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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.

Three new novels set in Rare's Perfect Dark universe are going to hit bookstores just before the release of Xbox 360 title Perfect Dark Zero.

A gamer's affection for monkeys is almost immeasurable.

The first European PSP games have gone on slightly less than official sale today, with Activision's launch trio appearing on the shelves of Virgin Megastore today.

After sneaking out news of a website, Bandai has revealed more about its imminent Tamagotchi game, now temporarily dubbed; Tamagotchi: Corner Shop.

Nintendo is giving you the chance to get your virtual hands on the exclusive and elusive Deoxys Pokémon, via its nationwide cinema-driven promotion.

Ubisoft has announced its line-up for the Games Market Europe trade show, taking place at the Business Design Centre in London next week. Well, actually GME announced it, but...

Microsoft has announced that it's to host a press conference in Tokyo on the 15th of September, one day ahead of the opening of the Tokyo Game Show, with more of the firm's strategy for Xbox 360 in Japan expected to be announced.

We don't normally talk about publisher-sponsored boozing on Eurogamer. This is not because we don't do it, obviously. With the exception of Pat, most of us get semi-drunk semi-regularly with semi-games-people, whether we're paying or they are. (Oh, and it's worth reiterating that the main reason Pat's an exception is that he drank the entire alcoholic content of the 1990s and then had a life-changing Disney-esque sing-along with fish about the virtues of sobriety as he nearly drowned on an ill-advised midnight trip into the Mediterranean before being rescued by forces as-yet unidentified. True story!) No, the reason we don't talk about it is that you don't care. It doesn't exactly make us look big or clever anyway, but it certainly doesn't add much to your appreciation of games to know that we had some drinks last night and believe this makes us tough and manly.

The top three have remained strong in the UK charts, as Codemasters' Brian Lara has held its number one position in the UK, as did Activision's movie licenses, Madagascar, and Fantastic 4 in their respective two and three positions.

We're sure there's a solid, sound reason why Sony Europe has effectively washed its hands of the Everybody's Golf series in Europe over the past five years. Okay we're not - the only good excuse we can think of is that Sony's localisation team were too busy hooked on this giddily addictive rival to Tiger Woods to ever actually get round to releasing Everybody's Golf 3. Whatever. Big-headed anime-styled golfing action is back on these shores at last and the world feels like a better place because of it.

Shenmue Online's future may be even more clouded than previously thought, after it turns out the previous developer of the game, JC Entertainment, actually owns half the intellectual rights.

Namco has officially confirmed details of its arcade update to Tekken 5, subtitled: Dark Resurrection.

In a month that's seen videogames making national news, particularly in the USA, for a variety of unpleasant reasons, Nintendo has been recognised by charitable organisation Dogs Trust for infusing DS title Nintendogs with the right kind of message for potential dog owners.

When you think about it, the Wild West and videogaming really couldn't be more suitable bedfellows. Tense gunplay, bounty-hunting, hugely atmospheric settings, characters of dubious morality, hosses, stage coaches, wild animals, swinging saloon doors, out of tune pianos. What more could any game developer need to be able to concoct an exciting game? [Right now? Brothels. Oh, the West's got those too. - Ed]

Codemasters has found an ingenious method of allowing players to supply their own soundtrack in TOCA Race Driver 2 on PSP, and the company has hinted that its experiments in this area could pave the way for things like custom in-game photos.

Sony Computer Entertainment UK boss Ray Maguire has dashed hopes of a PlayStation 2 price cut before Christmas, saying that any further decrease to the system's SRP will not come before the end of the year.

The general administration of press and publication (GAPP) in China has announced details of its planned measures to cut back on the level of addiction to massively multiplayer videogames among young people in the country.

Famitsu has shed some light on Puyo Puyo Fever 2, coming to Japan this November, on PlayStation 2, PSP and DS.

Empire and Xplosiv have revealed the vast number of titles that will be on its Taito Legends disc, set for Xbox, PlayStation 2 and PC, this October.

Square Enix and Sony Pictures have delayed the US launch of its CG film Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. It's no longer coming out at the same time as it does in Japan.

Resident Evil on the GameCube was lovely - an example of how remaking old games can be really worthwhile - and designed in a way that toyed with your expectations. When the dogs were meant to jump out, they didn't, but by golly you were waiting for it. Clever game. And, er, now Capcom's remaking it again - this time on the DS - and some more details from the Famitsu preview that broke the story have splashed blood-like over the web-cobbles. Or something.

The Xbox 360 backwards-compatibility issue is still rather foggy, as reports claim that a select number of Xbox titles may yet be playable with the version of the next-gen machine that doesn't have a hard-drive. Probably-maybe. Eh?

Ubisoft has announced the release of two new downloadable maps for the Xbox version of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. And downloadable they are; playable, however, they are apparently not.

You're Electronic Arts. You're making a James Bond game. You're about to kit out the player with new gadgets from Q Branch. In Bond films, of course, Q Branch was designed to provide comic relief while adding new toys to Bond's play-set, because Bond is meant to be exciting and funny at the same time. He's suave and sophisticated, but also defiantly impish. But this isn't a Bond film. It's a game. You know it's a game. The player knows it's a game. So how do you do it?

PlayStation 2 owners buying Resident Evil 4 later this year will have even more goodies than originally thought, according to Famitsu.

Namco's weapons-based beat-'em-up extravaganza, Soul Calibur III, will be released in Japan on November 24th, according to Famitsu. That's a pretty much a whole month later than the US and European release for the PlayStation 2 title. Namco [hearts] j00.

With Prince of Persia 3 nearing completion, Ubisoft has released details of some of the secondary characters we can expect to see. The developer is pitching the third game as a concluding chapter that "will bring back all the major characters" - and the most significant addition to the line-up has to be Farah, heroine of The Sands of Time (pictured left in her new threads).