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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.

When I review updates of old games, I often forget to describe what they're actually like. Not this time! In Monkey Ball you control a monkey in a ball, and the idea is to navigate a course of bumps, gaps, moving tiles and other obstacles to reach the finishing line. If you fall off into the abyss below or run out of time, you fail. You're also expected to master the eccentricities of the game-camera, which twitches playfully as you make minor adjustments, and the impact it has on the orientation of the controls - refusing to offer you the optimum angle for view or control unless you master its behaviour. Monkey Ball's other claim to fame is its mini-games, the best of which are based on bowling and parachuting. It used to be on the GameCube; now it's on PS2 and Xbox. With that out of the way...

In the biggest non-shock story of the year, the Grand Theft Auto series will be coming to the PlayStation 3 according to an article in this month's US Official PlayStation 2 magazine.

No pressure or anything, Rockstar, but there are a few million people out there who are slightly interested in the fact you've got a brand new Grand Theft Auto title out at the end of October. Best make it a good 'un.

SEGA has just announced a partnership with Las Vegas-based Petroglyph to create an original PC real-time strategy title with a modern military/science-fiction theme – details of which will be announced at a later date.

Day of Defeat: Source, the Half-Life 2 engine reworking of popular World War II-based Half-Life modification Day of Defeat, will be released on September 26th, says Valve.

Microsoft engineer Chris Satchell, who very helpfully told us lots of interesting things about Xbox 360 recently, has popped up on the BBC News website talking about the platform holder's efforts to secure its next-gen console against mod chippers and their ilk.

One of the most obvious spoofs post-Nintendogs was Nintengirls. Various Photoshopsters composed mock-ups of box artwork featuring sexy Japanese ladies. Gosh, the idea of a game where players grow their own girlfriends in much the same way they can care for their puppies! What japes!

Sony has been in touch to let us know of a minor alteration to the final SingStar '80s track listing we told you about at the end of August.

The Revolution may not be televised, then, but it'll probably be backed by lots of fuzzy Nickelodeon characters – following THQ's recent confirmed that it's developing "games for Revolution". As opposed to socks, hankies and muffins – although we could do with some of them too.

While other companies seem to spend more time planning console launches than actually executing them, Tiger Telematics has revealed that it's not messing about with the next generation of Gizmondo handhelds – quietly announcing that it plans to launch a widescreen version of the handheld in early 2006.

How many people have you killed? It's a nagging question for a games fan. How many simulated murders have you committed? I've been playing games for a couple of decades. For the newer generation, even if you're in your early teens, you'll probably have been gaming in some form since you were five. Hell – even earlier if you were suckled on the Nintendo-teats of the late nineties. While games like God of War may seem like the killers, it's the quiet turn-based world of Civilisation where the real numbers pile up. Burn that town? Why not. Oh, there goes another few million.

Vivarium's voice recognition oddity Seaman, released on Dreamcast (and later PS2 in Japan), is getting a sequel in 2006, SEGA announced in Japan late last week.

Bored PSP-owning Americans (we'd normally put "Bored, PSP-owning" but the forums suggest we needn't bother with a comma) will be pleased to learn that Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories will be arriving on October 25th.

Details of the various pricing plans for the Xbox Live service on Xbox 360 have been officially revealed, confirming earlier reports which hinted at a variety of subscription packs with different price points and benefits.

Founded by three key development staff with a combined 30 years experience in the creation of Massively Multiplayer Games (MMO), newly formed Red5 Studios is currently working on a brand new MMO.

Developers creating games for Sony's PSP handheld will now be able to use IGN Entertainment's Gamespy technology to create sophisticated online multiplayer features.

As somebody who used to be enormous, likes the colour green, and just accidentally crushed a banana (SMASHED, perhaps) whilst pacing around trying to think of a witty introductory paragraph (let me know), I was surprised not to be chosen to write about The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction (PS2, Xbox, Cube) - a task that demands an understanding of involuntary surfeit (I ate two bananas) and enormous power (the one I crushed was actually a car) that surely goes beyond that of wiry East Anglian editors. How can you empathise with the Hulk if you eat salad?

Wanton, gratuitous chaos and mayhem? Check. Undiluted carnage and unflinching destruction? Tick. The entire US military raining unlimited death on your gamma-mutated ass? Ding. More explosive button-mashing in the opening chapter than most games put-together? Nod. Tortured, sensitive scientist's quest to reverse gamma mutation makes it okay to kill several thousands of civilians and cause the systematic annihilation of an entire city? Uh-huh. But when you're dealing with a Marvel superhero game we demand bucketfuls of crazed nonsense that makes us grin like Jack Nicholson (and probably cackle maniacally like him too) That The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction delivers oceans of the stuff is precisely why we enjoyed the palpitating romp from start to finish.

We were a bit surprised to see Konami talking so frankly about what it plans to do with Metal Gear Solid 4 at the Tokyo Game Show (a big, real-time PS3 trailer) earlier today. After all, this is the company that managed to conceal the fact that Solid Snake wasn't the lead character in Metal Gear Solid 2 until pretty much the whole world had bought it. Then we saw what we were expected to go on for Metal Gear Acid 2.

The Metal Gear Solid 4 trailer on display at the Tokyo Game Show next week will be running on actual PlayStation 3 hardware, according to Kojima Productions, the Konami subsidiary set-up to handle Metal Gear and Hideo Kojima's other works.

Having barked about it at E3, SEGA's now announced that we'll be able to bite into Chromehounds on Xbox 360 next spring - and promised a "strong focus" on tearing chunks out of each other on Xbox Live.

Whether you enjoy sending men onto the field of battle, the field of sport, or the field of poo-sticks, this is clearly the weekend for you, with demos of Age of Empires 3, FIFA Manager 06 and a sample of multiplayer Vietcong 2 to download.

In news that's seen other-halves up and down the land bellow, "If it's not on the table or next to the sink then I don't know where the bloody hell it is," Take-Two has announced that it's lost some money.

World Snooker Challenge gives you two options: admit you're rubbish at snooker, or fail miserably in your attempts to prove otherwise.

It's been nearly 15 years since farming sim Harvest Moon first appeared on the SNES, and Marvelous Interactive president Yasuhiro Wada has been there right from the beginning. Now he's finishing up work on new HM games for the PSP and Nintendo DS, and we got the chance to sit down and have a chat about what we can expect from the latest instalment in the series that gives everyone the chance to pretend they're Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Only without the bit where he kills screaming pigs with rusty scythes, obviously...

Nintendo UK told Eurogamer this morning that the DS version of Animal Crossing, newly renamed Wild World, is aiming for a first quarter 2006 release in Europe.

A special Collector's Edition version of City of Villains will be made available across Europe alongside the standard pack at the end of October - and there'll be in-game bonuses for those who pick it up.

The DS version of Animal Crossing has been renamed Animal Crossing: Wild World.

Juiced: Eliminator, the newly announced PSP version of THQ's mod-racer, will feature full wireless multiplayer as well as a full single-player component.