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Sony is planning a press conference on Tuesday, 6th May in London during its PlayStation Day event at The O2 in Greenwich, and Eurogamer will be reporting live.

Throughout last September, Nintendo celebrated the Hanabi Festival with weekly offerings of games that had never reached Europe on their original release. Mostly cult Japanese titles, with a few US games as well, it was a nice idea and one that added rare gems like Sin & Punishment and Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels to the VC. Except they took The Lost Levels off again at the end. For no reason.

We've already brought you our hands-on impressions of the single-player and co-op modes in Haze, so now it's time to sink our teeth into multiplayer in Free Radical's upcoming PS3-exclusive shooter.

Rewind to a week ago, and my first impression of the long-awaited Metal Gear Online beta test probably wouldn't have been suitable for public consumption, dominated as it was by thoughts such as "f**king slow updates", "s**t c**k dropped connections" and "which s****k w****ler designed this g**k m***ing sign-up process?"

Away from Planet GTA and the column-inch-hogging torrent of associated mega-numbers, another stat smuggled through in a press release this week said just as much about today's games market as any midnight queues outside your local ASDA.

GTA IV adds many elements to the established series that fans have been clamouring for, such as a better combat system, cars that don't vanish if you leave them for two minutes, autosaves and instant mission restarts. Perhaps the most eagerly awaited feature, however, is the addition of online functionality. It's not strictly new, of course, since there have long been PC mods that allow players to romp together on that platform while the PSP off-shoot series has also boasted Wi-Fi multiplayer challenges.

It begins with... well, we can't tell you how Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots begins. We can't, and we won't. Can't, because we promised Konami we wouldn't; having generously granted us three days to play through the whole thing, the publisher is understandably paranoid about spoilers, with the game still six weeks from release. Won't, because we want you to feel exactly the same delicious, hair-raising mix of bemused awe and shock-of-the-new that we did when you turn it on for the first time. Metal Gear Solid 4, it is instantly apparent, is special. It's not like other games.

Capcom has confirmed Clover has been removed from the Okami Wii credits, blaming legal constraints for the deletion.

Activision has pulled out of appearing at the E3 Media & Business Summit this summer, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Uwe Boll has claimed Michael Bay agreed to finish their argument once and for all with a boxing match - but according to Bay, the two men have never even spoken.

Back in January, US space agency NASA announced its intention to put an educational MMO into development, as reported by GamesIndustry.biz.

Nintendo has begun what will be a continual stream of Mario Kart Wii online tournaments.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has joined the hoo-haw over GTA IV, saying it'll make "goo-gobs" of money for Rockstar but dumm-kopfs of America's children.

The Internet is awash with speculation Rockstar could be planning to release Grand Theft Auto 2 for Live Arcade and PlayStation Network this month.

Valve has announced the release of the Steamworks software development kit - a suite of publishing and development tools offering access to the game features and services available through Steam.

Sony Computer Entertainment America has announced sales of PlayStation 3 have been boosted in the US following the release of Grand Theft Auto IV.

Yeah, thanks for making me look like a big bag of wrong, Sony. The last time we did one of these PSone Roundups, I foolishly declared that the retro content of the PlayStation Store was starting to gather momentum - "like an enormous bag of anvils sliding down a hill". Typical, then, that it's been almost two months until there were enough new retro additions to make another roundup worthwhile.

The fifth free content update for Lord of the Rings Online has gone live on European and American servers today. Book 13: Doom of the Last King - which arrives just after the Tolkien MMO celebrated its first anniversary - adds a whole new region to Middle-Earth, as well as introducing a new monster play class, and a hobby system.

Majesco has unveiled a new puzzle game for DS called Rollin' Rascals.

Activision has listed 15 of the 25 tracks that will feature in Guitar Hero: On Tour for DS.

Square Enix plans to release the 2008 Edition of Final Fantasy XI on 23rd May.

The Game Factory is using the Rubik's Cube as inspiration for a pair of puzzlers on Wii and DS, according to Newsweek.

"The first thing we had to do was deliver a game that was much, much, much better than the original," says Julian Widdows, game director on 50 Cent: Blood in the Sand. "While it was a huge commercial success, I don't think anyone is particularly shy of that fact that it wasn't critically well-received. It wasn't the game people wanted."

Trench. Trench coat. Trench foot. Ditch. Gully. Just some words relating to war. You might also say front lines. What great words. Words that, when sandwiched together, make Frontlines, a homogenised war word of war. Obviously you can only make new words up in the future when we have run out of normal words to use, so off we go to 2024 where robots clean houses and Will Smith has a nasty feeling about all this in his Audi that looks like a vacuum cleaner. But oh no someone had forgotten to make more energy so now we need to have a war, not of words, but of guns. Guns and robots and planes and drones and bombs and night vision and laser-pens.

Mario Kart Wii has whistled past the finishing line ahead of the Japanese chart-pack again this week, adding another 150,000 sales toward its 1 million goal.

The Internet has decided that God of War III will have multiplayer bits in it after uncovering a Sony America job ad seeking an "online gameplay programmer to join the team behind the critically acclaimed AAA titles God of War and God of War II".

Sony in Australia has told Gizmodo that PlayTV - the PS3's USB TV tuner and video-recording add-on - will launch there in Q4 2008.

Nintendo has dated the Namco Bandai balance board game for Wii called Family Ski.

Unique-looking puzzler Echochrome is being released in the US today for both PS3 and PSP.

Lord of the Rings Online developer Turbine has obtained USD 40 million in a third round of venture capital funding, according to an online report by Private Equity Hub - and also according to GamesIndustry.biz.