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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.

I've got a few ideas for PC games that I'd like to run past you. They are all conversions of classic board-game favourites with an added twist. The first concept is a streamlined software version of Monopoly in which all the properties on the board cost the same amount to buy, and generate exactly the same amount of rent. Sound tempting? Okay, how about a PC incarnation of Chess without those fiddly pawns? No? A slimmed-down virtual Cluedo with only two suspects and two weapons? Surely you'd buy that?

Capcom has announced plans to bring three new PSP titles to Europe next year.

It's a joy of living. If you wait long enough, the world will prove any of your arguments for you.

Mythic has announced that a new server for PC MMORPG Dark Age of Camelot is all set to open next week.

Call of Duty fans disgruntled with the game's developer, Infinity Ward, are threatening to shut down servers by embarking on a 24 hour strike.

Richard Burns, best known to gamers as the eponymous star of SCI/Eidos's critically acclaimed rally driving simulation, has died aged 34 following a two-year battle with astrocytoma, a form of brain tumour.

Microsoft exective Chris Lewis has suggested that analysts' estimates of a launch day allocation of 300,000 Xbox 360 units for European territories are in the right ball park.

Right, well, that's it then. It's going to be one of those times where I report the facts, tell the truth, and then the entire internet will come round my house and break my kneecaps.

Nokia's VP of corporate strategy, Antii Vasara, has confirmed that there are no plans to develop future versions of the N-Gage as the company turns its focus towards other mobile entertainment media.

Just days after the Xbox 360 launched in the US, the Internet has been awash with reports of consoles crashing or freezing - but it seems gamers themselves could be to blame for the problem.

Poor old Nintendo. One minute everyone's saying they're "too kiddy", the next analysts are accusing them of ignoring children all together - and blaming that for the company's falling profits.

Electronic Arts has released a new one-level demo for chart-topping movie tie-in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - and it's now available for down-load.

Vivendi has released three new trailers for the PSP version of Crash Tag Team Racing - and they're now available for download.

As US consumers continue to snap up Xbox 360s following the console's launch on November 22, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has suggested that the ultimate victor in the console wars won't be decided until 2007.

With just a few weeks to go until cult PC strategy title Darwinia is released for digital download via Steam, developer Introversion has announced that a multiplayer version is on the way.

It's all just "now on" in PSP land these days, isn't it? "The most blah blah of blah, now on PSP." Virtua Tennis, Grand Theft Auto, Burnout, etc. - now on PSP. Hurrah. Brilliant news for those of us with enough disposable income to waste on portable versions of games we already own. Except, more often than not, it's actually "mostly now on". The PSP's very powerful, but it's not at the point where top PS2 games are just copied and pasted onto those little plastic magi-disks.

Blizzard is inviting World of Warcraft players to transfer their characters to the public test realms and try out the new content patch, The Gates of Ahn'Qiraj.

We've all heard tales of how scarce Xbox 360 stock currently is in Americaland, but it doesn't sound like Wal-Mart was really helping matters just after midnight on Tuesday morning when it announced that the 300-odd people queuing for a new console would be invited to buy them on a first-come, first-served basis.

Rising Star plans to publish Atlus' Snowboard Kids DS title across Europe in March 2006, the publisher announced today. The successor to a pair of well-received N64 titles, Snowboard Kids on DS continues to combine tricky-heavy snowboarding with Mario Kart-style power-ups.

Nintendo's launched a website for Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time on DS. Heck, it's probably been up for a little bit, but we only just spotted it, and we're mentioning it because it has quite a bit of gameplay footage, and because it's made up like a time machine with levers to pull and buttons.

I used to live down a road that curved left, banana-like round to my house at the end. To get onto it you had to do a 90-degree right turn. What I used to do when I drove in was lock the steering hard right to enter, and then see how far I could get up the road as the steering wheel unravelled itself before the indicator registered the straightening and clicked off. Until it did that, it sounded like Kudos-clicking. That's about as close as I've ever come to PGR in real life.

As Albert Einstein would have probably said (if he wasn't, you know, dead), game ideas should be as simple as possible, and no simpler. When an idea is simple, yet well executed, you can end up with awe-inspiring things-of-legend, which continue to draw whimpers of delight from folk for years. But if a game crosses that fine line into the too-simple, it becomes a forgettable, put-down-in-half-an-hour outcast.

It's hard to muster any excitement about an Ion Storm game any more. Dominion and Daikatana both promised so much, and delivered so little, that the company has become the games industry equivalent of the boy who cried wolf.

Firaxis has released a new demo for Civilization IV, the latest instalment in the hit turn-based strategy series - and it's now available for download.

Paris-based developer Kylotonn Entertainment has announced that it is seeking a new publisher for PC FPS title Bet On Soldier, after terminating its publishing agreement for the game with UK firm Digital Jesters.

Blizzard has introduced an new parental control system for hugely popular MMOG World of Warcraft so that parents can restrict the amount of time their children spend playing.

id Software is requesting that fans hold off on downloading the Quake 4 demo that's floating round the net at the moment - promising that an official one is on the way next week.

Hip-hop and gaming have been cosy bedfellows for years, and the release of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas just over a year ago proved how rich the pickings can be if you marry the two in the right way. With the world, his wife and probably his ho scrambling to cash in on the phenomenon, VU's decision to go all-out and deliver a brutal shooter based on one of the world's biggest rap stars could prove to be an inspired decision - commercially, at least.

A new survey which has the backing of the Chinese Government claims that more than 13 per cent of China's young adults are addicted to using the Internet.