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Ubisoft has signed an exclusive licensing agreement with Taito to publish and distribute three games in North America and Europe during 2006.

Only weeks after the launch of the Xbox 360 console, a Dutch hacker group has worked out how to "dump" the contents of game discs for the system, allowing them to be copied and examined - but as yet, there is no way to run copied games.

Apparently if I finish the single-player of Twisted Metal with the skeleton-man-on-a-bike, I'll discover his real reasons for entering the tournament.

Yes it is.

And they really are kicking for home at this point, aren't they? Here we have news of Konami's Street Supremacy, a multiplayer PSP racing game from Genki due out over here in March. "In the two-player mode, players select a vehicle and race against the second player in a battle to be first past the winning post." Revolutionary.

It's a very sad day, readers. And not just because some jerk beat my Mario Circuit 1 time. It's a sad day because, as you've unsympathetically gathered here to point out, we're being forced to scrape so hard at the bottom of the barrel that we're in danger of working our way through the floorboards below and ending up crashing through onto somebody's kitchen table and then probably landing on a breadknife which we can sue about so it's probably not all bad like. But you know.

The owners of a Los Angeles videogame shop and a business associate have been charged with copyright infringement for allegedly selling modified Xbox consoles loaded with pirated games.

In keeping with the theme of Christmas map packs, LucasArts has released a small update for Star Wars Battlefront II on Xbox, and promised a more substantial premium content pack in January.

"Deck the halls with Rails and Rockets," says id Software, demonstrating the kind of literary expertise that led them to think Dave Callaham's DOOM movie script was fantastic, in announcing the release of the "Quakemas Map Pack" for the PC version of Quake 4 - two new levels to run around in and a remake of one of Quake 3's most popular battlegrounds.

There's nothing quite like an Award Ceremony.

For many of us, the SoulCalibur series represents the pinnacle of beat-'em-ups. Residing in a satisfying niche between depth and accessibility, it's one of the few examples in the often wilfully hardcore genre that doesn't require a daunting level of expertise to enjoy. Namco seems to go further with every incarnation to reward the fans with a bewildering amount of extra content, new characters and modes, yet still delivers a game that even newcomers to the scene can get straight into. In almost every sense, version three of this fantastic series continues this fine tradition.

Top publisher Electronic Arts looks set to take the coveted Christmas number one spot in the UK, with Need for Speed Most Wanted well out in front this week, while FIFA 06 steps up one place to number two.

Perhaps predictably, the cinematic release of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire has given EA's videogame tie-in the boost in sales it needed to knock THQ's wrestling title from the top spot of the all formats chart this week.

Sony Computer Entertainment America appears to have confirmed that the company is still on track to ship six million units of the PlayStation Portable console to retailers in North America by the end of the year.

It's been another great year for English sport, what with, er, us winning that cricket thing and that. And now we have another trophy to put in the rather sparse cabinet following England's win at the 2005 FIFA Interactive World Cup.

You might think students at the world-renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology would be too busy inventing The Future to think up kerazee pranks to entertain themselves - but you'd be wrong.

New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has renamed the POK erythroid myeloid ontogenic gene "Zbtb7" after Nintendo's Pokémon USA company took issue with them referring to it as "Pokémon".

THQ's revealed that the PlayStation 2 copies of four of its licensed Nickelodeon games can spot each other's save data on a Memory Card and unlock new toys upon its discovery.

Namco's approaching Xbox 360 title Love Football from a fresh perspWOAH there. Jesus [close one! - Ed]. So yeah, Namco says that Love Football will be played from the first-person perspective. How queer! It's out in spring 2006.

Nintendo has announced that a new puzzle game titled Pokémon Trozei is coming to the DS next year.

Stormregion - best known these days for the likes of Codename: Panzers - has decided to celebrate the time of year by releasing pigs and rabbits into our homes. Which is to say that it's decided to release its old-days RTS S.W.I.N.E. for free.

Blizzard has announced that hit MMORPG World of Warcraft now has no less than 5 million subscribers around the globe.

The PSP is a delightful machine. A bit fat round the hips and sporting an ungainly bottom, perhaps, but nevertheless you wouldn't kick it out of bed. However, as a games console, one would be hard-pushed to say the PSP has been given a chance to really shine; recent games have been underwhelming, to say the least.

This came dangerously close to being a concept review. I'd just mistimed an attack directed at that stupid woman in the one-piece leather outfit for about the tenth time in a row, and as the game goaded me once again with the "Retry?" prompt I found that the red mist descended (this happens in the game too) and the PSP almost left my hand as I swung it at the wall in an attempt to channel all my anger and frustration into one furious gesture.

The leaders of the "super-developer" created by the acquisition of Bioware and Pandemic Studios by former EA president John Riccitiello's Elevation Partners may be considering an IPO for the firm, according to a New York Times report.

CCP has completed a semi-overhaul of EVE Online, which it calls Red Moon Rising. RMR optimises performance, makes some changes to combat (including defences and configuration overhauls), makes some UI improvements, includes a full Unicode client, and of course adds an absolute ton of new content.

Connectivity. It's almost a dirty word for a lot of GameCube owners now; it's the battered old warhorse that Nintendo drags out at every E3 conference, every product demonstration, every game announcement. "Look," they cry in excitement, little Mario moustaches and Zelda Master Swords bouncing in excitement and wonder, "it connects up to your Game Boy Advance too! It's magic! The Nintendo Difference, I tell you!" And your eyes glaze over...

The PSP version of Katamari Damacy includes a 2d side-scrolling mini-game version as a bonus, according to Famitsu.

Codemasters has released a new demo for TOCA Race Driver 3 - and it's now available for download via Eurofiles.

Hideo Kojima says the only reason that Metal Gear Solid 4 is debuting on PlayStation 3 is that he likes to be first with everything, and that the last year's focus on MGS3 meant Kojima Productions didn't have any time to get to grips with Xbox 360. Actually, he says, it could quite happily work on Microsoft's system.