The latest and hopefully miles better instalment of Need for Speed is coming this November 21st to Europe. Undercover is going to woo us back to NFS roots they say.

Die Hard 4 and Mission Impossible III's Maggie Q will be starring as the NFS chick this time around, where she'll play a Federal Agent giving us marching orders. What a square.

While Valve is yet to reveal one more new shiny weapon of opponent pacification, they have lifted the sheet on Natascha - a level 5 minigun, way better than some chick.

The Killing Gloves of Boxing get their time to Rocky-and-roll, these bad boys can guarantee five seconds of full on critical damage - through pummelling or guns. Ace.

Atari and Red Mile Entertainment are bringing Heroes over Europe, a realistic tactical flight combat game, to the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC in 2009.

The sequel to the mighty World War II flight combat game Heroes of the Pacific, Heroes over Europe takes aspiring combat pilots into the bullet-ridden heart of major World War II European air battles in glorious dogfight-friendly high definition. Heroes over Europe follows the Allied campaign from the attacks on London to the destruction of Berlin, with players under orders to strap themselves into the authentically rendered cockpits of the campaign’s iconic aircraft. Their mission: to survive the most ferocious dogfights ever seen in a flight combat game.

Game Developer Research issued an extensive 55 question survey to "Western game creators" to probe what markets they're in, tools used and money spent.

They found that developers are still mostly churning out titles for PC with console development at around 43%. Web platforms also beat handhelds. Go web!

Under EA's 'Partners' initiative, which sees independent developers publish their work through EA channels, Epic is working on a new property for next-gen and PC.

No More Heroes' Goichi Suda and Resi Evil's Shinji Mikami are pitching their collective brains together for a multiplatform action-horror game under EA too.

Speaking with VentureBeat, Sega's Simon Jeffery has said Electronic Arts has tried "on and off over the years" but has never found their own 'Halo' or 'Gears of War'.

He also ponders on the 'shift' in the games community from more lengthy epics to "snackable gaming." He praises Nintendo - really good at "fixing the chinks its armor."

The studio pair has announced work on the next Carrier Command, which has gamers dusting off their strategic and tactical wits in air, land and sea.

Carrier Command: Gaea Mission will be coming to Xbox 360, PS3 and PC sometime in Spring 2010. More Carrier goodness promised for Leipzig.

Nevrax went busto back in 2006 and while GameForge helped keep the science fantasy MMO alive it just couldn't hold on - its last server shut this February.

Fans now though have been informed the game is soon to return with character revivals and free VIP access for previous Ryzom subscribers. 'Free' - great word that.

The annual Blizzcon community event is quickly turning into one of the industry's major spectacles, with consumer demand significantly outstripping supply as Blizzard's sales portal went into meltdown yesterday.

Speaking with Reuters, Will Wright has revealed that EA has ambitions for Spore beyond the traditional boundaries one might expect with a life creating sim.

Wright said they're "basically planting the seeds to spread Spore" to a greater audience base, presumably to capture the attention of non-gamers.