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Konami is offering PSP owners the chance to pick up two of its titles for 20 quid.

Brighton-based Relentless Software is working on a new game that it plans to self-publish, according to a job posting on the company's website.

Games industry veteran David Perry has said he's sure the next iteration of the PSP won't feature a UMD drive, whatever Sony might say.

"With no multiplayer modes at all, no elaborate systems and nothing cluttering up the screen, Afro Samurai is a minimal game, as sparse and hypnotically repetitive as RZA's beats," we wrote when we previewed it back in December. "It puts what it does best front and centre: easy, moreish slaughter, spectacular graphics, and a strongly individual licence supported by some top-drawer voice-work.

Empire: Total War goes on sale tomorrow, 4th March, and for those of you who are still undecided, Creative Assembly's Kieran Brigden will be joining us for a live interview at 4pm GMT today to address your questions.

In an unprecedented move, Ukrainian developer GSC Game World has released a build of its infamously troubled PC game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shaodw of Chernobyl that predates the final release by two and a half years, Shacknews reports.

The biggest anachronism? At the moments when the cannons were going off and the thin red line was being turned into thick red paste, I found myself humming the 1812 Overture. The game's about the 1700s. Totally anachronistic. Unforgivable. Unforgivably brilliant, that is.

Xbox Live policy manager Stephen Toulouse has offered further of explanation of why the word "gay" can't be used in gamertags or profiles.

G4tv has previewed a Watchmen iPhone game that will be released alongside the movie on Friday.

Sony has added a Trophy viewer to PlayStation.com, as announced on the PlayStation Blog yesterday.

Sony's head PSP zealot John Koller has been explaining his plan to "ensure that 2009 and 2010 would see a tremendous resurgence" in PSP games.

The number of Halo 3 matches played online has now reached one billion, according to a post on Bungie.net.

The videogame tie-in for new movie Watchmen is being released on Xbox Live Arcade tomorrow.

Street Fighter IV batters competition to lead the UK all-formats chart this week.

Microsoft has announced that the companion pad for the red, Jasper-endowed Elite console being released as part of the Resident Evil 5 special edition will also be available separately on 13th March.

The next iteration of Sony's PSP handheld will feature a sliding screen, will no longer carry a UMD drive and will allow shoulder button-only games to be played when the screen is in its 'closed' position.

Dragons. Wise, majestic and graceful beings entrusted by the Titans to watch over Azeroth in their absence. If you have even a cursory knowledge of World of Warcraft, you'll know that dragons frequently play an important part in events. However, today we come not to praise them but rather to bury them, for majestic they may be, but all too often they're either irredeemably evil or completely insane (usually both) and, more importantly, they tend to carry a fabulous amount of gold and loot on them.

Marvelous, the Japanese publisher of No More Heroes, might be eyeing a move onto what it refers to as the 'hardcore platforms'.

Sony has a lot riding on the fourth instalment in the God of War series. The first two PlayStation 2 releases were enormously popular, selling millions around the world, but by the time they came out PS2 had already vanquished Xbox, and indeed everyone else. By the time God of War III comes out, which may not even be this year, the story will be very different. Still, in the ongoing console battle between PS3 and Xbox 360, who better to fight Sony's corner than the, er, God of War?

Not content with announcing Wallace & Gromit for Xbox Live Arcade, Telltale has decided to follow it up with the first two seasons of Sam & Max.

As of today, if your original Xbox breaks down outside of warranty, Microsoft will no longer be able to repair it, according to a new policy post on Xbox.com.

The games industry needs to stop relying on sequels or risk developers and consumers losing interest, Harvest Moon creator Yasuhiro Wada has warned.

Microsoft's Major Nelson has quietly confirmed that the upcoming Resident Evil 5 Limited Edition Console Bundle, announced last week, is the first Elite to use the new Jasper hardware revision.

Microsoft has officially unveiled the Resident Evil 5 Limited Edition Console Bundle, which includes a red Xbox 360 and matching wireless pad.

Following Friday's announcement of new pricing for Rock Band instruments in Europe, EA has confirmed to Eurogamer that the prices apply to the original Rock Band 1 instruments only.

Xbox Live policy manager Stephen Toulouse has confirmed the company is taking another look at its policy on gamertags and profiles which express the user's sexual orientation.

The release of Street Fighter IV on PC is still only a 'maybe' for summer, according to Capcom's Vice President of business development, Christian Svensson.

Troubled publisher Midway is thought to have put the rights to the Mortal Kombat series up for sale in a last-ditch effort to save the company.

NCsoft has revealed that it will release the next City of Heroes update, Issue 14: Mission Architect, in March.

Once upon a time, the school holidays were heralded by the smell of freshly mown grass, the sound of the ice-cream man and a feeling of time unbound, carefree days that stretched on forever. Today, we know the school holidays are here because there's an influx of aggressively hyped animated movies at the cinema and their accompanying games fighting for attention on the shelf.