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Dungeons & Dragons fans (and Atari) aren't having a particularly good week. With Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach -ing out into 2006, Atari's stablemate RPG, Dragonshard has also been delayed.

The PlayStation 2 version of Resident Evil 4, due out in Europe on November 4th, will feature proper a 16:9 widescreen mode where the GameCube version merely had an enforced letterbox at 4:3 that could be zoomed on proper widescreen tellys.

American PSP owners looking forward to browsing the web on their handhelds this weekend were stung on Friday by Sony's revelation that the 2.00 firmware upgrade has been set back until sometime this week.

Entertainment outfit Sanctuary has found UMD (just you be glad it wasn't the headline) and promised to release film-of-the-book Dune and film-of-the-Dennis-Hopper-acting-nuts Blue Velvet on the Sony disc format this October.

A new 3D action game is being lined-up for PC, Xbox and PSP, called Crash Dummy vs. the evil D-Troit. Hmm.

An agreement has been signed to publish a range of graphic novels based on American McGee's games.

Nintendo is asking owners of its DS system to test the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, the service designed to let its handheld gamers access the internet and play multiplayer games against other users.

Koei is gearing up for next month's Tokyo Game Show in Japan, with the announcement of its line-up titles. Let's just say, we hope you like Dynasty Warriors.

Football Manager - whether by its current name or the one it used go by, Championship Manager - has long been considered the benchmark for the football management sub-genre. However it's never strayed too far from its PC roots - at least, its headlining editions never have. But that could be about to change with the release next spring of the Xbox 360 version of Football Manager 2006. It's fully-featured, and London-based developer Sports Interactive thinks it's going to do very well - and have very nice things to say in general about Microsoft's new console format. Hot on the heels of yesterday evening's announcement, we caught up with SI MD Miles Jacobson to ask him about it.

Gamepark Holdings, the company behind the new, homebrew-heavy GPX2 multimedia handheld (which we haven't reported on previously, if memory serves, but which looks brilliant), is offering you a rather unique opportunity – to name its machine.

Following on from the addition of a web browser and wireless photo sharing in a recent software update to the PSP, Sony is now considering a host of new functionality for the console - which may include the introduction of a camera.

id Software and developer Splash Damage have shed some light on the next instalment to their first-person shooter line-up, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.

Midway has spilled the beans on a number of its forthcoming titles at a recent press event. Under some healthy coercion, that is.

Those of you bored of first- and third-person shooters might be interested to learn of and sample a project undertaken by a chap named Julian Oliver. Having spent a lot of time discussing the idea, Oliver has put together a small demo of a second-person shooter.

Eiji Aonuma has told Nintendo's official Latin American magazine that he will be in charge of developing Zelda for Revolution.

Stargate: SG-1: The Alliance is still in development according to developer Perception, despite publisher JoWooD's declaration announcing last week that it planned to cancel it because it was, to cut a long story short, a bit rubbish.

Microsoft has confirmed that it will be inviting industry leaders (and hordes of ligging journos) to Amsterdam this October 4th and 5th to hear the company's vision for Xbox 360 at X05 - and get the chance to play some of the first (hopefully finished) games. And then stagger home and tell people about them.

In more retro-related news, Konami will be bringing a version of its 1998 PlayStation RPG, Azure Dreams, to Nintendo DS.

Manufacturers seeking to release peripherals for the Xbox 360 will have to pay royalties to Microsoft on each unit sold, with a new security system on the console preventing the connection of unlicensed devices.

Midway has once again brought back its violently endearing Rampage series, with a new title in the works: Rampage: Total Destruction [Of The Use Of Colons To Precede It, probably - Ed]

Famitsu has taken the covers off a new PlayStation 2 game, called Ikusagami, coming from the loins of developer Genki.

Those of a woolly-jacketed, shouting-at-chilly-sportsmen-type bent will be pleased to learn that Football Manager 2006 is on its way to Xbox 360. As Miles Jacobson, outspoken MD of the developer, put it: "Finally a home console system is being released that can do Football Manager justice."

Croteam is going all-out for Serious Sam II, providing a co-op mode that allows up to 16 players to tackle the game, which is due out this autumn.

Yet another gamer has died from exhaustion, after playing for over 50 hours continuously, according to Korean news publication, The Chosun Ilbo.

Those of you who entered our recent competitions for an LCD screen and a Worms 4/Xbox combo have been beating down our email-shaped doorway in an attempt to find out whether you've won. Finally, we can reveal who did.

Namco has a new PlayStation Portable game lined up for us, going by the name of Bounty Hounds. And no, it has nothing to do with the strapline. Sorry.

It's turning into a good day for European versions of big Japanese games, as Koei has just stepped up to publish strategy RPG, Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana, in Europe.

It's time for a few scientific experiments.

Japanese horror is a scary thing. Example: a friend of ours went shopping on Sunday and found a three-foot-high little-girl doll with face-covering jet-black hair. Inevitably, said doll was then positioned at the top of a flight of stairs.

Valve has started trailing Half-Life 2 expansion Aftermath ahead of its September release. The video is more of a teaser really, and hints at darker themes (and, as if to illustrate this, is also really quite dark and at points hard to make out).