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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.

Champagne corks will be popping down at Sony HQ today following the announcement that they've shipped 100 million PlayStation 2 consoles around the globe.

The strategy RPG genre is often thought of as one of videogaming's dark and dusty side streets, where people lurk for a reason that nobody on the cobbles of action and driving beyond truly understands any more.

Top US film critic Roger Ebert has taken a pop at videogames and gaming in general in his Chicago Sun Times column, claiming that there's not a single game on the shelves which can match boring old plays, books and films in terms of artistic value.

Quake 4, probably a sequel to something or other, is now available in demo form, allowing those of you who enjoy pretending that your mouse is a gun, and that the things you're clicking on are actually fearsome beasts and not simply low-level grunts whose basic training apparently only consisted of "when you see the hoo-man, duck and shuffle right"... to try it out.

In a week when Rare is under the microscope for entirely different reasons, stepping back three generations to play one of its old hits felt like a bizarre assignment. Would we be left pining for the good old days when the Brit studio was untouchable, peerless, and enigmatic? Would we brush the tears from our dewy eyes longing for the days when almost everything it touched was pure gaming gold and could push every platform it worked with to previously unimaginable heights? Or would our illusions be shattered at just how far games have moved on and realise that, actually it's just another 16-bit port cash cow for Nintendo to earn a bit of free money out of?

It seems Microsoft is determined to ensure that Xbox 360 proves more popular than its predecessor did over in Japan, as recent ventures such as the Xbox 360 lounge have suggested.

Rare has released the first bit of downloadable content for Xbox 360 title Kameo: Elements of Power.

Microsoft's Peter Moore has admitted that many European consumers hoping to take an Xbox 360 home in time for Christmas could be disappointed as demand for the new console outstrips supply.

Time for a diversion until we get to the review? Oh, I think so. Press page down a couple of times if you want to skip the history lesson. Everyone else: leave your pencil alone and don't take notes. I won't be asking questions later.

Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi has announced that his new Xbox 360 titles, Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon, are coming along very nicely, thank you - and will be in the shops next year.

Industry powerhouse Electronic Arts plays the field once again, with a number of titles in the top ten. Multi-format street racer, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, races into first place; knocking Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire down two places to third.

Activision has extended its licensing agreement with Spider-Man Merchandising to produce videogames based on all Spider-Man film sequels and TV programmes until 2018.

A spokesperson for Virgin Megastores has slammed rumours that the retailer will force consumers who have pre-ordered an Xbox 360 to purchase a load of games before they can take their console home.

Following on from the huge box office success of the first two Tomb Raider films - despite the fact that they were a bit rubbish - rumour has it that Lara may get a third outing on the big screen.

The eponymous Sid Meier and starlet Firaxis designer Soren Johnson are putting a brave face on it. "It's good to travel," says Johnson blearily, "but I think we're really looking forward to getting home."

A new trailer has been released for In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, Uwe Boll's latest attempt at bringing a videogame to the big screen.

Nintendo Japan has issued a warning to Pokémon fans after it was discovered that the latest DS instalment in the series can accidentally erase save data on Game Boy Advance cartridges.

By now you've probably seen Microsoft's European Xbox 360 ad, but what about the one that didn't make it to our screens?

THQ has secured the rights to develop and publish videogames based on Monster House, the forthcoming digitally-rendered live action feature film from Columbia Pictures.

A poster on the GA Forum is claiming that Windows applications can be run on the Xbox 360 via Media Extender.

Sony's released another software upgrade for PlayStation Portable, adding RSS support, WMA playback, simplified Chinese language support, and the ability to save DRM'd video direct to Memory Stick from within a web browser, much as you might do having purchased it on the PC.

Family Media Guide, an American watchdog group dedicated to advising parents on the shiftier content in games and other mediums, has released a list of what it considers the ten most violent games that kids are likely to ask after this Christmas.

Nintendo has confirmed that the Revolution will be fully unveiled at a pre-E3 briefing in May - along with its software line-up.

Having missed the US and European launches of Xbox 360, Dead or Alive 4 will now apparently also miss out on the Japanese - but only by one week.

Here are two things you can do, SEGA, to make ALL of your Sonic games better and instantly more appealing to human beings:

A patent granted last month to Nintendo by the US Patent Office may give new insight into the "Virtual Console" system in the Revolution, which will allow players to access the firm's back catalogue of titles on the new system.

Just months before the scheduled release of its latest real time strategy game, Empire Earth creator Stainless Steel Studios appears to have ceased trading, resulting in mass redundancies at its Massachusetts headquarters.

Videogame rental service SwapGame has pledged that it will carry all available titles for the Xbox 360 when the console launches in Europe on December 2.