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"If you've already played this on another platform it's not got much to offer, but for newcomers this verges on essential," is, as my friend pointed out to me last night, one of the most painful phrases a game reviewer ever has to reproduce, and yet here is where we find ourselves because, although its brilliance as a puzzle game is beyond question, Lumines' qualities are less important to the people within whose domiciles the PSP rests as commonly as the Xbox 360 (particularly those of you who stole both, because who's that at the door hide the stuff).

What do you get if you cross The Sims, Pokémon and Ground Force? A hundred million billion pounds, that's what.

Lumines creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi has defended the decision to offer a lot of the Xbox Live Arcade version's content as downloadable extras rather than including them in the full game.

With the event due to take place on 10th November, Ubisoft has opened sign-ups for the Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter tournament at FUSE '06 in Newbury.

With the PlayStation 3's launch less than a month away, review units have started to arrive with Japanese-language publications including Impress Game Watch, which kicked off its coverage with a tour of the system's multimedia functionality.

In order to set the scene, let's go back to the first couple of hours in Piranha Byte's third-person swords and goblins adventure and take a gander at my mission list:

Film director Guillermo del Toro is consulting on a pair of new games and has high hopes for the medium.

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.