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Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi has gone on record to state that he was coerced into making a sequel to the game against his better judgement (again) - and that he's not entirely pleased with the finished product.

Sometimes the games industry can be so cretinously predictable you wish some of them would just sod off to Switzerland and make watches or something. At least their unerring time-keeping abilities would be considered a good thing over there. In the land of videogaming, the crushing inevitability that the excellent Jak trilogy would be followed by a less-than-essential kart racing title was almost too depressing to bear. Surely not. Surely Naughty Dog - the beloved Naughty Dog of some of the finest platforming games of this generation - was above that kind of lowest common denominator nonsense? Surely it had better, more interesting, more innovative games to work on?

Scary-browed, pointy-chinned actor Hugo Weaving, alias Lord Elrond in the Lord of the Rings films and Agent Smith in the infinitely better Matrix trilogy [er... - Ed], has signed up to do a voice-over for PC RTS Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II.

Electronic Arts has announced that new expansion pack Battlefield 2: Special Forces is now available to buy and download via the EA website.

Jamdat has released a brand new trailer of id's mobile phone-only Doom RPG, showing the game in all its turn-based glory.

Korea-based online gaming giant NCsoft is preparing to launch titles on next-generation consoles, according to chief executive Tack Jin Kim, who confirmed to GamesIndustry.biz that development work is already underway.

Valve's admitted that Half-Life 2 expansion pack Aftermath won't be with us until early 2006.

Fans of The Matrix (you LOVE The Matrix! I've seen you! With your Matrix!) will want to check out a new addition to Eurofiles today: a Path of Neo trailer. It's available through whichever of these words we've made into a hyperlink.

SEGA Europe today confirmed that it will publish Project Rub sequel Where Do Babies Come From? in Europe under the banner of "The Rub Rabbits!" It's due out on Nintendo DS in February 2006.

Along with The Rub Rabbits, SEGA this morning confirmed that it plans to release Super Monkey Ball Touch & Roll in Europe on Nintendo DS next March.

Let's not muck about, Mario Kart is the best series of racing games ever. Yes, better than all those super shiny ones with beautifully polished cars and incredibly realistic driving physics and tarmac made up of individually rendered pieces of gravel designed by people who have made it their life's work to recreate interminable stretches of motorway to absolute perfection and gone half blind in the process.

After inadvertently causing a bit of a ruckus with comments made in an interview with the Canadian Press agency at the Montreal Games Summit, Deus Ex designer Warren Spector has gone on record to set things straight and expand a little on his ideas for the industry.

The Entertainment Software Association has announced that the US District Court has granted a preliminary injunction to prevent the implementation of Michigan's violence in games bill.

One of the only ways a developer can cut loose and buy themselves a sliver of creative freedom in these franchise-obsessed times is to make itself so bankable that the billion dollar, risk-averse publisher can't say no. After seven multi-million-selling Tony Hawk games on every platform in existence, you can't say Neversoft hasn't paid its dues to Activision; a pet project like Gun was well overdue. Evidently there are only a finite number of extreme sports titles a developer can stand making before it creatively self-combusts.

Shadow of the Colossus has already gone down as one of the greatest games to have ever emerged on any platform. Every bit as stunningly emotive as ICO before it, the SCEJ Studio-developed title takes players on the kind of journey that will be talked about for years to come, and is one of those rare games that delivers a real sense of 'place'.

I'd like there to be something intelligent, perhaps analytical, in my head when I see the trappings of Episodes One through Three on my television. But all I can do is listen to the Vader-scream looping in my brain: "NOOOOOO!"

Microsoft has announced plans to release an eight-part series of podcasts revealing the story behind forthcoming Xbox 360 title Kameo: Elements of Power.

Xbox UK boss Neil Thompson has admitted that it might not be too easy to get your hands on an Xbox 360 this Christmas - but promises that Microsoft is doing all it can to get the consoles into shops as soon as possible.

Eurogamer has acquired an exclusive new trailer for forthcoming Xbox 360 racer Test Drive Unlimited - and it's now available for download.

Sony Computer Entertainment America, Sony Canada and the Canadian subsidiary of Toys R US have reached a settlement in the PS2 'disc read error' class action lawsuit.

Eidos' Championship Manager will return in spring 2006 on PC, the publisher announced this week, building on its efforts earlier this year with CM5.

Capcom's planning to release redesigned versions of Mega Man (NES) and Mega Man X (SNES) on PlayStation Portable in early 2006 in the USA, and both will feature all sorts of new elements including voice acting and modified level designs, as well as individual new features.

Capcom's announced that Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams will be released in Japan in January, and over in the States a couple of months later in March. Meanwhile, Capcom Eurosoft says we can also expect it sometime in Q1.

Bungie's confirmed suspicions that Halo and Halo 2 will be slightly shinier than the average Xbox game running on Xbox 360 - if indeed the average Xbox game does run on Xbox 360, although that's a separate issue.

Microsoft's Xbox 360 marketing director Chris Di Cesare has shed a bit more light on the Xbox 360 Zero Hour launch party that we talked about yesterday.

Right, let's kick off with some controversy: Fire Emblem's deeply flawed.

You'd think that Nintendo might be a bit tired of everyone saying that the Revolution's "freestyle" controller looks like a telly remote. But no, they've decided to embrace it by offering members of Japan's Nintendo Club a very special treat.

Michael Ephraim, the MD of Sony Computer Entertainment Australia, has suggested that PlayStation 3 games may not be region encoded.

What is "next-generation gameplay"? Nobody seems to know. Asked about it just prior to the Tokyo Game Show in September, one prominent next-generation game developer narrowed his eyes slightly and responded with a shrug. "Meh!"

Chris Sawyer, the developer behind the highly successful PC sim series RollerCoaster Tycoon, is suing publisher Atari for nearly USD 5 million in alleged unpaid royalties.