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Keita Takahashi - creator of cult hit Katamari Damacy - will deliver a keynote speech at this year's Game Developers Conference Europe discussing the game's development process on day three of the event. He will also offer a preview of gameplay innovations featured in his latest project, We Love Katamari, it was revealed today.

A schoolboy has died after collapsing at the end of a 12-hour gaming session, according to Russian newspapers.

It's been seventy years since classic board game Monopoly first started to cause endless rows over who gets to be the top hat, and to celebrate Parker is giving you the chance to play an all-new online version of the game.

Sony Computer Entertainment has not yet reached a decision on when the PlayStation 3 next-generation console will launch in Europe, with SCEE president David Reeves commenting that "you could be in for a surprise."

Those of you with a soft spot (or perhaps a Cool Spot) for confectionary-based platform games will be thrilled to learn that KOCH Media has signed up SMARTIES for release in game form this October on an unnamed console.

Sales of films distributed on Universal Media Disc (UMD), Sony's proprietary disc format for PlayStation Portable, have topped 100,000 according to the platform holder.

They say that true love is blind. Who "they" are can be a sub-quest for later. For now, let's consider the second bit of that sentence - and let me bash myself round the head with it sufficiently that I can write about Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones without glossing over some of its weightier flaws. Because, love it as I do, I have to admit that it's more of an acquired taste than I first thought - back when I stumbled giddy and excited out of the back-end of the first Western instalment in the strategy-RPG series last summer.

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, then. A game in which you live a huge section of the life of an uzi-hugging street-talking gangster, who buds, sprouts, flowers and would even have pollinated were it not for a last-minute sex-game excision, working your way through an entire state's worth of locations carrying out shooting and driving missions and all manner of other mini-missions in a seamlessly linked game world that's brimming with things to do, people to talk to, ways to kill and areas to explore. All done with more big-name actors and diversity than the average Hollywood nightclub - which you can probably visit while you're playing it.

Nine months is a long time. Enough time for your football team to be relegated, enough time to spring a new human being screaming forth into the world, and enough time for the average Eurogamer staffer to have reviewed 180 games; at least half a dozen of which are competing for the same pocket money that Juiced is aiming to snaffle.

Batman Begins is quite aptly named. Because, you know, it's a game of that film [which last night someone described as "the best film in the last 90 years". Discuss - Ed].

As far as alien conspiracies go, I'm in the camp that strongly suspects that truth is probably far more boring than fiction. With fiction there's literally no limit to how far you can go with creating this impressively complex sub-reality that has us all staring out into the inky night wondering when we are going to experience an alien abduction and speculating on what the US Government is hiding from us.

It's stating the obvious but games aren't movies, and they're not music. At their best, games are activities that require mastery of performance - rather like sport. At their very best they also reward interpretation - rather like art. The ultimate gaming experiences demand to become part of your lifestyle, holding you to ransom with their boundless rewards. Tekken 5 is a paragon of such virtues, the martial equivalent of Konami's sublime updates of Pro Evolution Soccer.

Walking along the Hollywood Walk of Fame on the way to Nintendo's pre-E3 press conference last month, I stumbled across Mario Kart. Not the game, either, but rather an actual cart selling, well, actually I don't know. It was closed. But the cart itself was either an incredible coincidence, a fan who had no idea what was going on in the hotel behind him, or, I like to think, a canny bit of salesmanship from a man who, judging by his marketing gumption, quite probably could have done bigger and better things with this life.

You know how it is. You've just attempted to eat a dodgy Steak and Eggs in your local diner. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but the upshot is that you're sitting in a rarely cleaned cubicle out back surveying the graffiti and wishing you'd lain toilet tissue around the seat before you sat down on it. The floor's slick with carelessly dispensed urine, half the lights don't work, the barred window's open and it's snowing outside. And then an innocent regular enters to remove the cheap coffee from his system and you try to put your senses on standby for a few more seconds before making your exit. An everyday, unremarkable scene of urban squalor the world over.

Who wouldn't want to own a real live puppy? They're cute, they're cuddly, they're always pleased to see you, and in the event of a nuclear holocaust you could always use them for food before starting on the corpses of your family.

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe president David Reeves has told the ELSPA International Games Summit in London that he has "no apologies" for the fact that the company's hardware always launches last in Europe.

Buena Vista Home Entertainment has unveiled a really rather exciting list of forthcoming UMD titles.

More than four years after the game's release, Universal Pictures has announced plans to produce a movie adaptation of Alice, the cult PC platformer from American McGee.

Just days after SCE president Ken Kutaragi declared an end to negotiations with Toshiba over a unified disc format, reports say discussions could reopen within weeks.

The Game Boy Micro could be on European shelves in time for Christmas, according to a report on Spanish business site finanzas.com.

Scottish development studio Real Time Worlds has become the latest UK company to sign a deal with Microsoft Game Studios, with "a number" of games currently in development exclusively for Xbox 360.

The top honours in the UK games chart once again went to Rockstar this week, with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas holding off the multi-format might of Medal Of Honor: European Assault to claim the number one spot for the second straight week.

Microsoft has backed Eidos after a US senator declared that its gang warfare title 25 to Life "lowers common decency", while the British publisher has reacted by saying that it believes videogame are a creative form and that the ratings systems in place to govern them should be allowed to do their job.

Owners of PlayStation Portables and American copies of WipEout Pure will be able to download some more tracks and interface re-skins tomorrow as Sony unleashes "Gamma Pack 2" for its Yank audience.

Anchor Bay Entertainment, which has the power to put Thomas The Tank Engine on UMD, has announced six UMD film titles for PlayStation Portable - presumably as a precursor to the release of Thomas & Friends: Hooray For Thomas.

US developer Destineer has signed a development agreement with In-Q-Tel, a private business funded by the Central Intelligence Agency.

Artificial Studios has announced that it's currently hard at work on Monster Madness, a third-person shooter for PC and Xbox 360. You'll find the first screenshot here.

Chris Taylor, creator of award-winning PC strategy game Total Annihilation, has unveiled what's described as the game's 'spiritual successor' in the latest issue of PC Gamer US magazine.

Just weeks after announcing there was "little chance" of reaching an agreement on the issue of a unified next-gen disc format, SCE president Ken Kutaragi has confirmed that negotiations are at an end.

Sony Computer Entertainment has described the imminent launch of pornographic movies on the PSP's UMD video format as "utterly undesirable," but the firm is unable to stop the discs from being released, it claims.