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Readers of Time magazine have voted Shigeru Miyamoto as the most influential person of the year.

Sony has enjoyed another week atop the Japanese hardware charts as its PSP claimed a further 92,000 sales and pushed closer to 1.5 million units shifted in 2008.

Hello blog readers! Today you may have noticed a small change in how we label certain previews. We're retiring the "First Impressions" moniker in favour of "Hands On", since that is what we were using it for anyway, and we wanted to avoid ambiguity.

It was all sun, sand, sea and Sierra games for Eurogamer the other week when the artist formerly known as Vivendi took us on a press trip to Mallorca. You might have already seen our previews of Ghostbusters, Prototype and 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand, but they weren't the only games on show.

Sony has told Eurogamer that it has made no announcements about the LittleBigPlanet beta dates so far.

Nintendo will fancy its chances against GTA IV with Wii Fit (released last Friday), but in the actual week of Rockstar's big launch almost nobody else turned up to take it on.

WarCry has assembled a number of the MMO industry's leading lights for a discussion on the state of massively multiplayer gaming, and their consensus is less than positive.

The second Hanabi Festival is under way on the Virtual Console, so you can play all sorts of foreign games never released over here.

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.