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Nintendo has announced that the DS Lite will hit Europe on June 23, priced at £99.99 - and that you'll have two colours to choose from.

Catharsis. The simple purging of emotional tensions, if we're going to take the dictionary at face value, it's the kind of thing that drives us to watch scary movies or play scary video games to allow us to experience, say, fear, an emotion we wouldn't get to (nor want to) experience naturally, and purge that tension from our systems.

Videogames can be brash affairs, with their guns and cars and tits and stuff. Pop culture entertainment and big name brands bound together with startling technical wizardry and graphics-as-porn. Forty quid gets you 15 hours of in-your-face fun. Have some of that, you monkeys!

I'm not sure if Guild Wars won or Guild Wars lost.

Sony has been offered help introducing "rumble" technology to its PlayStation 3 controller by a very unusual source - the president of the company that sued it for using the technology in the first place.

Codemasters' LMA Manager is set to return with full data for the 2006/2007 season when it launches on PC, Xbox 360 and PS2 in late September.

UK-based developer Slitherine - them what made the Legion games - is working on a pair of new PC strategy games and is shopping around for a publisher.

While everyone at E3 was busy Wiiing themselves with excitement on the most crowded stand in the history of the show, or pooh-poohing the PS3 line up along side it, most people seemed to neglect the presence of all the exciting "last gen" (can we say that yet?) stuff. It always works like this, of course, but God of War II was easily Sony's most impressive title; arguably it was one of the games of the show, yet few people seemed to care. It's tough work being an all powerful, head chopping deity with blades attached to your wrists when everyone else is running around in high def.

Nintendo's Katsuya Eguchi has confirmed that a Wii version of Animal Crossing is in the pipeline - but there's no word on a release date yet, since they're still deciding how the whole thing's going to work.

Following on from reports that a third Fear Effect game is being developed to tie in with the forthcoming movie, Eidos has stated that this isn't quite the case - but it's certainly something they're considering.

Sony's officially officially officially announced that God of War II will be out on PlayStation 2 in Q1 2007 - and that's in PAL regions, not just in America.

Sony's working on a second God of War game for PlayStation 2 according to an article in US magazine Game Informer. We are amazingly surprised and shocked to discover this!

New details have been revealed of PC real-time strategy title ParaWorld - including news that it won't be arriving till the autumn now.

Doom creator John Carmack just can't get enough of this whole mobile gaming thing, it seems. Not content with producing two mobile titles - Doom RPG and new IP Orcs and Elves - he's now been talking about doing an MMO.

Veterans of Ubisoft's recently closed Wolfpack Studios have established Stray Bullet Games, pledging to continue support for the former studio's MMO title, Shadowbane.

Microsoft has declared Xbox Live to be the world's largest platform for high-definition on-demand content, after a hugely successful E3 week saw over 1.5 million gamers connecting to the service.

Nintendo has created so many franchises over the years that it's been easy for a few to fall by the wayside. But if there's one thing Nintendo has learned with its recent reissues of classic NES titles on GBAe and the coming Virtual Console for Nintendo Wii, is that it's worthwhile to pay homage to their past. So it was with an almost reverent joy that I received the news that Nintendo is at least paying lip service to one of my most favorite, most forgotten NES titles on the Nintendo Wii.

"Playing is believing." So thundered Reggie Fils-Aime. So, four days later on the plane home, we all agreed.

Following reports that a group of hackers has modified the Xbox 360 to play pirate games, Microsoft has issued an official statement warning 360 owners that any mucking about of this nature will result in a void warranty.

As rumours fly that forthcoming action adventure title Assassin's Creed won't be a PS3-only title after all, Ubisoft is remaining interestingly non-committal on the subject.

The first multiplayer map pack for Xbox 360 title The Outfit is now available for download via the Xbox Live Marketplace.

Sony Computer Entertainment UK's managing director, Ray Maguire, has revealed that to Eurogamer that the PlayStation 3 will set British gamers back £425 when it arrives here on November 17 - which he believes is "a bargain."

The president of SNK USA, Ben Herman, has confirmed the company's big fat love for the Nintendo Wii - adding that while the PS3 and Xbox 360 are set to do well, Microsoft will struggle to get Japanese gamers interested in their next-gen console.

Atari's planning to release a compilation of Hasbro board games on a DS cart this June.

Uwe Boll may own the movie rights to Fear Effect, but the Hollywood Reporter is now, well, reporting that Stanley Tong is in line to direct the film.

Another game has been confirmed as a Wii launch title - and this time it's the turn of Trauma Center: Second Opinion, the sequel to the quirky DS medical sim.

Jerry Bruckheimer, the man who brought us Top Gun, CSI and so much other stuff which makes us happy, has signed the rights to produce a new movie called Game Boys.

Nintendo's issued a big old pile of summer release dates for DS, Cube and GBA. Naturally most of them we've heard before - hell, some of them out now, like Pokemon Link and Metroid Prime Hunters - but there are, among them, a handful of things we didn't explicitly know.

If you were one of the 60,000 frazzled souls that traipsed around the vast halls of E3 last week, you might wonder why you never stumbled across Bioshock on your extensive travels. If you've checked any of the coverage of Irrational's spiritual successor to System Shock 2, just about everyone is excitedly screaming 'Game of the Show' in the faces of anyone who'll listen.

Last week, poor old Paris Hilton made a bit of a booboo when she turned up at E3 to promote her new mobile phone game - and promptly got its name wrong.