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Former Infinium Labs boss Kevin Bachus reckons the aptly-named Phantom console was "ahead of its time" and came "tantalisingly close to coming to market".

The forthcoming demo for Fight Night Round 4 will star Ricky Hatton and Manny "Pac-Man" Pacquiao.

Nintendo of America expects Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars sales to pick up over its lifespan, despite relatively low first-month US sales.

The next batch of downloadable content for Burnout Paradise will be released on 30th April, according to Criterion's website.

EA Sports president Peter Moore believes that both Sony and Microsoft will be looking at Nintendo's success with the Wiimote in terms of how to build on it rather than "replicate" the functionality in this generation.

The president of the Universal Society of Hinduism has called on Sony to withdraw PS2 title Hanuman: Boy Warrior from sale.

Microsoft has denied that the "E74" Xbox 360 error message is the new Red Ring of Death, although it admits the mutually ominous signs of a dying console occasionally happen for overlapping reasons.

A DS version of hit PC title Defcon is currently in the works.

Killzone 2 will be patched to version 1.24 on Wednesday, 22nd April at 8am GMT, preparing the game for an influx of Japanese players later in the week when Guerrilla's highly rated FPS goes on sale in the Far East.

Remember Mafia? It was an open-world game set in the 1930s that let you buzz around in ancient cars, shoot serious men in hats, and its developers thought it was the best movie Martin Scorsese never made. Well, it's coming back: released later this year, Mafia II will let you buzz around in moderately less ancient cars, shoot yet more serious men in hats, and its developer presumably thinks it's the second best movie Martin Scorsese never made. That Martin Scorsese, eh? He should stop not making his best movies and make games instead. That would give the Mafia team something to stick in their pipes.

"In the last seven years, there's been nothing like it," I wrote in my review of New Play Control! Pikmin a couple of months back. I eulogised the surreal strategy adventure's charm, still-striking originality, perfect balance and faultless new pointer control - but gave it the mildly disappointing score of 7. On this occasion at least, there was method to my madness.

Deep Silver plans to release Sacred 2 for PS3 and Xbox 360 on 5th June.

EA has confirmed the latest instalment in the Sims series will feature a tool for making your own movies.

A Swedish court has sentenced the four founders of file-sharing site The Pirate Bay to jail.

Paramount Pictures and Sony are bringing the new Star Trek movie into PlayStation Home.

The PlayStation 3 has surpassed 3 million sales in Japan, finishing as the best-selling console for another week.

I've been making a space-coot.

THQ will release a demo of UFC 2009 Undisputed for PS3 and 360 next Thursday, 23rd April.

Gearbox Software has shown the very first image of the redesigned Borderlands.

So much for the SingStar update that was supposed to go live yesterday - it won't be available for a little while yet.

SEGA has told Eurogamer that The Conduit will be released here on 26th June.

Peter Moore has said that EA Sports' American football games will continue to use Madden branding despite the commentator's retirement, announced yesterday.

Sony has updated the PlayStation Store with OutRun Online Arcade, Hercules for PSone and a downloadable PSP version of Need for Speed Most Wanted.

It's a bit quiet out there. Well, that's putting it mildly - so mildly, in fact, that you could probably have six rounds of it and still drive home afterwards. Not only can you hear a pin drop in videogame shops this week, but you can hear the pin thinking about it too - agonising over angles and rates of descent, the needy little sprig. "Look at me!" he cries, alone on a shelf full of nothing.

Sony has announced a third SOCOM: Fireteam Bravo game for PSP, which will be released sometime this winter.

The platform holders have been blowing their own trumpets, buttering their own crumpets and using the word "momentum" a lot following the release of US sales figures for March.

Two weeks after the first infusion, Nintendo has updated the DSi Shop with a new DSiWare game, Activision's Mixed Messages.

Square Enix is making a bid for the Western PC wargaming market this year with a Second World War strategy title called Order of War.

Capcom has revealed a Championship mode for Street Fighter IV, which will be available for PS3 and Xbox 360 next Friday 24th April.

Nintendo has updated the Virtual Console with a pair of Master System games this week. They are Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars and Secret Command.