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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.

NovaLogic is inviting fans of tactical shooter Black Hawk Down to take part in the first official European Delta Force Xbox Live tournament.

With the next gen war hotting up, this month's U.S. edition of the Official PlayStation 2 magazine has devoted much of its efforts to looking ahead to the PlayStation 3, and has revealed a number of interesting factoids that have had FastFingeredForumites getting hot and bothered over recent days.

A new survey has found that while the majority of Japanese gamers are most looking forward to the arrival of the PS3, a few of them could actually give a toss about the Xbox 360.

Fresh from England's historic Ashes win, England all-round hero Andrew Flintoff has taken time out from his busy schedule of drinking victory beer and laughing in Australia's ASHEN FACE to reveal what he thinks of EA Cricket 2005.

Prepare yourself for the arrival of a whole new gaming genre - the Nintendo DS is to get its first "Rock 'n' Roll Brawler" early next year, according to D3Publisher.

Fed up with cardboard cut-out spectators cropping up in every racing game since the year dot? It seems that Project Gotham Racing 3 developer Bizarre Creations is too, having created a spectator system for its forthcoming Xbox 360 title that's capable of displaying 35,000 individuals at once.

If happiness is a warm gun, pure unadulterated ecstasy is a really massive gun that's so hot from the relentess BLAMBLAMBLAM of its neverending stream of bullets that before you can pick it up you have to put on oven gloves. Made of the stuff they put on the outside of space shuttles.

Neversoft's Jackass-ification of the Tony Hawk series has been almost apologetic. Real skaters were never a problem - mild-mannered Tony Hawk always struck me as a nice chap anyway - but THUG 2 kicks off as professional-crazy Bam Margera abducts pro-skaters and shanghais them into touring the globe performing skating stunts and doing "wacky" things, like throwing tomatoes at a bull's testicles. Why have you done that, Neversoft? "Well, um, er, something about the zeitgeist, skate culture, mumble-mumble. But it's okay! Because the levels are excellent! And you can have the two-minute mode back!" Oh, well, that's alright then.

Killzone developer Guerilla Games has contacted Eurogamer to denouce an email posted on the GameSpot forums, supposedly from the studio's development director, as a hoax.

US software ratings board the ESRB is demanding that US publishers complete a comprehensive audit of all titles released over the past year in a bid to crack down on hidden content.

UK developer Bits Studios has acquired the rights to produce games based on Sergio Leone's classic Man With No Name trilogy of Westerns.

Shooting terrorists, rescuing hostages, defusing bombs. It's a well-worn formula, and Red Storm's been peddling it with the Rainbow Six series for many years - with increasing success. Its transition to consoles, in particular, has managed to bring out the best in the series - particularly online, where it ranks as possibly the finest example of how to do team-based gaming. Even offline, it's always been resolutely satisfying; one of those atmospheric slow-burners that demands reserves of patience and no small amount of skill to outwit a foe.

28th October will be the release date for Rockstar's PSP-exclusive Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, the company confirmed today.

Calling all poker fiends, blackjack buffs and, er, people who like roulette - SEGA has announced plans to release a brand new casino game for the Nintendo DS.

Majesco has announced that forthcoming games Jaws Unleashed and Infected have been delayed until spring 2006 "to provide additional development time for those titles," according to the publisher's latest financial report.

Xbox 360 owners in Europe will pay £39.99 / EUR 59.99 per year for a Gold Xbox Live membership, Microsoft has announced, and the company has also done away with the need to input credit card details to access the service – a move that's likely to meet with a positive response.

Several reports have sprung up recently claiming that Perfect Dark Zero is due out on October 4th. Microsoft has officially declined to comment – pointing out that it "hasn't officially announced any released dates for Xbox 360 titles" – but a number of sources close to the publisher have described the suggestion as "nonsense".

The recent delay to the roll-out of Toshiba's next-gen DVD standard, HD-DVD, has led a senior Sony Pictures executive to confidently predict that Sony's rival Blu-Ray standard will dominate the market within 12 months.

The state of California looks set to become the second US state to pass laws restricting the sale of violent videogames to minors, after the California state senate and assembly both overwhelmingly voted in favour of AB1179.

Sony has announced a global recall of certain AC adaptors supplied with the black slimline PlayStation after ascertaining that they may overheat and cause injury.