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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".

The room goes quiet for a second. Some cynical git (yours truly) decides to ask about the frame rate. Design manager Gareth Wilson takes the question. "This version's running at 30 frames per second. We're aiming for 60." Does he think they'll hit it? "We'll see how we go. It's all about timings. If we had four months we could get it running at 60. It's whether we've got the time." With precious time to reflect even on that, the conversation lurches in another direction.

Famitsu magazine has unveiled the first details of Tourist Trophy: The Real Riding Simulator, the new PS2 biking sim from Gran Turismo developer Polyphony Digital.

Koei unveiled two new PlayStation 3 titles at a press conference in Japan today and showed what it described as "CG concept work" on another - before pledging support to all three next-generation formats and saying some nice things about the newly announced Revolution controller.

Electronic Arts has confirmed to Eurogamer that Criterion is currently hard at work on an Xbox 360 instalment in the Burnout series.

We love Tetsuya Mizuguchi. Not in a romantic way, you understand, and not to the extent that we'd form a fan club, say, or paper our walls with millions of screenshots of his greatest hits and spend our evenings looking at them and crying and carving the Meteos logo into our arm with a specially sharpened DS stylus or anything.

So here we have the first of what will no doubt be zillions of comic book movie tie-ins for Sony's shiny new handheld. The good news: it's fun to play and nice to look at, and does a fine job of showing off what the PSP can do. The bad news: it's all over in the time it would take you to nip down Blockbusters, rent a copy of the movie and watch it. Skipping the credits.

Phantagram CEO SangYoun Lee and I probably don't have a lot in common, but today I knew just how he felt. Having arrived in Tokyo yesterday thoroughly jetlagged and without the slightest understanding of either written or spoken Japanese, I've been quietly and respectfully fudging the simplest of conversations ever since.

Konami today released a PC demo of the hugely-anticipated Pro Evoltution Soccer 5, and you can download the 155MB file now direct from Eurofiles.

Sega has announced that it has signed a partnership with Bizarre Creations to "create a next generation franchise".

With not long to go until Konami finally unveils the fourth instalment in the Metal Gear Solid series, Famitsu has revealed a few juicy details of what we can expect - including news that we could be about to find out what happens to game heroes when they get old.

Chief Xbox officer Robbie Bach has blasted recent Japanese research into gamers' attitudes to next generation consoles, and claimed "None of that is worth anything".

While Microsoft busied itself this morning with announcing dates for the global release of Xbox 360, and the likes of Project Gotham Racing 3 and Ninety-Nine Nights were shown to the press, publishers took the opportunity to release a visual update on the console's software. Pictures, see, and lots of them.

More than a year after it was first unveiled, Sony has revealed more details of the Talkman peripheral for PSP.

Xbox 360 will launch in the USA on November 22nd, in Europe on December 2nd and in Japan on December 10th, Microsoft announced today at a press conference in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. The Japanese version will cost 37,900 yen - around £180. Europeans will pay £209.99 or £279.99 depending on their choice of bundle, as previously announced.

Xbox Japan president Yoshihiro Maruyama reiterated today that the company has no plans to launch a handheld gaming system.

All right, so it's not the most exciting announcement Nintendo is likely to make at this week's Tokyo Game Show - but all the same, Final Fantasy fans will be pleased to hear that the fourth instalment in the series is coming to Game Boy Advance.

Last week, you may recall, we ran a story about Metal Gear Acid 2 at this year's Tokyo Game Show, and the big surprise Konami had in store involving something called "Solid Eye".

Just as we stopped jumping up and down with excitement at the news that We Love Katamari is coming to Europe, we've gone and got all giddy again after hearing that Namco is also developing a PSP instalment.

UK peripherals specialist Pinpoint Consumer Electronics has announced the launch of the Neuros Video Recorder - a kind of digital VCR for the PSP.

Famitsu Weekly has revealed that Hamtaro, Nintendo's cutesy hamster adventure series, is on its way to Nintendo DS - and for once we have the luxury of actually looking directly at the page to confirm that. It's called Totoko Hamtaro: Ham Ham Q.

If Radio 4 starting doing a videogame version of Desert Island Disks, TOCA Race Driver 2 would be a worthy contender for that hallowed list; and now a PSP version is available, you don't even have to pack your PS2 and exploding AC adaptor in your rucksack. Bonus.

In-depth details of Valve's high-end single level add-on, Half-Life 2: The Lost Coast have appeared over at Bit-tech, revealing all manner of tasty morsels on this forthcoming free download.

Sony has informed Eurogamer that the Stealth UMD hybrid will indeed be getting a release in Europe as well as the States.