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Needles, history tells us, are not easily retrieved from haystacks. Indeed, assuming a fairly standard-size needle and a stack of fairly disorganised hay - the likes of which you might feed to a goat, for example (although, for those of you interpreting that as an open invitation to feed spiked grass to the witless protagonists of popular bedtime fables, we do frown on attempted grufficide) - it's easy to imagine someone having great difficulty extracting said sewing utensil once inserted into said stack. Similarly, it's easy to imagine Team 17 having difficulty re-establishing what made Worms so entertaining in the first place (worms, incidentally, should also steer clear of haystacks, unless they're blessed with a tremendous sense of direction), and today's only noteworthy European release almost wipes away the need for imagination in the first place.

Momentum Pictures will release two of its more popular films on UMD format, smack-bang on the launch date of Sony's PSP.

In anticipation of Nintendo's next generation machine, currently dubbed 'Revolution', a couple of recent stories released on the internet detailing images of the machine and its tech demos have been discovered as fakes.

A Microsoft presentation about the Xbox 360 in Spain has revealed a new peripheral for the console - a miniature keyboard which fits onto the bottom of a standard joypad and allows the use of text messages and chat during play.

Those kind chaps at Vivendi Universal Games have found 1200 F.E.A.R. beta keys lodged down the back of the sofa down at Monolith and have been good enough to spread the love to those than fancy entering into a competition at this bizarre little teaser website.

The first instalment in Ritual's SiN Episodes series, self-funded first-person shooters to be distributed via Valve's Steam premium content service, will be released this autumn and will cost "well below $19.99", according to the developer.

WipEout fans can download yet more content for the PSP version today as Sony releases the first "Classic Pack" of reworked tracks from previous titles.

Electronic Arts has clarified the role of the late, great Marlon Brando in its Godfather game, which recently slipped to 2006.

The much-hyped vocal performance by the late Marlon Brando in EA's forthcoming The Godfather: The Game may not be used in the title after all, according to a New York Times report this week.

Sony America says that the latest PlayStation Portable software update, released in Japan last week, will be made available for US PSP owners on August 12th.

Given the invitingly demented image you're likely to have clicked on to reach this review, it seems fair to guess that we're addressing a mixture of the bored, the curious, the parent and the Japanophile.

Nintendo has finally found time to give an official release date to spanky DS puzzler, Meteos.

HBO has opened its ample doors and welcomed Sony's Universal Media Disc (UMD) format into the fold, with several series' on their way.

Namco has unveiled information about its newest addition to the Tales franchise, Tales of the Abyss.

Rumours of a PlayStation 3 remake of Final Fantasy VII refuse to die, as Square Enix remains characteristically coy at the weekend's Square Enix Party.

Reports that Microsoft is to put a HD-DVD drive into a future version of the Xbox 360 have surfaced on the web over the weekend, drawing on a quote made by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates back at the end of June.

The Matrix Online has taken yet another misfortunate turn after critical beatings and commercial indifference – its online gameworld has now shrunk by two-thirds.

The Screen Actor's Guild (SAG) has renewed its contract to supply work for the games industry after a long running internal debate over the pay of voice actors left negotiations in limbo.

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is no longer available to buy or rent in Australia after the country's Office of Film and Literature Classification got wind of the increasingly notorious hidden sex-mini-game known as "Hot Coffee".

The first Prince of Persia 3 development video diary has been made available for download on Eurofiles.

Final Fantasy VII's PS2 spin-off Dirge of Cerberus will be playable over the internet via Square Enix's own Japanese PlayOnline service, according to reports from the Square Enix Party event that took place over the weekend.

Square Enix's latest publicity vehicle, the Square Enix Party, has come and gone in Japan and with it brought more details of several new titles - including release dates for Final Fantasy XII and Kingdom Hearts II.

There's a peculiar thing about adventure game reviews. Aside from the tedious inevitability of the mainstream press attempting some widespread analysis of the entire genre, there comes alongside them the frothing insanity of the adventure gaming specialist press. These poor starving beings wander through their lives wraith-like, long gaunt faces, bony fingers clasping with a rigor mortis grip around any release that might feature some notion of pointing and clicking. Letting these people review adventure games is like letting junkies review heroin. However cut the purity might be, however poor quality, whatever diseases might worm through their bodies as a result of playing, dammit man, it's a hit. Give it a 10.

Please, God, don't make her ask me to dance.

Nintendo is making a Game Boy Advance version of DS puzzle game, Polarium, set for release in Japan on October 13th according to Famitsu.

Swiftly proving to be the format of choice for puzzle games, Nintendo is set to publish another title in the genre, according to Famitsu.

Following Microsoft's recent announcement that it had secured the rights to build massively-multiplayer games based on the Marvel universe of comic stars, Activision has extended its own agreement with Marvel to allow it to create traditional "non-persistent" RPGs. By which it presumably means something like X-Men Legends, except with more characters in it.

Konami has confirmed the official release date for forthcoming DS title, Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow.

It was a good first innings for Codemasters this week as Brian Lara International Cricket 2005 batted its way up to the top of the Xbox chart, but the cricketing title was ultimately caught behind Madagascar's top order display in the All Format chart as Activision's film license effort held onto the coveted UK number one spot.

Roald Dahl's stories are full of vicious cruelties visited upon children. That's why children like them, being so vicious and cruel themselves. Sadly, of course, the loveable old Norwegian is no longer with us, and thus can no longer weave magical tales to demonstrate his wondrous storytelling abilities, vivid imagination and casual racist tendencies.