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Following the success of the PSP's excellent Gradius Collection, Konami has decided to round up a few more of its old-days shooter and pop them on UMDs as well.

Even SEGA would probably agree that Sonic Riders isn't the most exciting PC release of the year (seeing as they also publish Football Manager and Medieval 2), but with a beige-box version due out this Christmas we now have a demo to help make our minds up.

Over four million people now use Xbox Live in some form or other, Microsoft announced yesterday.

Xbox Live may have been down since Tuesday, but when it pops back up in the (very) near future, you'll be able to download Lumines Live! via Xbox Live Arcade. (Update: And now it has.)

A senior Microsoft executive has admitted that the firm bungled its release schedule earlier this year on Xbox 360, resulting in gaps which were "too long from a first-party".

The Warriors are coming out to play again - this time on PSP.

Electronic Arts has announced that the next Def Jam game will be called Def Jam: Icon, and it's due out on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 next March in the US and Europe.

Xbox 360 and PC owners smarting at the introduction of a whole expansion's worth of content into the PlayStation 3 launch-title version of Oblivion can stop their sobbing - Bethesda's going to take care of you too.

As the game rightly points out, you only need one person with a mohawk in your band. But do you only need one Guitar Hero game in your life?

Look out, Internet Reports is up to his old tricks again! This time, the naughty prankster has been running round telling everyone that Assassin's Creed is coming to PC and Xbox 360 as well as PS3.

It might be the least surprising announcement of the day, but it's still never-the-less exciting. Assassin's Creed is coming to Xbox 360 and PC.

Those of us lucky enough to blag our way through the hallowed gates of this year's E3 will have observed that, aside from the usual slavering hyperbole for the platform holders, Ubisoft had one of the strongest offerings of the entire show.

Tony Blair has praised the games industry for making "significant strides" when it comes to games with violent content after being questioned over the latest Rockstar title to hit the headlines.

Football Manager 2007 is available from today, SEGA and developer Sports Interactive have announced, after several retailers began selling the game ahead of its official street date this Friday (20th).

The back of the box asks us to "think like a manager". Now that's just asking for trouble. We don't want to end up the subject of a Panorama expose - not until we're close to making our first billion, anyway. By then we'll have a castle in space and find ourselves eating dates off the toned backsides of nubile princesses and will laugh in the face of financial investigations. The Wikipedia entry will read like Hunter S. Thompson's secret life as Ron Atkinson's therapist.

Eidos exec Ian Livingstone has told a House of Commons select committee that parents must take responsibility for what children play - and that there's no evidence violent games can change behaviour.

For a game built on looking your most stylish, B-Boy is as slick as it should be. Like Atari's Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure, the presentation and sheer justice it does to the culture it's emulating is tremendous. With the soundtrack, the Montana paint scrawls and the motion capture of Crazy Legs and other legendary rockers, this is one of the best examples of hip hop culture captured for a game we've ever seen.

An enterprising young person by the name of Elder on PS3forums.com seems to have got his hands on a lot of the press bumf due to emerge at Sony's US Gamers Day event later this week - most notably giving us a better idea of what's likely to be released through the PlayStation 3's e-Distribution service.

A flyer posted on an Internet forum has revealed some details about the next version of the Japanese-only Mario Kart arcade game.

Terra Soft's Yellow Dog Linux v5.0 will be released for PlayStation 3 in mid-November, the company announced this week.

If you've seen the trailer for the new Tom Hanks movie and wondered why he's sporting a dodgy mullet, you've obviously been living in a dustbin for the past two years. Otherwise you'd know he's playing Robert Langdon, the clean living scholarly star of the The Da Vinci Code.

Most young boys have an unhealthy fascination with cars. At least one of us remembers as far back as his second or third birthday when he was given a petrol station set for his Matchbox collection. Quite a seminal moment, by all accounts.

Some things never go out of style. Levi's jeans, for example. They've been around for donkey's years, starting off as denim overalls for Californian miners and maintaining the Red Tab style pretty much ever since. See - when something's just right, it doesn't need to be changed or updated.

War isn't pretty and it's not meant to be. There's no room for sentiment - it's kill or be killed out there, and unless you're careful you'll soon be overrun by enemy troops spreading through your lines like wildfire.

The subject of countless articles, films, magazine covers and sexual fantasies, the Tomb Raider action-adventure game series and its heroine the lovely Lara Croft have attained considerable popular fame.

Like many retro classics, the premise of Bomb Jack is absurdly simple - with the emphasis on 'absurd'. You assume the role of Jack [oh right, phew! - Jack] whose mission is to travel the world via a serious of single platform-laden screens (the backgrounds and enemies let you know where you are) in search of bombs which need defusing. To aid you in this quest you have the ability to jump from platforms, along with a gravity defying cape which allows you to effectively slide through the air.

Picture the scene. It's a hot summer night and the setting sun casts sheen across the barren ahead. You however are the epitome of cool, lounging in your bucket seat, clutching the throbbing wheel of your shiny souped-up racer. You rev the engine and stare menacingly across at your competitor who's even shinier, more souped up vehicle could be yours if you can beat him to the finish line. Suddenly the assembled throng quieten down and pull back from the streets. The engines gun more fiercely. The lights turn green. Your foot hits the floor and adrenalin takes over as you scream up the road, wheel-to-wheel each convinced you'll get the inside line on the first corner...

Beautiful women, fast cars, exotic locations, big guns, witty one-liners and of course lots of lovely lucre... Ah, the glamorous life of a career criminal. If the likes of Guy Ritchie and Quentin Tarantino are to be believed we law-abiding folk are the real mugs and our lives would be so much more interesting (albeit possibly shorter) if only we'd pick up the odd shootah or steel some hot wheels.

Tailored for the mobile format, this retro conversion of Lemmings makes cuts and tweaks in all the right places to ensure that old school fans and Lemmings virgins will be similarly delighted.

Put aside the basic questions that confront any newcomer to Puzzle Bobble (like who trained dragons to use bubble-firing weaponry, why don't they just breathe fire on them and who attached the bubbles to the ceiling in the first place?) and you're left with a very simple puzzle game premise. Link together three or more bubbles of the same colour and they disappear, fail to link them together and they build an ever bigger chain which eventually reaches the bottom of the screen, at which point you die and your miniature on screen dragon cries.