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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.

Blizzard hath giveth and taketh a little bit away from European WOWsers this past week.

Tecmo's Team Ninja, led by sunglass-loving Tomonobu Itagaki, is in heavy crunch mode on Dead or Alive 4 but won't be releasing it until it's in perfect condition, according to comments made in Japanese magazines Dorimaga and Famitsu Xbox 360.

There's more excitement to come from Revolution, Nintendo's hinted, despite the controller and the rest of it being out in the open at this point.

Japanese studio Red Entertainment has undertaken a management buyout, reclaiming its independent status and severing most of its ties to Sega in the process.

Electronic Arts is facing a legal battle after Pernell Harris, owner of independent development studio Virtual Jam, filed suit alleging that the publishing giant stole some of his ideas for game features.

And now, for your viewing entertainment, I’m going to come up with an exceptionally good idea. Take your phone off the hook, turn down your music, you’re going to want to concentrate.

As a kid, I discovered a £1.99 football management game for the Spectrum called On The Bench. I really enjoyed it until I discovered that you didn't actually need to field a full eleven in each match. In fact, I found that you could simply sell your entire fourth-division first team, buy Gary Lineker (or an equivalent big-name player), and allow him to single-handedly win matches for you. I didn't play it again, and - this being 1988 - felt positively virtuous for having pirated it.

They say that the closer you get to realism, the more you notice the stuff that's missing.

At midnight last night, the Xbox 360 finally went on sale in Europe and a new era of videogaming was born - to the sound of Van Halen.

THQ has announced the full title for the fourth instalment in the Broken Sword series.

Square-Enix has announced that Japanese Final Fantasy fans will have to pay more than they would normally do for a PS2 game if they want to get their hands on the next instalment in the series.

More details of forthcoming squad-based shooter Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter have come to light following a live webchat last night with a few of the developers.

Bioware, the developer behind the likes of Neverwinter Nights, Baldur's Gate and Star Wars KOTOR, have launched a new competition with a very special prize - a writer's job at their studio in Edmonton, Canada.

Activision really is challenging EA as the king of the conversion at the moment. But while it's one thing to publish ports of high-end PC games (namely Quake 4 and Call of Duty 2) for the 360, it's another thing entirely to release a pretty loveless, no-frills conversion of a current gen game and then expect people to pay full whack for it. Colour us bemused.

SouthPeak Interactive has announced that it has picked up the publishing rights to State of Emergency 2 - and revealed that a PSP version is in the works, too.

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Digital Anvil, a company formed by Wing Commander designer Chris Roberts and acquired by Microsoft Game Studios in 2000, has closed its doors as staff are redeployed to the MSGS headquarters in Redmond.

Following the recent announcement that a big screen adaptation of Postal is in the works, Running With Scissors CEO Vince Desi has gone on record to defend his decision to allow Uwe Boll to direct the film.

Some rather interesting graffiti has started appearing in cities across America, depicting funky looking characters mucking about with PSPs.

Just think. By this time tomorrow, the battle of the next-gen consoles will have officially begun. All right, so there will only be one contender in the ring for a good while yet, but all the same...

Sony Japan has launched a new "Portable TV" rental service which allows PSP owners to download the latest episodes of their favourite TV shows, along with music videos and trailers.

With just a few months to go until squad-based shooter Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter hits the shelves, Ubisoft is hosting two online chats which will give you the chance to put your questions to the game's developers.

Zen of gaming, indeed.

THQ has announced that MX vs. ATV Unleashed: On the Edge is currently in development for PC and PSP.

It's not a port! It's not a port! Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2006 on Xbox 360 is a new game. A neeew game.

Eurogamer's sister site, GamesIndustry.biz, has learned that Toys R Us will force customers who want to take an Xbox 360 home tomorrow to purchase bundles which include specified games and DVDs.

A new demo has been released for Fusion Labs' PC golfing sim CustomPlay Golf - and it's now available for download.

Legendary producer Tetsuya Mizuguchi has confirmed that his forthcoming Xbox 360 hack-and-slasher Ninety-Nine Nights has been delayed.

Sony has responded to reports that consumers are angry at being forced to buy two games with their PSP Gigapack bundles, telling GamesIndustry.biz that standalone packs will be available in time for Christmas.