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505 Gamestreet has announced plans to bring psychological horror game Rule of Rose to Europe later this year.

The ideal puzzle game is deceptively simple, increasingly involving, and balances high pressure with moments of calm. Magnetica fails at every single element, but remains reasonably interesting.

Shadow Man might be a third person action adventure game, but this is no Tomb Raider.

Outcast is a truly European game. Its developers are Belgian, its publisher French, and it was available here in Europe for over a month while the Americans sat and twiddled their thumbs waiting for it to be released State-side. Which makes a refreshing change...

So, what is this wrongly shaped device I've got here? It's a Nokia N-Gage QD, and it's, yes, a rather oddly styled machine. In fact, it makes me wonder what exactly Nokia was thinking when it envisioned the N-Gage.

Given that excellent early Championship Manager games are available for thruppence and capable of running on a Casio wristwatch, let alone a modern PC, the compromises of console-based equivalents - which to this day remain hamstrung by a lack of important PC components to churn the data and crap, low resolution displays - are off-putting. Like accepting a lift to the station from your gran when walking would get you there quicker and without having to talk about your diet/job/when you're getting married/the dangers of baiting mallards.

Texan developer Edge of Reality is working on a brand new military combat game for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

A blogger has kicked up a right old storm of controversy after suggesting that PSP puzzler LocoRoco has racist overtones.

The TrackMania United website has revealed details of the new compilation that's set to include all the previously released games and add-ons in the series.

Last week saw the release of the new Day of Defeat: Source summer update, which features a new game type, Detonation, plus two new maps.

Nintendo has launched a new website for bit Generations, the new series of simple but funky little games heading to Game Boy Advance.

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced that the Silent Hill movie will be out on DVD, UMD and Blu-Ray this summer.

WarHawk developer Incognito may only have "officially" known about the PS3 tilt controller for a couple of weeks before E3, but Sony Santa Monica game director Brian Upton now claims the companies had been plotting for ages.

Microsoft has shot down reports, based on comments made by an Australian Toshiba executive, that Microsoft plans to release an Xbox 360 with an internal HD-DVD drive.

The Ubisoft team working on Wii title Red Steel have started up a new blog designed to keep us all up to date with how the game's coming along.

Last week Microsoft said it had nothing to announce to do with Xbox Live Arcade at retail - so naturally on Friday it said completely the opposite.

Sonic the Hedgehog and Full Auto 2: Battlelines will be PlayStation 3 launch titles, according to SEGA of America's Scott Steinberg.

Microsoft has finally posted the Xbox 360 demo of 3D Realms' Prey on Marketplace.

Those of you turned onto Eastern-flavoured MMORPG Hero Online by our first impressions last week can now take part in an open beta test.

"A simple and easy to understand scenario and system will get people of all ages and both sexes to enjoy playing casual RPG games."

Bestriding the Eurogamer TV viewing theatre like a virtual colossus, the movie of the moment is Blizzard's new trailer for World of Warcraft expansion Burning Crusade. If you find yourself in a queue for your chosen video this afternoon, please bear with us, as we're receiving unprecedented demand for the formal unveiling of flying mounts. Truly, the geeks shall inherit the Earth.

Mark Whittard, general manager of Toshiba's Information Systems Division in Australia, believes that Microsoft will release an Xbox 360 with an internal HD-DVD drive in future.

SouthPeak Interactive has signed a deal to publish Artificial Studios' Monster Madness on PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 next February - with other titles to follow.

Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima and Square-Enix's Tetsuya Nomura both believe PlayStation 3 will be the best outlet for their games in two or three years' time.

Horror film director Wes Craven is in talks to create an original game - or so he's told Mercury News journalist Dean Takahashi.

In this contrary world that we inhabit, you get used to contrasting opinions about everything. If the BBC collared Sven Goran Eriksson about his thoughts on the rebirth of Micro Machines V4, he'd probably peer balefully over his glasses, do his best owl impression, surreptitiously emit a pellet and come to the conclusion that "we got the right result" and hoot that it "played well" while skirting wistfully over the issue and managing to avoid giving us any real insight into the matter.

Sony will re-release an estimated 7000 PSone titles by the end of next year that will run on PlayStation Portable's PSone emulator.

One of the reasons Virtua Fighter 5 is a PlayStation 3 exclusive is that the team was already used to working with NVIDIA graphics hardware, according to SEGA AM2 president Hiroshi Kataoka.

Almost forgot Wimbledon was on, didn't you? Well it is, Henman's already out, and to celebrate us not having to hear the words "Henman hill" again for a year (or perhaps ever), 2K Sports has responded by lobbing a Wimbledon-themed demo of Top Spin 2 up on Xbox Live Marketplace.

Here's a funny one: Greek developer track7games has denied cancelling a PlayStation 3 version of its PC and Xbox 360 title Theseis, arguing that since it was never in development in the first place it couldn't have been cancelled.