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"Ultimate giant fighting monsters" will return once more, as Atari announces Godzilla for Wii, DS and PSP: due for release in autumn.

Capcom is preparing a patch for Lost Planet that adds a few common sense features to the multiplayer interface and sorts out a number of minor bugs.

Sony's Ray Maguire has defended the high cost of buying a PlayStation 3 in the UK, arguing that direct comparisons between dollar and sterling fail to take a number of things into account.

TOCA Race Driver 3 Challenge is due out on PSP from 16th February, Codemasters said this morning, while simultaneously waving screenshots in our face and generally behaving inappropriately considering its state of undress.

Sony will consider cutting the price of PlayStation 3 "when the timing is right" according to senior vice president Takao Yuhara.

PlayStation 3's downloadable shoot-'em-up Blast Factor is to receive a multiplayer boost today with the release of a four-player pack for US$ 2.99 via the console's online store.

Everyone's favourite shouty UK indie, Introversion, has released some screenshots and details of its new Vista-compatible version of excellent strategy game Darwinia.

A multiplayer beta for Crytek's sci-fi PC shooter Crysis may not be too far away, according to EA, who told Eurogamer this week that it expects to announce details of the program "soon".

If you keep up with the DS import scene, you might recall Nintendo releasing a puzzle game about nine months ago called Magnetica. Well, this is the same game under a different name - more in line with Mitchell's original PuzzLoop arcade game from 1998. Of course, if you've frequented the Xbox Live Arcade, you'll probably take one look at Actionloop and assume that this is a rip-off of PopCap's Zuma, but this is the real deal.

What-ho! It's up to the skies once more, as Ubisoft announces a fresh new adventure for Xbox 360 and PC: Blazing Angels Secret Missions (cat's out of the bag now). It's due out in spring this year.

Gangster-banger Saints Row will be appearing on PS3 in spring, according to THQ, which is "boat-sing" that it's the first open-world game on the console. Apart from Oblivion. And Godfather.

Remember those little Xbox 360 games that Burger King gave away with its value meals for a bit? They certainly do - their second quarter results were up by 40 percent on account of them.

Operating systems are absolutely ridiculous.

If you fancy restoring the balance between Heaven and Hell, you'd better download the new demo for Infernal, a third-person PC shooter from Eidos.

Playlogic and Metropolis Software have renamed PC and X360 shooter Diabolique - it's going to be called Infernal, and it's due out this autumn.

Good news for those of you whinging about the absence of a new Xbox Live Arcade game: the promised single-player demo of Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 has turned up on Xbox Live Marketplace instead.

Britain's Sun newspaper (available from all good railway sidings) has picked up on a couple of on-duty police officers sitting in their car playing a football game on the PSP.

PlayStation Portable has been updated to version 3.10, bringing with it a handy-sounding volume adjustment tool for normalising sound levels across various media, and an option to conserve memory when using the Internet browser. We've certainly been crying out for that one.

French developer Load, Inc. has reiterated that its toy car racer Mad Tracks is on its way to Xbox Live Arcade, despite the fact it wasn't listed on Microsoft's ten new Live Arcade games list yesterday. What's more, the PC version - available from Load's website - has now hit 100,000 sales.

Ah, Gran Turismo. All the other racing games were allowed to go out and play after school, strutting around in the latest Goodyears, spinning backwards through corners. Not GT. Not with Kazunori Yamauchi for a dad, sitting next to a roaring grandstand all evening glaring at it over his horn-rimmed driving helmet. "Do you really need traction control?" "Are you wearing the right tyres?" "You're not going out looking like that."

Right, none of these is Crysis either, but if the promise of being able to upgrade your drivers to a bigger number was enough to push you into upgrade territory, then the news that Luxor 2, Jewel Quest 2, Spinword and a newly compatible version of Darwinia have been added to the Vista area of the MSN Games website is bound to tickle you.

What with Crysis and even Halo 2 still a few months away, we're probably only talking to people with more money than sense (in which case, have I mentioned that that's a smashing blouse you have on?), but on the off chance you were there, man, and need some graphics card drivers for your brand, spanking new copy of Windows Vista, ATI and NVIDIA have popped up to help.

As comebacks go, this seemed as likely as Babylon Zoo filling the Albert Hall in 2007. And yet, here it is. Biker Mice from Mars, one of the least imaginative Ninja Turtles knock-offs to soil TV screens back in the early 90s, has been revived and is now - if the PR speak is to be believed - the top-rated show on Children's ITV. What next? A blockbuster Samurai Pizza Cats movie?

Microsoft has named ten games due for release on Xbox Live Arcade in the coming weeks, including Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Alien Hominid HD and Worms.

It seems the next-generation Nokia N-Gage caused quite a stir when it was shown behind closed doors in Santa Monica last week, boasting an impressive amount of interest from top-notch and supposedly top-secret developers and publishers.

Sigil Games Online's long awaited fantasy adventure Vanguard: Saga of Heroes has launched simultaneously today across Europe and the US.

Ritual Entertainment co-founder Richard 'Levelord' Gray has confirmed that SiN Episodes: Emergence didn't sell well enough to fund the development of a second game, and that work on it has been postponed.

Sports Interactive says it has been forced to abandon its Eastside Hockey Manager series due to mounting piracy.

Ritual's new owner Mumbo Jumbo has said that action games will not be the studio's primary focus from now on, casting doubt on the future of SiN Episodes.

Lionhead has said today that Peter Molyneux's Fable 2 keynote at GDC in San Francisco will provide a "surprise and a revelation" for those following the sequel's development.