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So, it’s finally happened. Despite claims of people hanging on in there, the original Xbox Live sservice has finally bitten the dust.

In an interview with Develop, Square Enix Europe CEO Phil Rogers has stated that downloadable content is now “a massive part of” the company’s business.

After the success of both Bioshocks, in which a loosely FPS-based structure with more in-depth environmental interaction (System Shock) was successfully converted into a straight shooter, it looks like 2K’s getting bolder with its ‘if in doubt, FPS it’ philosophy.

Do you need me to qualify that? Well sorry, I just can’t. And neither, it seems, can the University of Iowa, whose research (according to WalesOnline, anyway) basically only proves that, yes, eating sugary stuff rots your teeth.

Judicious spying on LinkedIn profiles reveals that two more Infinity Ward members may have jumped the nest after the furore following the dismissal of team big cheeses Vince Zampella and Jason West a few weeks back.

Get excited! Because Game Room’s out today on XBLA, and that means lots of retro classics, funky personalised arcade spaces, and the opportunity to keep shovelling piles of virtual money into old Eighties games for no other reason than because you can. Hooray.

HOT new website lets you meet HOT girls and play HOT games with them (computer games).

And it looks pretty intriguing

The announcement of the PlayStation Move (a subject on which we’ll be expounding upon in greater detail as we discover over time how developers intend use it in contrast to Microsoft’s Natal) got us musing about its possible impact on the growth and dominance of the FPS on 360

Weird and Wonderful Hakan- a new Challenger has arrived

In an interview with the Times, the self-styled chairman of the Centre for Social Justice announced, “We are driving children to lose their childhood, and some video games are incredibly violent, like Grand Theft Auto.” “They are meant to be 18 but nobody cares what it says on the label,” added the man who, while he lacked the trainers or funky ‘I took drugs at university’ soundbites to win a general election, clearly has his finger on the pulse of popular culture after all.

We usually like to write our own headlines here at 360, but the above, which made the front page of freebie UK paper The Metro today, is really just too perfect.

While I personally found the announcements at the VGAs rather uninspiring – rather too many sequel announcements for my liking – the revelation of an Arkham Asylum sequel is a pretty interesting prospect