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SEGA is still planning to release SEGA Rally 2005 on the PS2, according to an article in Famitsu magazine.

Good news for all those cheapskates who declined to shell out for the Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack - all the maps are now available to download free of charge via Xbox Live.

Lionhead Studios has announced plans to launch a new website where players of forthcoming PC title The Movies can upload and share films.

Notorious film director Uwe Boll has gone on record talking about the films he's made based on videogames and some of the things he'd like to do in future, including a project based on Postal. He'd also like to work with game makers including Gas Powered Games (Dungeon Siege) and Crytek (Far Cry) to ensure that the films he's making based on those titles receive more attention.

So the PSP finally launches in Europe this week. It's going to cost lots of money, but it does lots of things, there are lots of games available and - let's be honest - it is extraordinarily shiny. It's so bright, says Sony's Phil Harrison, that the Nintendo DS is gimmicky and irrelevant by comparison. (Well, it's not on either count actually, Phil, so stop being a numpty.)

I wouldn't recommend buying a PSP. Not right now. Not for you guys.

It took me about seven months to take advantage of the fact, but the PSP is so much more than the games machine I bought it as, and for the first time in my life I'm actually using a multimedia handheld for pretty much all the things Sony designed it for.

Phil Harrison, VP of studios for Sony Computer Entertainment, has criticised Microsoft for planning to put two versions of the Xbox 360 on the market.

French website XboxLive.fr is claiming it has stumbled across the US pricing bundles for the Xbox 360 Live service.

After years of almost uninterrupted disappointment, it's hardly surprising that we shudder almost every time someone mentions movie-to-videogame adaptations. The fact that people are still holding up GoldenEye on N64 as The Way To Do Things eight years on isn't great. Electronic Arts has had a few decent cracks with its The Lord of The Rings titles, but then it soils its own linen with unbelievably shoddy fodder such as Catwoman or the a succession of underwhelming Bond games. Activision almost nailed it with Spider-Man 2, VU Games flopped badly with Van Helsing, The Hulk and Dark Angel and yet got it right with The Chronicles Of Riddick, but for the most part publishers contents themselves with ultra-safe kid-friendly fodder that most of us could do without. So much potential, so little end product.

From Software producer Masanori Takeuchi has admitted that Enchant Arms, an RPG due to launch alongside the Xbox 360 later this year, won't fit on a single DVD and might have difficulty coping with two.

Nintendo has reiterated that it plans to launch its global wireless multiplayer service for Nintendo DS by the end of the year, but has withdrawn comments made to this website earlier today by one of its PR associates regarding specifics of how it will work.

Tomorrow sees the launch of Sony's PlayStation Portable handheld across Europe and other PAL territories (the catapult's enormous), nearly nine months after its Japanese debut in 2004. So we thought we'd talk a little about availability, recap what you get in the "Value Pack" bundle, which retails for £179 or €249, and talk about which games are available.

Codemasters has continued its unprecedented run of success with cricket title Brian Lara International Cricket 2005, with the game boosting its sales once more this week to secure the number one place for the fourth time.

A senior staffer at World of Warcraft developer Blizzard has gone on record talking about the inevitable expansion pack for the ridiculously popular MMORPG.

A lawsuit has been filed by Spark Unlimited, creators of Call of Duty: Finest Hour, accusing publisher Activision of breach of contract and a litany of unethical behaviour, and demanding $10 million in damages and compensation.

Rising Star is to publish the Kuju-developed Pilot Academy across Europe in March 2006, the company announced today.

Tiger Telematics is set to launch a suite of GPS location-based mapping software for its Gizmondo handheld console at the end of September, offering fully-featured satellite navigation to locations around the UK and Europe.

UPDATE: Nintendo UK has contacted us since this story was originally published to withdraw some of the comments made by its spokesperson. Our reporting was accurate, but the comments apparently were not. You can find a fuller explanation here.

A post on the Lionhead Studios forum has confirmed that forthcoming PC god sim Black & White 2 will be in the shops this autumn.

Ron Gilbert, creator of the legendary Monkey Island series, has revealed in his latest weblog that he is working on an all-new title, and is currently pitching the game to publishers thought to include Ubisoft and Vivendi-Universal Games.

Sony's confirmed the song list for its latest karaoke sing-along title SingStar '80s, and there are around ten additions over and above what we were told when the game was first announced.

Dust off your daft shirts, Debbie Harry posters and, in some cases, presumably your birth certificates, folks, because Sony's just announced the next instalment in its famed PS2 karaoke series will be SingStar '80s.

We've already reviewed Lumines. We did so just after its Japanese release last December. Our view now is very much the same. In fact, all we really need to do here is change some of the names (Ubisoft distributes the game here, not Bandai) and mention that some of the glitches have been fixed (you no longer lose your final score if you turn off the PSP and then resume a game later, for example) and that we're adding another point on that basis. How, then, can we justify spending more time writing about it? Surely anything else is parenthetical at best.

THQ and SEGA have signed a deal to co-publish GBA title Gunstar Future Heroes in Europe.

Valve has announced that Half-Life 1: Deathmatch is being given a makeover with the Source Engine for better physics and lighting effects - but don't expect vastly improved graphics.

A top Sony executive has dismissed the Nintendo DS as "an irrelevance" when it comes to predicting the success of the PSP, describing the handheld's touch screen feature as nothing more than a "gimmick".

Ritual has started polling gamers about what sort of multiplayer content they would like to see in SiN Episodes - as the first instalment, Emergence, closes in on another milestone ahead of its late autumn launch.

Massively Multiplayer Online RPG, Asheron's Call 2, is set to be shut-down by the end of the year due to the game no longer being profitable, according to its developer, Turbine Entertainment.

Although the PSP's official European launch is set for midnight Wednesday, we're getting sporadic reports that certain retailers have been allowing customers to collect their pre-ordered units since Friday.