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For a long time Destroy All Humans looked like it had the potential to be one of the games to look forward to this year. Full of smart humour, the hugely original premise turns the alien invasion concept on its head, puts you in the shoes of the bug-eyed extra terrestrial, sets it in the bubble-headed carefree environs of 1950s American suburbia and makes the 'pathetic humans' the villains for once. With flying saucer shoot-'em-up destruction, mind control, telekinesis, jackpacking, and holographic identity theft all in the mix, the game looks like a banker. Little wonder our early impressions of the game suggested nothing less than brilliance.

If Battlefield has a fault, then it's that it doesn't spew golden coins from the top of your monitor when you play it. More realistically, it's that as a multiplayer game which opened up its code to the community, inclusions in the latest edition are things we might have already seen (and become overly familiar with) in a mod capacity. If it wasn't for Desert Combat, the modern setting alone would be enough to make people queue up to reenlist in a Battlefield sequel. As it is, we're a little harder to impress. Basic limitations like a smallish selection of maps and that there's only one game mode included also makes hackles rise. It's lucky that the beauty of Battlefield is in the details.

It seems improbable, but here we are in the first week of Wimbledon and there's barely a cloud in the sky over London, we're four days in and two Brits are still in the men's tournament, and the BBC Breakfast News has only mentioned Henman Hill 47 times this week. Just you wait until Andrew Murray starts knocking out the big guns; it'll be the 'Murray Mound' before you know it. But the prospect of 'Tiger' Tim's fey clenched fist of triumph pales into the background once you realise Nintendo is bringing an almost pixel-perfect handheld version of Mario Power Tennis to the GBA.

A playable demo of Brian Lara International Cricket 2005 is now available on Eurofiles. It's the one with commentary now and everything.

Eidos' forthcoming PC, PS2 and Xbox gangbanger 25 to Life has come under yet more fire - this time from charity organisation the Taser Foundation.

Two new trailers for Black & White 2, the sequel to Lionhead Studios' best-selling PC god sim, are now up for grabs on Eurofiles.

The secrecy-shrouded controller for the Nintendo Revolution console has been seen by a number of developers already, according to comments made byNintendo of America VP of sales and marketing Reggie Fils-Aime.

Microsoft may be preparing to announce a new batch of Japanese-developed titles for the Xbox 360 in the coming weeks, with media reports in the Far East suggesting that new third-party deals will be revealed during July.

Fans of Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition... probably don't read this website! In any event, there's a trailer of the new PlayStation Portable version available now on Eurofiles. It's 27MB.

US website Battleground Zero has announced the official launch of a new Xbox Live tournament system.

Fans of the Left Behind series of books - and there must be some, since more than 63 million copies have been sold worldwide - will soon be able to join the battle of good versus evil with the release of a new real-time strategy title for PC.

The next game in the .//hack franchise will take the series online for the first time, according to Famitsu magazine.

A recent study by financial analysts at Merrill Lynch Japan suggests that the PlayStation 3 may cost up to $490 dollars to manufacture, with the company predicting that Sony will launch at $399 and take a $1.18bn loss in its first year on the market.

Valve's Robin Walker has revealed a smattering of new details about Aftermath, the forthcoming Half-Life 2 expansion pack that most PC gamers with a pulse will be adding to their collection later this year.

Ah, eBay. Not a day goes past that doesn't see an eBay link pop up in our inboxes or on instant messaging. Sometimes it's for an item that somebody thinks we'd like. Sometimes it's for an item that somebody wants us to buy. Sometimes it's our little sisters demanding we fork over access to our PayPal accounts so we can lose money on flea-bitten Take That memorabilia. You know.

Square Enix has revealed that the Universal Media Disc (UMD) version of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children - i.e. the version that will run on PSPs - will be released at the same time as the DVD version in Japan.

Bizarre Creations has hit back at critics who claimed that a screenshot from Project Gotham 3 released last week couldn't possibly be the real deal. You can see the pic in question here.

HMV has announced plans to offer games and films via its new digital download service.

Alten8 has signed a deal with retro publisher Cronosoft to release old games in the form they originally appeared.

As you may recall, last week we published a story about a forthcoming baseball match between the Kansas City T-Bones and the Schaumburg Flyers.

Ubisoft has announced plans to sponsor Check-em, a new charity initiative aimed at getting men to feel themselves up more often.

Konami president Michihiro Ishizuka has revealed that the developer is currently working on an all-new title for Xbox 360, hinting that it will be exclusive to the platform.

EA has released an 80-second trailer showing off in-game sequences of its forthcoming videogame based on Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather mafia films. You can download the trailer from Eurofiles here.

Namco appears to be working on a third instalment in the XenoSaga RPG series judging by an update on a Japanese voice actor's website.

A poster promoting Uwe Boll's forthcoming movie bastardisation of Terminal Velocity's BloodRayne games popped up on the net this week. You can find it over at IMDB here.

Bungie has announced that a new set of Halo 2 maps is now available free of charge via Xbox Live.

ZOO Digital has announced the latest Premier Manager game, PM 2005-2006, which will be released on PS2, PC and GBA in August, by which time Liverpool will be well on their way to defending their Champions League crown. You know, or not.

NCsoft Europe has announced that it hopes to top its pre-order campaigns for the likes of Guild Wars and City of Heroes by allowing those eager to play Auto Assault, its next big massively multiplayer effort, to elect a favourite in-game weapon to be included in the pre-order campaign for the UK, France, Germany and Italy.

Blizzard Entertainment has announced plans to hold the first ever Blizzard Convention in the US this October.

Over a million units of the Nintendo DS handheld have been sold in Europe since the console launched, according to the latest figures to be released by Nintendo - with around a quarter of the consoles sold in the UK.