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Epic Games' Cliff Bleszinski, currently hard at work on Gears of War, has joined the long list of developers getting publicly excited about Xbox 360, announcing in his weblog that the console is a "BEAST" and "capable of MUCH GREATNESS" after receiving his final development kit.

Famitsu again! Super Monkey Ball is on its way to Nintendo DS this December, having popped up in some Japanese games magazine we've never heard of honest this week. SEGA had no comment to make yesterday, but - given its proximity - we'd expect to see it in some form at the Tokyo Game Show next week.

Continuing this morning's theme of nicking everything interesting out of pre-TGS Famitsu, it looks like Atlus plans to develop Shin Megami Tensei for PlayStation 3.

Exciting news for those of you who plan to cave in and pay lots of money for UMD movies: there are, er, going to be significantly more to buy within the next few months. Universal Pictures says we can expect to see The Bourne Identity, Hulk and The Mummy among others between now and January 2006.

SEGA's set to hold a press conference in Japan this Friday to talk about some of its future plans for the Sonic series, but in the meantime Famitsu has started talking about at least one new title - a racing game called Sonic Riders, due out on PS2, Xbox and Cube this winter.

The Xbox 360 version of Ridge Racer 6 will be playable at the Tokyo Game Show according to the latest issue of Famitsu, giving us the chance to see whether Namco's really done away with its demons and Ridge Racer PSP wasn't just too little, too late.

As European World of Warcraft players grow increasingly frustrated with the lagging issues that continue to plague many servers, developer Blizzard has pledged to compensate players for their trouble.

185,000 down, how many more to go? That's almost certainly a question the games are going to have to help answer. With the focus now switching to the months beyond launch, people want more things to show off on their shiny screens. What's more, where the launch titles may have been forgiven for the odd load delay (or the odd dozen of 30-second load delays), future games will have to do better. So what should we be looking forward to?

Microsoft has unveiled its first wired laser mouse - specially designed to enhance your PC gaming no end - in a press release that also appears confirm rumours suggesting the Xbox 360 will launch in November.

A 3D screenshot from forthcoming Xbox 360 title Project Gotham Racing 3 is now available for download.

As part of our ongoing series of discussions with NetDevil, creators of massively-multiplayer vehicular-combat game Auto Assault, we talk to president Scott Brown about releasing the game in multiple territories, the importance of doing so, and how it affects development. Auto Assault is due out in Europe and the USA simultaneously in spring 2006. You can read more about it by glancing at our recent preview.

As you know, one of the most difficult things about being a games journalist is spending the vast amounts of money we save by not having to pay for our games. This is why many of us drive Ferraris, romance supermodels, sip Cristal champagne from the eye-sockets of the Venus de Milo and use gold-plated Shetland ponies as coffee tables.

It seems that £44.99 is the suggested retail price (SRP) for Xbox 360 games. Microsoft today confirmed that the standard edition of its forthcoming title Perfect Dark Zero will sport the higher-than-normal price tag - effectively signalling its intention to hike up game prices for the start of the next generation.

Much as we love our shiny new PSP, we can't help feeling that something is missing - namely, a TV-out socket so you can watch UMDs, view photos and, hey, maybe even play games on the big screen.

Hot on the heels of the European release of Sony's PlayStation Portable gaming device, UK-based Gametart.com has announced the launch of its PSP games rental service.

Konami has announced that a game tie-in for hit cartoon show Winx Club is heading to PC, PS2 and GBA.

Artificial Studios has announced completion of the Alpha phase for PC and Xbox 360 title Monster Madness.

According to unofficial reports, Washington-based developer Cyan Worlds - the studio behind the hugely successful Myst series of PC games - is facing imminent closure, with the majority of staff being laid off last Friday.

Although Microsoft hasn't explicitly said so, it seems fair to infer that Perfect Dark Zero will be one of the Xbox 360's launch titles. We thought it would be anyway, but the matter seems more or less settled following this morning's official confirmation that the game will be on shelves in Europe "this Christmas" - which is as specific as the company's publicly been about the 360's release date.

Imagine if you could ask Tetsuya Mizuguchi anything, anything at all. Where the idea for Meteos came from, for example, or how he made Lumines so good it's like musical smack, or what he thinks of those Internet photos of that lady dressed up as Ulala that we can't link to here due to legal and probably ethical reasons?

He may be the cape-wearing father of the City of Heroes, but Jack Emmert's actually rather evil. Asked to tell us about his favourite moments in Paragon City, he thinks for a bit and then his eyes twinkle. He was playing late one evening, he says, banded up with a handful of other players and doing alright - only for them to turn on him and try and boot him out. Clearly riled and seeking vengeance, he used his admin-level access privileges to summon an enormous monster to slay them all. "HA! HA! HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT!" Fortunately for the rest of us, he wasn't allowed to do it again - but you can imagine how much fun he's having with City of Villains.

Konami has announced the forthcoming launch of PS2 title Kaido Racer, releasing some brand new screenshots into the bargain.

We've never been snowboarding, but we love SSX. People would always tell us (usually loudly, usually with CAPITAL LETTERS, usually in ricin-tainted mailshots) that there's a reason for that, and that games like Amped were the choice of the real 'boarder. We'd even started to believe it, and thought perhaps even EA's Canadian development team felt the same way. Not so. "I just don't buy it," says associate producer Michael Wyman. "In terms of simply riding down the mountain I feel that SSX actually offers a more true-to-life experience than anything else out there."

Calling all, ah, "playerz" - freeview music channel TMF is launching a new gaming show later this month, and to celebrate they're holding a charity game tournament in London's Leicester Square.

Is SEGA going to show off a next-generation Sonic game at the Tokyo Game Show? "Yes!" says the Internet. "No comment!" says the SEGA bloke we spoke to this morning. So what's causing all the excitement?

Microsoft has announced a cunning competition to give away a real car to somebody who's good enough at Forza Motorsport to make everyone else PAY BIG. What's more, the compo's got a snappy name that can be used to rewrite a popular saying. As in: two's company, three's a crowd... Forza Challenge! [And a P42 is on its way to you. - Ed]

Nintendo of Japan has announced that GBA and DS title Pokémon Mysterious Dungeon will launch over there on November 17.

"I never win anything!" they cry. Which always seems odd when it's a reply to an email that says "YOU HAVE WON A PSP!" but let's not quibble. They have now, which means there's a few less misanthropic bytes floating around cyberspace this morning. We give something back, us.

Rumours are abounding that Bizarre Creations' Project Gotham Racing 3 might not make it as an Xbox 360 launch title after all.

Calling all retro fans: Nintendo's Hong Kong distributor has had a look down the back of the sofa and found a load of old Ninty gubbins in mint condition.