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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!

New details of the lobby system featured in Dead or Alive 4 for Xbox 360 have been revealed in the latest issue of Famitsu - and by the sounds of things, it's going to be pretty wacky.

Microsoft Japan has confirmed that beta testing of the Xbox 360 version of Final Fantasy XI will commence on December 10 - the same day the shiny new console launches over there.

Rag Doll Kung Fu, the hip-hopping puppetry-based PC fighter from Lionhead's Mark Healey, is now available for download via Steam.

Peter Moore has conceded that organising a global launch for the Xbox 360 is proving to be a huge challenge, admitting: "If we knew what we were getting into, we might not have done it."

Sony Computer Entertainment's Chief Executive Producer Phil Harrison says the company is "not worried" by Apple's decision to launch a video-enabled version of its iPod MP3 player.

The PlayStation 3 will represent "the beginning of a world, different to that of what we have called "games" up to today" according to Polyphony Digital boss Kazunori Yamauchi.

Those joygiving stewards of the brilliant at Nadeo have decided that instead of releasing the old TrackMania to "sale-a-brate" its release on budget, it'd be far cooler to release an enhanced version of the original done up in the TrackMania Sunrise engine. Those guuuuuys. And there's a demo too, which you can grab on their site.

Despite being moved back to April 2006, Rockstar's Bully remains one of the most controversial titles of the moment - with the game now the subject of an emotive petition from the mother of a teenager who committed suicide after being bullied.

Blizzard has released a new patch for hugely popular PC MMORPG World of Warcraft.

It's not often that developers trust us press types to figure out what words like "monotheism" mean, so it's with some degree of respect that we can report Silicon Garage Arts latest, The Shadow of Aten, is on its way to PC and Xbox 360.

FEAR's been on our radar for some time now. But then so have lots of things. The difference is, the dot that blinks for FEAR is more like that one off the motion sensor in Aliens. We know that when it eventually rounds the corner, we won't just click mouse1 while backing away perfunctorily; we'll be like suicide-cultists running around a lion's den wearing mangled kittens, screaming, "Kill us! Kill us immediately!" Then we'll get our tools out.

Animal Crossing: Wild World may not be out for a little while in Europe, but with the US version due to hit on December 4th it's probably fair to guess that plenty of you will be playing it soon.

Nintendo's planning to release a Game Boy Micro with a Pokémon design on November 17th in Japan, priced 12,000 yen. That's about the same amount of money you'd normally spend on electricity if you forgot to turn off your PC when you went to Japan. [EUR 87 / £60 - Ed]

It really wasn't that long ago when almost every other must-buy game seemed to emerge from the infinitely talented LucasArts, and the merest mention of a new one was enough to cause your heart to beat out of your chest. And then the second Star Wars trilogy spoiled everything and turned the once-peerless studio into a digital merchandising operation dedicated to milking the brand for all its worth.

Importing types take note: Konami's said that Castlevania: Curse of Darkness will be released on PS2 and Xbox on November 1st in the USA.

EA has announced plans to release The Sims 2 Christmas Party Pack, a festively themed expansion for the popular PC title.

Valve's launched a new Steam client that seems to club all the various selection windows - shop, games list and tools - into one tabbed interface, and promises to be part of a larger series of revamps that the developer's collectively dubbed "Steam 3".

All right, so PC shooter Duke Nukem Forever may not be heading to the shops in time for Christmas after all, despite rumours to the contrary. But at least it's coming along nicely, according to a 3D Realms staff member posting on the developer's forum.

Fascinating adventure oddity Façade has been declared Most Innovative by IndieGamesCon 2005 attendees, organiser GarageGames reports.

Tetsuya Mizuguchi's updated his Japanese blog with some interesting stats. Apparently, despite a ten-month delay and countless imports, his musical puzzler Lumines has already sold 180,000 units in Europe. Well done you lot! That's on top of 300,000 or so in North America since March and a rather disappointing 70,000 in Japan since last December.

Infamous videogame critic Jack Thompson - the man who thinks GTA is turning us all into murderers and once described The Sims as a "paedophile's paradise" - has come up with his very own idea for a game.

Most of us that love videogames will have found ourselves defending them at some point with the old "they teach valuable problem-solving skills" line. "Kids aren't stuck inside gloomy bedrooms wallowing in meaningless and mechanical slaughter; they are learning the lateral thinking and logical rigour that will equip them for the arduous odyssey that is Life!" Normally you trot this argument out and frailer, less confident opponents wilt or begin to back-pedal. Few debaters are actually sufficiently well-informed to point-out that most game brainteasers wouldn't trouble an unusually dense baboon.

A new Trojan virus which renders the Nintendo DS useless by damaging the system's firmware has been doing the rounds on the Internet, masquerading as a pornographic home-brew application.

Legendary horror movie director John Carpenter has declared himself the official spokesman for F.E.A.R., the spooky new PC shooter from Vivendi.

Far Cry Instincts' primal nature demands a dirty little soundbite. I'm going to try and resist that for as long as possible.

Nintendogs has been in European shops for less than a week now but it's already proving just as popular over here as it is in Japan and the US - and deservedly so, as you'll know if you read our review last week.

Some new details of forthcoming DS title Sonic Rush have been revealed by Japanese magazine Nintendo Dream - including news that the game will feature special "trick action" bonus rounds.

Nearly four years after the game was first released, PC MMORPG Dark Age of Camelot is to get a new expansion pack and a new type of server.

In part one of our extensive interview with Microsoft's J Allard, the mood was very much one of an aggressively defensive showing from the effervescent Xbox front man. Justifiably proud of the company's decision to launch the Xbox 360 nigh-on simultaneously worldwide, Allard was nevertheless dogged in his refusal to reveal whether certain games would make it into the launch line-up.