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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.

Both Colin McRae and TOCA Race Driver will be released alongside the PSP in Europe on September 1st, Codemasters confirmed today - and both games will take full advantage of the handheld's wireless multiplayer options.

With Famitsu haemorrhaging so much information this month, it's little surprise to see more juicy titbits unveiled; this time the subject is PlayStation 2 role-playing game, Rogue Galaxy.

Star Wars creator George Lucas gave the keynote speech earlier this week at annual computer graphics and interactive entertainment expo SIGGRAPH and expressed his desire for improved artificial intelligence in games.

A new blog has been started by Zipper Interactive and Sony Computer Entertainment America, chronicling information about SOCOM 3: U.S Navy SEALs.

Have you seen the Fahrenheit demo yet? Christ on a bike! It looks brilliant. I mean, it's clearly not going to be perfect, but it's intelligent, insightful, funny, atmospheric and determinedly adult entertainment. Clearly, it could all fall apart in the final game, but that I've seen something which works and demonstrates it has a vision worth praying for makes me get out the dusty rosary beads and start Hail Marying.

Capcom's masterful slice of survival horror, Resident Evil 4, is coming to the PS2 somewhat sooner than initially anticipated, with both the US and European releases now confirmed for a pre-Christmas release.

A rare interview with Nintendo's second-party cohorts Retro Studios has shed some light on Metroid Prime 3, which is bound for release on the next-gen Revolution format sometime next year by current estimates.

Publisher THQ has confirmed reports that GSC Gameworld's toxic PC first-person shooter S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl will not be released until April 2006 at the earliest.

SEGA has declined to comment on reports that Sonic Team is preparing a sequel to quirky Nintendo DS mini-games package Project Rub (known as Feel the Magic in the US and I Would Die For You in Japan).

Following hints last week of a sequel to DS launch title Project Rub (known as Feel the Magic: XY-XX in the States), a certain weekly Japanese games magazine has confirmed and previewed it in some detail.

Tetsuya Mizuguchi has become one of THE names to look for in Japanese game development; so much so that Microsoft has even made a big song and dance about the fact that he's developing a game for Xbox 360. In this brief interview supplied by Ubisoft, Mizuguchi discusses his PlayStation Portable puzzle title Lumines, which will be released on September 1st in Europe alongside the PSP itself.

As part of our ongoing series of discussions with NetDevil, creators of massively-multiplayer vehicular-combat game Auto Assault, we talk to president Scott Brown about the developer's attempts to incorporate the genre's traditional elements of social interaction. Auto Assault is due out in Europe and the USA simultaneously later this year. You can read more about it on the game's European website.

UPDATE 04/08: Thanks to everyone who joined in last night! And apologies to anybody who had the misfortune of riding shotgun in yours truly's jeeps. Always an ill-fated position.

The world premiere of Tomb Raider: Legend is to be held at the German Games Convention in Leipzig, SCi-dos has announced.

The Doom III mod community have created a neat little mini-game, transporting the world of id Software's first-person shooter into chess.

Speculation over the price of the PlayStation 3 has been fuelled this week by the appearance of comments from NVIDIA chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang, who compared his firm's new approach to graphics card pricing to Sony's PS2 plans.

UK pop artist, Natasha Bedingfield, has been signed up to feature in Electronic Arts' From Russia With Love, reports Billboard.com.

Malinche Entertainment has created a variation of the old Choose Your Own Adventure books... but on Apple's iPod.

Developer Zen Studios is creating a new title for the Nintendo DS, called Flipper Critters, a fantasy pinball game.

You can tell the Nintendo Revolution anticipation is getting to a few people, as yet another fake sighting of the machine was embarrassingly displayed on the internet last night.

The acclaimed Mutant Storm franchise will be landing on Microsoft's imminent new console, Xbox 360, thanks to a deal signed between the US giant and the game's London based developer, PomPom Software.

Ridge Racer 6 may see a surprise launch alongside Microsoft's Xbox 360, according to Namco's updated U.S release calendar slotting the game in for an autumn 2005 date.

Sony's PlayStation 3 may be equipped with faster Blu-ray drives for launch after it was revealed a speedier format will be available before the next generation machine is ready for retail.

When this writer got upset with EA's Cricket 2005 earlier this week it was partly on account of what seemed like depressingly unrealistic scorelines. Judging by events at Lords this week, however, wickets really do fall at a ridiculous rate where England's cricketers are concerned. Bowl-ocks!

This has probably been kicking around for ages, but in deference to games-blog Kotaku where we found it, we'll bang out a mention anyway: Swedish band Game Over has come up with various heavy metal compositions based upon classic Nintendo soundtracks. Say gwar to Nintendo Metal.