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Jim Merrick is a busy man. As Nintendo Europe's senior vice president of marketing, he's been rushed off his feet lately trying to ensure that we're all jolly excited about the forthcoming release of Mario Kart DS and the launch of Nintendo's Wi-Fi Connection service.

Microsoft has announced details of a massive two-day gaming party in the Mojave Desert, USA, set to run from sunset on November 20th until midnight the following day - the point at which Xbox 360 goes on sale in North America.

Less than a week after the game hit store shelves, Atari has released a new patch for PC real-time strategy title Dragonshard.

Scattered reports from the US suggest that Microsoft's first party Xbox 360 games are starting to ship, despite the fact the console itself won't launch until November 22nd.

While sports still dominate the all formats top ten, the leading football titles have been pushed from the top spots by new releases, with Star Wars Battlefront II climbing five places to take the number one position.

Ninety-Nine Nights, or N3, the fantastical hackandslash Tetsuya Mizuguchi's Q Entertainment is developing for Xbox 360 with Phantagram, has been dated in Japan - it's set to go on sale from January 12th according to retailers.

Bryan Lee, chief financial officer of Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices operation, has predicted that up to 3 million Xbox 360 units will be sold during the console's launch period.

Ubisoft's returning to the Crime Scene Investigation series with a new instalment called 3 Dimensions of Murder, due out on PC in spring 2006.

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Having recently secured the publishing rights to a number of high profile titles from developer Firaxis Games, Take-Two Interactive has announced its acquisition of the studio, which will now form part of the 2K Games publishing label.

Mario Kart DS producer Hideko Konno has revealed a few more details of the game, including news that there are secret characters to unlock and stars to earn if you're proper-good.

EA continues its widespread backing of the PlayStation Portable with news that it'll release From Russia With Love on the Sony handheld in early 2006.

Since when did Hollywood stop coming up with original ideas and start nicking game concepts instead? Big screen adaptations of Silent Hill, BloodRayne and Castlevania are already on the way, and now two more videogame adaptations have been announced - alas, not there's still no sign of Katamari Damacy: The Movie.

Natasha Bedingfield is "delirious". Today's been a busy day, apparently, full of radio interviews with ITN and the BBC regarding her cameo appearance in the latest chapter in EA's grinding, yearly grip on the James Bond license, the interactive adaptation of From Russia With Love. Eurogamer meets her in a lower-floor room of a London hotel where she's lying on a leather sofa barking her lines from the game in falsetto posh.

One of the annoying things about friends who owe you money is that they always seem to pay you back precisely when everything you could possibly want to spend it on gets released simultaneously. Cheers Rob.

Prepare to sigh with relief: notorious movie director Uwe Boll has announced that he has no plans to do more films based on Far Cry, Alone in the Dark or House of the Dead, despite the fact that he owns the rights.

Midway's unveiled its latest Spy Hunter title, Nowhere To Run, and confirmed that like the film it will star actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as Alex Decker.

December is going to present a dilemma, and more than worrying about whether I'd rather spend Christmas in Bristol or Stafford or how little I can spend on presents for people I don't really like without offending them too much. The Christmas spirit of gleeful hypocrisy lives.

Sit.

An Xbox 360 developer has shed more light on the issue of background music in games for Microsoft's next-generation console, revealing that in-game streaming of music from outside music sources such as iPod is something developers can opt not to support.

It's a well-known fact that Xbox 360 will be able to stream music from iPod MP3 players on its "dashboard" front-end and to provide background music for games, but what's less well-known is that the next-generation console will be unable to play songs purchased from Apple's iTunes Music Store.

The Prince of Persia's PSP outing will be called POP Revelations - and won't be a story about that time we met Meat Loaf in our local record shop, nor the one where a bloke from Radiohead accused us of looking miserable.

Datel's finally confirmed the existence of its 4GB hard disk add-on for the PlayStation Portable, which also includes one of its X2 rechargeable batteries, and announced that it's available now through its website priced £149.

Atari has decided to slip Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure to February 2006 in order to set it apart from the Christmas stampede, the publisher said this week.

Nintendo says that The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is still due out on GameCube despite rumours to the contrary.

Is your City of Heroes or Villains character totally awesome? Do you ever find yourself staring at the character-select-screen for hours thinking, 'damn, that guy looks pretty badass!'? Do you? If you do, you're probably the sort of person who wants to head to Brighton's Comic Expo, November 19th/20th, and let one of the artists NCsoft's taking down for the weekend sketch you an A4 portrait of them. Liam Sharp (Hulk, Spawn), Jock (Losers), Charles Adlard (Savage, X-Files) and Andrew Wildman (Transformers) will be on hand doing just that.

Sony CEO Howard Stringer has revealed the company's plans to dominate the marketplace with a range of high definition products, including forthcoming next generation console the PS3.

Did you catch BBC2's The Money Programme on Friday? If so, you'll know all about Microsoft's launch plans for the Xbox 360 - described by UK Xbox boss Neil Thompson as "the most powerful console ever seen on the planet." You can read a full summary of the show over on the BBC website.

Almost a year after the PlayStation Portable was released in Japan, Sony has announced plans to launch a new budget range for the handheld under the label PSP: The Best.

After three episodes of Onimusha, it's questionable whether the world really needed a shorter, less interesting and dumbed-down facsimile of this admirable hackandslash series. But that's precisely what Yoshiki Okamoto and his Game Republic cohorts have served up with their first post-Capcom project, Genji.