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A graduate from the University of British Columbia has published his honours thesis on racism in games, claiming that negative representations of ethnic minorities are far too widespread.

Tetsuya Mizuguchi has revealed that the Rez trance vibrator was his idea, but that he didn't create it with any particular "sexual meaning" in mind.

Rockstar shed a tiny bit more light on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories this week, revealing that it will cost $49.99 in the US and £34.99 in the UK, and releasing the box artwork for both territories.

Are you looking for a new job? Perhaps you're bored with your current one, or perhaps you still haven't bothered to go down the job centre since returning from university and your Mum's threatening to throw you out on the street?

At last, the real reason Brazil was knocked out of the 2006 World Cup has been revealed - well, providing you believe anything that's printed in The Sun, anyway.

A new update which allows players to unlock achievements has just been released for the Xbox 360 version of Final Fantasy XI.

"Our development team, when we saw the various GTA games coming out, thought Rockstar had created a genre."

The creator of the DS music composer Electroplankton has come up with a new harebrained scheme that could be the best thing to happen to music since the stylophone.

A quick and handy digest of some of the interesting things people have said this week. And of course stuff we've been aching to make fun of.

A new 'Making Of' trailer for forthcoming movie tie-in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is now showing on Eurogamer TV.

Gears of War developer Epic Games is planning to make a big announcement next week, according to a post made by Mark Rein on the game's official forum.

Tecmo Team Ninja boss Tomonobu Itagaki has hinted that he might make another Dead or Alive beat-'em-up once he's done with Dead or Alive X2.

The next instalment in the Grand Theft Auto series will be titled GTA: Vice City Stories - at least, that's if three new applications filed with the US patent office are anything to go by.

Rockstar has announced Vice City Stories, a new instalment in the Grand Theft Auto series exclusive to the PSP, which will be available in the UK on October 20th.

BBC2 Scotland has announced that the second series of videoGaiden - the TV evolution of Consolevania which Ellie always tells me off for liking - will return to TV and the Internet in November.

Members of the Guitar Hero team have used its MySpace page to tease some sort of new Guitar Hero-related project known as G.H.O.U.L.

Compilations are ten a penny these day, but it's rare to find one with more than two or three games worth playing.

The overwhelming thing about Oblivion isn't knowing where to start, but when to stop. It's an adventure game in the purest sense of the word in its effortless capacity to give the player a seemingly infinite wealth of possibilities - full of intrigue, excitement, risk, reward and this continual sense of the unknown.

It may not feature the 1980's "charm" of Arnold Schwarzenegger's acting, but Conan and his barbaric adventuring style is definitely heading to PCs next year thanks to a co-publishing deal between Funcom and SCi/Eidos.

Nintendo fans can snag themselves a wealth of bargain priced products through UK retailer GAME, thanks to a 24-hour online promotion focusing exclusively on the platform holder's product line.

Three in five 11-16 year old UK students are in favour of using computer games in classrooms, according to a recent Ipsos MORI survey conducted as part of the Teaching with Games project.

Microsoft has confirmed the development of a range of portable entertainment devices similar to Apple's iPod, finally putting an end to at least one aspect of the recent rumour and speculation.

A spokesperson for broadcasting and entertainment union Bectu has warned that many game developers are being forced to work long hours under poor conditions - and that they are getting burned out as a result.

So, this is the PSP RPG you've been waiting for.

Microsoft appears to have fallen foul of something or other in its quest to get Texas Hold 'Em Poker to appear on Xbox Live Arcade on August 23rd, for free.

Seoul-based developerr Webzen has confirmed that PC and PS3 MMORPG Endless Saga has been cancelled.

THQ has confirmed to Eurogamer that the next instalment in the WWE SmackDown series will not be appearing on PlayStation 3.

At the Comic-Con held in San Diego last week, Marvel and Bungie announced plans to launch a new monthly comic titled Halo Ongoing.

Those of you yearning to outwardly express your devotion to all things Pokemon will be, well, tortured to learn that Nintendo is giving away Pikachu-adorned DS Lites to Japanese gamers who visit its website.

Those gun-totin', acronymphomaniacs at Ubisoft have revealed that the next PC map pack for GRAW will introduce a new game-mode along with something called a "death cam". And presumably some new maps.