Ah yes, it's approaching the end of the week rapidly, so time to whack out a whole bunch of radiating GameSetMicroLinks of goodness, spanning Goo, Dead Rising, Seaman 2, and plenty more strangeness besides - here goes:

Tech giant Microsoft has announced revenue of $13.76 billion for the quarter which ended September 30, 2007 -- a 27% increase over the same period last year. Profits were up to $4.29 billion from $3.48 billion in 2006. The revenue of the Entertainment and Devices Division, under which the Xbox 360 (as well as the Zune and Windows Mobile) falls, increased 91% to $1.92 billion. According to Microsoft, PC and console game revenue in the ...

Following widespread speculation, Sega has announced an upcoming Wii version of the Dreamcast rhythm title Samba De Amigo, bringing back samba-infused songs from the original game as well as new music. Samba De Amigo stars the sombrero-wearing monkey Amigo, and players shake the Wii Remote and Nunchuk like maracas to keep time with the visual beats of the music on-screen. Sega promises to reveal a full song listing, new features and other details about the ...

Codemasters Online announce new RF Online world as demand increases for this popular free-to-play MMORPG.

Two-Week Celebration Kicks off on October 26th!

October 22, 2007 - Today OnNet USA announced it is bringing Square Enix's free-to-play massively-multiplayer online game Concerto Gate to North America. Available in Asian territories since last spring, Concerto Gate is a sequel to 2001's Cross Gate.

MMO publisher NCSoft and in-game advertising company Double Fusion have announced a partnership which will see two of NCsoft's free-to-play games supported by in-game ads. Dungeon Runners, a fantasy MMO which is currently live and already free-to-play, will be bolstered by "in- and around-game advertising," as will Exteel, a futuristic mech-based shooter which is currently in beta. Both games were planned to make the bulk of their money through in-game item sales, which will continue. ...

The ever-excellent Gamers With Jobs has a new article called 'A Preschooler Primer for Parents', and it deals with one of these important things that doesn't get discussed enough - how to correctly interface games and small children.

['Roboto-chan!' is a fortnightly column by TOLLMASTER, an individual affected by Mecha Obsessive Disorder since a young age. The column covers videogames that feature robots and the pop-cultural folklore surrounding them. This edition covers Zone of the Enders: The Fist of Mars, an inexplicable Super Robot Wars clone for the Gameboy Advance that somehow managed to find its way into English.]