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Electronic Arts has announced The Sims 2 Pets, a new PC expansion pack and standalone game for PS2, GameCube, PSP, Nintendo DS and GBA.

Electronic Arts has confirmed that a new expansion for Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth II is on the way - and that it'll hit the shops later this year.

Neither alien invasion nor automotive assault has been able to topple Rockstar's GTA: Liberty City Stories, which retains its lead at the top of the all formats chart for the fifth consecutive week.

With the PSP's 2.80 system software now available to all regions, Sony's also thrown up a demo of World Tour Soccer 2.

A demo of Ninety-Nine Nights has popped up on Xbox Live Marketplace, according to Xbox Live's Larry Hryb.

Microsoft's announced Fuzion Frenzy 2 for Xbox 360.

Brothers In Arms developer Gearbox Software has joined the growing list of developers singing the Nintendo Wii's praises.

With the retro compilation now an accepted tradition, and handheld gaming firmly in the mainstream, it seems strange that more publishers - or at least those with roots dating back to gaming prehistory - haven't been porting more of their arcade forebears to miniature formats. Outside of Namco and Midway's PSP offerings, and the less than successful Atari Retro Classics effort on the DS, there's a wealth of archive fun yet to be tapped for the quick-fix of handheld platforms.

Splinter Cell might be best known for the stealthy acrobatics found in a trio of excellent single-player campaigns, but while the Sam Fishers of the world have been busy snapping necks, concealing bodies and throwing terrorists off lighthouses, Ubisoft has been busily experimenting with and refining one of the most innovative multiplayer components of any game to emerge in recent years.

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Sony Japan has released a Japanese PSP demo version of Mercury Meltdown along with new firmware for its shiny handheld.

ZOO Digital says Premier Manager 2006-2007 will be out in time for the start of the new Premiership season.

Ever forgiving Blizzard popped up earlier this week to absently mention that it's banned 59,000 World of Warcraft accounts during June.

Tripwire's planning to let you all run free across the battlefields of Red Orchestra for a week.

It is one of the golden rules of life that as soon as you buy something it's inevitably either reduced at the very next shop you approach or it turns up in your Christmas stocking. Twice.

Lighthouse Interactive has announced that Sword of the Stars will be released in the UK on September 1st, and in Germany and France by the middle of September.

Those of you still clinging to the rotting carcass of the old-days adventure genre might be interested in Restless, from Yorkshire-based developer Viperante.

Those teasing minxes at Vivendi have stuck up a new F.E.A.R. web page, and it's counting down to something.

Ever tube-surfed? It's great. You plant your feet on the floor of a moving tube train as if you were a bona-fide surf/skater dude and attempt to gain a few stolen minutes of handheld gaming without falling over in an embarrassing heap.

Astonishing fact of the day: Tom had never played Galaga until it popped up on Live Arcade this morning, which is the gaming equivalent of never having seen, I dunno, Blade Runner. After a while you just assume everyone must have come across certain cultural icons, but today's confession just goes to show how wrong you can be.

Sony is launching a new PSP download service this Friday, offering everyone who can get to a participating store the chance to grab free game demos, music tracks, movie trailers and more.

Industry new-boy Lexicon Entertainment has sewn up the rights to publish the PC version of American McGee's Bad Day LA in the UK and other PAL territories in Q4 2006.

Amidst all the arguments over PS3's hefty price tag, how much the world really cares about Blu-ray, and how important Xbox 360's steadily growing lead will prove, self-styled 'industry loudmouth' and Epic boss Mark Rein has revealed an interesting take on the next-gen battle from a developer's perspective.

Atari has stepped up to distribute Naruto: Ultimate Ninja on PS2 in Europe this November.

DVD printers of the world revolt: EA's The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-Earth II is to receive a PC expansion. It's going to be called (actually, we should probably move it to its own paragraph)...

Microsoft wants to deliver a new game to Xbox Live Arcade every week - and believes it's possible, too.

Kerberos Productions has released a demo of its upcoming strategy title Sword of the Stars, which aims to streamline the "4x", Civilization-style genre to make it more accommodating for newcomers.

It's been a hell of a month for Italian football. As I type, an Italian court is delivering its verdicts on the appeals made by four clubs caught up in Calciopoli - the Italian football corruption scandal - which has seen three of the country's biggest football sides relegated, two then reinstated, all four docked points, and only the Milanese allowed within half a mile of European competition. Italy won the World Cup on Sunday, 9th July. Within a week half the players involved were looking for new jobs. Fans went ballistic - taking to the streets, and, in Fiorentina's case, blocking off a railway line after Franco Zeffirelli appealed to fans to "cut Italy in half".

Nintendo of America has outlined its DS release schedule for the fourth and final quarter of the year, and since it features several games absent from Nintendo of Europe's recent counterpart and you'll be wanting to import them, you'd best pay attention.

Yep, it's that time of the week again. Another "Xbox Live Arcade Wednesday", and this time it's Galaga from Namco.