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Former HAL Labs star designer Masahiro Sakurai, whose credits include the creation of the Kirby and Smash Brothers series as well as, more recently, directing Nintendo DS title Meteos for Q Entertainment, has announced the formation of his own studio.

Michael Dell – the bloke who runs ubiquitous PC manufacturer Dell, obviously enough – reckons the PC gaming market is "still pretty strong and pretty active," particularly in the area of online gaming, and is backing it to remain alive and well – by launching more high-powered XPS gaming PCs and trying to muscle in on Alienware's gamer-hardware patch.

Fresh from claiming that Namco basically coerced him into making a second Katamari Damacy game by threatening to do a rubbish one without him, our current favourite game designer Keita Takahashi has apparently told Hardcore Gamer Magazine that he isn't a big gamer and finds most of them boring.

After the recent announcement of a release date for the Xbox 360, it's a pleasure to report that we've had our sticky mitts on one already, and even better, played a selection of levels from the forthcoming PC/360 release, Call of Duty 2.

It's been revealed that Activision attempted to buy Doom developer Id Software for USD 105 million last year after Id co-founder Adrian Carmack launched a lawsuit against his former colleagues.

A new demo video for recently released PS2 and Xbox smasher Burnout Revenge is now available for your viewing pleasure in streaming video form.

Great news for Metal Gear Solid fans - series creator Hideo Kojima has started a new blog on the Kojima Productions website.

"I must travel through the Shattercove West in Tornwood Forest. Once I make my way through Shattercove West and East, I will reach Splinterfull Woods. I must then make my way through the Dreadwind Moor to the Waning Wastes where the Whispering Chasm resides. There, I will find the siren known as Alyssia the Hateful. It is from her that I will obtain the Containment Shard."

Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi has revealed that he originally had no intention of making a sequel to the game - until publisher Namco threatened to do one without him.

Following the announcement that Eidos' 25 to Life has been delayed in the US until next year, confusion is growing over whether the game is still on track for a spring 2006 release in Europe.

Ubisoft has announced that a PSP instalment in the Prince of Persia series is currently in development, releasing the first screenshots of the game too.

2K Games has released a new demo for PC and Xbox shooter Serious Sam II, now available from the game's website.

Poor old Shigeru Miyamoto. If having to be in the same airport as us at the same time wasn't bad enough, now some funny man has tried to get him to sign a Sony PSP during his recent stop-over in New York City.

Do you have arms? Excellent. Atari and Fossil are working together to make a line of watches that have 80s game graphics on them so you can make your arms prettier. Because, let's face it, they're not getting any younger, are they? Hmm?

Hackers have found a way to downgrade Sony PSP from version 2.00 to version 1.50 – older system software that unlocks the potential of the platform to run homebrew software applications like alternative operating systems, calculators, clocks, home-made games and, of course, emulators of ageing systems and software platforms.

Having your soul ripped from your body isn't high on our list of 'fun things that can happen to you' - just have a look at some of the poor sods shambling around Brent Cross shopping centre on a Saturday afternoon if you want proof. The tell-tale signs are easy enough to identify: thousand-yard stare, an unusually large number of kids, a passion for fast food, trackie bottoms, and - the dead giveaway - the Burberry accessories. They're a harmless enough bunch, though. Just try to avoid bumping into them after hours down your local high street.

With only just over a month to go until Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories is released on PSP, Rockstar has released some more details of what we can expect from the game.

Activision's forthcoming Gamecube, PS2 and Xbox title True Crime: New York City has become the latest game to face harsh criticism for its representation of police officers.

The much-hyped "Origen Xbox 360" count-down has finally hit zero - revealing that the site is actually a contest offering consumers a chance to win trips to an Xbox 360 launch event in the United States in November.

Day of Defeat: Source, the Half-Life 2 engine reworking of the original WWII-based DoD Half-Life mod, is now available through Valve's Steam service.

Rare has revealed that forthcoming Xbox 360 title Perfect Dark Zero will not launch with a 50-player online mode as previously announced.

Roger Avary - co-writer of Pulp Fiction, director of Killing Zoe and author of the screenplay for the Silent Hill movie - has revealed a few more details of what we can expect from the film, including news that it'll be "oestrogen-filled."

How do you like your science fiction? I've always liked it to be completely over the top, and a little bit messy. The ultra-brutalist battle-goths of Warhammer 40,000 amply satisfy such tastes, especially when they remember to fall on the right side of violent and nasty. Yet somehow the combative characters of Winter Assault are, for my tastes at least, slightly too cartoonish to sit correctly in relation to the nastiness threshold.

Infinity Ward's hugely-anticipated sequel to Call of Duty 2 isn't due out for another two months, but while we await the game's PC and Xbox 360 release you can now check out a huge single player demo that shows off some of the game's new features in all their glory.

Namco and Nintendo have announced that Mario Kart Arcade GP will be racing into arcades next month.

Microsoft will rip the covers off its latest viral marketing campaign for Xbox 360, known as Origen, later on today – as bored housewives continue to argue about what it's likely to reveal.

Eurogamer (and anybody else who follows PSPUpdates for that matter) can confirm that the reported hack for version 2.0 PlayStation Portables definitely works – we've seen it in action.

A chap going by the handle tuzik7 last week flogged an Xbox 360 controller on eBay. (First person to say "slow news day" gets a lifetime sub to recyclebin@eurogamer.net.)

Naughty hackers have broken through the increased security measures Sony introduced with the PSP's 1.51/2 and 2.00 firmware, according to a variety of reports.

Gearbox Software, the Texas-based development studio behind the Brothers in Arms games for PC and consoles, has confirmed its commitment to using Epic's Unreal Engine 3.