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It was like a scene out of Anchorman as Peter 'Zen' Moore (their words, not ours) rolled up his sleeves at Microsoft's pre-E3 press conference to "get the big guns out for the big guns". You almost expected him to kiss them left and right, shout "cannon baaaall!" and jump into the audience.

Activision and The History Channel have announced a new PC, PS2 and Xbox 360 game based on the American civil war.

TT Games and LucasArts have fought their way to the premier position in the UK all-formats charts, as Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy becomes the highest-selling title this week.

Capcom's bloody adventure title Dead Rising has bludgeoned its way to the top of the Chart Track all-formats charts this week, becoming the fastest-selling Xbox 360 title to date.

Bullworth Academy Principal Crabblesnitch welcomes you to Rockstar's Canis Canem Edit in a new trailer for the game once known as Bully.

Film maker Peter Jackson says that preliminary work and script doctoring on the Halo film he's executive-producing is going well, and he's got nothing but admiration for young director Neill Blomkamp, despite his relative lack of feature experience.

SEGA has inked a deal with Deep Fried Entertainment for the Vancouver-based developer to work on new content for the PlayStation Portable.

Majesco has announced plans to publish a new instalment in the Bust-A-Move series for the Nintendo Wii.

Chilean film director Jorge Olguin has signed up to direct the cinematic version of Capcom's Clock Tower survival horror, IMDB and the excellently named Gorezone.net are reporting.

Video Games Live is coming to London in November, organisers AEG Live have announced, with tickets on sale now.

To paraphrase the Arctic Monkeys, Codemasters bets that you look like an idiot on the Internet - and so they've set up a competition to find out.

Surely even Bandai couldn't have predicted what would happen when, back in 1997, it released the first Tamagotchi key chain.

Videogame exhibition Game On will take over a section of London's Science Museum between October and February.

Square Enix's revival of the Mana series continues with the announcement of a new isometric strategy RPG for the Nintendo DS called Heroes of Mana.

Developer Neversoft has dropped online play from the PlayStation 3 version of Tony Hawk's Project 8, a key third-party launch title for Sony's next-gen console.

Yesterday, Nintendo announced US and Japanese launch details. Today, it's our turn, with a European press conference taking place in London - and you can read all about it as it happens on this very page from 12PM BST. Nintendo has already said we'll find out launch date, pricing and software information about our version of its famed next-generation console but there remain a number of unanswered questions. At the conclusion of the conference, which is expected to last an hour, there will be a photo-call followed by an afternoon of gameplay sessions and interview opps. Stay tuned...

Virtua Tennis 3 will run at 1080p on PlayStation 3, according to reports from Japan.

Electronic Arts has patched up the Xbox 360 version of Battle for Middle-Earth II so that the game now punishes people who disconnect before the end of a game in the hope of avoiding a loss.

Following on from today's Japanese announcement and New York Times report, Nintendo has confirmed that its Wii console will launch on November 19th in the USA priced US$ 250 (EUR 197 / GBP 133).

There's something so defiantly old school about Revolution's latest that you want to hug it like an old security blanket. With Broken Sword: The Angel of Death, Charles Cecil and co have done exactly what we've been asking them to do for the past six years or so: get back to basics. They've stopped trying to make hopeless concessions to action games. They've stopped listening to the naysayers who claim the adventure game is dead. And best of all, they've convinced publisher THQ to let them made a game that's all about the puzzles and the narrative. Want action? Go and buy an action game; there's plenty of them out there.

Nintendo Wii will launch in Europe on December 8th 2006 and cost EUR 249 / GBP 179, Nintendo announced during a conference in London this afternoon.

Excellent PSP game Mercury is to make the transition to PlayStation 2 this winter, Atari and Ignition Entertainment announced today (probably without thinking very hard about the timing).

Closer examination of Nintendo Japan's enormous list of software titles in development for Wii reveals that Big Brain Academy, Super Paper Mario, Kirby and others will be making the leap in 2007.

Good news for any Australian readers out there - you'll be getting your hands on Nintendo Wii a day earlier than us!

Nintendo UK has admitted that the Wii console is region-locked after all, despite comments from Nintendo of America to the contrary.

Nintendo UK has confirmed the pricing for Wii points - the magical currency that will buy you Virtual Console games through Wii's shopping channel.

With Nintendo's London press conference now over and all my friends busy whacking tennis balls around with Tim Henman and hugging Satoru Iwata, I'm in the press centre ripping the media pack to shreds for your benefit.

It's nice to see that in a world dominated by killjoy politicians and political correctness, you can still enjoy a game that's solely predicated on dropping bombs in an attempt to blow other people up.

Microsoft's high profile blogging fraternity has once again disputed claims that the company is working on a revision of the Xbox 360 hardware that includes an internal HD-DVD drive.

Majesco has hopped onto the Steam bandwagon and plans to start flogging excellent platform title Psychonauts through Valve's system in October.