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It seems that everyone I know played James Pond: Codename Robocod in 1991. My sister remembers it. People at my poker game all remembered it. My friend Hannah happily peeped on the phone last night as an old memory was stirred. I've a 100% success rate in my unofficial James Pond: Codename Robocod awareness studies. So you can see why canny folks keep releasing it over and over again.

A dazzling CGI E3 showreel was the last glimpse gamers had of Mythic Entertainment's anticipated Warhammer MMO – and the US firm has now released the full, extended version of the Age of Reckoning trailer, which is showing exclusively this morning on Eurogamer TV.

There's no movement in the top three this week, as THQ's multi-format cartoon racer continues its winning streak - while GTA: Liberty City Stories and New Super Mario Bros stall in second and third.

If emulating the Nintendo DS is something that interests you, you might like to know that the guys at Nocash have finally launched their own version, promising "almost full NDS support" including 3D.

American McGee (remember him?) has had a right old pop at Sony and Microsoft, declaring that the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 are "just a video card and processor upgrade".

Atlus has announced plans to bring a new instalment in the Bomberman series to the Nintendo DS.

Publisher Farlan Entertainment has admitted that Dark and Light, billed as "The Largest MMORPG You've Ever Seen!", isn't exactly The Best Put Together MMORPG You've Ever Seen.

Ian Livingstone's career history, which now spans more than three decades, has been well documented. From Games Workshop and Fighting Fantasy to Eidos, Tomb Raider, a BAFTA and an OBE, he's not just an industry veteran, but something of an industry legend.

Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime has declared that the DS is the clear winner in the war of the handhelds - and that the Wii is set to follow suit in the home console market.

Guitar Hero II will make its first public appearance in Europe on August 22nd at the Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Festival.

With William Shatner having blown the lid on the old-days Trek captain's involvement in Star Trek: Legacy, Bethesda Softworks has now revealed that all five of the series' captains will actually be involved.

Lionhead's Peter Molyneux would "love" to revisit the likes of Syndicate, Populous and Dungeon Keeper, but it's not something he can sort out on his own.

Avalanche Studios has revealed that it plans to release PC and Xbox 360 demos of its upcoming action title Just Cause on August 24th.

It could easily be argued that the beat-'em-up genre is by far the hardest to break these days. Between Street Fighter and Virtua Fighter, the hardcore market is more or less sorted while flashier affairs like Marvel vs Capcom 2 and Soul Calibur 3 do their bit to keep even the gamer with the shortest attention span entertained. So, despite the Budokai series doing pretty well with fans, Atari has decided to take the Dragon Ball series back to the drawing board and come up with a whole new way of playing as Goku and friends/rivals/enemies. Well, to be more accurate, what they've actually come up with is a whole old way of doing things...

I've never really been one for self-titled art. Musically, for example, it just confuses people. "Yes I was listening to that the other day." "What?" "Blur." "Yes but which?" "Just Blur." "Oh you mean the self-titled one." "Yep." "But Blur's rubbish." "What, the self-titled one?" "No." "The band?" "Stop that." But then I suppose it doesn't happen very often.

Following the emergence of rumours that a PSP price cut is on the way, a Sony representative has told our sister site, GamesIndustry.biz, that there are no plans to reduce the cost of the handheld just now.

William Shatner is set to voice Captain Kirk in Star Trek: Legacy, and the veteran actor says he signed on because he couldn't accept anybody else playing Kirk.

A Yoshi's Island 2 packshot unearthed by Kotaku suggests that the forthcoming platform sequel will support Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection multiplayer.

Having already pledged TurboGrafx games to Nintendo's Virtual Console system, Hudson's planning to dip into another area of its back-catalogue with the October 26th release of Lode Runner for Nintendo DS in Japan.

Clearly concerned that we haven't seen a new unlikely-heroes-go-off-to-fight-evil game in the last two or three minutes, Marvelous Interactive and Image Epoch have rushed to the rescue with a new unlikely-heroes-go-off-to-fight-evil game for the Nintendo DS.

Fresh from getting drunk and going on holiday, Human Head Studios is busily working on a 1.1 patch and some new content for Prey.

Microsoft has announced plans to release a new development platform that will enable indie studios, hobbyists and students to create cross-platform titles for the PC and Xbox 360 - free of charge.

Never mind the aeroplanes, Mr Blair (and judging by the prime ministerial transport budget, Mr Blair certainly doesn't mind aeroplanes), what are you going to do about all this terror on the high seas? Because judging by the contents of The Ship, the ocean's a dangerous place, with a gun in every closet and an axe in every corridor.

Electronic Arts is putting more of its weight behind Nintendo DS, according to top-bod David Gardner, who argues that Sony needs to address PlayStation Portable's price and performance.

The Spanish arm of Electronic Arts is reporting that the promised 1.4 patch will be released tomorrow, August 15, following a successful spell in beta testing.

Big Huge Games has made biggish, hugeish changes to Rise of Legends with a new 2.0 patch, which also includes a new four-player multiplayer map called Inferno.

Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz' widely-read weekly newsletter, the GamesIndustry.biz Editorial is a weekly dissection of one of the issues weighing on the minds of the people at the top of the games business. It appears on Eurogamer a day after it goes out to GI.biz newsletter subscribers.

Still not done sneaking around offices and dust-bowls tutting at people who don't run with the knife? Then Valve has some good news for you: it's nowhere near done with its support for Counter-Strike: Source.

As far as generating relentless free publicity is concerned, the achievements of Rockstar's Bully have been nothing short of astonishing. Bear in mind how long all those sour-faced lefties have been whining on about it; now consider that only today does Rockstar deign to release the first formal trailer of its terribly-controversial-but-will-it-be-any-good PS2 schoolyard romp.

THQ's animated movie tie-in is keeping well ahead of the pack for a second week on the run, overtaking the opposition on PS2, PSP, Xbox, GameCube and GBA - with PC and DS versions catching up fast.