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Let's face it, quiz games to date have been utter mind-numbing cash-in rubbish. Take the most popular to date, which is "Who wants to be a Millionaire?" - the UK's first million-selling game, fact fans. The problems here were that a) Chris Tarrant benefited from every sale and b) there just weren't enough questions. An hour or so into proceedings and you could practically guarantee that everyone - including Harry the dog - knew the answers to even the most obscure poser, and started getting really irritated with Tarrant's smug rubber face. Activision's The Weakest Link wasn't much better, and let's not even mention Sky Sports Football or ChampMan Quiz. Oops. Too late.

As the battle of the next-gen consoles gets underway, Fumito Ueda - director, game designer and lead artist on ICO and the forthcoming Shadow of the Colossus - has confirmed his commitment to Sony's next-gen machine.

There's not long to go now until the Xbox 360 hits the shops and no doubt replaces its chunkier elder sibling under TVs across the land. But if you're the kind of old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud who fears change and is planning to hold on to their big black box for as long as possible, you might be interested in the X5.

"I'm a maaaan, without convic-shuuuuun, I'm a man who doesn't knooooooooooow!"

Microsoft has announced an update to its Media Centre Edition of Windows, enabling customers to stream music, videos, movies, television and photos to any television set or device via the Xbox 360 console.

Xbox UK boss Neil Thompson has confirmed that he is confident Microsoft will have a strong head start in the next-gen console battle, suggesting that the PS3 might not launch until spring 2007.

Groove Games has released a new demo for first-person shooter Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green, and it's now available for download via 3D Gamers.

Ubisoft has launched a new competition to promote forthcoming movie tie-in Peter Jackson's King Kong, giving you the chance to win a giant statue of the big hairy legend himself. No, we mean the monkey HO HO sorry.

Microsoft has revealed that more than 20 titles from major publishers are due for release via the Xbox Live Arcade service during the Xbox 360's launch window period.

French-Canadian actress Emmanuelle Vaugier (40 Days and 40 Nights, Wishmaster 3 - yes, these are the highlights) says the cast of the second House of the Dead movie, subtitled Dead Aim, are "trying to erase the first one from people's memories".

First of all, we've resisted the temptation to do, "Halo for Xbox 360 launch", so how about some biscuits? Second, according to numerous reports based on Microsoft's recent show-and-tell tour of the American tech-and-games-press circuit, Xbox 360 will launch with legacy support for Xbox titles Halo and Halo 2.

In the summer of 1940 if you were in the German army there was a good chance you were sat in NW France waiting to go on a short boat trip. The reason that boat trip (codenamed Operation Sealion) never happened is the subject of this potentially excellent flight simulation.

Picture the scene. Two people are playing a new version of Pro Evolution Soccer. (Actually, given the protagonists, it's probably best not to picture the exact scene.) They've watched the intro, remarking that it looks like a cheesy unimaginative rip-off of the ad-type favoured by Nike, they've skipped to the two-player area, picked their teams, and assembled on the pitch. The ref blows the whistle. The chap with the ball lurches forward, while the other races toward him, immediately pressing and jostling for the ball. Tumble. Whistle. Foul. Repeat.

We've never quite been able to get our heads round why Europe spurns the lovable Sly Raccoon games. They're among the finest platformers to grace any platform (never mind the PS2), more than holding their own against the esteemed Jak and Ratchet titles. Full of wry wit, charm, slick playability, wonderful visuals and top class production values, they should be routinely grazing the top end of the charts.

Isn't it odd that there exists a whole litany of games that we instinctively know are going to be plumbing the festering sinkholes of gaming before we even play them? Once such indicator of impending polygonal doom is a game's being titled "Beat Down: Fists of Vengeance", a title which is remarkable in its Nostradamus-like ability to prefigure the train-wreck of tragicomic wrongness about to unfold.

Bethesda Softworks has put an end to rumours that the Xbox 360 version of Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion will be in the shops on the same day as the console itself.

Online reports today suggest that Microsoft may be considering a major lawsuit over the theft of Xbox 360 development kits - while a curious statement from a hacking group implicated in the theft claims that the software giant knew about it all along.

EA Canada's Larry LaPierre has confirmed that the PSP version of Need for Speed: Most Wanted will feature an online mode - but that the PS2 version won't.

2K Sports has released the packshot design for Amped 3 - showing us what the basic design for Xbox 360 game boxes will look like.

Serious Sam was the most first-person shooting first-person shooter in the world (even if you were mad enough to try and play it in the third-person mode). Serious Sam 2 is the same game, but prettier, madder, bigger and packed full of more options, so is obviously not nearly as good.

ZOO Digital's announced a pair of downloadable level packs for owners of Alien Hominid for Xbox, the simple but mentalistically violent cartoon shoot-'em-up from indie dev The Behemoth.

Jack Thompson has been blasted by America's National Institute on Media and the Family for claiming to have its support - despite the fact that like Thompson, the institute is a vocal critic of games such as Manhunt and 25 to Life for their violent content.

Work has been completed on Operation Flashpoint: Elite, the much-expanded Xbox version of the PC military sim, and publisher Codemasters has even brought the release date forward to October 28th. Last we heard, it was going to cost £19.99, which is nutsly good value.

Codemasters has announced that Operation Flashpoint: Elite, the Xbox version of the hit PC title, is due to arrive in the shops this November.

It's been years since we first got excited that Rockstar was doing a game adaptation of The Warriors. Since then we've seen the screenshots, we've watched the trailer, we've mentioned leather waistcoats more times than we can count and we've twiddled our thumbs. Now, with the release date just days away, we've finally had a chance to play it.

Being heir-apparent to Dracula sounds fun. You can absorb souls and inherit their powers, you get a big castle, and immensely hot women with no relationship sense will gather round to comfort you and prevent you slipping completely into evil. Even if you did, they'd probably still gather round. Why, then, is Soma Cruz, Dracula's actual heir, so very depressed about it?

With just six weeks to go until the game launches in Europe, Nintendo has revealed some more info about the multiplayer modes we can expect to find in Mario Kart DS.

Former WWE star The Rock has revealed a few details of Spy Hunter 3, the forthcoming PS2 and Xbox instalment in the classic series.

Sony has released yet another software upgrade for the PlayStation Portable, bringing the system up to version 2.50 - with the addition of support for copyright-protected video content being the main addition this time.

Japanese people pre-ordering My My Katamari, the PSP version of Namco's roll-everything-('em-)up, which is due out on December 22nd, will receive one of the coolest little freebies we've seen since that one time we were in Amsterdam and the sign wasn't very clear but we had a good time anyway following our initial surprise and alarm: it's a slip-case for the PSP in the shape of the Prince's head!