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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.

EA has announced that FIFA Street 2, the sequel to the hit urban football sim, is currently in development for PC, PS2, PSP, GameCube and Xbox.

Sony's taken the first step in its plan to roll out downloadable PSP demos nationwide in Japan, introducing the first "PlayStation Spot" deployment pod on the sixth floor of its showroom in Tokyo's Ginza district.

Sony America's released the 2.01 security update for PSP through its Software Update page. The update closes a loophole that allowed hackers to downgrade PSPs to older firmware and run homemade programs like emulators on them.

Hurrah for lying websites! According to reports, the Square Enix one for DS RPG Children of Mana - the first fruit of the World of Mana tree - was wrong when it claimed the game was due out in Japan next winter. It's out this winter.

Cold War developer Mindware Studios has released some new screenshots of its next project - Voodoo Nights for PC and Xbox 360.

Uwe Boll, director of the forthcoming Dungeon Siege movie, has renamed the film In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale in a bid to make it sound a bit more like it's a Lord of the Rings film.

Japanese translations walk a fine line. It's one of those mysteries you don't ever want to solve, like how come all the jokes in Asterix are based on English puns, if the comics were written in French? Anyone who played the truly wondrous Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga on the GBA will understand. Fawful, the character who spoke in badly translated Japanese ("I HAVE FURY!") - how did that joke possibly work in the original Japanese version? And if it didn't, then...

California state governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed bill AB1179, the controversial new law which will see anyone selling violent videogames to minors facing a USD 1000 fine.

Takumi Yoshinaga, creator of hit DS title Project Rub, has revealed more of what we can expect from the game's sequel - including news that it will feature a wireless mode for up to four players.

There's a certain breed of PC game in which the opening words elicit an incredulous reaction in a player. That reaction is something like this: "What does that even mean?"

Platform holder Microsoft may face a new piracy threat, as reports surface of ten Xbox 360 development kits being stolen from a warehouse in Duren, Germany, with the hardware believed to have fallen into the hands of hackers.

The ESA - the American equivalent of our own beloved ELSPA - has launched a bundle of auctions to raise money for underprivileged children.

Xbox corporate VP J Allard has confirmed that while Microsoft is doing all it can to meet demand for Xbox 360, there will be "some disappointment" amongst those of us who hope to take a console home on launch day.

Lionhead Studios has released the first patch for recently-released PC god sim Black & White 2. It's now available for download via the Lionhead website.

In slightly better news than the thing about Ghost Recon 3 being delayed (although they seemed bizarrely chuffed about that anyway), Ubisoft's released a PC demo of Peter Jackson's King Kong, aka Michel Ancel's Peter Jackson's King Kong.

To kick off with an unresearched soundbite, possession is nine tenths of all gaming, and at a glance this week's fraction is practically top-heavy - thanks to Geist (Cube), Black & White 2 (PC) and Nintendogs (DS). Now, as Ghostbusters informs us, there are innate advantages and disadvantages to possession. On the one hand, Sigourney Weaver may attempt to have sex with you. On the other hand, Sigourney Weaver may attempt to have sex with you. But that's only this week at-a-glance. If you dump Geist for a second, and stick with B&W2 and Nintendogs, a better theme is reliance. Both games present you with the chance to shape a creature in Pavlovian fashion - particularly apt in Nintendogs case for obvious reasons - and present it with varying degrees of success.

Ubisoft is "pleased to announce" that Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter is getting another few months in development, putting the Xbox 360 version in shops next February.

Activision has responded to Spark's USD 10 million lawsuit by filing a countersuit that rejects all of the Call of Duty: Finest Hour developer's claims and presents some strong allegations in return.

Never before has a console launched around the world nigh-on simultaneously. In fact, here in Europe we're used to three, six, and even nine month delays. But not with the Xbox 360. For the launch of Microsoft's baby, the Redmond giant is promising a European launch date of December 2nd - just ten days after its U.S. debut.

As the 'Dynasty Warriors' series has marched inexorably on, the raw numbers quotable for its various metrics (missions, characters, objects, etc.) have grown steadily with each release too. With this latest release, you will be forgiven for losing count or exaggerating the expanses. With this game it's hard to avoid that. Dynasty Warriors 5 is the, oooh, let's say the 39th 'Warrior' game in total that KOEI has committed to consoles - if you include the Samurai/Misc. Warriors games that fill the gaps between dynasties. There are 48 playable characters in this game, six entirely new, most borrowed from earlier incarnations.

You know, when I sat down to write this review the first time, I started off writing about George Lucas. I was going to spin some silly yarn about how he couldn't possibly have foreseen the damage he was going to do by having Greedo shoot first. About how we should have been thankful, because at least when he sat down in the editing suite, he was doing it for a good reason - yes, he wanted slightly more TIE Fighters in the background and all that, but he was doing it because he wanted Star Wars to appeal to a new generation, and he wasn't pretending it was a whole new film or anything. I mean, who would, right?

News has reached Eurogamer that Datel is planning to launch a new hard drive for the PSP.

With the launch of the Xbox 360 looming near, Microsoft's chief Xbox officer Robbie Bach has spoken of the firm's commitment to the original Xbox platform - with software launches expected into 2007.

Xbox corporate VP J Allard has criticised Nintendo's "freestyle" Revolution controller, claiming that he had a similar idea which was rejected after consultation with gamers and developers.

In a step that risks setting back the cause of progressive games reviewing several years here are five things that I loathe about Brothers In Arms: Earned In Blood.

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Microsoft bigwig J Allard has revealed details of the special content that'll come pre-installed on the Xbox 360's hard drive.

Microsoft and GarageGames have announced the first download-only title for Xbox 360.