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Japan's chief of Xbox operations, Yoshihiro Maruyama, has confirmed that while a HD-DVD version of the Xbox 360 console is a possibility, the next-generation DVD standard will never be used for games on the platform.

The first solid shipment targets to be specified by Microsoft for the Xbox 360 have emerged, with the company's CFO Chris Liddell stating a target for the middle of next year - but warning once again that launch volumes will be low.

Vivendi and Monolith have released a new patch for make-you-own-set-piece FPS F.E.A.R., which rocks in at 120MB but apparently doesn't fix more than a few localised issues. Hrm.

Like many of you we've been waiting to see the molten planet that would explain Darth Vader's need for a bondage suit since we first saw Star Wars back in 1977.

Rockstar has released a new Custom Tracks feature for GTA: Liberty City Stories, the first PSP instalment in the Grand Theft Auto series.

Sony Online Entertainment has announced plans to release a new massively-multiplayer online game that won't require you to pay a monthly subscription fee.

With DS title Touch Golf due out in Japan on 10th November and barely a week later on the 18th in Europe, Nintendo's popped a trailer on its Japanese website showing off how the stylus golfing mechanic works.

Observant types testing early builds of SOCOM: US Navy SEALs Fire Team Bravo for PSP have noted a headset icon on the game's HUD, suggesting that we'll be able to buy a headset and partake in voice comms when the game's finally released.

The BBC has confirmed to Eurogamer that the PS3 release date mentioned in a recent news report was in fact "speculation."

As if there weren't already enough cinematic adaptations of videogames in the works, US website Dark Horizons is reporting that a movie version of Clock Tower is on the way.

Uwe Boll's big screen adaptation of Dungeon Siege will hit cinemas at the end of next year, according to the Hollywood Reporter - and we're in for a double whammy.

The ability to leap from one moving vehicle to the other like a crazy, danger-loving stuntman with Salmon-envy. No other game in the history of 'other games' has explored this, and not only does it look great, it's at the very fulcrum of a Chase-HQ-with-a-twist experience that goes something like this: drive your car like a nutter, sidle up alongside your intended target and stab the circle button when the little yellow 'leap' icon flashes up. At that point you'll abandon your car/motorbike/speedboat/jeep/whatever and perform the unlikeliest leap since James Bond dived into a moving aircraft in GoldenEye. Landing with precision (on either the boot or bonnet, depending on where you made the leap from), you'll then proceed to shoot up the occupants, cling on for dear life (and occasionally nearly fall off), and then wrestle control of the vehicle in one slick motion. Marvellous, frivolous gaming excitement.

I had a teacher at school, and he had an extra prehensile finger between the thumb and index finger of each hand. He normally kept it folded out of the way, when writing on blackboards and the like. But, when I had been rude, or naughty, he would unfurl it, and flick me hard on the forehead with it. Apropos nothing, this sort of thing proves that mutant powers are brilliant. I wish I had one.

Sony Computer Entertainment boss Ken Kutaragi has claimed that the PlayStation 3 will run games at an unprecedented (and perhaps rather pointless) 120 frames per second.

To give a little credit where it's due, you have to hand it to Neversoft for managing to keep the Tony Hawk franchise alive as long as it has, in spite of losing the Pro Skater tag and dragging the series away from its board-based roots into the more surreal, motorised contraptions found in the two Underground titles.

Silicon Knights has gone on record to dismiss rumours that the company has purchased the fabled Zelda III NES cartridge.

One of the things Blizzard did at its inaugural Blizzard Convention at the end of last week, apart from pulling the rabbit out of its by-then-transparent hat and going, "Ta-da!" was to encourage attendees to sign up for a beta test on an at-the-time unannounced piece-of-game.

A drummer is suing Microsoft for allegedly using three of his former band's songs in Xbox snowboarding title Amped.

City of Villains launches in Europe today. NCsoft's second City Of runs in parallel to Heroes, and a single subscription will now cover both games - good news for people who like to play both ends.

Circle Studio has confirmed details of its deal with EMI, Universal Music and Virgin to produce a series of interactive DVD games based around the hugely successful Now That's What I Call Music brand.

Less than a month after Californian governor Arnold Schwarznegger signed into law a bill restricting the sale of games with violent content to minors, Florida is set to follow suit with an almost identical piece of legislation.

At the start of 2000, PC wargaming was in a rather sorry state. While other genres had been quick to exploit new technology and explore new ideas, developers specialising in realistic military strategy games were still churning out pretty much the same games they had been churning out five or even ten years earlier. Titles tended to have a strong board-game feel with action split into turns and 2D terrain divided into hexagons. AI tended to be weak, spectacle completely non-existent.

Blizzard has revealed the first details of The Burning Crusade, the new expansion pack for blockbuster MMORPG World of Warcraft.

Those who read me regularly will know that while I support goblins, elves, magi and whatnot and uphold them fully, there's little record of the words 'Dungeons' and 'Dragons' ever being thrust firmly enough together that I've been gaily trapped in their midst for any length of time. I dabbled in Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, but that's about the extent of it, and not exactly a badge of honour in the dark recesses of the Internet to which this link's likely to propagate. What in the name of all the dice that have more than six sides, then, you're wondering, am I doing writing about Neverwinter Nights 2?

To celebrate the launch of Need For Speed Most Wanted earlier this month, Electronic Arts held a very special event at the Millbrook Proving Ground in Bedford.

Action adventure Saint's Row, originally expected in time for Christmas, is now slated for a release some time between April and June. Motorbike racer Moto GP 2006: Ultimate Racing Technology and WWII shooter The Outfit will be released in the first half of next year.

Some new details of the latest arcade instalment in the Virtua Fighter series [hi Leo! -Ed] have been revealed by Famitsu magazine - including news that the game will feature two new characters.

Sega has confirmed that forthcoming Xbox 360 racer Full Auto is no longer down for a 2005 release - and that the game is now due out in February.

Yellow lines. To drivers they say, "stop and you're in trouble". They're the only things on the road I can easily respect! And while my knowledge of symbols is about as advanced as my plan for world domination (current status: I'll do it later), we can probably all infer something from this: I have no idea what the road markings are like in Driver 4. Gareth Edmonson, demoing, simply didn't stop long enough for me to get a good look. The only yellow lines in Driver 4 are the big fat ones that make up the back-to-back l's in the "Parallel Lines" logo. To me they say, "no parking". Apt.

"What is this new devilry?" asked Sean Bean of a pillar as a Balrog gurgled somewhere off through the arches. Were the noise to have been the arrival of October 28th's games, and Sean's inquiry to have been one as to the particulars of its make-up, however, the answer would been: well there's City of Villains, Call of Cthulhu and The Suffering, Sean. You can see them on the list below. Plenty of devilry there. Except that wasn't what Sean was after. And nor, probably, is it what you want, because there's so much out this weekend that it's ludicrous sticking to one subset.