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Sony has launched the first phase of a new service which will provide Japanese consumers with downloadable video content for the PlayStation Portable - starting with free content, but moving on to paid-for TV episodes.

As promised at last week's PlayStation Meeting in Japan, Sony has released a free 2.00 upgrade for Japanese PSP handhelds adding an internet browser, support for photo sharing via wireless network and the facility to set background images on the main PSP interface among other things.

One of the great mysteries of our time is why on Earth Microsoft gave the green light to a remake of an N64 game that Nintendo saw fit to wash its hands of four years ago. Although Conker's Bad Fur Day was well-received at the time, its demented price tag or £60 or more meant precious few people ever got to play it. Just 25,000 hardy souls took the plunge in the UK. But, if you ask us, the fact that it got talked about at all had more to do with the game's profanity-laden novelty value and Rare's then-lofty status than anything to do with the game's genuine quality.

LMA Manager 2006 is to appear in "massively expanded" form on both PC and Xbox 360, Codemasters has announced. The publisher has also released some new screenshots of the PC version.

Activision has announced that Star Wars Battlefront II is out on PC, PS2, PSP and Xbox on the very same day as the Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith DVD.

A new trailer for the forthcoming Doom movie is now available to view on US website IGN.

A playable demo for Fahrenheit, Atari's forthcoming paranoramal thriller for PC and consoles, is now available for download.

Atari has announced that a Game Boy Advance version of Driv3r is currently in development, and has released some screenshots into the bargain.

A new trailer for Capcom's Resident Evil 5 is now available for download.

Publisher Take Two is facing further problems over the GTA "Hot Coffee" scandal, with the United States House of Representatives voting overwhelmingly in favour of the launch of a federal investigation into the matter.

The balance between attack and defence is always a difficult thing to get right in team games. In football, for example, you've got 11 players with different roles, but apart from a few tactical variations both teams are essentially competing for the same thing at the same time. Playing a team-based shooter like Counter-Strike is a similar equation; there's push and pull, but you can usually rely on consistency of personnel and technique.

Midway has announced that Hollywood film actors Michael Clarke Duncan and Rachel Griffiths are to voice characters in forthcoming PC, PS2 and Xbox sequel The Suffering: Ties That Bind.

Capcom legend Yoshiki Okamoto - famed for his work on Street Fighter 2 and Resident Evil - has finally unveiled his first Xbox 360 game.

Eidos has released a new trailer for Lara Croft's latest adventure, Tomb Raider: Legend.

Hello indeed. This glorious legend represents the very first spoken words in RPG-lite Restricted Area, (should you be playing as one of the two available female characters). Typos are not the be-all and end-all of civilisation (that honour goes to incorrectly used apostrophes), but their inclusion is never a good sign. Opening with one - that achieves ‘omen' status.

SEGA has announced plans to run the 'Face in the Game' competition once again - giving you the chance to see your very own head on the shoulders of a player in Football Manager 2006.

Konami has acquired the rights to produce games based on American Idol, the popular US reality TV show based on popular UK reality TV show Pop Idol.

Majesco has signed a deal with DreamWorks to produce Game Boy Advance Video versions of tip top animated movies Shrek, Shrek 2 and Shark Tale.

It was love at first sight. We do love Katamari; in fact, we loved Namco's Katamari Damacy from the moment we set eyes on it. Our initial burst of enthusiasm for the bonkers concept, which made us giddy like teenagers and curled something in the pits of our stomachs with excitement as the arrival date of our import gaming care package loomed, settled into a contented and affectionate long-term relationship in which the spark never died. Katamari never ceased to surprise us during the courtship, and even when we'd seen all of its best tricks - even when we'd let out those little moans of pleasure at discovering that thing it could do where it let you roll up entire islands - familiarity never bred contempt, and we were happy to come back to Katamari on a regular basis for more of the same comfortable, psychedelic madness.

Capcom has revealed the names of the forthcoming GameCube, PlayStation Portable and Nintendo DS instalments in the Viewtiful Joe series.

Nintendo of Europe has revealed that it does not plan to follow its American arm's example by distributing free copies of DS title Nintendogs to select members of the Nintendo.com community prior to its launch in Europe later this year.

The Xbox 360 will ship in the UK with over 100 minutes of audio and video already on the system's hard drive, it has emerged, after Microsoft submitted the planned content to the British Board of Film Certification to be rated.

As well as reconfirming its plan to launch Xbox 360 across the world within the year, Microsoft also used last week's Xbox Summit in Japan to tell us what we can expect to see in the box.

Xbox 360 is still due out this year in Europe, North America and Japan, Microsoft declared during its Xbox Summit last week - executive Peter Moore reconfirming the news in the face of gathering rumours that the console might not appear until 2006.

Sony Computer Entertainment president Ken Kutaragi has hinted that there may be playable PlayStation 3 demos at this year's Tokyo Games Show.

Back in April, we ran a story about EB Games listing Ninja Gaiden 2 for the Xbox 360. It seemed logical that the next instalment in the series would appear on Microsoft's next-generation console, since the first game was such a hit on Xbox.

Following its Xbox Summit event in Japan late last week, Microsoft has released a full list of games shown at the event. "Shown" is probably too strong a word, as we can't imagine all of them were there and beaming wide-eyed for the assembled hacks, but even so there are plenty of interesting names in terms of publishers and series now on their way to Xbox 360 to pick through.

Electronic Arts has confirmed that two new Lord of the Rings games are currently in development, revealing that both will feature characters, environments and battle scenarios not seen in the Peter Jackson movies.

Say what you want about Peter Molyneux; there's no denying he's honest. Especially when asked what he thinks about his pseudo strategy title, Black & White, four years after its release.

Like most people, we've long wished we had our very own superpower. It wouldn't even have to be a very good one, like flight or invisibility or laser eyes or any of that nonsense. We'd settle for the ability to tie our shoelaces just by thinking about it, for example, or stop cups of tea from going cold, or make the digibox receive an uninterrupted signal for more than seven minutes at a time.