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Nintendo has denied that the US and Japanese price cuts to Wii have anything to do with recent cuts for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

EA has released a Brutal Legend demo on Xbox Live Marketplace.

Sony America has said that it will not be possible for people to exchange their UMDs for digital versions of the games they own.

In 1986, my beloved Liverpool were rampant: already 16-times First Division champions, FA Cup holders, four-time European Cup winners, with Ian Rush leading the line and Kenny Dalglish in a manager's seat embossed by our first ever double the previous season. The subsequent decline throughout the nineties was largely self-inflicted, but it didn't help that a sweary Scotsman had arrived at Old Trafford, and started making good on his promise to "knock Liverpool off their f***ing perch".

EA has outlined its "dream" for FIFA - synching up with a live game to offer playable replays of the action fans have just witnessed. And EA Sports' marketing boss reckons the huge technical challenges involved will be overcome "very soon".

It didn't start out very promisingly. Sony Computer Entertainment president Kaz Hirai delivered a keynote speech devoid of news, focusing instead on the company's current thoughts on networking and PlayStation trends in general rather than blasting us with announcements.

Developer Level-5 has announced a sequel to White Knight Chronicles, subtitled Awakening of Light and Darkness.

Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb has explained that Xbox Live was taken down earlier to pave the way for new social features like Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm.

Forza Motorsport 3 will recreate the brand new Ferrari 458 Italia as DLC this holiday.

Deep in the Los Angeles branch of Electronic Arts there is an office where developers fear to tread. And in that dark, fearful room sits EA's vice president of in-game boob representation. It was here that Pandemic must have been ushered when Saboteur was in the planning stages. They would have sat in front of this impassive and unreadable man, and explained what they wanted to do. Create five square kilometres of Nazi-occupied France, rewrite history so that an Irish racing driver kick-started the Gallic resistance, adopt a beautiful art design in which German occupied areas are rendered in black and white with patches of primary colour shining through in vibrant Sin City style... all the good stuff. Then the vice president of in-game boob representation would have lent heavily on his desk, rested his chin on his hands, and shut his eyes as he made his decision. "Your game..." he'd begin, pausing for dramatic effect. "... must have boobs." As so it was decreed, and as so it became form.

Sony has unveiled a new online community service for PSP called Room, which will be free and available to all Japanese PSP and PSPgo owners before the end of the year.

Sony has announced that people with existing UMD games who want to upgrade to the new PSPgo, due out on 1st October, will receive three "free" downloads of full games.

Microsoft has put the Forza Motorsport 3 demo live, as promised.

Sony and Square Enix have unveiled the Final Fantasy XIII PS3 Slim bundle at the Tokyo Game Show, and offered audiences their first look at the pretty console paintjob.

Ubisoft has just announced that Assassin's Creed II has slipped to Q1 2010 on PC.

Sony has announced a Converter Cable Adaptor for PSPgo that allows existing PSP peripherals, like the 1Seg Tuner and GPS Receiver, to be used.

Sony has finally announced the UK-specific 250GB PS3 bundles, which will cost £284.99 and be available from 1st October.

Nintendo has announced that the rumoured 15th November release date for New Super Mario Bros. Wii in the US is accurate.

Sony has announced that the new slimmer PlayStation 3 unit has sold one million units since its worldwide launch at the beginning of September, based on the platform holder's internal estimates.

Say what you like about the Wii, but if on-rails shooting is your idea of gaming bliss, there's no better platform for getting your RSI-inducing kicks. Having been pleasantly surprised by the reboot that the likes of Resident Evil and SEGA's over-the-top House of the Dead have experienced, the idea of one based on Dead Space made a whole lot of sense. Full of gruesome, mutated creatures, and grim, menacing environments, it lends itself perfectly to the shooting gallery scene.

Sony has announced that a God of War III demo will be included in the God of War Collection this autumn.

Nintendo has confirmed yesterday's report of a new Wii bundle including MotionPlus and Wii Sports Resort, and also said that it would be reducing the trade price of Wii to retailers in the UK and Ireland.

EA doesn't believe in cushions. If you didn't know this before you turned up for their Spring Showcase event, your bottom would know it after spending the first half of a two-hour presentation perched on a rock-hard plinth. Not even the appearance of Steve Papoutsis, executive producer on Dead Space Extraction, would make you excited enough to forget it.

Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima took to the stage at the Tokyo Game Show today to confirm his enthusiasm for Project Natal.

Microsoft has named a number of publishers "actively working on games for Project Natal", including all the big hitters.

Level-5 was talking up White Knight Chronicles for European and American release today at the Tokyo Game Show, showing new features and demonstrating how far the game's online features have come since the original Japanese release at the end of last year - just as well, as we felt the game's multiplayer needed some work when we reviewed it.

Although its evening press event in Japan today focused on Project Natal, Microsoft also announced some new Xbox Live Arcade projects at the Tokyo Game Show.

Games have yet to capture players' emotional responses, Sony Computer Entertainment boss Kaz Hirai said today during a Tokyo Game Show keynote session in which he summarised the PlayStation platform holder's current strategic thinking.

Sony Computer Entertainment president Kaz Hirai delivered his keynote address at the Tokyo Game Show today and spoke of "the age of the network".

Sony and Polyphony Digital have announced that Gran Turismo 5 will be released for PlayStation 3 in March 2010 in Japan.