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Electronic Arts has announced plans to publish Frame City Killer, Namco's first Xbox 360 title, in European territories.

Just over two months since leaving Midway's San Diego studio, Doom co-creator John Romero has co-founded his own company and begun work on a new game.

The managing director of Bandai, Shin Onozawa, has said that development costs for next-gen consoles will soar way above the costs for current generation software titles.

Game and movie fans alike can breathe a sigh of relief at the news that notorious director Uwe Boll isn't helming the new Halo film after all.

Fans of MMORPG PC adventure World of Warcraft have found themselves covered in boils, sores and pustulent buboes following the outbreak of a deadly plague.

By now you've probably seen the trailer for Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots from the Tokyo Game Show - but turns out there's another one, too, titled Metal Gear Raiden: Snake Eraser.

Activision has announced the voiceover line-up for forthcoming PS2, Xbox and Gamecube sequel True Crime: New York City.

Rockstar has revealed more details of the merry band of violent mobsters, bent cops, dirty pervos and corrupt transsexuals we can expect to meet in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, coming to PSP on October 28.

As you'll know if you've read our big fat preview, Konami unveiled a rather impressive trailer for PS3 exclusive Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots at the Tokyo Game Show recently.

Speaking at the Tokyo Game Show, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has revealed more details of the company's plans to promote wireless gaming for the Nintendo DS.

Planning on buying an Xbox 360? Fancy seeing your shiny new console being tested, packaged and lovingly caressed by people in white coats? And how about some clips from Project Gotham Racing 3, Kameo and Call of Duty 2?

Space Channel 5 creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi has revealed what he thinks of those pictures of the game's heroine, Ulala.

The Tokyo Game Show 2005 trailer for Metal Gear Solid 4 can be found on the Kojima Productions website.

The Revolution will not be televised, but it will owe thanks to the ubiquity of television remote controls, it emerged today, as Satoru Iwata revealed that Nintendo's next-generation game controller is a one-handed, movement-sensitive, TV-remote-control-shaped wireless device that allows players to direct actions through gestures as well as button presses.

The problem with Ridge Racer is that you're never sure whether Namco's going to show up. Ridge Racer's PSP debut was patched together in record time, but turned out to be one of the most accomplished and fine-tuned of the handheld's launch titles - still to be eclipsed in the PSP arcade racing stakes nearly a year after we first played it. But R: Racing was dull. Ridge Racer 5 didn't live up to its billing. And Ridge Racer DS was some sort of appalling joke with my money as the punchline.

The organisers of the State of Play games show, due to take place at the Birmingham NEC next month, have announced that the event has been postponed indefinitely due to a lack of industry support.

The Xbox 360 may not even be in the shops yet, but a Microsoft bigwig is already suggesting that we can expect to see price cuts for the shiny new console on a yearly basis.

Vivendi-Universal Games (or "VUG" if you want to pretend you're swearing with a cold) says that Monolith's FEAR (or "First Encounter Assault Recon" if you want to try and justify capitalisation in games publications with ridiculous acronyms) will be released globally on October 18th - unless it, er [let's have that cold back for a second], FVHEARS violently off-course.

Konami Japan has announced that turn-based card battler Metal Gear Acid will be re-released at a bargain price, making it the cheapest PSP game on the shelves by a healthy margin.

We got one once. From a bloke wearing a trenchcoat. He reached in and pulled out a dirty great envelope and thumbed out some notes. Then, when we didn't get back to him, he said he'd send "Jimmy" to "teach us a lesson". We were so scared. And then [yes, yes, "a loan in the dark", very good - Ed].

From Software has announced plans to produce two new games for next-gen consoles.

US website Bloomberg has published a report predicting that major Japanese publishers will look to mergers as a means of raising funds and combatting escalating development costs.

Namco Japan has unveiled the sixth instalment in arcade flyer series Ace Combat.

Speaking at the Tokyo Game Show, Metal Gear director Hideo Kojima has said MGS4: Guns of the Patriots will be his last contribution to the series. And we believe him, oh yes.

Remember Stuntman, the impossibly hard PS2 driving game from Driver creator Reflections Interactive?

Well, we've all finally had the chance to take our first look at the controller for the Nintendo Revolution - and whatever you think of it, you can't deny it's different. We had a chat with Jim Merrick, Nintendo Europe's senior director of marketing, to find out more about what they're calling the "freehand-style" controller - how it'll work with multi-platform titles, when we'll get to play the games, and who's going to win the next-gen console battle. What's more, we got a personal guarantee out of him, too... Read on.

Microsoft today revealed its full Xbox 360 game line-up for the Tokyo Game Show, showing off no fewer than 26 games to the all-important Japanese audience.

Tiger Telematics has confirmed that a widescreen version of the Gizmondo handheld is currently in development and will hit the shelves next year.

Frontier Developments - the studio behind RollerCoaster Tycoon, Dog's Life and a host of ancient classics, including much-loved space shooter Elite - has announced its first project for next-generation consoles.

Miami-based lawyer Jack Thompson has responded angrily to what he claims is an attempt by Rockstar to brand him a "sexual pervert".