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Ignition Entertainment has announced plans to publish Blade Dancer: Lineage of Light on PSP this autumn. You may recall we wrote about it when developer Sony (working with Hit Maker) first announced it last year.

Sony's announced another PlayStation Portable RPG. Another, you ask? Well yes. You haven't heard of Popolocrois? BOF3? Tales of Eternia? All those other ones? Jeez. Pay attention. Jerk.

Human Head Studios and 3D Realms have released a PC demo of first-person shooter Prey, which is due out on PC and Xbox 360 next month.

Opera has announced that the DS version of its web browser will launch in Japan on July 24th - and that it'll come with an "additional memory expansion pack", whatever that is.

Nearly sixty years after he sat down at the piano to play chopsticks for the very last time, world-famous dead composer Chopin is to star in his very own RPG for the Xbox 360.

Microsoft has announced that X06 will be held on September 27th and 28th in Barcelona, where it will once again show off games and make announcements relating to Xbox 360, Xbox Live Arcade and Games For Windows.

Ubisoft's released a multiplayer map pack for Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter on PC, which adds a deathmatch mode and three maps, introduces additional co-op levels and a map editor, and features a whole range of upgrades and optimisations to boot.

Here at Eurogamer, we've long enjoyed beating people up whilst bellowing abuse at them, so when EA asked us if we'd like to give you the rundown on Def Jam Fight for NY: The Takeover for PSP, with a bit of help from an internally produced Q&A with producer Seth Immell, we punched them in the face and said "yeah bitch come on bitch make your move bitch".

This summer will see the arrival of another big screen remake of a classic TV show - namely Miami Vice, which stars Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx and is directed by none other than the creator of the original series, Michael Mann.

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has taken a pop at publishers for the way they price their games, criticising the current system where retailers cut the price of titles soon after they launch.

Dan Greenawalt, lead designer on Xbox 360 racer Forza Motorsport, has revealed all sorts of interesting info about the game - including the fact that it'll feature a Project Gotham Racing-style TV mode.

NCsoft has released a new update for vehicle combat MMO Auto Assault, which introduces all manner of new features - including the ability to buy "respec".

New details have been revealed of Tony Hawk's Project 8, which is being billed as "the most unique, robust and realistic skateboarding game experience ever." Gosh.

As a psychologist, I'm often called upon to nod and frown, whilst someone pays me lots of money so they can recline on a leather couch. Sometimes, I even get to do some psychology, which mainly consists of mentioning the word schizophrenia, tutting and frowning, like the world's axis rests on the gravitas of my words. Then I get paid lots! It's great.

Planet PSP, a software package for Sony's portable based on the Lonely Planet travel guides, has been renamed Passport To... and will be released on September 15th.

The Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that a recent PSP poster campaign wasn't all that naughty despite receiving 45 complaints, and that Sony shouldn't be punished as a result.

Calling all World of Warcraft fans: today sees the start of the Midsummer Fire Festival, an event that celebrates ancient magic and old tradition and really big bonfires.

Lumines Live will be available in a base version and players will have to pay extra to download new music, and possibly extra again to play versus mode against other people.

Ubisoft's PlayStation 3 stealth-action title Assassin's Creed will offer downloadable content, co-operative missions and should be out in Europe at the beginning of 2007, according to the US Official PlayStation mag.

Electronic Arts has signed a deal to acquire Mythic Entertainment, the studio behind Dark Age of Camelot and forthcoming MMORPG Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning.

We know how you all love achievements and gamerpoints. Well, I know how much Kristan loves them anyway - you can probably infer as much from the way he steals all the Xbox 360 review code. So he at least will be interested to learn that 3D Realms has posted a full list of achievements and points available from the Xbox 360 version of Prey, which is due out next month alongside the PC version.

Clearly not interested in kicking its heels and waiting for the next-generation, Namco Bandai announced four new Tales RPG titles at a press conference in Tokyo this week, IGN reports - and three of them are for the PlayStation Portable.

Weren't Tamagotchi supposed to be about interaction? Remember that dreadful fad a few years back when children clung to plastic keyrings, declaring every fifteen seconds that "it needs to be fed!" or "it needs to go for a poo!"? These were, at least, somewhat novel. The toy you had to keep playing with, or it would die. Nevermind that a new one would hatch right away - the previous one was dead, and now there would be tears and tantrums.

THQ has no plans to release any MMO games in the near future, according to CEO Brian Farrell - since there's no point while everyone's still going mental for World of Warcraft.

Two all-female gaming clans are protesting against a new beauty contest which they say could damage the way women gamers are perceived.

"SOCOM," my new drunken American friend confided after I'd asked him why everyone seemed to love it so much over in the States, "ish the peak of going-around-killing-people on the Internet."

Some new details have been revealed of PSP shooter GUN Showdown - including news that Hollywood scriptwriter Randall Jahnson, whose previous credits include The Doors and Mask of Zorro, is writing the storyline.

Daisuke Uchiyama, chief producer at Namco Bandai and a man best known for is work on the Dragon Ball Z games, has confirmed that a fourth instalment in the Soul Calibur series is on the way.

This week's top ten listing is a chart of two halves, football just taking the lead as FIFA World Cup Germany 2006 holds its position at the top of the group yet again.

Club Nintendo, the Japanese version of our rubbish Stars Catalogue (you know, the scheme that lets us spend our loyalty points on desktop wallpapers and occasionally, if we're lucky, whatever they have lying around in the basement), has been updated again and the treats are almost enough to make us cry.