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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.

Well, this is either going to open with some sort of remark about the 25th anniversary of Pacman, or about how the DS is finally coming into its own. Spin the wheel... tikka tikka tikka tik tik tik tiiik tiiiiik... clunk. It's the DS.

Take-Two's creative vice president, Dan Houser, has spoken out on the criticism the company has received for producing games with violent content.

The PC real-time strategy title formerly known as Outfront II has picked up a publisher in the shape of Ubisoft - and a new name to boot.

Calling all wealthy gadget freaks: Sony has announced that its latest digital video recorder, the catchily titled Sugo Roku RDR-AX75, will be compatible with the PSP.

A shiny new 3D screenshot for forthcoming Xbox 360 title Project Gotham Racing 3 is now available for download.

Anti-videogame campaigner Jack Thompson is making headlines once again after writing to the Seattle police department requesting the arrest of two online cartoonists.

Our American friends can finally pop to the shops and pick up a Gizmondo this weekend, as the system goes on sale at the not-at-all exorbitant price of $229 on October 22nd.

With the DOOM movie set to do Hellish things in the US this Friday (probably), key cast members including The Rock, Karl Urban and Rosamund Pike have started talking about the possibility of a sequel - and while producers John Wells and Lorenzo di Bonaventura are reticent when it comes to the question of what happens next (or so they claim - it doesn't appear to have stopped them gassing about it), it sounds like there's a decent amount of enthusiasm for the idea.

That old adage about comic book games all being rubbish is certainly, well, an adage, but thanks to the efforts of developers like Neversoft, Treyarch and Capcom it's never likely to become a complete truth. Which is SUPER news for Marvel, whose trust in directors like Sam Raimi's also seen the one about comic book films all being rubbish take a hit too. Pity they decided to ruin things again by taking the beat-'em-up licence away from Capcom and giving it to EA - a company with, at the time at least, absolutely no real beat-'em-up credibility whatsoever.

Morning retro campers! Welcome to barrel-scraping territory where everything's a 'classic' and a 'treasure' if it, you know, it once appeared in an arcade. Having just trawled through the annals (or should that be anals?) of Tecmo's 'classic' retro history, we were in no mood to be fobbed off again with a pile of stinking detritus masquerading as jolly retro fodder - so forgive us if we're just a little stroppy with Midway's latest collection of old long-forgotten hits.

The latest hip-hop and happenin' street brawler from Tekken and Soul Calibur creators Namco has been confirmed for British shores, thanks to a publishing deal with Sony Europe.

A modder going by the name of DarkFader has claimed responsibility for the Trojan virus which has been infecting Nintendo DS units of late.

If you've already preordered your Xbox 360 and are looking forward to getting your hands on your shiny new console come December, you might want to visit Japanese online store eDigi.

There's a quote I've got stuck to the outside of my monitor, which, while borderline fruity, is something I always enjoy reading. It goes, "The art of punctuation is of infinite consequence in writing; as it contributes to the perspicuity, and consequently to the beauty, of every composition." Glancing at it again this morning, it struck me that that's precisely how FEAR behaves. It's a game that seeks to embolden action sequences through the lucidity of slow motion, and with help from technology that taps deep wells of environmental detail consequently beautifies the composition in ways that nothing else can. Nothing. Not even Half-Life 2. Good quote, that - I'm glad I stuck it over the top of the "I OWN YOU!" sticker.

The latest in the most popular branch of THQ's evergreen wrestling series, WWE Smackdown! Vs. RAW 2006, is to feature full link-up features between the PSP and PS2 versions, the publisher revealed today.

There's only so much nostalgia any balanced human being should be subjected to at any one time. Before long, the numbers involved start to compute in your increasingly frazzled brain and it slowly dawns on you that a quarter of a century has passed since these games blooped and bleeped away in that smoky old arcade you used to frequent.

There are problems with Copyright, and the Games Industry has a problem with its old games. In fact, most of the time, you'd think the industry doesn't want you to know that old games have ever existed, and they're prepared to use Copyright Law to shut down emulation sites that allow you to play those old games; games from which those companies are no longer making any money, and if they had any decency would offer a blanket license of free of charge to those of us keeping some of mankind's finest creations alive. But no, they want to suppress these games because they are ashamed of them.

As another group of developers brings Jack Thompson's infamous game concept to life, the notorious anti-videogames critic is still refusing to keep his part of the bargain - claiming the whole thing was simply a sophisticated piece of satire.

Nintendo of America has signed a deal with McDonald's to put Wi-Fi hotspots in more than 7000 restaurants across the US, giving DS owners free access to the new Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection service.

With less than two months to go until the game hits the shelves, PoP executive producer Yannis Mallat has revealed more of what we can expect from Battles of Prince of Persia - the new card-based turn battler for the Nintendo DS.

Some more technical details of Nintendo's Wi-Fi Connection service for the DS have appeared on the net this week thanks to eagle-eyed (well, presumably just 'eyed') attendees of last week's Digital Life Show in New York City, who saw it demonstrated.

Hurrah! FEAR's out today. Yes! Just to clarify, it is in fact a Tuesday, but for some reason Vivendi's decided to release Monolith's scarily good looking scary FPS game today, worldwide, rather than waiting until Friday. Good of them really.

Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy pack for Xbox will be released in Europe on November 4th, the publisher announced this week.

Renegade attorney Jack Thompson has launched another blow aimed directly at the games industry in response to the National Institute on Media and the Family's request that he cease using their name in his tireless campaign against violent videogames.

Let's face it, quiz games to date have been utter mind-numbing cash-in rubbish. Take the most popular to date, which is "Who wants to be a Millionaire?" - the UK's first million-selling game, fact fans. The problems here were that a) Chris Tarrant benefited from every sale and b) there just weren't enough questions. An hour or so into proceedings and you could practically guarantee that everyone - including Harry the dog - knew the answers to even the most obscure poser, and started getting really irritated with Tarrant's smug rubber face. Activision's The Weakest Link wasn't much better, and let's not even mention Sky Sports Football or ChampMan Quiz. Oops. Too late.

As the battle of the next-gen consoles gets underway, Fumito Ueda - director, game designer and lead artist on ICO and the forthcoming Shadow of the Colossus - has confirmed his commitment to Sony's next-gen machine.