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Microsoft has unveiled the Xbox Live Marketplace Content that will be available to Xbox 360 owners from the moment the console launches on December 2.

Eurogamer's favourite gaming site that isn't Eurogamer, UK Resistance, has launched a new campaign to bring blue skies back to games.

Eyes kind of rolled when this one was announced. "Sonic... WITH GUNS!" Fortunately it's not quite what you expect. This isn't edgy or grown-up Sonic. It's just, well, Sonic. Sonic Adventure, effectively - as toonified as ever.

Car manufacturer Volvo is developing a new racing game for the current-generation Xbox, according to the New York Times.

Codemasters has released a new playable demo for TOCA Race Driver 3 - and it's now available for download.

Nadeo's promised TrackMania Sunrise expansion, eXtreme, has been released - and, in case you'd forgotten, it's entirely free! Hurrah!

Microsoft has unveiled the range of Xbox 360 faceplates us Europeans will get to choose from when the console launches here on December 2.

Blizzard has announced details of the new 1.9 patch for PC MMORPG World of Warcraft.

Monkeys belong outside, obviously (apart the one in Chris's closet), so Super Monkey Ball and the Nintendo DS make a pretty good couple.

Microsoft's followed up yesterday's announcement of the Xbox 360's European launch line-up with news of its American counterpart.

It's an odd situation when the very idea of a retro compilation seems so... retro. It's already nine and a half years since we started messing around with emulators like MAME (anyone remember the original Capcom one called Callus?), and roughly the same amount of time since the Namo Museum release. So, after about four or five years of wallowing in all manner of nostalgia we kind of got it out of our system. The thing that was most surprising about relentlessly playing all these old arcade games from the 80s and early 90s wasn't how much they'd aged or how rock hard they could be, but how much derivative me-too stuff was around even then. The best lesson for us back then was not to bandy the word 'classic' around too much. Not all retro games are born equal, and just because a game is 21 years old, it doesn't mean it deserve to be deemed a 'classic'.

With the possible exception of those biscuits that taste a bit like the dull, non-creamy bit of a bourbon but are actually meant to be the WHOLE biscuit, there are few things with a greater capacity to annoy me in life than the presence of the word "Honor" on the UK packaging of a computer game. This may account for why I'm so grumpy so much of the time.

Although Microsoft has yet to announce an official list of Xbox 360 launch day titles - despite the fact that the new console is launching in the US in just over a week - word is that Ridge Racer 6 has been shipped to American shops.

Microsoft has announced the initial list of Xbox games which will be compatible with the Xbox 360 when the new console launches later this month, with over 200 of the existing console's titles to be supported from the outset.

One of Rare's lead designers has revealed that forthcoming Xbox 360 shooter Perfect Dark Zero could work on the Revolution.

Let's get the rock on down with this game! It's totally cool and awesome! It has lots of the fighting with modes and totally cool enemies! It will make you want to be totally challenge! It's so with the fighting, and the dashing and the fireballs and the flying! It soooo good!

It looks like the latest instalment in Square-Enix's Grandia series is heading to US PS2s - but there are no plans for a European release at present.

Activision has announced that its licensing deal with Marvel Comics has been extended, giving the publisher the right to produce games based on the X-Men and Spider-Man franchises until 2017.

Quake 4's been confirmed as an Xbox 360 launch title by publisher Activision, and will start shipping in the USA on November 18th - four days ahead of the console's official go-date, the 22nd.

Bioware joint CEO Dr. Ray Muzkya has reiterated the company's plans to continue the Jade Empire series - and on Xbox 360.

Dead or Alive 4 has almost certainly slipped until December in the USA, while some European retailers have now moved the game into 2006. Amazon is quoting January 13th.

Ask me about Knights of the Temple 2 in a year's time and I may well respond with a blank 'Never-heard-of-it' stare. This is one of those titles that fills a cold wet winter weekend pleasantly enough but then fades from the memory faster than a Murder She Wrote plot or a Daniel O'Donnell ditty.

Perhaps it's a job for trade descriptions. The box says "Spyro: Shadow Legacy", and nothing else. Platform game then, right? Stick it in the DS, switch it on, wait for the interminably long splash screens to finish their agonizing, glacial display, and then... it's an RPG?

Here's what I don't get about Enter The Matrix: It wasn't about Neo because Neo is too powerful. Too powerful for what? Too powerful to be a videogame character? Don't we, um, routinely withstand the organised might of entire armies when we take on the mantle of an ordinary-guy-with-nothing-to-lose? I've been rookies-on-the-force with nought but a handgun and an entire drugs cartel out to get me, and emerged a cigar-smoking, rocket-launching, bullet-dodging lunatic standing on a mountain of erstwhile goons. We are programmed to overlook the average lead's implausible capacity for violence and utterly ludicrous resilience in the face of everything from headshots to head-stomps from 90-foot robot-dragons. So Neo can punch people 10 times a second, jump between skyscrapers and take on two hundred Hugo Weavings simultaneously. That rules him out of the running for the latest vacancy under my thumbs how, exactly? It sounds more like he inquired about the room in my PS2 and then turned up with a reference from Kurosawa and a character statement from Doomguy. He's made for this life.

Epic Games VP Mark Rein has spoken out on the developer's continuing commitment to producing PC games - despite the fact that their efforts are currently focused on Gears of War for the Xbox 360.

Mark Rein has been in the news more than he'd perhaps like lately. The Epic Games vice president is a man who likes to talk, and a man who's passionate about games - a combination which can sometimes get him into trouble.

Nintendo of America's Reggie Fils-Aime has said that he expects the Revolution to be the cheapest next-generation console available when it hits shop shelves next year.

With just weeks to go until the Xbox 360 hits European shelves, a survey has revealed that UK gamers are most looking forward to the arrival of the PlayStation 3.

Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi has gone on record to state that he was coerced into making a sequel to the game against his better judgement (again) - and that he's not entirely pleased with the finished product.

Sometimes the games industry can be so cretinously predictable you wish some of them would just sod off to Switzerland and make watches or something. At least their unerring time-keeping abilities would be considered a good thing over there. In the land of videogaming, the crushing inevitability that the excellent Jak trilogy would be followed by a less-than-essential kart racing title was almost too depressing to bear. Surely not. Surely Naughty Dog - the beloved Naughty Dog of some of the finest platforming games of this generation - was above that kind of lowest common denominator nonsense? Surely it had better, more interesting, more innovative games to work on?