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Originally Posted by wraggster

Square Enix has lifted the lid on a massively multiplayer online version of its Championship Manager football franchise.

Called Championship Manager: World of Football, the game will of course be free-to-play and will be accessible from any standard web browser.

It is being developed by both series stalwart Beautiful Game Studios and China’s Shanda Games.

Initially the game will only launch in China, though if it proves successful an international rollout

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Activision will co-publish the new game inspired by the popular UK-made kids online game Moshi Monsters.

Moshi Monsters: Moshlings Zoo is released for the Nintendo DS in November.

Activision was announced as a 'partner' for the project during a keynote speech at the Develop conference by Michael Acton Smith, CEO of Moshi creator Mind Candy.

Mind Candy has closely controlled the DS game's project - Acton revealed the game's existence to Develop last year,

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Originally Posted by wraggster

When we saw this news, our giant wing-like ears flapped in excitement and we exclaimed in a nonsensical language. Klonoa: Door to Phantomile, one of the PlayStation's best (and only) side-scrollers, is going to be released on PSN via PSOne Classics.

That is, of course, assuming that's why the ESRB rated the game for PS3 and PSP. It's a pretty safe assumption. If you don't want to wait for the Wind Bulleting, enemy-grabbing action to hit PS3 and PSP, Door to Phantomile is also available

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Sonic The Hedgehog creators Yuji Naka and Naoto Ohshima were among the developers who made mini-games for the recent Wii Play: Motion collection, Nintendo has revealed.

According to the latest Iwata Asks roundtable, published on Nintendo's official site, Yuji Naka's Prope studio designed the Twigger Twist game, whereas Naoto Ohshima's new start-up Arzest created Jump Park, Cone Zone and Spooky Search.

Naka programmed the original Sonic The Hedgehog for Sega back in

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Epic design chief Cliff Bleszinski has indicated that the studio would be surprised if it didn't create another Gears Of War following the release of the third in the series.

When asked by Ripten if Epic's wish to close the Gears 'trilogy' still left room for more Gears games in the future, Bleszinski replied:

"Well, there's always the Peter Jackson route, right? Do The Hobbit or something like that. I mean, we're business people. Gears 1 and 2 sold about 6 million

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