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Photos purporting to be of mod-chip devices for the Xbox 360, posted by a group claiming to be preparing to launch such a chip in the coming weeks, are amateur fakes - with no sign as yet that any such chip is close to release.

After 15 years of being right at the bleeding edge of gaming technology, John Carmack's decision to turn his talents to mobile phone gaming was unexpected to say the least. But maybe, after spending so long on creating the Doom III engine, what he needed more than anything was to get his teeth into a project that wasn't going to take four or five years to turn around. Like many in the industry, perhaps Carmack hungered for a return to the era when you could turn around a project in under six months.

Scans from the latest Famitsu have shown up featuring a new Namco DS game where you remodel the main character's head in order to evade police capture.

Following the emergence of yet more rumours regarding the Revolution's unique "freestyle" remote controller and what you'll be able to do with it, Nintendo has informed Eurogamer that it's all just more speculation.

Square-Enix has unveiled the new special edition PlayStation 2 that will come bundled with Final Fantasy XII in Japan - telling Eurogamer that it could make it over here if there's enough demand.

Neither PlayStation 3 or Revolution made a serious appearance at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) last week, so there was no sign of the now-legendary PS3 boomerang controller or the Revolution's freestyle. However, a company called SplitFish GameWare appears intent on uniting the pair - in a manner of speaking.

Japanese developer Media Vision has confirmed it's working on a fifth game in the Wild ARMs RPG series for PS2.

Valve's planning to release a Counter-Strike: Source version of classic map Militia described as "a fairly major reworking of the original level", featuring HDR-polished visuals similar to those of Half-Life 2: Lost Coast and the recent re-release of CS map Nuke.

Last week, we asked you to vote for your favourite games of 2005 and give us an idea of why you liked them so much. You responded in droves, including over 300 games in your top-fives. In fact, there were so many interesting inclusions that we're not only going to run down your top 50, but afterwards we're going to put together some interesting stats, take a closer look at where some of our top-50 games wound up, and highlight some of the games kicking around further down the list. With any luck, it'll give you an idea of what to play during these cold January weekends. To begin with though, your top 50, starting with...

We all rather enjoyed putting together Eurogamer's Top 50 Games of 2005 over the Christmas break. When we got back to work, we decided we'd send around a few quick questions to some of the developers involved and talk a little about their games, hopefully grabbing their attention before they'd had time to fall back into the rhythm of proper work. First to write back was Jack Emmert, creative director of Cryptic Studios. Cryptic's City of Heroes and City of Villains placed joint tenth in the top 50 list. You can read our comments about them in the 10-6 breakdown.

Vivendi Universal Games has acquired High Moon Studios, the California-based developer formerly known as Sammy Studios, gaining control of the company's intellectual properties in the process.

So much for Sony unveiling the PS3 at the Consumer Electronics Show, then - there's been not a whisper of a price or a release date, leaving us somewhat disappointed.

Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto has gone on record to declare his respect for Yoot Saito, the man behind Seaman and forthcoming GameCube title Odama.

Everyone loves a nice playable demo, and the European Xbox Live Marketplace has done a pretty good job of keeping Xbox 360 owners supplied so far. But what if you could also get your hands on those demos that are normally only be offered to American and Japanese gamers?

Following Uncle Bill's announcement that Street Fighter II is coming to Xbox Live, Capcom has released the first details of what we can expect.

No matter how many rave reviews the Project Zero games seem to get over here, a mixture of publisher indifference, retailer apathy and consumer foolishness has maddeningly conspired to completely scupper any chance of Tecmo's superb survival-horror series selling in Europe. Now onto its fourth European publisher, we can only hope that Take-Two recognises the strength of the series and can do a little more than push it into the dark recesses of store shelves when it finally gets its belated release across the continent next month.

Tecmo is working on a third game in the Fatal Frame series, known as Project Zero over here (where it never sells, much to our continuing disappointment. Buy it you sods), which is around 60 per cent complete and due out on PS2 this summer in Japan.

Fatal Frame producer, Keisuke Kikuchi, has divulged more details about Tecmo's imminent adventure-horror sequel, Fatal Frame III - the third game in the series known as Project Zero on these shores.

Take-Two will publish Tecmo's latest survival horror title Fatal Frame III: The Tormented for PS2 in Europe, the publisher's announced. The previous two in the series were released here by Wanadoo and Ubisoft respectively.

Police in California have accused a 26-year-old man of using the Xbox Live service to make contact with a teenager and arrange a meeting during which the boy was molested.

Nintendo fans who missed last year's BBC3 documentary about the company will be pleased to hear that it's now available for watching over the Internet.

EA has announced the third expansion pack for The Sims 2. It's called Open for Business and it's due out this year - release date to be confirmed.

Nintendo has dismissed claims that long awaited GameCube title The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess will be playable on the Revolution using the wacky old "freestyle" controller.

A happy ending to one of December's most irritating stories, then: Steve Ballmer's managed to get his kids an Xbox 360.

Microsoft has reaffirmed that it will not release an Xbox 360 revision featuring an internal HD-DVD drive - in the face of speculation that the external HD-DVD drive announced at the Consumer Electronics Show this week will be used for game data storage somewhere down the line.

Rockstar and the big brother it doesn't like to talk about, Take-Two, have announced a few new games including additions to the Grand Theft Auto series, and given us an idea of what else is to come from the publishing-duo-which-is-really-one-group in 2006.

Hello Doctor. *Huff* No, no, don't get up. *Puff* Yes, I did run here. *Wheeze* Strange, I feel slightly weaker now. Anyway, the usual spot, OK? Right, I'll set myself down here then.

When OutRun2 first appeared on Xbox, we were all a bit surprised - not so much by SEGA's decision to bring a relatively concise arcade racing game to a home console, but by the degree to which relatively unknown developer Sumo Digital had managed to expand the game without losing track of what made the arcade original so good.

Florida-based games developer Smiling Gator Productions has begun the New Year by ceasing all operations, having failed to secure additional funding to continue its MMO game development.

Nintendo has announced that more than 3.5 million Nintendo DS units have been sold in Europe - bringing the total for worldwide sales up to more than 13 million.