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Having drawn a bit of criticism in the past week for talking up RSS support in its version 2.6 firmware for PSP and then limiting it to audio content like podcasts, Sony has said that it may well add RSS text feeds in future.

Now that the festive season is well and truly upon us, Blizzard has announced that a wide range of Christmas treats are in store for World of Warcraft players.

Looks like Dead or Alive 4 has slipped another couple of weeks in Japan.

The trustees responsible for overseeing the liquidation of bankrupt publisher Acclaim have set up a new website listing more than 200 videogame titles for which publishing rights are now available.

The founder of two children's videogame companies has been convicted of bank fraud and has been sentenced to more than two years in prison, despite pleading for a delay in sentencing.

For the first twenty minutes, I loved Metal Slug 4 intensely. It's been long, too long, since I've played a game of such simplicity. There's no cut-scene-based preamble, no mood building: expect exposition no more elaborate than the brief looming of 'boss' before the battle ensues, or a thumbs-up from an ally at the end of a level.

Playing PC ports on a console is usually a fairly wretched experience that requires huge reserves of forgiveness and goodwill, but not in this case. At least, not when the huge-value system you're playing it on kicks your beige box into next year.

Bohemia Interactive has released new details of Operation Flashpoint: Armed Assault, the PC shooter that's hoping to offer "the ultimate in realistic combat gaming."

Every so often, there falls into the lap of a games reviewer something which makes you pause, double take with a slightly feeble 'huh?' before wondering whether what you have in front of you can be reviewed.

Capcom has announced new European release dates for its forthcoming Mega Man PSP titles.

Kuma Reality Games has released a new instalment in its "interactive documentary series" on Saddam Hussein, which gives you the opportunity to join the US Army's 4th Infantry Division as they go on the hunt for the man himself.

With less than a week to go until the Xbox 360 goes on sale in Japan, Microsoft has announced that the next-gen console will hit stores in other Asian countries beginning February next year.

No need to have a guilty conscience anymore: Need For Speed is back on form, and about time too.

Microsoft's Xbox 360 has pipped the record set by Nintendo's GameCube in May 2003 to become the UK's fastest-selling home console at launch despite serious stock shortages, with Perfect Dark Zero the best-selling title on the new platform.

Capcom has revealed new details of Viewtiful Joe Red Hot Rumble, the first PSP instalment in the hit series.

Peter Jackson's revealed his lofty ambition as executive producer of the new Halo film, which begins shooting next year. "Hopefully it won't suck," he told film site Dark Horizons during a recent New York interview.

After several reports of overheating issues with the Xbox 360, one consumer has accused Microsoft of releasing the machine with systematic defects in the development and manufacturing process.

SEGA has secured the rights to publish a range of official games based on the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

In response to the court ruling which deemed the Illinois violent videogames law as unconstitutional and prevented its implementation, Governor Rod R. Blagojevitch has vowed to appeal against the decision.

More details of Lost Odyssey, the forthcoming Xbox 360 RPG from Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi, have been revealed in Dengeki Xbox 360 magazine.

You might think that looking like Bill Bailey (as many, many, unkind people have commented) would automatically make me a huge fan of fantasy stuff like Orcs and Goblins and Trolls and human-sized rats in dresses and stuff.

The sequel to True Crime takes place in that semi-fictional New York that seems to exist in a polar-opposite dimension to that of Sex And The City. Four hundred dollar shoes are replaced with dodgy early-90s trainers, while caviar and champagne sex exploits on 5th Avenue are replaced with Uzis and crack pipes in the ghetto. It's that caricature of graffiti and ultra-violence that Mayor Giuliani worked so hard to erase, and that videogames and cheap thrillers insist on hyping up as a lawless gangster genocide zone. You almost expect to see Max Payne sprinting past in slow motion...

When it comes down to it, we'll probably never tire of shape-shifting puzzle games. However simplistic and retro they look, however old they get, there's simply no getting away from the fact that they're among the most compelling genre of games anyone's ever come up with. Requiring no need for a significant graphical overhaul, no pointless overblown stories and no massive marketing campaign, these staples of mass market gaming have become like timeless board games that no one should ever tinker with.

As you sit there with your shiny new Xbox 360 suspended in its aeratory harness, pity the poor GameCube: its games, cast off the shelves of all but the most dedicated shops, now languish in Woolworths bargain bins and eBay fire-sales.

Welcome to Skull Island. Well, one of you was already here.

EA has announced a new electronic rugglesby game called EA Sports Rugby 06, currently in development in collaboration between EA Canada and HB Studios for PS2, Xbox and PC.

Atari founder Nolan Bushnell has praised Nintendo's new "freestyle" Revolution remote - claiming that controllers such as Sony's Dual Shock are scaring away gamers because their designs are too complex.

Following the recent reports of Stainless Steel Studios closing its doors, software publisher Midway Games has released an official statement confirming the news.

Xbox Japan's business manager, Yoshihiro Maruyama, has announced that Microsoft is aiming to sell 1 million Xbox 360 units in the region by summer 2006.

Masahiro Sakurai says that development of Smash Bros. for Revolution has barely begun, and that he didn't even know about it until Nintendo announced it at E3.