A few news items that caught our eye including reaction to the proposed new games delivery system OnLive and a piece on deja vu in New Scientist. Hmm, did I just type that or not?

Make a nice cuppa and settle into your favourite chair - and start playing Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures, a new game series debuting today at www.telltalegames.com.

"Fright of the Bumblebees," the first of four digitally-distributed games starring the popular Plasticine duo, is available now and subsequent installments will be delivered in May, June, and July.

 

Runes of Magic, the highly anticipated free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game from Frogster, has commercially launched. After a critically-acclaimed and successful beta test, players can now immerse themselves in the first chapter of the the game, called Rise of the Demon Lord and experience the wonders of mythical Taborea.

Award-winning developer of the world famous WarBirds TotalSims series iEntertainment Network has announced that Pillars of Smoke, a reenactment of the massive Allied bombing campaign over Germany 1944-1945, will be held online starting Sunday, 22 March 2009, at 0030 GMT (2030 EDT), in the online arenas of iEntertainment Network. The online event will run for five Sundays.

 

The latest issue of the Dennis e-publication iGizmo has grabbed an exclusive look at Atari's upcoming Ghostbusters Video Game, due for release in June in the UK.

Here's the Top Ten selling games (all Entertainment Software) for the week ending Mar 14, 2009, with Resident Evil 5 storming to the tip of the chart but some old friends also popping back into the best sellers to say hello...

Pokémon Platinum is to launch this month for the Nintendo DS system in the US, and Pokémon fans are a-buzzing with anticipation. This new game in the storied franchise - set to be released 22 May in the UK - brings a host of new features, including the mysterious new Distortion world, never-seen-before forms of powerful Pokémon, exciting online games in the new Wi-Fi Plaza and strategic battles that are the hallmark of the main Pokémon game series.

Ignition Entertainment has announced it The King of Fighters XII fight game will be released worldwide in July 2009 on Playstation3 and the Xbox 360.

CodeWeavers , a company whose mission is to mission is to transform Mac OS X and Linux into Windows-compatible operating systems, has released version 7.2 of CrossOver Games. The CrossOver products from CodeWeavers use the open source Windows API emulator Wine to run Windows programs and games on Linux and Mac OS X operating systems.

Cyanide and Focus Home Interactive have released some eye-catching new screenshots taken from Blood Bowl, the video game currently in development adapted from Games Workshop's famous board game.