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"Please, don't write that it's a translator!" Yoshi Yamamoto is imploring us. "It's more than that!" No worries, Yamamoto-san. After an hour in the company of your friend Max, we're not inclined to. As you say, it's much more - it's an ice-breaker, a fun way of bridging the language barrier, and easily the best example of a non-gaming product on the PlayStation Portable.

Ubisoft has released a bundle of new content for Ghost Recon 2: Summit Strike on Xbox. The content can be downloaded now and is, according to posts on the official forums, also available to those playing the game through Xbox 360.

In the wake of Microsoft's CES announcement of a peripheral HD-DVD drive for the Xbox 360, the company's gaming division boss Peter Moore has revealed that a Blu-Ray drive could also be on the cards for the system.

Strategy First says that it's terminated a development agreement with Game Factory Interactive, and as a result Disciples III will no longer be developed by GFI's MiST Land South studio.

Need for Speed: Most Wanted has held on to the number one spot in this week's UK charts, holding off a strong performance by Ubisoft's King Kong to take the coveted Christmas No.1 position for Electronic Arts for the third year in a row.

The latest UK sales figures reveal further changes in the chart position for EA and Ubisoft, as the coveted number one position is reclaimed by Need For Speed: Most Wanted.

Sony has told its manufacturing partners that it will ship 20 million units of the PlayStation Portable this year, according to Hwang Chang Gyu, head of the semiconductor business at Korean electronics firm Samsung.

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Electronic Arts' Christmas number one, Need for Speed Most Wanted, is still in the top spot of the UK charts this week, racking up a sixth week at number one and selling twice as many units as its nearest competitor, Ubisoft's King Kong.

Sony Pictures has released a new teaser trailer for the big screen adaptation of survival horror classic Silent Hill.

Ubisoft has announced that it's going to release a new console Far Cry game in spring 2006.

NCsoft has announced that a new Guild Wars add-on is currently in development. Technically it's not even an add-on, since you can play it on its own, but if you have both it and Guild Wars you'll be able to explore both game worlds and you'll get some new toys in the old one too.

SEGA's confirmed reports that OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast will be released on Xbox in addition to PS2, PC and PSP.

US gamers who finally got their hands on delayed Xbox 360 title Dead or Alive 4 last month are still not happy - since it appears their saved games are mysteriously disappearing.

Axe wielders get ready to rock, because Red Octane has today confirmed that Guitar Hero will be released in the UK and "selected European territories" on April 7th.

A new playable demo for PC and Xbox title Stubbs the Zombie is now available on Eurofiles.

Some new details of long-awaited DS title Metroid Prime Hunters have been revealed - including news that it will feature a total of 25 Deathmatch arenas.

Why does no one ever talk about developer Deep Red's previous city-management game, Monopoly Tycoon? Because - y'know - it was brilliant. Were I Deep Red, I'd be terribly ticked off.

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Frame City Killer, Namco's second Xbox 360 title, has been pushed back to the second half of 2006 in North America following its recent slide to spring in Japan.

Valve continues to build its digital distribution empire with the addition to Steam of titles from PC publisher Strategy First.

You know when you get to the end of a fairly negative preview and it says, "there's every chance that the developers might manage to turn it around," and really what you're being told is that there's sod all chance of that happening? It's depressing. It's depressing to have to write. So then, imagine how refreshing it feels when you discover that they have.

With the kind of crushing inevitability that is akin to being squashed under the weight of, well, an L-shaped block, Nintendo has announced that Tetris is coming to the DS.

EA has declined to comment on reports that it's working on a new Lord of the Rings RPG subtitled The White Council.

If you've got an Xbox 360 but don't already own a copy of Project Gotham Racing 3, get yourself up the Xbox Live Marketplace right now - where you can download a free demo.

In news that will come of absolutely no surprise to anyone at all, Uwe Boll's latest big screen videogame adaptation has been slammed by US critics following its Stateside release.

More than five years after the last game in the series was released, Electronic Arts has renewed its ownership rights to the "System Shock" name.

When was the last time you bought an isometric RTS and what was the game?

It seems Japanese gamers just can't get enough of the Nintendo DS - more than 5 million units have been sold so far, and the handheld proved even more popular in the seasonal rush to stores after New Years.

Take-Two Interactive Software has confirmed reports that it has acquired Irrational Games, the developer behind System Shock 2, SWAT 4 and forthcoming action RPG BioShock.