Konami’s just alerted us to the next expansion pack for stealth-a-thon, Metal Gear Online. The new content, dubbed MEME, adds new characters, levels and gameplay modes to the PS3 game.

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A translation of a Spanish-language games magazine appears to show that Rockstar’s Nintendo DS Grand Theft Auto game – Chinatown Wars – will be almost as large in scale as Grand Theft Auto IV.

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Bungie’s eye-wideningly ambitious expansion pack for Halo 3 just had its first details revealed. We’re talking new characters, new weapons and equipment, and an open-world city that’s completely free to explore.

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An open beta of Home, Sony’s rival to the Xbox New Experience (and Nintendo’s Miis), will be available in the “coming weeks”, available to all PS3 owners. In an official post on Sony’s Home forum, Home’s community manager “TedTheDog” has said that the plan is to ramp up numbers in the current closed beta rapidly to “load test” the system, including adding European language testers. Once load testing is complete, Sony will move to an open beta.

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It may not feature motion-control, but an “easter egg” found inside Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, Rare’s new Xbox 360 game, seems to reveal what the legendary company may be working on next.

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NPD data has shown that Sony sold 190,000 PS3s in the US in October, with Microsoft Xbox 360s selling nearly double that at 371,000. Nintendo, of course, still holds top spot, with the Wii selling more than four times the number of PS3s – 803,000. Perhaps it’s time for Sony to rethink that no price cut policy?

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Despite being a little late to get behind the whole Internet gaming fad, Nintendo US’s President Reggie Fils-Aime has pledged that his company will “keep pace” with the changing face of games, and specifically the emerging trend for user-generated content. Speaking at the BMO Capital Markets Interactive Entertainment Conference, Fils-Aime showcased four Japanese titles to back his words.

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Gameloft have released Guitar Rock Tour for the Apple iPhone (and other mobiles) – a music game that’ll be very familiar to fans of Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Gameloft describe it as an “alternative to Activision’s Guitar Hero”, but you could just as well call it a fairly straight rip.

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