Staff of Strategy Informer recently enjoyed playing Geometry Wars: Galaxies on the Nintendo DS, and also gave it a whopping 8.2/10 in our Wii review, so to celebrate our love for all things Geomentry Wars, we've decided to run a little competition to allow our European visitors the chance to win a copy of either the DS or Wii version.

UPDATE: The Competition has now closed, winners are announced inside!

At "Lunch with the Luminaries" Chris Taylor, creator of Supreme Commander, declared that PC gaming as we know it today is dead. He cited online piracy as contributing factor saying many games titles now look to consoles as means of securing themselves against illegal downloading, secure gaming is the future he says.

But Internet scaly-wags aside, ex-Sony executive Phil Harrison claims there’s already a generation of kids globally that will never buy physical media. He believes business models will have to evolve and stop physical disc media as the primary means of delivery.

The Discovery Channel has unveiled a game unlike any other, where you'll battle waves that reach 40-feet, ferocious life threatening storms and merciless ice. Yes I'm sure by now you've guessed it, what other possible occupation is there to think about? Crab fishing!

Destined for a port-of-call on PC and the Xbox360, with no PS3 release, Deadliest Catch Alaskan Storm is said to give gamers the chance of experiencing this deadly trade out in the Bering Sea. Crabs and peril - what more could the industry ask for?

Codemasters announced this morning that Turning Point: Fall of Liberty is to be released in the UK and Germany on 14th March, with further information on other territories coming in the near future.

This free game from Team Flipside (actually developed as a university project) is sort of a blend of a puzzle game and an action game. Set in the world of ancient Aztec mythology, the player needs to guide a warrior through a series of obstacles and reach a portal on the other side of the given level. It's free and lighweight (less than 50MB's), so give Flipside of the Divine a try.

Download Flipside of the Divine.

NCsoft Europe announced this afternoon that the Guild Wars Franchise has surpassed five million units in Europe, North America, and Asia.

Having just scraped some of the egg off their face with the $2 billion offer for Take-Two rejected, EA might just be holding Ubisoft as a backup date for merger. While there's been no official word or tremors within the corporate halls, EA does already own a sizeable 19.9% stake in the French publisher making such a move tempting indeed.

What with the recent successes for Ubisoft, like Assassin's Creed, it would be a hard one to secure and may make the courting of Take-Two look like a playground crush. The domain eaubisoft.com has been registered but through a proxy company. There's conspiracy afoot!

Electronic Arts announced this morning that its new sci-fi survival horror game Dead Space will be in European and North American stores on October 31st for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

An unknown source has confirmed to Videgaming247 that Relic is currently working on Dawn of War 2, a sequel to 2004's epic RTS set in the Warhammer 40k universe.

Glupod is a casual online game developed by Something Inc., a small group of socially conscious people based in Greece, India, the UK and US.

The idea is that Glupod turns rewards earned from the online game into tangible real-life assistance for environmental and social causes.

An interesting idea, or optimism gone crazy?