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This October will see the launch of GameCity, a new interactive entertainment festival designed to bring top games industry bigwigs together with we the people for all sorts of games-related fun.

With each and every new media release Relic's Dark Crusade expansion for the impressive Dawn of War RTS grows in promise.

Arkane Studios, the developer behind action RPG Arx Fatalis and forthcoming PC title Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, has opened a new office in Austin, Texas.

Toronto-based publisher Throwback Entertainment has picked up the rights to a whole load of franchises from poor old busted up Acclaim.

Are you a lady gamer? There's a 99.9999999999 per cent chance you're not, according to our reader demographic data, but anyway, Sheila from Lancs, this is for you.

Empire Interactive's latest financial report has revealed that the FlatOut series is heading to Xbox 360.

US civil rights group the NAACP has slammed an advert for the new white PSP which some observers have accused of being racist.

A new mech game which will let you use the DS's stylus to directly control your machines on the battlefield is on the way from developer Sandlot.

The controversy over the Starforce copy protection scheme looks set to continue after JoWooD announced that it will be dropping it from forthcoming PC RPG Gothic III.

As announced last week, Ignition now has the rights to publish SNK's King of Fighters: Maximum Impact 2 over here - and whaddyaknow, they're publishing SNK's King of Fighters: Maximum Impact 2 over here. This autumn on PS2.

Ubisoft's bringing The Settlers to Nintendo DS.

Eurogamer's German readers (wie gehts?) will be pleased to hear that last Friday's Xbox 360 Prey demo is now available through their version of Marketplace.

Die Deutsche demo der Settlers II ist jetzt auf Englisch vorhanden! Whoops - I mean the German demo of The Settlers II is now available in English!

Eighteen wheels of steel. Greasy spoons. Air brakes. Tattoos. Grrr! Yorkie bars. Pro-plus inspired twenty-hour shifts. Overtaking another lorry on a hill because you're going 3mph faster than them and can't possibly brake, thereby blocking up the dual carriageway for ten minutes. All things associated with truckers. Apocalypse isn't one of them; you can blame them for traffic jams but not for global thermonuclear war.

THQ has bought Paradigm Studios and in-development sequel Stuntman 2 from Atari for an undisclosed sum. Stuntman was originally developed by Reflections, the outfit responsible for the Driver series.

Vivendi has unveiled the cast list for Scarface: The World is Yours, revealing that several actors who starred in the original movie will also appear in the game.

Roger Avary, author of the screenplay for the forthcoming Silent Hill movie, has promised that it'll be firmly based around the actual games.

Electronic Arts has revealed the first details of what we can expect from SSX On Tour, the first PSP instalment in the classic snowboarding series.

The Sony exec overseeing the new PS3 digital distribution project has said he believes it will not only benefit Sony and other publishers, but will also open up new opportunities for developers.

Help! It's the middle of summer! Nothing of any note's being released! We need an emergency pointless introductory paragraph! Something to stop us inserting exclamation marks in the name of faux excitement! Contrary to Tina Turner's misguided assertions, we do need another hero. A Gitaroo hero. Eh? What is a Gitaroo Man anyway? The Jimi Hendrix marsupial experience? Now that would be some game.

Mercury is very bad for you. Not just very bad for you like alcohol, or dousing your crotch in oil and then dry-humping a fire, but mega-ultra-seriously bad for you. Even the American government, famously quite protective of things that cause massive amounts of harm (cf. guns, cigarettes, Tony Snow), declared in 1990 that mercury is a toxic pollutant that must be controlled to the greatest possible extent.

With Star Fox Command swooping to Japanese retail next month, Famitsu has revealed a few more details about the interstellar pest's DS debut - including the fact that it will support an optional rumble pack cartridge.

Tetsuya Mizuguchi, the man behind Space Channel 5, Lumines and Meteos, is taking on the role of executive producer for two new games for the PSP and Nintendo DS.

European World of Warcraft players now have the option to move their characters between different realms - just like their American counterparts.

AMD has released a new piece of software that's designed to enhance the video performance of games running on the Athlon 64 FX processor.

Eurogamer is teaming up with serious business type websites GamesIndustry.biz and Gamasutra.com to host the London Game Career Fair this October.

Microsoft's swung a Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 trailer onto Marketplace.

Having tied up Sony Japan's Rule of Rose earlier this week, 505 Gamestreet has announced that it will publish IREM's Steambot Chronicles for PS2 in the UK this September.

Remember World Tour Golf? Oxygen Interactive wouldn't be surprised if you didn't - they thought the name was rubbish, and have changed it.

EA and DICE are inviting Battlefield 2 fans to help beta-test the game's 1.4 patch.