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Following earlier reports that Jeff Minter's new 'light synth' software will be built into all Xbox 360s, the loveable old hippy has revealed more of his thoughts on Microsoft's next-gen console.

Korean publisher Webzen has released a new 'concept' trailer for forthcoming PC and Xbox 360 gangbanger, All Points Bulletin. You can download it here.

Following reported problems with the Gizmondo's battery and charger, a representative has gone on record to clear up any confusion.

Following reports that Nintendo is to launch Salmon Pink and Electric Blue versions of the DS in Australia this September, Nintendo UK has informed us that it is not intending to do the same thing over here.

Atari has scooped the UK distribution rights to Archer Maclean's Mercury, the superb blob-guiding PSP puzzler from Ignition/ Awesome Studios.

Ritual Entertainment's long-awaited sequel to SiN is to be released episodically over Valve's Steam digital distribution system, with chapters lasting around six hours each to be released "every three to four months" for around $20 (£11.38) a pop.

Following yesterday's news that the price of Platinum PS2 games is being slashed to around £14.99, Sony's rivals have informed Eurogamer that they have no plans to do the same with their own budget ranges.

A new clinic has opened in China to care for young people who are addicted to online gaming, according to an Associated Press report.

The first ever conviction for modifying a games console has been secured in the UK, with an 22 year-old Cambridge graduate receiving 140 hours community service and a bill for £750 costs from a court in Wales.

NCsoft has annnounced plans to release a new update for comic book-inspired PC MMORPG City of Heroes.

A new trailer for Huxley, Webzen's forthcoming PC and Xbox 360 title, is now available on Eurofiles.

Rumour has it that Capcom is hard at work on a remake of the first Resident Evil game for the Nintendo DS.

Nintendo is to expand DS title Band Brothers – to be renamed Jam With The Band in America later this year – with a GBA cartridge to include extra songs.

An 11 year-old boy appeared in court yesterday to explain how he was driven to commit a violent act after playing a PlayStation 2 game.

The first title in the Lunar RPG series in ten years has been signed by Ubisoft, and is set to come exclusively to the Nintendo DS.

Hackers have succeeded in making the PlayStation Portable play pirated copies of four commercial games from the Memory Stick slot, in a worrying development that could eventually lead to widespread piracy on the platform.

Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi has revealed a few more details of his forthcoming Xbox 360-exclusive title, Lost Odyssey.

Team Ninja chief Tomonobu Itagaki has spoken of his 'anxiety' over Microsoft's decision to stick with the DVD disc format on its forthcoming Xbox 360 console, expressing concerns that developers will have difficulties squeezing high-definition pre-rendered sequences onto the 9GB disc.

Some game reviews are very difficult to write. This is one of them.

Interesting conversation. In the pub the other day (side note: for those questioning my continual pub references recently, I am actually spending a lot more time in the pub; it's not just the product of some editorial mandate to be blokish in print), a friend of mine who reads the site quite a lot asked me why I have such a problem with concept art. I'm "always taking shots at it", apparently. I suppose I am. What I said to him was simple: I like concept art; I just don't see it as a satisfactory reward for tirelessly chipping away at a game. If you like a game and you're good at it, it should be clever enough to reward you with things that accentuate and augment the things you love about it. To me, that's good reward structure. Spending an hour taking on the same task over and over in exchange for a scrawled version of the main character, which looks blurry on your TV anyway, doesn't seem as worthwhile. Half-Life 2 got this right - continually evolving, toying with your expectations, turning evil things on their head (or putting them on a virtual leash), and climaxing in a symphonious spectacle of mechanical rediscovery and oblique storytelling. Mercury also gets it right.

WipEout Pure does a lot of capitalising.

Historically, the football isn't meant to wind up in your hands. Unless of course you're Tiago defending a forty-yard cross-field pass at Anfield. The same is true of handheld football games. There just aren't very many good ones. A quick straw poll of the footy fans here couldn't even come up with one convincing candidate. My old flatmate Rich used to have a soft spot for a couple of Game Boy football games, but I honestly can't remember what they were, so they clearly weren't that good.

The price of Platinum PS2 games is set to be slashed, Sony Computer Entertainment UK confirmed today.

Rumours of a third instalment of Ground Control have been flatly denied by series developer Massive Entertainment, who instead revealed some new info on its next game.

Last month, if you recall, we reported that the Sonic Gems Collection for PS2 and Gamecube will include the Streets of Rage games as well as a healthy line-up of classic Sonic titles.

Yes, it's time for another episode of My Console's Better Than Yours, this week starring no less than three top gaming bigwigs - Sony's Kaz Hirai, Microsoft's J Allard and Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime.

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has admitted that the Nintendo Revolution console may arrive on the market after Sony's PS3 - but said that it will not "fall behind by too much."

Not content with winning horse races, owning restaurants and hawking pizzas, superstar jockey Frankie Dettori has now decided to expand his empire into the world of gaming.

Greedily ripping the cellophane from my copy of Metal Gear Acid on the train, I was distressed to learn that the clip holding the UMD had worn out, and I wound up catapulting the poor disc halfway across a busy Tube carriage. At which point the beautifully illustrated manual nearly fell into a pile of sick. Both items escaped unblemished through a mixture of resilience (UMDs are deceptively tough) and my own forethought (I had my knees together under the potential flight-path of the tumbling manual). But it was a sign of things to come.

Following the recent acquisition of development studio Creative Assembly, SEGA has announced that it's also secured the rights to publish the Rome: Total War - Barbarian Invasion expansion pack, previously down as an Activision title. You can see some screenshots here.