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Webzen has confirmed that All Points Bulletin - the new MMOG from developer Real Time Worlds - is coming to Xbox 360 as well as PC.

Electronic Arts dominates the top of the UK charts this week, with Medal of Honor: European Assault up one place to number one, while Battlefield 2 is a strong new entry for the company at number two.

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has confirmed that the company is thinking about future revisions of the Xbox 360 hardware already, and may incorporate a HD-DVD drive into the console at some point down the line.

An American gamer by the name of Zac Bandremer has come up with a solution to the age-old problems of sweaty palms, sticky fingers and little bits of grey ming gathering on your controller.

PS2-owning Leatherfaces across the country will be pleased to hear that Nubytech is releasing a new version of its best-selling Resident Evil Chainsaw controller.

Nintendo has announced plans to release a new firmware update for Play-Yan, the Japanese peripheral that allows you to watch movies on your Game Boy Advance or DS.

Ubisoft revealed this week that Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 3 will not be known as Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 3 at all. Instead it's to be termed Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter when it sees release later this year on PC, Xbox 360, Xbox, PS2 and GameCube.

Bad news for PSP hackers - Sony knows what you're up to and is taking steps to stop it.

It's been four years since developer Remedy first announced that Max Payne was getting an adventure on the big screen - and since then, we've heard nothing.

Online retailer ElectricBirdLand was today ordered to cease selling imported PSP consoles with immediate effect after Sony Computer Entertainment won an injunction in the high court.

"Black is about shooting stuff and blowing s**t up," screams Criterion's creative boss Alex Ward in a closed off room at E3. A few years ago, Ward told Eurogamer that Burnout was about "driving fast and crashing cars". Simplicity in concept, Ward explained then, was key to his brand of high impact console game. Criterion's not rubbish any more, Burnout's sold millions and a few minutes with Black last week left us terrified, so we're in no position to argue. Frankly, heaven forfend.

id Software, creator of blockbuster first-person shooter Quake, has signed a deal with Pulse Interactive to produce a new version of the game for mobile phones.

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Jon Dowdeswell, Relic producer, is putting a brave face on the fact he flew in from Vancouver yesterday by enthusiastically building an Ork base at the Games Workshop HQ in Nottingham. He looks shagged. "Dawn of War is a battlefield RTS like you've never seen before," he rumbles. Ork stuff is deployed as if by magic and legions of green, warty men traipse over a hill, smack into a chapter of Space Marines. What happens next reminds you that Relic has a decent strategy reputation for a reason.

Both for newcomers and the initiated, I think it's worth taking a few moments to reiterate what the Warhammer 40,000 universe is all about. Bear with me. If we're exceedingly lucky, we'll chance upon a point.

Blinx 2: Masters Of Time will be part of Microsoft's Christmas Xbox line-up, the Redmond giant announced this morning, and purports to be the " world's first 5-D game, giving players control over both Time and Space". Bold claims indeed.

Adult gamers in Japan have a strong preference for Nintendo's DS over Sony's PSP, according to a new magazine survey - published as the Nintendo DS breaks the million unit sales mark in year to date sales.

Legend of Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma has spoken of the difficulty in using "realistic graphics" for the basis of the series' latest GameCube instalment, Twilight Princess, and explained why there will be no voiced dialogue in the game.

Valve's latest Steam news update bangs on once again about Half-Life 2: The Lost Coast, which aims to showcase the sort of high-end graphical techniques that we can expect from future Valve titles - including High Dynamic Range lighting.

The team behind multiplayer first-person shooter Battlefield 2, released in Europe last Friday, has increased the speed with which game results and stats are reflected on the web, a spokesperson told an online forum this week - to resounding approval.

In news that's sure to capture the attention of sexually repressed games journalists everywhere, Ubisoft has revealed that it's convinced UK glamour model Thekla Roth to appear in its forthcoming street racing combat game 187 Ride or Die for PS2 and Xbox.

The PlayStation 3 hardware used at E3 last month was running at only 75 per cent of the final system speed, according to reports which have emerged this week - confirming comments made by SCEE development boss Phil Harrison at the show.

Nintendo has announced plans for the Nintendo All Stars 05 Tour, set to take place at venues up and down the country throughout July and August.

Would anybody like to buy a brand new copy of Far Cry? I bought it the other day and those utter [impending lawsuits] at [online retailer X - two out of three monkeys prefer it to the leading brand] decided that I had ordered it twice. No it's not one of those funny situations where you get two and pay for one. It's one of those annoying situations where you get two and pay for both. So I've got a spare. Anybody? I can sign it. It won't be worth more, or more valuable to you, but untrained eyes will assume the signature has meaning and respect you for it.

Sony has launched a new video blogging website at PlayStationFreedom.co.uk.

Top quality old days gaming magazine Retro Gamer has announced plans to celebrate the 20th anniversary of actual old days gaming magazine Zzap!64 with a special tribute.

It's been the subject of intense speculation for a few days now, but an enlightening Gamespot interview with Oddworld Inhabitants' main man Lorne Lanning reveals the first nuggets of information about the game unofficially known as 'Stranger'.

Pro Evolution Soccer 4 is due out this autumn. That alone is about as likely to surprise fans of the series as another set of title graphics, but another aspect of today's announcement from Konami of Europe is something rather more exciting - it's due out on PS2, PC... and Xbox. Although Konami had previously announced plans to release PES on Xbox, the publisher has been cautious up to now not to associate the Microsoft version with the ongoing PS2 series.

Wayne Rooney. He's a bit good. And this from a Liverpool fan. It strikes us, sitting here in the dark, watching - one second - Wales and England Under-16s, and contemplating where to go with all this, that the irritatingly labelled Boy Wonder is as good a place to start as any. Rooney is a perfect example of the difference between Pro Evolution Soccer 4 and FIFA Football 2005. But how so, you say. The long and short of it is this: in FIFA, he plays for Man United, he wears the right squad number, his face is modelled on the real one, and he's pretty nippy and packs a wallop in the final third; in PES4, he's still at Everton, he's strong in the air and fast with a good first touch and a venomous shot, and while you can't tell him from Adam face to face, you can tell who it is when you see him move.

We like driving. Given the choice between walking to Somerfield and driving to Sainsbury's, we hop in the car. When our folks ask for PC tech support, we race 40 minutes up the motorway to hit Ctrl-Alt-Del. But driving has its drawbacks, and if you took away luxuries like adjustable seats and made us stop at every zebra crossing, roundabout and set of traffic lights between us and our destination, we'd be far less inclined to pull on our cap and gloves and take you for a spin. Particularly if we kept being cut up by some boy racer to whom none of the above seemed to apply.