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You guuuuuuys. You didn't half get into that whole Reader Top 50 thing. Loads of you submitted top-fives. Loads of you wrote things down to justify your number-ones. In fact, so many of you wrote things about Resident Evil 4 that it confused the hell out of my spreadsheet application, broke the scrolling and I missed over two hundred votes on the first pass. Fortunately I spotted that. Not that it would have mattered - Resident Evil 4 was far, far and away your most popular game of the year. It was almost as popular with you as Psychonauts was with our panel.

When you watch the Enemy Territory: Quake Wars trailer, it's easy to leap to conclusions about what the game's going to be. It's Battlefield in the Quake universe! It's getting railgunned in the face by twitch-killers as you stand next to a spawnpoint for a vehicle. It's people rocket-jumping into choppers and weirdo aliens going "hoooo-maaan!" as they pilot Chinooks into your base and capture a flag and then bunny-hop off into the sunset, unmolested by players who've driven their buggies into a ditch in the middle of nowhere and can't find their way back to where the action is.

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Electronic Arts is planning to bring The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-Earth II (what a time to discover the comma) to Xbox 360 this summer.

Forming part of the ongoing Teaching with Games project, EA and NESTA Futurelabs have announced the results of a recent MORI poll, revealing that almost sixty per cent of UK educators support using videogames in education.

"One of our developers actually set up a shop selling stolen Xbox 360s," says Don Laabs, senior producer on Sims 2. He did what? "Well, he used the game device you can sell in-game." Oh, in the game.

Volatile anti-videogames campaigner and occasional lawyer Jack Thompson has begun 2006 much as he spent 2005: slagging off Take-Two and stroking his own ego.

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and its American counterpart have both confirmed their first-quarter line-up of PlayStation Portable releases.

Following on from last weekend's brief chat with Cryptic Studios' Jack Emmert, we've had another response to our round of post-top 50 emails - this time from Hiroyuki Kamakami, producer of our eighth-favourite game of 2005, Zoo Keeper, who took some time out from his duties at developer Success Corp. to sling back a few answers.

Speaking at a European launch event for Dragon Quest VIII in London yesterday, project lead and series producer Yuji Horii revealed his excitement about Revolution's controller and hinted at his global ambitions for the top-selling Japanese RPG.

As you've probably spotted elsewhere, we've been having a go at Tycoon City: New York, the latest management game from UK-based Deep Red, published by Atari, and now we've got a single-player demo for you to try out too. It's available through Eurofiles today.

Jerry Bruckheimer's still interested in doing a film based on Prince of Persia, according to ComingSoon.net.

Midway Entertainment has confirmed that development of recently closed Stainless Steel Studios' ambitious RTS title will be completed internally, quashing rumours regarding the closure of its San Diego studio at the same time.

PSP Updates reports that wily cracksmith "Fanjita" has worked out how to break through the latest PSP firmware, version 2.60, and managed to get a copy of Tetris running in spite of Sony's added security measures.

Ubisoft has signed a worldwide deal to publish PSP RPG Astonishia Story, made by Korean outfit Sonnori. The game will be released in North American in March.

"Sony has no strategy for an online service," according to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who also says Microsoft is "going to beat Sony overall".

A number of independent sources have suggested that a new, more compact redesign of the multi-million selling Nintendo DS could be unveiled next week.

Rising Star Games has revealed that it will release both Harvest Moon DS and Harvest Moon Magical Melody for GameCube in PAL territories this spring, and that Nintendo of Europe will distribute both.

My name is John Walker and I am 11 years old. This is my review of Bubble Bobble for the Atari ST.

The chairman of the UK's Anti-Graffiti Association has issued a statement to our sister site, GamesIndustry.biz, slamming Atari for planning to release a game which he believes could encourage vandalism.

Controversial Running With Scissors title Postal is in the news again after a man who is said to be a fan of the game launched an attack on worshippers at a Moscow synagogue.

The rumour mill is working overtime as far as Activision is concerned, with news emerging that the publisher is bringing out a new sequel for one of its hit franchises but has cancelled two more.

Now here's a weird thing. We didn't really rate SmackDown! Versus Raw 2006 on PS2 very highly a few months ago. "More of the same" we moaned endlessly, because we've been reviewing these things for about seven years now, and it was, literally, more of the same with minor tweaks that even its mother would find hard to spot. "Not enough new stuff" we also whined like spoiled babies, thanks to a minimal number of new wrestlers and a tweaked energy bar system that wasn't really as good as the one in the previous year's game. Change for the sake of it, was the harsh summary.

Ubisoft has picked up the rights to develop and publish a whole bunch of games based on the forthcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles license.

Hurrah! Sony's announced that its multi-language translation assistant Max will be helping the likes of us to speak foreign languages this May. Which is code for the fact that TalkMan is due out on PSP in Europe around then.

"Please, don't write that it's a translator!" Yoshi Yamamoto is imploring us. "It's more than that!" No worries, Yamamoto-san. After an hour in the company of your friend Max, we're not inclined to. As you say, it's much more - it's an ice-breaker, a fun way of bridging the language barrier, and easily the best example of a non-gaming product on the PlayStation Portable.

Ubisoft has released a bundle of new content for Ghost Recon 2: Summit Strike on Xbox. The content can be downloaded now and is, according to posts on the official forums, also available to those playing the game through Xbox 360.

In the wake of Microsoft's CES announcement of a peripheral HD-DVD drive for the Xbox 360, the company's gaming division boss Peter Moore has revealed that a Blu-Ray drive could also be on the cards for the system.

Strategy First says that it's terminated a development agreement with Game Factory Interactive, and as a result Disciples III will no longer be developed by GFI's MiST Land South studio.

Need for Speed: Most Wanted has held on to the number one spot in this week's UK charts, holding off a strong performance by Ubisoft's King Kong to take the coveted Christmas No.1 position for Electronic Arts for the third year in a row.