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YAY! EA (a couple of words that don't always sit back-to-back) has just announced that it will co-publish We Love Katamari exclusively on PS2 in Europe in early 2006!

Sometimes you can extract great comfort from a lack of change, and usually the older you get the more resistant to change you become. But in the world of videogames, change is everything. Without it, the audience gets extremely bored very quickly indeed, and moves onto games made by companies that succeed in pushing things forward in ways that make things more entertaining for us. (Well, perhaps our audience does anyway.) Cutting straight through the usual introductory paragraph pondering, Sony's Cambridge Studio still appears to wish it was 1999, when ordinary little hackandslash 3D action-adventures like MediEvil won awards.

A release date has been shot out for Empire Interactive and Strangelite's first-person shooter, Starship Troopers, with news of a playable demo on its way too.

Having already announced that there will be lots of exhibitors at the Tokyo Game Show, organisers CESA (the Computer Entertainment Software Association) have revealed a basic list of games we can definitely expect to see - with more to be confirmed.

Ritual will probably re-release the first SiN on Steam, giving gamers who missed it the chance to experience it for the first time and gamers who cried about the bugs, threw it away and played Half-Life instead the chance to go, "This is actually pretty good. I'll seriously consider purchasing your next product."

Leading UK specialist retail chain GAME has stopped taking pre-orders for the launch of Sony's multi-media handheld, the PlayStation Portable, weeks before the machine is set to go on sale this September.

Speculation over the price of Microsoft's forthcoming Xbox 360 console was fuelled today by new reports from the continent mooting a 349 Euro figure, supporting reports that the system will come in at UKP 249 in Britain.

Publisher Rockstar Games has released a new patch for Grand Theft Auto San Andreas which disables and removes [oh come on, Rob. How about 'cleans', 'mops', 'soaks' or something like that? - Ed] the controversial Hot Coffee mini-game - preventing the hack that enabled it in the first place from functioning.

Kao Challengers is coming to the PSP in October, Atari has announced, with the French publisher delivering a dollop of jolly platform-adventuring featuring everyone's favourite Kangaroo hero (maybe).

Next generation videogames based on Robert Ludlum's best-selling spy action novels are on the way, after Vivendi Universal Games secured the exclusive global rights to publish titles based on the internationally renowned author's works.

The three-man development team behind Project Offset have revealed more information about their fantasy-tinged First-Person Shooter.

A limited edition PlayStation 2 version of Resident Evil 4 has been confirmed for the game's North American release, costing exactly the same as the regular edition ($49.99).

This year's QuakeCon has already thrown-up some juicy information before it's even started, with DOOM 3: Resurrection of Evil being confirmed as coming to the Xbox.

Three new Pokémon games are in development for the DS, according to reports in Japanese magazine, Comic Korokoro.

The controversy surrounding Grand Theft Auto continued to rumble on yesterday, following the murder conviction of 20-year old Devin Moore in the U.S.

From August 11th, WipEout Pure owners will be able to engage in a curious piece of Coca-Cola-related product placement by grabbing some free downloadable content for the PSP-only game from the Cokestyle website.

Let's be honest: the PSP is pretty boring right now.

The Xbox Live Arcade is either the best idea Microsoft ever had or the worst; it really does depend on how carefully the company wants to develop it. At the heart of the concept, it gives gamers access to the kind of pick-up-and-play stuff that few publishers could put on the shelves, and lets Microsoft try out some more left field ideas to see how the public responds - all at an impulse price.

Atari will be gracing us with its new PC bound racing title, Crashday, next February.

A man has won a Digital Photography/Imaging gong in Adobe's 2005 Design Achievement Awards for his rather impressive series of photographs portraying a game-style first-person perspective.

Kristan banged hard on the door. There was no reply. He tried again. "Tom? Are you in there?" he shouted.

Activision's movie tie-in title Madagascar is back at the top of the UK software chart this week, climbing a single place to replace Codemasters' Brian Lara International Cricket 2005 in the number one spot.

Billboard commercials will appear in Sony Online Entertainment's PlanetSide this month, streaming ads into the massively-multiplayer first-person shooter's in-game universe.

Popular online retailer Lik-Sang has announced that Sony Computer Entertainment has initiated legal action against it in the high court of Hong Kong for selling PSP consoles to UK and European customers.

Microsoft's X0 event, the oft-annual platform for displaying its forthcoming game titles and hardware, will apparently be held in Amsterdam this year.

As numbers go, 85 million is "big", especially when that figure is describing book sales. If you're talking about 85 million children's books, you're talking about Potter, right? Only half-right in this instance. [Classic misdirection! - Ed] Specifically, Potter is the only children's book series to ever sell more than this amount, the total sales of CS Lewis's Narnia series. That's an awful lot of books. And if your memory of Peter, Edmund, Susan and Lucy's harrowing adventures in the land of snow and ice has been dismissed to some childish corner of your rapidly deteriorating brain, along with Texan bars and hazy episodes of The Red Hand Gang, you'd best prepare for its inevitable return: Disney's about to release the first tale in the series, "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe", as a railroading media franchise this Christmas. The movie will be Disney's biggest to date, in terms of marketing spend at least. When it comes to numbers, Narnia's got it all sewn up.

Not all games have ten-million-pound budgets. Not all games take five years to make it from conception to completion. Not all games come with a massive marketing spend. Not all games do yearly updates to squeeze coins from their fanbase's pockets. Not all games are something you've played before with slightly shinier graphics and ten times as many polygons in the lead character's nose. Not all games even have boxes. Not all games even want boxes.

Codemasters' Brian Lara International Cricket 2005 has stepped up to the number one position in this week's UK sales charts, making it into the first cricket title ever to top the ranking since its origin in 1997.

SEGA has revealed that much-loved developer Treasure will be working on its Nintendo DS adaptation of anime and comic-related title, Bleach.

Ubisoft has acknowledged an issue with US Xbox title Ghost Recon 2: Summit Strike that freezes the game and presents an error message, and says it is looking into the problem.