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Rare has revealed that it took a big risk with Perfect Dark Zero just so that we could all be sure of playing it on Xbox 360 launch day.

Namco's announced plans to bring WizKids' collectible miniature series Mage Knight: Destiny's Soldier to Nintendo DS as a real-time strategy game in spring 2006. Perfect really, since it'll be another MK: DS.

Hackers have found a new way to run homebrew applications on the PSP despite the introduction of firmware version 2.5, according to a post on PSP3d.com.

A group of German politicians have proposed a ban on all games which depict lethal violence.

Namco and Electronic Arts have announced plans to bring the new PSP instalment in the Katamari Damacy series to Europe.

With just a couple of weeks to go until the Xbox 360 reaches Europe, Microsoft has unveiled the new cinema and telly advert that will be hitting our screens at the end of the month.

Videogame legend Sid Meier is heading to London next Friday - and if you get yourself down to HMV Oxford Street, you can meet the man himself.

Someone's been listening to the blasé complaints of reviewers everywhere, struggling to finds words to say about another decent expansion pack for another decent game. A few more levels? A few more features? A few more pounds in the plus column of the all-important Q4 publisher spreadsheet? All is usual.

Atari has launched a new project based around hit PC title Neverwinter Nights that's designed to help students improve their learning skills.

Sims creator Will Wright has gone on record to express his interest in the Nintendo Revolution's "freestyle" controller.

Microsoft has unveiled the full list of Xbox games which will work on European Xbox 360s from the moment the console hits the shelves on December 2.

Four games in three years? Insomniac really must live up to its name, working slavishly to bring up more combat-laced platform goodness that tickles our funny bone without fail. How else do you explain its unbroken string of top-notch releases? Yet, despite each one being better than the last in some small way, this annual approach to the series fires up our cynicism glands like nothing else. What more can they do? Add more weapons? Hmm, no they've done that already. Make the visuals better? Not likely. Take the sandbox approach? Oh please. Focus on the combat side of it a bit more? Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a winner.

Capcom has announced that a new instalment in the Street Fighter series is currently in development from the PSP.

With just a few days to go until Microsoft's massive two-day launch party for the Xbox 360 kicks off in the Mojave desert, some rather interesting photos of the venue have popped up on Flickr.

Masahiro Sakurai, the creator of the Super Smash Bros. series, is to direct a new instalment for the Nintendo Revolution.

Calling all Jack Thompson fans! Did you know that the legendary anti-videogames campaigner has written his very own book, telling all about how he "eats giants for breakfast"?

Microsoft may be confident of doing better in Japan than last time following Xbox 360's launch there on December 10, but it'll have to get into the groove without help from Enchant Arm or Ninety-Nine Nights - at least for a little while.

Microsoft Japan's followed in its Americo-brethren's footsteps and announced a list of Xbox games that will work on the Japanese version of the console come launch day on December 10.

Nintendo Revolution will include a "play control system" when it launches in 2006, says Nintendo, so that worried adults can prevent youngsters playing unsuitable games. So, hey, Nintendo's going to make games unsuitable for children! We knew that wasn't a fishing rod that bloke was swinging in the controller video.

Babylon 5 creator and all-round genius J. Michael Straczynski has hinted that a massively-multiplayer online game based on the incomparably superb sci-fi series could be in the pipeline.

It may be four and a half years since the original PC version came out, but Operation Flashpoint remains a landmark in the military shooter genre. Now finally available on the Xbox, the resulting conversion reveals a game that easily holds its own against the current crop, and in some respects is still well ahead of its time.

Valve has announced plans to offer crazy strategy title Darwinia for download via its digital distribution service, Steam.

Microsoft has refused to confirm rumours that flagship title Project Gotham Racing 3 won't run at 720p - but they're not exactly denying it, either.

It is, it has to be said, a killer idea.

Japanese retail sources reckon that Children of Mana will be released in February over there on Nintendo DS.

Perhaps in reaction to the email I sent them the other day saying, "Please can you encourage your bus drivers not to swing close so I get clocked in the back of the head by the wing mirror when walking along Oxford Street," Transport for London has announced that in future London bus-driving trainees will be able to practice their trade on a pretty exotic-sounding simulator at Willesden Junction depot.

As the trend towards digital distribution of content continues to gather pace, Sega has signed a new deal with Digital River to offer downloadable games via the company's oneNetwork sales channel.

THQ's latest wrestling title, WWE SmackDown Vs. Raw 2006, has gone straight in at number one in the UK charts this week, knocking Star Wars: Battlefront 2 off the top spot and becoming the fastest-selling wrestling title ever on PS2.

Major UK supermarket chain Sainsbury's has announced a new addition to its online DVD rental service, which now includes a library of PS2 and PSP software - representing the first time that the firm has entered the videogame rental market.

Microsoft has unveiled the Xbox Live Marketplace Content that will be available to Xbox 360 owners from the moment the console launches on December 2.