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You know that moment in the action film: the hero is trapped in an ancient (yet curiously meticulously maintained) temple trap, the sweat base-jumping slow motion from his chiselled chin. The walls are closing in, scraping stone on stone as they move in hungry for the crush. Our view circles his face as his eyes dart dilated, desperately, mortally searching for a way out of this scriptwriter’s lazy conundrum.

Sony's announced that the next SingStar package will be rock-themed, with 30 more licensed tracks from the likes of The Killers, Bloc Party, Nirvana and Blur.

Electronic Arts' UK studio, headquartered in Chertsey, appears to have escaped unscathed so far after sweeping job cuts at the firm's US studios claimed an estimated five per cent of the firm's global development workforce.

Infinity Ward has released a small patch for the Xbox 360 version of Call of Duty 2, although those hoping for something to sort out the widely reported lag issues will be disappointed to learn that's not its focus.

Here's why casinos are so great: Every time you hear some outlandish conspiratorial theory about one business or another, it's invariably so much nonsense, but with casinos, there's a fair chance it's true.

With Devil Kings Capcom has committed daylight robbery. Having happily plagiarised its own back catalogue over the years, releasing tweaks pretending to be updates masquerading as sequels, the Japanese giant has stomped shamelessly into the Koei camp and plundered its popular Dynasty Warriors series. This is much more than Resident Evil ripping off Alone in the Dark. If a jury was shown both Devil Kings and one of the Dynasty Warriors games running side by side it would be very difficult to tell the two apart. Both cast you as a warrior general, dropped onto an ancient battlefield awash with hundreds of enemy soldiers. Both require you to lay said soldiers low with a big stick or similar pointy implement. You even get to ride around on a horse, as warrior generals like to do. Beyond brawling, the games feature a selection of customisable characters, all with their own back-stories, and there are some basic battle options to tinker with. In short, they look the same and pretty much play the same. It’s an open and shut case.

Eidos has announced that Lara Croft, everyone's favourite super-posh extra-athletic giant-breasted explorer, is returning to PC and consoles in April.

Activision has responded to accusations that PC and console title GUN promotes racism and genocide, apologising to Native Americans who have complained about the game for any offence caused.

Codemasters Online Gaming has announced that the beta test for forthcoming massively-multiplayer PC title RF Online will kick off today.

God of War creator David "cake or biscuit?" Jaffe has revealed that his forthcoming PSP title won't feature so much as a single cutscene.

The Association for American Indian Development has launched a campaign against Activision for publishing PC and console title GUN, claiming that the game glorifies racism and genocide.

Legendary Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima has decided to temporarily abandon his written blog in order to "connect to fans through their ears," in the words of Kojima Productions' Ryan Payton.

Notorious movie director Uwe Boll has told Eurogamer that he feels honoured to have been nominated for a Golden Raspberry award.

Atari UK's denied that Driver: Parallel Lines is on its way to PSP.

The executive producer of BBC 2's The Culture Show has spoken to GamesIndustry.biz about the inclusion of two videogames in the list of nominees for the programme's Great British Design Quest.

Resident Evil 4, Onimusha 3 and Devil May Cry 3 are all coming out on the PC, Capcom's confirmed.

Eyes around The Beehive widen and brows furrow in incredulity. I'm suddenly instructed to tell everyone at the table what I've just said to one half. I clear my throat. "The worldwide high score for Geometry Wars is 12.8 million." Nobody says anything. Everyone just thinks about it. "Terrifying," says someone, eventually.

Doom co-creator John Romero has confirmed that he's currently hard at work on a massively multiplayer online game - though he won't say what it's called, when it's out or even which company he's working for.

Sony Europe's Recording Media and Energy division has launched a new promotional pack for its 2GB Memory Stick PRO Duo, specially designed to attract PSP owners.

More than eight years after work first started on Duke Nukem Forever, 3D Realms bigwig George Broussard has hinted at the game's release date, suggesting it'll finally hit the shelves "when pigs fly."

Namco's shed some more light on why it decided to delay Unreal Engine 3-based Xbox 360 title Frame City Killer, following speculation that it was because everyone thought the screenshots were cack.

One of Microsoft's highest-profile Japanese investments - Xbox 360 hackandslash Ninety-Nine Nights - will be released in Japan on April 20th, the platform holder said this week.

EA's confirmed speculation that the forthcoming Euro Force "Booster Pack" for Battlefield 2 has been delayed.

Sony has announced its plans to herald the European release of Shadow of the Colossus on February 17th.

Relic's announced a few details of a new expansion for Games Workshop-licensed RTS Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War, following on from last year's Winter Assault pack.

Will it ever end? Apparently not. The Mario Party games are still proving hugely popular with vast numbers of GameCube owners, judging by the amount of copies shifted - and the fact that we're now faced with a seventh instalment in the series.

D3Publisher has announced plans to publish Flushed Away - a new movie-tie in for the forthcoming animated film of the same name - on PS2, GameCube, GBA and Nintendo DS.

Microsoft yesterday delivered an Xbox 360 dashboard software auto-update supposedly designed to prevent hackers using the infamous "kiosk disk".

The latest development from hackers working on breaking the security on Sony's various firmware upgrades for the PSP has allowed homebrew software to run on even the latest patches - leading to concerns that pirate software may follow.

NCsoft has announced that a new update is on the way for City of Villains, the expansion-but-also-standalone-game follow-up to MMORPG City of Heroes.