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Nintendo Dream has published an interview with a load of Japanese developers, revealing what they think of the "freestyle" remote controller for the Nintendo Revolution. And perhaps unsurprisingly, they all think it's highly exciting and wicked.

Angry, loud and enigmatically coiffured American lawyer Jack Thompson has stepped up his PR campaign against charitable web-comic Penny Arcade, following up last week's alleged fax to the Seattle police department with a missive directed at John McKay, US Attorney for the Western District of Washington, complaining of "criminal harassment" at the hands of the comic's fanbase, CCed to numerous media outlets in line with his previous tactics.

There's something rather childish, cynical even, about Age of Empires III. Playing it I'm reminded of a girl at school that started giving me presents (chocolate mainly) on a daily basis. She was, I guess, trying to win my affection. Being confused (it was the first time I'd ever been actively pursued) and being greedy I took the bars for a couple of weeks before guiltily asking her to stop. Right now I feel like I want to say to AoE3 "Stop with the gifts! To win my heart you don't need to sprinkle every map with silly treasure troves. You don't need to let me flick to a 'home city' screen every few minutes so that I can select a free unit or resource windfall. I'm not some spoilt toddler that needs to be bribed with endless sweeties."

SEGA's PS2 action RPG revival of the Shining Force series, Shining Force NEO, is currently hacking and slashing its way to US retail unimpeded by intrusive menu screens mid-battle, sayeth the Internet, but SEGA Europe has admitted that it currently has "no confirmed plans" to release the game on this continent. Boo!

SingStar's monopoly on PS2 karaoke could be under threat - after Konami announced Karaoke Stage 2 for PS2, due out in March 2006.

Before beginning this article, we thought it might be an idea to dig out our review of the first Suffering game (not written for this website, by the way, but for a long since dead PS2 magazine you'll never have heard of). And not just to see if there were good jokes we could reuse, either - we wanted to make sure that we weren't missing anything, that there wasn't some new element in The Suffering: Ties That Bind that we'd forgotten wasn't in the first game.

We’re big fans of World War 2 here at Eurogamer.

Microsoft has announced a planned single day closure of its online console gaming service Xbox Live and the associated Xbox.com website in order to make changes in preparation for the Xbox 360 launch.

A new advert promoting Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer 5 has been banned from our screens by UK censors.

It would be the easiest thing in the world for Sports Interactive to re-issue its footy management games every year with merely a data update and a few bug fixes. However mercenary that sounds, most of us wouldn't mind. At least you'd know what you were getting. Heck, the more cynical readers around here assume that's all the Islington-based team is doing anyway, but those closer to the project know that the changes and improvements never, ever stop rolling off the production line. It's become an obsession almost to match the compulsive nature of the game itself.

Some cheeky chappies on the internet have gotten hold of a complete track listing for Mario Kart DS - everything you can race around in both Retro and Nitro mode - and we've been able to confirm it all using our secret spies, who shall not be named for fear of their jobs.

Codemasters has released a new trailer for forthcoming PC, PS2 and Xbox title TOCA Race Driver 3 - and it's now available via the official website.

US developer NinjaBee has unveiled Outpost Kaloki X, one of the first games to appear in the Xbox 360 Live Arcade.

With Doom 3 expansion Resurrection of Evil out on Xbox today in Europe, Activision's announced that it's making a pair of its seven new multiplayer maps available to owners of vanilla Doom 3 Xbox for free. Nice of them.

Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima is currently hard at work on a new game for Nintendo's next-gen console.

Sierra Entertainment (shh! It's Vivendi in a dress!) and Mad Doc Software have announced RTS expansion Empire Earth II: The Art of Supremacy, due in February 2006, introducing new game modes, civilisations and other changes. One of the modes even lets you be someone's bitch in the event of defeat. Awesome!

The first Xbox 360 demo pods have begun to appear in Wal-Mart stores across the US, giving shoppers the chance to try out playable demos of high profile next-generation titles.

A new trailer for forthcoming PC and Xbox 360 WWII shooter Call of Duty 2 is now available for download.

There's a moment in most serious gamers' lives. They find themselves looking at a game in disgust and thinking, "Christ - it can't be that hard". And then, later, they find themselves looking at an enormous manual of some kind and thinking, "Christ - does it have to be that hard?". And it's the evolutionary niche between those two urges that creation-systems like this one colonise.

"I've changed! Love me anew!" it bellows, as an avalanche of personality erupts from a screen that confusingly just had an EA Sports logo plastered across it, fuelled by Iron Maiden and sketchbook presentation - a blizzard of quirky animations frothing around the edges of scotch-taped overlays and spiralling load indicators. "I've got skis too! Monster tricks! Custom characters! I'm a changed game!" It's an alluring façade, unquestionably - distinct and beguiling - and most of the things that I liked about SSX are as hearty as ever.

With just a few days remaining until the Gizmondo launches in North America, Tiger Telematics has announced the software line-up for its new handheld.

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has announced plans to launch a limited edition PSP bundle containing a 1GB Memory Stick - and as you might have guessed, it'll be in the shops in time for Christmas.

As the war between the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray camps continues, Bill Gates has revealed that he favours neither next-gen format - since in the future we'll be so busy downloading things and polishing our 900GB iPods that we'll have forgotten what "discs" of any kind look like.

Mario & Luigi's DS outing, Partners in Time, will feature some manner of support for the new DS Rumble Pak, Nintendo quietly announced this week.

id Software legend John Carmack has gone on record once again to express his love for Microsoft's next-gen console, claiming: "Xbox 360 has far and away the best development tools."

The creators of cult online videogames show Consolevania have been commissioned to produce a new six-part series for BBC2 Scotland, in what is described as the BBC's first attempt at videogames television since the Acorn Electron era.

Microsoft's grand plan to get Xbox and PC gamers fragging from the same shotgun took a big step this week with the announcement of the Xbox 360 Controller for Windows - effectively just a wired Xbox 360 controller. Because they work with Windows. Ahaaaaa.

Dungeons & Dragons. You can almost hear younger siblings choking to death on polyhedral dice. Except no: the role-playing element has been discarded, and what remains is a click-beast of lesser resource management. Dragonshard is, remarkably, only the second RTS to be based on the popular paper/pencils past time (the first being the long-lost Blood & Magic from the ancient era of 1996). It goes without saying that Dragonshard is, like Warcraft III, a character skewed RTS world of goblins, orcs, swords, sorcerers, giant robots... Hang on, a robot?

Spider-Man. Doing whatever a spider can!

EA's set to co-publish Pac-Man World 3 in PAL territories on PS2, Xbox, Cube, PSP and PC in early 2006, the megapub announced in concert with Namco this morning.