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Back in early 1998 "Metal Gear Solid" was unleashed on the western world, a Playstation game which mixed stealth and action, solid gameplay and cinematic styling. It was a huge hit, both critical and commercial, and is arguably one of the best games ever released on Playstation.

Ten people. That's the size of the team at NetDevil currently working on Jumpgate: Evolution. This sceince-fiction, space-combat MMO, only recently announced and due out by the end of this year, is flying (and shooting) in the face of the wisdom received from Activision chief Bobby Kotick - that it would cost at least half a billion dollars to succeed in massively multiplayer gaming.

Japanese gamers look set to get the option of picking up steel-coloured PS3 as part of a Metal Gear Solid 4 bundle.

Eidos has unveiled what it believes to be "THE new phenomenon on the Nintendo DS".

Developer Blue Omega has said the Damnation campaign will support co-operative play for you and a friend.

German developers and publishers have teamed up with Koelnmesse to offer a gigantic consumer event in Cologne, Eurogamer Germany reports.

Phil Harrison and Peter Molyneux have both agreed that game controllers are too complicated and put newcomers off, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic games has come back like Carl Lewis to take gold in the UK charts

It's often tough to say goodbye. But when only eight games come out for a system in a whole year, it's probably time to bid our farewells. The last GameCube release - the last one ever, I think it's safe to say - was Ratatouille, and God knows where the shops put that. Hidden amongst the three pre-owned copies of Luigi's Mansion at the back of the shelf, probably.

It's been announced that this year's GamesIndustry.biz Career Fair will take place on October 28th and 29th as part of the London Games Festival.

It turns out that those videos littering Xbox Live Marketplace are of people really good at skiing or playing football. I thought they were of skateboarders. There's lots of skateboarders on Brighton seafront. Probably not right now, but at the weekend. Anyway, not content with just going down a hill or kicking goals, these sporty types go off and balance balls on their chins or pull off huge tricks in cold places. Check out Abbas Farid and his crafty feet on YouTube; apparently he's the best the UK has to offer.

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games has notched up a third consecutive week at the top of the UK All-Formats Chart.

Labour MP Keith Vaz has finally been challenged in the Houses of Parliament after he claimed videogames let you "rape women".

EA has turned down Jack Thompson's offer of help to "evict the Zelnick Trojan Horse from within Take-Two's corporate walls".

Army of Two has riot-shielded its way to the top of the UK Charts.

Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski feels gaming is on the brink of something "phenomenal" and has had "something in mind" for around a year.

Nintendo has wrestled back dominance of the Japanese hardware market this week, throwing a revitalised PSP from the top spot.

Wasn't expecting this to be a difficult review. Having Played and loved the Beta of World of Warcraft already, I was expecting this to be easy. Play some more on the Euro servers, slap a 9/10 at the end and wander down the pub in time for a swift round before closing.

The Sims 2 is the type of game that defies easy classification. Part god sim, part RPG, it's a digital dollhouse in which you attend to the needs and wants of your Sims, maintaining their happiness and health by encouraging them to interact with an environment you can incrementally improve. As so much of your time is spent ordering a Sim to perform chores to maintain their wellbeing - particularly cleaning, cooking, ablutions and bathroom breaks - the challenge is, broadly speaking, time management. If you plan your Sim's day-to-day activities carefully, topping up meters as required, you gain little windows of opportunity where you can experiment with new items, forge new relationships with other Sims, or work on enhancing skill levels.

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Woe is me, the Sims fan. Everyone is on my case about it. "It's pointless!" "It's so repetitive!" Well, it lacks an ending so I suppose it is pointless, and since most of the work is trying to keep all your little Sims in the green across the board, it is repetitive, but my bank manager will tell you that it's a lot healthier buying electronic approximations of pointless material possessions than it is actually wasting your paycheque on lava lamps and jukeboxes. So The Sims wins. Ooh, jukeboxes...

A friend of mine picked up The Sims at about the same time as I did. Having played it for a good few weeks now, he agrees with me that the game is very addictive. I'm told that he has already achieved a vibrant 2.4 children-esque soap opera lifestyle.

With more than a week to go until it's released, the number of PAL pre-orders for Gran Turismo 5 Prologue has almost topped 1 million.

Scott Miller has spoken out on the sequel to first-person shooter Prey.

Radar Group has lifted the lid on fresh projects Prey 2, Incarnate and Earth No More.

Team One Life Left returns this week, refreshed, reinvigorated, refocused and reincarnated after various secret missions. What were those secret missions? Why would you care? Were they even-slightly game-related? What do you think? Find out in another One Life Left Eurogamer ex-ex-exclusive* broadcast.

A post on the US PlayStation blog has revealed a new firmware update for the PSP is coming out today.

THQ has announced plans to release a new off-road racing game for PS3 and Xbox 360.

The European versions of Rock Band may feature exclusive regional songs.

Sony UK has issued a statement regarding the allegedly leaked list of PlayStation Network titles and release dates that's been doing the rounds on the Internet.