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Microsoft has obtained the exclusive rights to develop and publish massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) based on Marvel superheroes for Xbox 360.

Unconfirmed reports this week indicate that Nintendo is planning to launch a branded WiFi adapter which users without existing wireless network gear can plug into their PCs to let them go online with the Nintendo DS - and Revolution.

EA and DICE Canada have confirmed that an expansion pack for Battlefield 2 is currently in the works and should be with us this autumn.

The ATI-designed graphics part for the Xbox 360 will be built by Taiwanese Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC), with the firm set to use its cutting edge 90 nanometre process to deliver millions of the chips by the end of the year.

Forget poly counts. Bin Normal Mapping, High Dynamic Range or whatever trendy buzzwords are currently being wheeled out this week. You can measure the evolution of videogames by the role that hats play. Yes, that's right, hats. While it was satisfying enough to shoot the tin helmets off Nazi soldiers back when Medal Of Honor was new, what we really wanted to do was run up to them while whistling the theme tune to The Great Escape, steal their hat and cartwheel along the wall before popping a cap in them. And their mates. And the scared chickens that have somehow strayed into this increasingly surreal paragraph. Shoo.

Planets are big things. Interplanetary conflict is even bigger. Meteos, which deals with both, has been put together by Tetsuya Mizuguchi, whose work speaks for itself, and Masahiro Sakurai, who invented Kirby and Smash Bros. From our perspective then, it's a big game about big things. Yet what we find really endearing about it, slightly perversely, is the way it hits so many tiny little nails on the head with such precision.

Troubled publisher Majesco Entertainment has announced plans to publish Ghost Rider on Xbox, PS2 and PSP next summer, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Eurogamer and Electronic Arts are happy to announce that next week we're going to kill you all. Or, more likely, you're going to kill all of us.

We were in a hotel room with Rockstar yesterday. "Hot Coffee" was neither served nor offered.

A representative from Electronic Arts UK has confirmed to Eurogamer that, despite rumours to the contrary, there are currently no plans to release The Godfather on any Nintendo consoles.

Ever thought what a good idea it would be to remake a scene from classic military flick A Few Good Men as if it was actually a scene in Half-Life 2?

It's official - Codemasters is no longer set to publish Wartime Command, the PC real-time strategy title from Russian developer 1C Company.

There's bad timing and then there's Pivotal timing. Not content with somehow managing to release Conflict Desert Storm just before the second tussle with Saddam got underway (and getting the stunningly-subtitled 'Back To Baghdad' sequel out in time for the real thing), it's now inadvertently lining up its take on The War On Global Terror with breathtaking inappropriateness. Roger Bennett, we've got The Daily Mail on line one...

Those evil black-hearted hateful importing sonsofbitches we keep hearing about on the news were given cause to celebrate again today as Sony America released another Gamma Pack of downloadable content for the US version of WipEout Pure.

Shadow of the Colossus, the game we've all decided is the spiritual successor to ICO, will be released on PS2 in Japan this October 27th according to Famitsu quoting Sony Japan.

Mythic Entertainment has "postponed production" of its sci-fi massively multiplayer online RPG Imperator. Following an internal review, the company decided it "just wasn't great enough to be a Mythic game at this time".

Doom co-creator John Romero has confirmed rumours that he is no longer working for Midway, where he was working as project lead on the latest incarnation of the Gauntlet franchise at the company's San Diego offices.

Hideki Konno, producer of the forthcoming Mario Kart game for the Nintendo DS, has revealed a few more details of what we can expect when the title races into view later this year.

It seems there may be more going on at the Rare HQ than just work on Xbox 360 titles Kameo and Perfect Dark Zero, if hints on the developer's website are anything to go by.

Nintendo DS duo Pokémon Diamond and Pearl will be released simultaneously in Japan next year, according to reports, while a third game named Pokémon Ranger is also expected to appear.

Atari has announced that its new Flashback 2 plug-and-play console will feature classic Activision titles Pitfall! and River Raid.

Ubisoft has no plans to release Lunar: Dragon Song for Nintendo DS in Europe, the publisher told us this week.

British censors have stated that the controversial Hot Coffee mod for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas won't change their rating for the title - but Australian censors may be on the verge of banning the title from sale.

So what's more important to you - the roof over your head or the characters you've created in your favourite MMORPG?

David Kirk, chief scientist at NVIDIA and leader of the teams behind the GeForce 7800 and PS3 graphics chips, has revealed that the company plans to work closely and extensively with Sony in the future.

We all moan when the games industry packs up and suns itself for a couple of months, but we'd rather look on the bright side of this situation. For a start, this release drought leaves the high street stores desperately trying to spur demand with all manner of tempting sales. Even a cursory glance at the many sales on at present reveals that a whole range of relatively new releases are being discounted to scarily low levels in an attempt to get stock moving. Unreal Championship 2 on Xbox for £14.99 anyone? The deals are out there...

Budget games are a big deal. We're not all made of money, as the saying goes, and, as the prices of major new games start to tumble faster and faster, the number of high quality games shipping out at a budget price point is on the up. Just last week in fact, Sony revealed that PS2 Platinum titles would soon hit £14.99 in the UK, and surely it won't be long before Nintendo and Microsoft follow suit.

The studio behind the Age of Empires (and Age of Mythology) series is working on a new massively multiplayer title, a job listing on Ensemble Studio's company website has revealed.

Hip Interactive Europe has issued a statement this afternoon explaining that it will be continuing business as usual despite the bankruptcy of the North American division of the company, Hip Interactive Corp.

A post by site administrator Chris Pickford over on the Bizarre Creations forums has revealed that there's no guarantee Xbox 360 title Project Gotham Racing 3 will run at 60 frames per second.