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Former professional wrestling bloke turned actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's been talking up the film version of Midway's Spy Hunter - which is now down for release in July next year.

UPDATE: Major Nelson's posted a correction to his widely read blog, noting that the camera is actually due out in Europe on October 2nd and not September 19th as previously stated:

Publisher 505 Gamestreet has announced plans to release two PS2 titles in the UK - football management sim Soccer Life II and tip top religious quiz The Bible Game.

To get noticed in a genre as saturated as the dear old first-person shooter, you've got to do things a little differently; mess with people's preconceptions, give them new toys to play around with, and challenge them with canny enemies that surprise us,

EA has managed to defend its position for a fourth consecutive week atop the all-formats sales chart, boosted by the timely launch of a new version of FIFA World Cup Germany 2006 for the PSP.

Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto has revealed some more snippets of info about Wii title Super Mario Galaxy, including news of how it'll work with the remote controller.

With Half-Life 2: Episode 1 due to launch on Steam tomorrow, Valve's released a couple more teaser trailers to get you in the mood.

For Gran Turismo's many fans, the game's realisation on PlayStation 3 can't come quickly enough. The build up to the last two GT games (A-Spec and 4, mind - if we counted all the stopgaps we'd probably stall) has seen all manner of impressive visual chicanery in every sense, with demo reels that were always in-game but always overshot the finished article by a good few thousand pixels. The problem was resolution, as much as anything, and there's no question that Gran Turismo on PS3 will embrace its 1920x1080 progressive scan resolution as warmly as anything.

And they're off, again - two top Xbox Europe execs have launched an astonishing attack on Sony, the likes of which has not been seen since Sharon Osbourne had a go at Rebecca Loos last night.

Nintendo's still not talking about when Wii comes out, but it is happy to shed some light on its DS and GameCube (yes remember that) line-up over in the US, where it's first party party time!

Having already taken a bit of a kicking from investors for slipping the PS2 Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories past Table Tennis into June, Rockstar's tweaked the release date again - now the game's due out here on June 23rd.

For those of you wondering why no Grand Theft Auto announcement materialised in Sony's pre-E3 conference yesterday, Microsoft answered the question tonight by confirming the game will ship simultaneously for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

By now I expect my stance on Sonic's adventuring is firmly established. If not, it's with one foot firmly planted on Tails' throat and the other kicking him repeatedly in the head. While, er, complaining loudly about Sonic's propensity to launch himself into an abyss - thanks to a homing attack that seems to view infinity as a more appropriate destination than the next sequence of platforms and blocks.

Microsoft bigwigs may be lining up to take a pop at it, but Ubisoft president Yves Guillemot loves the PS3's motion-sensing controller - promising that plenty of Ubi titles will support it.

There's something cosy about the Might & Magic series. Something a bit tea and cakes on Granny's knee; all warm fireplaces and chintzy doilies. Something conservative, something that flies the Union Jack, something that reminds us of a much better past, something warm and something very, very familiar. Perhaps it's the fact that in the twenty years since the series started, it's changed about as much as David Dimbleby or Horlicks, even if everything else from the era is gone.

It's a deceptive little thing, this game-card.

Alright, hands up if you thought this would be awful. That looks like all of you. Let's continue.

More than three years after it was first announced, there's still no sign of the Phantom, the games-on-demand console that was supposed to be The Future. But the company behind it, Infinium labs, has at least found time to change its name - it'll now be known as Phantom Entertainment.

More details have been revealed of 'Undiluted Platinum', which is billed as the world's first PSP modchip.

Online reports are indicating that Apple is recruiting a team to work on a new videogames project, with former LucasArts technical director Mike Lampell said to be heading up the secret division.

Eidos has released new patches for the PC versions of Tomb Raider: Legend and Hitman: Blood Money.

Nintendo Japan has launched a new vibration cartridge for the DS Lite, priced at ¥1200 - that's about £6 to you.

A reader survey by Famitsu magazine has revealed that nearly 70 per cent of respondents are most looking forward to the arrival of the Nintendo Wii - while more than 85 per cent believe the PS3 has been priced too high.

Dan Brown. Love him or hate him, you've got to admire the skill with which he's managed to write a clutch of successful novels which are practically bloody identical. Take some pathetically simple cryptography, one twist, a lemon - usually the lead character - and a bunch of two-page long chapters and voila, one Brown book. The best-seller of these templates, The Da Vinci Code, has spawned a film, a court case, and now the inevitable computer games, of which this isn't one. Well, it's obviously cashing in on the impending Hollywood blockbuster, but unlike Take-Two's official Da Vinci Code console license, this has absolutely nothing to do with murder in the Louvre.

Following success in Americaland, EA's bringing its one-button smash-it-at-his-tits-'em-up EA Air Hockey to European mobile phones starting this month. Or June, depending on which bit of EA's press site you're looking at.

As promised, FEAR's been patched to version 1.05 - introducing two new multiplayer modes and two new multiplayer maps.

Midway's announced plans to bring Cyan Worlds' epic/static PC adventure series Myst to the PSP in a new, as-yet undated instalment.

Halo 2 may be one of the first games that runs exclusively on Windows Vista, but Bungie says it won't be one of the first to adopt the principles of Microsoft's cross-platform Live Anywhere formula.

Microsoft has announced plans to release Halo 2 for PC - specifically, PCs which use the new Windows Vista operating system.

A pair of big American game retailers reckon Half-Life 2 is coming to Xbox 360 in the not utterly distant future - and Valve's not denying it.