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Regular visitors to US online store EB Games may have noticed that a listing for PSP title Lord of the Rings: Tactics appeared on the site some weeks ago - but quickly disappeared, with Electronic Arts denying all knowledge of any such game.

David Jaffe, creator of top PS2 action adventure God of War, has confirmed that he's currently working on a new game for PSP.

Resident Evil 5 will be released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, according to an exclusive feature in the latest edition of Japanese gaming mag Famitsu.

Just weeks after Doom co-creator John Romero left his job as project lead on Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows, it's been revealed that top designer J.E. Sawyer has also said goodbye to Midway and moved on to pastures new.

A new independent study by market research firm Phoenix Marketing International suggests that stories in the news media affect consumers' choices when it comes to purchasing videogames.

Japanese publisher Konami has announced that the creators of two of its most successful franchises, Metal Gear Solid and Pro Evolution Soccer, will be attending the Game Convention show in Leipzig next month.

Cricket. Fascinating sport. Fun to watch in person even if you don't understand it. Fun to play with some friends even if you don't understand it. Increasingly enthralling to play and watch in any context the more you do understand it.

THQ has landed its first number one in the UK this year, with urban racer Juiced narrowly knocking EA's Medal of Honor: European Assault off the top spot after two weeks at number one.

Neversoft has revealed the first details of GUN, currently in development for PC, PS2, PSP, Xbox, Xbox 360 and GameCube.

Half-Life developer Valve has signed a worldwide multi-year distribution deal with U.S. publishing colossus Electronic Arts that will see boxed versions of Half-Life 2 on Xbox and the PC-only Half-Life 2: Game of the Year edition ship to stores later this year.

SEGA has gone on record to deny rumours that the Lindbergh arcade board - as used in the new House of the Dead 4 arcade game - is built around Xbox 360 hardware.

Top tech-head website Bit-Tech is showcasing some impressive Battlefield 2 case mods by German architecht Oliver König.

Square Enix has announced that PS2 RPG Radiata Stories will launch in the US on September 6th, but the publisher still can't make its mind up on a European release.

Respect.

Popular Hong Kong-based online retailer Lik-Sang has decided to let people around the world import Sony PlayStation Portable and Nintendo DS handheld consoles with free UPS shipping, the company said this week, as long as users buy a game at the same time.

Dead to Rights: Reckoning, the PlayStation Portable follow-up to Namco Hometek's surprisingly gritty and violent remake of A Man And His Dog (okay, not really) is coming to Europe this winter courtesy of Electronic Arts.

Comic book writer Mark Millar (Ultimate X-Men, Ultimate Fantastic Four) and artist Terry Dodson (X-Force, House of M) have signed up to work on forthcoming Electronic Arts fighter Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects.

EA has released a trailer showing off Burnout Legends on PSP, highlighting some of the game's most exciting characteristics: that it is stupidly fast, that it runs really well, and that it has ridiculously violent and detailed crashes in it.

A new patch for PC shooter Battlefield 2 is now available for download.

While anti-gaming critics are busy worrying about a mod that sees two fictional characters engaging in consensual sex, a neo-Nazi organisation has released a game designed to promote racial divisions and encourage violent acts against members of ethnic minorities.

Fancy a bit of handheld Starcraft? Or how about portable Diablo II? Well, Blizzard is very much interested in your answer judging by the developer's latest newsletter.

Lads' mag Maxim is planning to cover-mount a games DVD stuffed with PC demos and trailers of games on all formats, according to a report on MCV's website.

In a week that's seen Hilly Bandwagon Clinton roaring sanctimoniously about the horrors of a bit of poorly animated rough-and-tumble in Grand Theft Auto, it's interesting that we've spent parts of the weekend wrapped up in a game that demonstrates better than any other that life experience as a whole holds a magnet to your moral compass, not the patterns of behaviour bred in the average gamer.

This score's going to be a bit of a fudge. I can see it now. The problem isn't the quality of the game - World Snooker Championship 2005 is easily the most comprehensive and well worked clack-'em-up I've played, and makes a number of significant gains over its forerunner, of which more in a bit - but rather the question of what sort of value to place on a snooker game in the first place. It's relaxing to watch the pros on the TV occasionally, and it can be top fun to play pool or snooker with the aid of a few jars of ale every now and then, but is it something that you'd spend £30 to actually play yourself on your television?

Apparently somewhere along the line I agreed to write about games as well as play them. So I suppose I'll spend a few minutes explaining the ins and outs of this year's finest videogame. However I want it recognized that I do so under protest! (Noted -Ed)

New evidence has emerged which suggests that the controversial 'Hot Coffee' mod was built into the GTA: San Andreas code and is not simply the work of hackers as Rockstar has claimed.

n-Space has finally finished work on GameCube first-person shooter Geist, according to a posting on the developer's official website.

We often while away the hours thinking about how nice it would be to live in California, where the sun always shines, Schwarzenegger rules and the local Costcutters are populated not with local chavs but with the likes of Harrison Ford and Carmen Electra stocking up on Smirnoff Ice, lighter fluid and scratch cards.

Tomb Raider: Legend and Hitman: Blood Money have slipped to early 2006, SCi-dos (see what we did there?) has confirmed.

Team 17 is Worming its way to PlayStation Portable and Nintendo DS through publisher THQ, the pair announced late on Friday.