendo pres would announce the "real" name of Revolution - and though he obviously didn't, there's some questionable evidence floating around that Nintendo's close to doing so.

Microsoft and Bioware have announced a brand new Xbox 360-exclusive RPG at the X05 event in Amsterdam.

Jade Empire and KOTOR developer BioWare has revealed the first details of Mass Effect, the new Xbox 360 title announced at the X05 event just last night.

Namco Bandai's doing a DS version of PlayStation lightgun game Point Blank - and instead of using a lightgun to fire at wacky things, you use your stylus to tap them on the screen.

Flight combat titles don't often hit the headlines, but the March 31st release of Blazing Angels could change all that. Released on Xbox, PC and Xbox 360, it's the latter version which has gained this particular title that extra bit of attention, and is therefore one we're looking forward to putting through its paces just prior to its release next week.

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On Thursday 23rd March, Satoru Iwata delivered his keynote address, entitled "Disrupting Development", at the Game Developers Conference in San Jose. This page was updated live as we received information from our men on the ground. Read from top to bottom for itemised commentary. AND NOW I CAN SIT DOWN.

SEGA has announced that its games will form part of Nintendo's "Virtual Console" system for Revolution - in other words, players will be able to download classic Mega Drive titles and play those alongside Nintendo titles.

SEGA has announced a partnership with Neverwinter Nights 2 developer Obsidian Entertainment, which will see the duo collaborate on an original role-playing game for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Last week in Tokyo, Sony Computer Entertainment restarted the process of releasing information about PS3 - but with today's software demos during his GDC keynote, Phil Harrison showed the progress of PS3 development off for the first time.