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Gizmondo Europe has signed a deal to increase the number of stores stocking its multi-media handheld in UK high streets, with Argos, Comet and HMV now supplying the machine.

Football Manager 2006 will be more verbose and realistic than ever when it's released for PCs and Macs this November 4th, according to the chaps at developer Sports Interactive. Of course, we thought, they would say that, but then we read the rest of their press release and their claims were given much support. Unlike insert-your-most-hated-club-here.

I've just died. Again. I knew about the first guy on the balcony, so I shot him through a window before descending to the ground floor and going outside. But I underestimated his partner.

Activision could be publishing an expansion pack of DOOM 3: Resurrection of Evil on Xbox later this year, according to IGN.

SEGA is gearing up to release details about its new PlayStation 2 game from the producer of Daytona USA, Super Monkey Ball and F-Zero GC.

A high-definition video of the Xbox 360 game that everybody remembers from this year's E3, Gears of War, has been circulating the internet in the last few days, and now everyone can get hold of it.

Appropriateness is not generally the games industry's strong point, but in a move to distance itself from appearing exploitative, SCi-dos has announced that Conflict Global Terror will now be known as the far more innocuous Conflict Global Storm.

Is it that time already? Yes. Electronic Arts is just about set to bring on another FIFA game, looking again to net huge sales when it's released this autumn.

Those of you who enjoy doing other things with your NAUGHTY imported PlayStation Portables besides playing games will be pleased to learn that the third-party video-making tools have caught up with the 2.00 firmware upgrade.

This year's Tokyo Game Show, which takes place from September 16th to 18th, is promising to be the largest yet - with over 130 companies already signed up to exhibit at the event, including 31 firms from outside Japan.

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has halved the damages it is claiming from some retailers following the dispute over the importing of its PlayStation Portable handheld, according to UK trade paper MCV.

British developer Kuju Entertainment has announced that it is working with Ernst and Young, the receivers appointed to oversee the liquidation of bankrupt publisher Hip Interactive, to find a new publisher for forthcoming title City of the Dead.

Highly-placed UK sources have revealed that the Xbox 360 is set to launch in Europe on November 25th, with the US launch preceding a few days earlier - and the price tag may be as high as UKP 299.

Namco has teased us with more details about its forthcoming Xbox 360 game, Ridge Racer 6.

An interview in Famitsu with Microsoft's head of Xbox marketing, Peter Moore, has revealed the company's reasoning on how and why it will succeed in Japan.

Nintendo DS puzzler, Polarium, will be getting updated thanks to Nintendo Japan.

It used to be traditional to kick off any review of an RPG title with a brief moan about how badly Europe is treated on this front, but of late we've had remarkably little to complain about. With a couple of glaring exceptions, Europe is generally seeing launches of just about every RPG that pops up in North America - even niche titles like Nippon Ichi's superb Disgaea and Phantom Brave, or the recent Shin Megami Tensei: Lucifer's Call. Hell, there's even a whisper on the wind that we might see Xenosaga on shelves over here before long. All of which means one very important thing - lazy journalists are going to have to find a new introduction paragraph for their RPG reviews. [And yet you haven't, have you? - Ed]

The future of SEGA's Shenmue Online seems to be in doubt after development of the game changed hands, according to Japanese site 4Gamer.

Victorious Boxers 2 is a very confusing game. Not in the sense that it's hard to decipher - what's actually on the disc is a pretty straightforward boxing simulation based on a popular Japanese manga. The difficulty arises when you want to read up about it over yon interwibble.

For those who enjoyed PC role-playing game Legends of Might & Magic (don’t all rush at once, now) Ubisoft is trying again with another in the franchise with sequel Dark Messiah.

The Ant Bully is to get the videogame treatment next year, after Midway announced yesterday that it has signed a deal with Warner Bros. to develop titles based on the forthcoming CG animated movie.

Tetsuya Mizuguchi may not quite be a household name in the West, but the news earlier this year that the developer of Space Channel 5, Rez and Lumines was creating games for Xbox 360 certainly made waves around our paddock - and seemed to be the surest sign yet that Microsoft was taking serious steps to establish its development credentials in Japan. Or at least to win us over.

Midway has reportedly decided to drop the PC version of its forthcoming Gauntlet remake, Seven Sorrows.

Nokia will be launching a silver edition N-Gage QD in Europe this September. Are you excited yet?

The Chinese government has announced plans to spend 15 billion Yuan (around $1.8 billion) on encouraging the growth of its online game development industry - but strict new rules threaten to restrict access for under 18s.

Another year, another Pokémon game springs out its red/white casing, fresh from Nintendo's loins. It shouldn’t be any surprise by now; Nintendo knows its market and despite the franchise flickering more in its embers than the full fledged flame of yesteryear, there's obviously still a demand. So here's the usual supply of role-playing, monster collecting, trading and poke/ball jokes. As is often the case with long-running and popular series like this, the question is not so much whether the game is any good but how quickly you're going to open up your Pokémon stitched wallets and plump down the cash for it. Hmph.

After initial reports stressing concern over Gizmondo's imminent launch in the US, the company handling the handheld machine's affairs has responded with a dismissal and news of a delayed launch.

Microsoft has released a playable demo for its 3D role-playing sequel, Dungeon Siege II – now available on Eurofiles.

Electronic Arts has hired a number of celebrities to star in its forthcoming James Bond sequel, From Russia With Love, with actor Sean Connery taking centre stage, now flanked by singer Natasha Bedingfield and actress Maria Menousnos.

More than two years has passed since the mushroom cloud that was Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness erupted over the gaming populace, annihilating about five million dreams in the process. But while the motes of dust refuse to settle over that particular thorny issue, and a Toby Gard-inspired Crystal Dynamics continue to re-invent and reanimate the Lara undercroft from scratch, most of the Core Design team behind that particular gaming legacy upped sticks and moved onto pastures new - quarter of a mile away, in fact.