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There's no 'You' or 'I' in 'Unit'. No, hang on, that's not right. There's... Look, I've never been much cop at these prep talks. Or group sports. Or Big Team Battle. Or anything involving teamwork in general really. Set me up as a sniper covering your back in Ghost Recon on Xbox Live and you'll be licking asphalt before I put down the beer, finish the Maltesers and catch LisaSimpson45 victoriously humping your limp wireframe model in my distracted scope. Remember last week when that bloke spouted all that nonsense about single-player games being masturbatory? Well colour me blind and count me calloused: I like it that way. In real life, sure, come round my house, borrow my sugar, take my coffee; let me get that door for you. In-game: piss off and leave me alone. I'm Rambo. I'm The Punisher. I'm the Lone-freakin'-Ranger.

Nintendo will be dropping the current DS hardware from its line-up in autumn and replacing it entirely with the soon to be launched DS Lite system, according to the firm's US sales and marketing VP Reggie Fils-Aime.

With public voting set to re-open at 7pm this evening, Grand Theft Auto and Tomb Raider are among the 25 "design icons" in the running to join the shortlist of 10 for the Great British Design Quest, which is being run by BBC2's Culture Show.

Cauldron, let's go. Come on. Let's take it outside. I challenge you, the developers of Gene Troopers, to a fight. Name the time and place, I'll be there. That's the only way we're going to settle this.

D3Publisher has announced the forthcoming release of PQ: Practical Intelligence Quotient, a 3D puzzle game for the PSP.

Smiling Gator Productions, the studio behind MMORPG and first-person shooter hybrid Twilight War: After the Fall, has announced that the project is back on track following new investment.

Empire Interactive has revealed new details of PC, PS2 and Xbox smasher FlatOut 2.

Tecmo has confirmed its support for the Nintendo Revolution, announcing that a new instalment in the Pangya golf series will appear on the console.

Reports that a Tekken game is in development for the PSP have been confirmed after Famitsu magazine published a whole bunch of screenshots and some new details of the title.

Graffiti artist Marc Ecko has hit back at Australia's entertainment ratings board after PC, PS2 and Xbox title Marc Ecko's Getting Up was refused classification and thereby effectively banned in the country.

A new game which is designed to teach players how to do well in business is heading to the PSP.

Budget PC game publisher Sold Out has unveiled a new line-up of titles which will go on sale for just £4.99.

Calling all MechWarrior fans - the series is heading to Nintendo's newest handheld in the shape of MechAssault: Phantom War for the DS.

Empire Interactive has announced plans to publish four new titles for PSP.

A Sony spokesperson has told our sister site, GamesIndustry.biz that UMD movie titles are still selling well - despite reports that home entertainment companies are disappointed with the format's performance so far.

Standing in a darkened room oscillating wildly to the electronic noises of the the future. That pretty much sums up my entry into the world of video gaming before home computers and consoles provided that elusive fix right in your own home. You'd happily burn through a stack of loose change proving your worth on some impossibly evil example of twitch gaming, and emerge blinking into the daylight poorer, but happier. Who could forget the triumph of the high score? This phase was like the punk explosion, the manic pop thrill, the sugar high of instant entertainment.

Teenagers are to be banned from Internet cafes in China as part of a Government-led initiative to prevent young people from being exposed to "immoral and harmful content."

THQ has announced plans to release an Xbox 360 multiplayer demo of Relic's exciting looking World-War-II-but-not-uptight-about-it strategy shooter The Outfit, which is due out on March 17th.

If there was one game that stood out among the mediocre first wave of Xbox Live Arcade titles released just over a year ago, it was PomPom's hugely addictive take on Robotron. Few old hands needed convincing of the allure of an updated version of that old top-down shooting classic, but the thing that impressed most was the immensely attractive visual sheen that turned the game into an eye-frying Minter-esque slice of psychotropic twitch brilliance. That the game has been revamped (or, strictly speaking, Reloaded) for the 360 can only be a Good Thing - as long as you didn't buy it a year or so ago. Or, er, even longer ago, seeing as it was originally released on the PC way back in 2003.

Codemasters has signed James Swallow, who wrote Doctor Who audio drama Singularity and is credited with story concepts for Star Trek: Voyager, to devise the scenario that underpins Maelstrom, the forthcoming sci-fi strategy game in development at KDV Games and due out in Q3 2006.

Poor old Take-Two is facing yet more legal action - two new class-action lawsuits have been launched, alleging fraudulent activity and insider trading.

Yoshihiro Maruyama, the Microsoft executive who oversaw the launch of the Xbox 360 in Japan, is to take on a new role in the company's entertainment and devices division.

Codemasters is teaming up KDV Games (formerly K-D LAB) to produce a brand new science-fiction-themed strategy game called Maelstrom.

When I think Castlevania, I think of exploring a big nasty castle, gradually piercing its stony armour by uncovering hidden treats and upgrades through the slaying of nasty undead skeleton warriors and bats and, well, plants; I think of platforms, puzzles, and a bit of RPG-style item-management to keep the Donkey Kongs at bay.

SEGA's decision to release OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast on four formats simultaneously always sounded a bit too good to be true - particularly for PC fans used to getting console leftovers several months later - and in the US at least it now looks like it was.

Korean developer Softmax's historical simulation Magna Carta for PS2 will be with us on April 7th, says publisher 505 Gamestreet.

Uwe Boll is fed up. He's fed up with people slating his films on the Internet, mainly. He's also fed up with Hollywood producers who won't take movies based on videogames seriously. And perhaps most worryingly, at least in terms of how the rest of this interview is likely to pan out, he's fed up with the person who's interviewing him.

A few years ago I was stopped in the street by one of those pretty but menacingly indiscriminate charity collectors. You know the ones: wide, innocent eyes hiding their SAS training in accosting, guilt-tripping and relieving passers-by of their direct debit details with one deft flick of a blonde curl and a practised flirt. Except she wasn't a charity collector; rather a market researcher offering me a ten pounds to come and answer questions about whether Japan was cool or not. Being a destitute videogames journalist I answered yes to the money and, being a destitute videogame geek, yes to all the others too. Since then Japan's kawaii chic has flooded western consciousness; everything from 3G's leftfield advertising to Powerpuff Girl's ADHD kung-fuing has been given the Nipponese cute-but-slightly-scary treatment. Raze's Hell turns the tables on this phenomenon by demonstrating that Japanese super cute is actually kind of super creepy and, in doing so, makes the saccharine the subject of your ugly protagonist's subjugation.

SEGA's announced that Football Manager will be released on PSP and Xbox 360 on April 13th.

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe development support manager George Bain is to deliver a speech on developing games for the PS3 at an event in London next week.