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Final Fantasy XIII director Motomu Toriyama says he wants the fight scenes in Square-Enix's PlayStation 3 RPG to look like the ones in computer-generated film Final Fantasy VII Advent Children.

UK developer Rebellion has officially confirmed its acquisition of Strangelight Studios, which completed late last year as embattled software publisher Empire Interactive struggled to maintain its market presence.

Gameloft has announced a partnership with i-mode operators in six European countries, offering a cross-country mobile football tournament to celebrate the launch of its 2006 Real Football mobile game.

Meantime Mobile Creations, in partnership with Goal Mobile, has announced the imminent launch of a suite of mobile content products starring football hero Ronaldinho - beginning with one-button gaming title, Total Control.

Confirming the troubled publisher's heavy reliance on its controversial Grand Theft Auto series, Take-Two's latest 10-Q filing includes mention of a three-year, USD 25 million deal to secure and safeguard the creative team behind its flagship franchise.

An Alabama judge has denied a motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed against Take-Two by the families of two police officers and a dispatcher killed by a Grand Theft Auto-playing teenager.

Anti-videogames campaigner Jack Thompson has withdrawn from the Grand Theft Auto lawsuit filed against retailers and publishers following accusations that he violated legal ethics.

Warren Spector, the former studio head of Ion Storm Austin and the brains behind Deus Ex, has slammed game developers for relying on tried and tested formulas instead of coming up with new ideas.

Blizzard has revealed more details of Shadow of the Necropolis update, otherwise known as patch 1.11, for stupidly popular MMORPG World of Warcraft.

Alan Kotok, the man who helped create what was arguably the world's first videogame, has died of a heart attack aged 64.

Those excited by the prospect of forthcoming Wii title Super Smash Bros. may already know that the game's creator, Masahiro Sakurai, likes to keep everyone informed about how it's coming along via his blog.

Not long now until Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories is out on PS2 - and Rockstar's teed up a little trailer to give you a little taste of what to expect. You can watch it now over on Eurogamer TV.

"Not a truly outstanding new Grand Theft Auto game then, but an excellent PSP game. Although I do wonder how it'd do in a year's time," he said, summing up Liberty City Stories on the PSP, ooh, six months ago.

It's been available via Valve's Steam service for a while now, but Unreal fans who prefer to buy their games from actual shops will be pleased to hear that Red Orchestra Ostfront 41-45 is coming to UK high streets later this month.

Nintendo executive Katsuya Eguchi has revealed that the Wii version of Animal Crossing may allow you to send messages to fellow players via your PC and mobile phone.

Somewhere, there's a dizzy parallel universe where there's no Radio One. No Capital Gold. No Magic FM. Where the soundtrack to everyday life throbs with manic day-glo doo-wop pop thrills and the words you hear have never been heard by mortal ears. It's a world where the smiling bubble offspring of Jeff Minter's perverted Corona dreams have to pass their fizzical by warbling joyous high pitched odes to MDMA and the wonders of surging serotonin. These amorphous blobs grin themselves to death for the love of plants. It's a happy, albeit brief existence.

European PSP owners can now download a demo of LocoRoco directly to their Memory Sticks without having to faff around with Japanese websites.

While nobody would argue against celebrating the PSP for offering gamers previously unthinkable home-console-style experiences on the go, there are plenty who would contest that it hasn't brought anything new to gaming as a whole.

Tribune Media Services has announced plans to launch a new service that will bring mobile content to readers of online newspapers and magazines.

ELSPA has announced the top ten UK mobile titles for the month of April, revealing that Glu's Sonic the Hedgehog is still topping the chat - with EA's Tetris also holding firm in the number two spot.

Developer DC Studios, which operated out of Edinburgh, Scotland and Montreal, Canada, has been forced to shut its Scottish studio after the commercial failure of State of Emergency 2.

Thought for the day: perhaps the travelling circus is a jinx. Excellent TV series Carnivale didn't make it past a couple of seasons, and Pee-Wee Herman's career suffered a severe downturn since the disastrous Big Top Pee-Wee (although touching himself in an adult theatre probably didn't help). If the travelling circus theme is a curse, then, it's one that's now caught up with Monster Rancher series.

If you were to come up with an all-time puzzle top ten, it's a sure bet that Bust A Move (a.k.a. Puzzle Bobble) would feature somewhere near the top. Like Tetris, and Bejeweled it's one of those absolute corkers that is so utterly perfect in its initial conception that it's become timeless. Trying to match three bubbles of the same colour by firing up the screen while they slowing descend, row by row, is one of those games we'll always have time for; they're just so moreish.

The stealth camouflage shown off in Metal Gear Solid 4's E3 trailer will play a key role, says Hideo Kojima - and what's more this will be his last game in charge.

Microsoft's announced that the much anticipated spring update for Xbox 360 will go live at 10am this morning UK time.

After the initial wave of disbelief and derision that met the renaming of Nintendo's new home console, Nintendo UK boss David Yarnton believes a stellar performance at E3 has extinguished any lingering doubts over the controversial 'Wii' moniker.

It's official: Call of Duty 2 is the most popular Xbox 360 title currently being played via Xbox Live.

Not content with taking apart the controller, Blu-Ray player and pricing, Microsoft is now targeting its verbal attacks on Sony's online strategy as the US firm races to cement its market advantage ahead of PS3's launch.

With Half-Life 2: Episode One due out today, Valve's released a quick update to the Steam download system - including the reintroduction of a Friends system for sending "ZOMG" to fellow players.

Microsoft may consider releasing a larger Xbox 360 hard disk in future - but is unlikely to keep devoting resources to making Xbox games work on its next-gen format.