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Popular Hong Kong-based online retailer Lik-Sang has decided to let people around the world import Sony PlayStation Portable and Nintendo DS handheld consoles with free UPS shipping, the company said this week, as long as users buy a game at the same time.

Dead to Rights: Reckoning, the PlayStation Portable follow-up to Namco Hometek's surprisingly gritty and violent remake of A Man And His Dog (okay, not really) is coming to Europe this winter courtesy of Electronic Arts.

Comic book writer Mark Millar (Ultimate X-Men, Ultimate Fantastic Four) and artist Terry Dodson (X-Force, House of M) have signed up to work on forthcoming Electronic Arts fighter Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects.

EA has released a trailer showing off Burnout Legends on PSP, highlighting some of the game's most exciting characteristics: that it is stupidly fast, that it runs really well, and that it has ridiculously violent and detailed crashes in it.

A new patch for PC shooter Battlefield 2 is now available for download.

While anti-gaming critics are busy worrying about a mod that sees two fictional characters engaging in consensual sex, a neo-Nazi organisation has released a game designed to promote racial divisions and encourage violent acts against members of ethnic minorities.

Fancy a bit of handheld Starcraft? Or how about portable Diablo II? Well, Blizzard is very much interested in your answer judging by the developer's latest newsletter.

Lads' mag Maxim is planning to cover-mount a games DVD stuffed with PC demos and trailers of games on all formats, according to a report on MCV's website.

In a week that's seen Hilly Bandwagon Clinton roaring sanctimoniously about the horrors of a bit of poorly animated rough-and-tumble in Grand Theft Auto, it's interesting that we've spent parts of the weekend wrapped up in a game that demonstrates better than any other that life experience as a whole holds a magnet to your moral compass, not the patterns of behaviour bred in the average gamer.

This score's going to be a bit of a fudge. I can see it now. The problem isn't the quality of the game - World Snooker Championship 2005 is easily the most comprehensive and well worked clack-'em-up I've played, and makes a number of significant gains over its forerunner, of which more in a bit - but rather the question of what sort of value to place on a snooker game in the first place. It's relaxing to watch the pros on the TV occasionally, and it can be top fun to play pool or snooker with the aid of a few jars of ale every now and then, but is it something that you'd spend £30 to actually play yourself on your television?

Apparently somewhere along the line I agreed to write about games as well as play them. So I suppose I'll spend a few minutes explaining the ins and outs of this year's finest videogame. However I want it recognized that I do so under protest! (Noted -Ed)

New evidence has emerged which suggests that the controversial 'Hot Coffee' mod was built into the GTA: San Andreas code and is not simply the work of hackers as Rockstar has claimed.

n-Space has finally finished work on GameCube first-person shooter Geist, according to a posting on the developer's official website.

We often while away the hours thinking about how nice it would be to live in California, where the sun always shines, Schwarzenegger rules and the local Costcutters are populated not with local chavs but with the likes of Harrison Ford and Carmen Electra stocking up on Smirnoff Ice, lighter fluid and scratch cards.

Tomb Raider: Legend and Hitman: Blood Money have slipped to early 2006, SCi-dos (see what we did there?) has confirmed.

Team 17 is Worming its way to PlayStation Portable and Nintendo DS through publisher THQ, the pair announced late on Friday.

Have you ever been run over by a tank?

European trade and media will get a chance to try out the Xbox 360 console ahead of its launch here this holiday season, with Microsoft today confirming that it is planning to showcase the next-generation system at an X05 event in October.

Leading publisher Electronic Arts has revealed that The Godfather, seen as its headline M-rated title for the holiday season, has slipped into next year - leading analysts to reduce their full-year estimates for the company's performance.

While videogames continue to dominate headlines in the United States for all the wrong reasons, an article in the British Medical Journal this week highlights several examples of the medium's therapeutic potential, reporting that children suffering from cancer and other severe conditions were actually distracted from their pain by videogames under test conditions.

New Line Cinema has hopped on the Universal Media Disc bandwagon, presumably causing some damage to axels already worn by the weight of Buena Vista, Fox Home Entertainment et al in the process.

Jack Thompson, Miami-based lawyer and long time critic of violence in videogames, has launched a scathing attack on Entertainment Software Association president Doug Lowenstein.

The E3 trailer for Ensemble Studios' PC real-time strategy sequel Age of Empires III is now available for download.

Codemasters has revealed more of what we can expect from next year's TOCA Race Driver 3 for PC, PS2 and Xbox, and released some brand new screenshots into the bargain.

Bandai has announced plans to publish two new titles for Sony's big black box and shiny little handheld.

Say hello, again, to top counter-terrorist operative and night vision goggles fan Sam Fisher - now starring in his first 3D adventure on a handheld. Now, it's no easy task to capture all the complexities of Splinter Cell's gameplay and control systems on a portable machine, as previous GBA titles have proved. However, we had higher hopes for Chaos Theory DS - after all, there are two screens to play with and one of them's touchable, for starters.

It's been confirmed that Nintendo will not include an online mode in DS title Metroid Prime: Hunters, according to US website 1UP.

Activision has revealed a few more details of True Crime 2 for PS2, Xbox and GameCube.

As much of a global smash hit as Enter The Matrix was, it's fair to say that it was hardly the game Matrix fans demanded. As Shiny boss Dave Perry himself admits in this revealing interview, you wouldn't get away with releasing a Batman game that didn't allow you to play as the Caped Crusader, and it's stating the obvious to note that gamers wanted to play as Neo.