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Ubisoft's latest financial report has revealed some of the new titles we can expect from the publisher next year - including an instalment in the Brothers in Arms for PSP.

Tomy has released vague details of its plans for Zoids on Xbox 360 through Japanese magazine Famitsu.

A 16-year-old Texan boy has been arrested for harassing Jack Thompson, according to the notorious anti-videogame campaigner himself.

Fancy seeing how Final Fantasy XI looks on Xbox 360? Turns out that that you'll be able to very soon, as the full beta version will be bundled with the next issue of the UK's Official Xbox 360 Magazine, due on sale from January 5th.

Guillermo del Toro has confirmed that he's in talks with various parties including executive producer Peter Jackson about directing the Halo film, but that he'd ideally like to do a Hellboy sequel first.

One of the peculiar predicaments of the habitual gamer is that we become connoisseurs of simulated violence. Of course the same could be said of cinema-lovers, but videogames aren't eulogised purely on the basis of how the violence looks. Instead we are concerned with a process, the feedback of violent images to controlling hands and thinking minds. It is, in part, our own imaginations that need to be exercised when engaged in digital combat. If it is possible to kill inventively and stylishly, and for us to feel that we are responsible for that moment of visceral thrill, then the experience is vastly more interesting, and can be recommended with the connoisseur's expert nod.

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Codemasters has announced the track listing for TOCA Race Driver 3, which is out on PS2, Xbox and PC on 24th February. (There are also some new screenshots to admire.) So then, those tracks. They are:

There used to be a good excuse for console conversions of Quake games being a bit rubbish. Anyone who recalls the hapless early attempts on PlayStation and N64 might not wish to be reminded, but then no-one was exactly surprised, either. Porting cutting-edge PC shooters to ageing home systems is generally a one-way ticket to Jerksville - but the fact that we're still able to come to similar conclusions on a next generation system that's arguably more powerful than most people's PCs is pretty unforgivable.

With Microsoft set to roll out the Xbox 360 in Japan on Saturday - its third territory launch in as many weeks - opinions on the console's prospects in the region remain mixed, but analysts are largely unimpressed by the system.

Two of the developers working on Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfare have revealed what they think of the Xbox 360 in a live webchat.

What with all the time top designers seem to spend tarting up PSPs, iPods and the like these days, it's a wonder they ever get round to designing any actual clothes.

Developers speaking to GamesIndustry.biz this week have commented that the the Revolution console, hardware kits for which began shipping to third parties recently, is shaping up to be around 2.5 times more powerful than GameCube.

Keiji Inafune has told the Japanese press that he imagines Resident Evil 5 will ship simultaneously on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Steve Ballmer's going to have to buy his own Xbox 360 the same as everyone else, the Microsoft CEO joked at a recent meeting.

Microsoft has signed a deal with Walt Disney Pictures that will let Xbox 360 download the trailer for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.

Speaking at the 33rd annual UBS Global Media conference, Nintendo of America's chief marketing officer spoke candidly to an audience of analysts and investors about its approach to expanding the games market.

Nintendo has announced that more than 200,000 unique visitors have made use of its new Wi-Fi Connection service since last month's launch, logging nearly 3 million connections around the globe.

Virgin Megastores reckons that handhelds are going to outsell PlayStation 2s this Christmas - and they don't just mean the DS and PSP.

Have you heard? Polyphony Digital is taking Gran Turismo in an unexpected new direction. It’s going to be an RPG adventure. You equip your car with incrementally better parts as you tear around the globe in a classic tale of an orphan boy-racer, plucked from obscurity, and his path to showdown with an evil overlord; the fate of the world resting on his gleaming sports exhaust.

Okey dokey. Right. On the green. Good. Seems to be sloping a bit. Okay. Left a little. A touch more. A little to the right. Okay, looks good. Fooooooooo. Okay. Draw back the club... and push. Gently does it. Geeeently. Geeeeeently. Almost there... Go on... Aaaaaaaaand...

Visually, Ridge Racer 6 serves as a bit of a cautionary tale. You can give developers all the horsepower in the world, but it's the artists that have to make the world look nice.

Sony Computer Entertainment has announced the acquisition of Guerrilla Games, developer of hit PS2 title Killzone, as part of a long term strategy to expand its development arm.

Codemasters has announced that next spring will see the release of Dance Factory, a PS2 dance mat game that works with any music CD of your choice.

As Xbox 360 shortages continue on both sides of the Atlantic, eBay has gone mental with all manner of auctions listed by people hoping to cash in on the craze.

A game designer from Ubisoft's Montreal studio has come up with a new idea for a DS game that's aimed at teaching us all about how ladies work.

First-person shooter games are all very well, but wouldn't it be fun if you could shoot real human targets instead? Preferably female ones wearing bikinis?

Sony is copping some flack, as they presumably say in whatever corner of the world it was that gave us that hideous expression, having admitted it's responsible for spray-painting walls with cutesy images of big-headed children playing with PSPs as part of a guerrilla marketing effort.

ELSPA has launched a new website designed to help parents understand the age ratings system for videogames and make more informed choices when buying games for children.