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Activision has announced that Call of Duty 4 will ship to shops around the world on 5th November, which means we'll see it later that week on Friday, 9th November.

Sony sprinkled plenty of love on the PSP during its Games Convention 2007 conference, by introducing its new Go! Entertainment brand and announcing a 5th September release date for the Slim and Lite model.

The Vivendi booth is a good place to spend time at the Leipzig GC, and not just because it is offering food other than sausages. This year, thankfully, there's no sign of Larry and his leisure suit, 'Fiddy' Cent or dragon worrier Eragon, and in their place are games which make you go 'oh' without needing to add a 'dear'.

Hideo Kojima unveiled four of the Metal Gear Solid 4 bosses during a packed press conference in Leipzig this morning, saying he wanted to top the bosses in all the previous Metal Gear games.

D3Publisher of Europe has used its formal sounding name to stamp a 22nd January release date on Dark Sector.

Sony has released a demo for Folklore up on the European PlayStation Network, which will be available to download until 31st August.

Microsoft has confirmed that Project Gotham Racing 4 will be coming to the UK on 12th October.

Earlier today, Sony delivered its Games Convention 2007 press conference, announcing a new PlayStation 3 PVR gadget for recording and watching TV, a corresponding PSP update for watching TV on the go and piping it from your PS3, and a range of PSP initiatives, as well as some other stuff. Hit the frontpage for full news coverage, or read on for our blow by blow run-through of the conference as it happened. Sorry for any offence caused, etc.

They might spend a lot of time wailing about it on Internet forums, but Epic Games VP Mark Rein reckons that PlayStation 3 owners are better off because of Xbox 360 mega-exclusive Gears of War.

Last year was "quite big" for Epic. Gears of War is, as Mark Rein gleefully tells us, the number one game of the generation so far. Unreal became the engine of choice for next-gen developers. There's no Gears sequel this year, but 2007 will still be big - if not bigger - for the little developer from North Carolina. Unreal Tournament 3 is set to launch in November on PS3 and PC. Gears of War is coming to PC with new content. The games that Unreal powers are starting to arrive in droves - headlined by the likes of BioShock. So Mark Rein, Epic's vice president and chief evangelist, is as giddy as ever. When we run into him in Leipzig, it takes us 15 minutes to drag him into the interview room - he just wants to shoot the breeze. Fortunately he saved some good bits for the tape. Read on for the latest on UT3, Gears PC, the Gears film and Unreal Engine 3.

Sony has unveiled the next-generation of Buzz! quiz games in its Games Convention 2007 conference.

EA has revealed that FIFA 08 on PS3 and 360 will feature a brand new online mode for 10 of you to play at once.

Sierra Entertainment this morning unveiled a brand new game for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 at the Leipzig Games Convention.

Rock Band has been delayed in Europe until the first quarter of 2008, but will be fully localised for each territory, on both disc and downloadable content. It's also coming to PS2, home of original Guitar Hero success.

The eleven-member jury for the Best of GC awards have announced the finalists in all ten categories for this year's ceremony, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Nintendo has announced nothing new for Wii or DS at this year's Leipzig Game Convention, instead choosing to focus on the company's well-documented successes of the past year whilst opening up its E3 titles up to the public.

Games Convention 2007 began this morning with organisers believing a record 200,000 visitors will attend the event, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Silicon Knights' Denis Dyack has said that he believes "justice will be done" when his company's case against Epic Games over an alleged lack of Unreal Engine 3 support is heard.

NCsoft has just revealed that the Guild Wars franchise has sold over four million copies around the world since launching just over two years ago, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

SEGA has unveiled Empire: Total War as the next game in the highly acclaimed strategy series.

Lock up your daughters. And your Mums, and any Dads who've been showing an uncharacteristic interest in muesli and walking since their last check-up. And your girlfriends and wives (or your beer-bellied boys), and their friends, and those other friends that scoff at your hobby and pointedly declaim their preference for a game of footy down the park and a bit of, you know, fresh air.

Bizarre Creations has revealed the first concrete details of the multiplayer mode in PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 shooter The Club, during a behind closed doors demo at the Leipzig Games Convention 2007.

Two of the industry's leading storytellers have said games shouldn't try to develop more complex stories because designers haven't figured out a way to make it work yet, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Mark Rein says that if Unreal Engine 3 games look alike then it's probably just because the art directors share similar ideals.

Outspoken developer Denis Dyack outlined his vision of a one-console future in a speech at GCDC yesterday, arguing that the history of commoditization in other industries meant the standardisation of gaming hardware was an inevitability - and something we might see as soon as the next cycle of console hardware.

Jeff Strain, co-founder of Guild Wars developer ArenaNet, has said that MMO studios should focus on creating new worlds instead of basing games on books, TV and films.

Fable 2 staging director Georg Backer has spoken of Lionhead's desire to put games on the same footing as film and television drama by introducing "emotional, motivational, dramatic and immersive gameplay".

Epic Games president Michael Capps has said that big budget marketing was key to the success of Gears of War - warning that many good games are ignored because they don't have the same level of support.

The battle of the gaming bands is upon us. While Guitar Hero is pounding groupies backstage, biting the the bat's head off the rhythm-action genre, a cocky young upstart has emerged, threatening to topple the veteran rocker from its perch of poodle-haired posturing.

This past week, my brother's been on a Duke of Edinburgh expedition, trawling through the mud, wind, and monsoons of the Lake District, in the hopes of getting a piece of paper that says he can put up a tent with some competence, and has enough common sense to manage to survive on his own for a week. It's almost ironic then, that at the same time my brother is most likely bailing out his tent, I myself have suffered a similarly testing experience, standing sunning myself in the Penthouse suite of the Mayfair hotel in central London, surrounded by food, drink, and people waiting on my hands and feet, enjoying a cold beer with top WWE star, Mr. Kennedy...