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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.

Major electronics retailers PC World, Currys and Dixons have refused to stock controversial Rockstar title Bully, renamed Canis Canem Edit in Europe.

Electronic Arts has confirmed that it will be closing its North West Studio in Warrington as part of a creative decision to consolidate UK studios and create stronger development teams.

Released in July and exclusive to Japan, the 'bit Generations' Game Boy Advance games are simple game concepts offered at budget prices. They create a feeling of great refreshment in the audience, unlike these repetitive bit-G review intros.

Microsoft could barely contain its glee at being able to confirm exclusive downloadable content for next year's Xbox 360 version of Grand Theft Auto IV - but PS3 fans need not fear, as it seems the Sony release is also firmly in line to receive its very own dazzling additions.

Microsoft EMEA veep Chris Lewis says the company is already working on its next next-generation console because "we have to".

Elite Beat Agents - the Western take on brilliant Japanese DS rhythm-action import Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan - is due out on 6th November in the US and finally we have the track-listing.

Launch titles for the PlayStation 3 are already "getting up close" to the 25GB limit on current Blu-Ray discs, according to Sony's worldwide studios boss Phil Harrison, who was responding to criticism of the PS3's adoption of Blu-Ray.

TimeSplitters developer Free Radical, currently working on games like Haze for Ubisoft and clearly bored of posting job adverts, has decided to do a sort of Gong Show for games design.

THQ will have four games available at the Nintendo Wii launch on 8th December, the publisher announced this week, although the most exciting on the list is probably Disney Pixar's Cars.

Scary. At 6.30 yesterday evening I fired-up GTR2 intending to grab a few swift screenshots, then quit and begin this review. Around seven that sensible plan somehow morphed into the much less wise 'Let's see how low I can get my TVR lap-times at Magny Cours, Monza, and Donigton Park'. In the end it was gone one by the time I finally managed to drag myself away to bed.

There's been some canny identification of what did and what didn't work in previous instalments of this sci-fi RTS. What did - robots. Big robots, small robots, fat robots, skinny robots, flying robots, robots with spinning drillbits for hands, robots with giant laser guns, steam-powered robots with teeth... What didn't - well, not a whole lot actually, but the Imperial Guard, the new race in Dawn of War's last expansion, were a little vanilla. Men and tanks may well be a staple part of a decent war, but honestly, they're just not as much fun as robots.

Activision has announced UK release dates for Call of Duty 3.

Enthusiastic developer Peter Molyneux has revealed how he thinks the games industry needs to innovate in order to grow - by creating games that make a player feel loved.

Motion capture has been the backbone of animation in sports games like FIFA for years and years, but in and of itself it's incredibly boring - as you'll know if you've ever watched one of those behind-the-scenes videos they stuff around the edges of the disc as an unlockable.

Looking for something to do on Thursdays? Then why not join in with the Eurogamer PKR Challenge 2006 poker tournament, which we're announcing today with great happiness (cunningly masked behind a veneer of icy concentration, naturally).

Despite the best efforts of anti-games crusader Jack Thompson, a judge in the US has decided against banning the sale of Rockstar's Bully (renamed Canis Canem Edit over here) in Florida.

And so the Xbox Live Arcade classic arcade bandwagon rolls on this week with the release of yet another cheap and cheerful Namco port. Cheap, in that it's 400 points, and cheerful in its ability to make us feel happy with its goofy tune and unfettered simplicity 24 years on from release.

More details have emerged of regarding Capcom's decision to close Clover Studio, the developer behind the likes of Viewtiful Joe, Okami and God Hand.

With Splinter Cell: Double Agent due to debut on Xbox 360 this Friday, Ubisoft has whacked a multiplayer demo up on Xbox Live Marketplace.

If the bell's tolling for UMD then Sony UK boss Ray Maguire hasn't heard it, because he reckons the PlayStation Portable's maligned movie format is ace, and doing well.

Anticipation is building ahead the release of Lumines Live with the release of the list of Xbox 360 achievements offered in-game.

The Entertainment Software Association has announced that next year's E3 will take place in July, with a new name and new criteria for entry set to be introduced.

It's hard to take a game asking you if you want to install a MySQL ODBC Connector as a sign of good times ahead. Especially when the game then tells you it won't actually work without this superhappyfuntime-sounding application, thus making the previously offered choice entirely futile. Why bother you with something that a) will probably bewilder and alarm you and b) you clearly don't even need to know about anyway? Do they really think you might have some deep-seated prejudice against MySQL, so overwhelming that its presence has to be flagged up separately from the inevitably gigantic and tedious EULA you already agreed to when you started installing the game?