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Some new rumours about the third instalment in the Halo series are doing the rounds, thanks to some bloke who claims his mate's uncle works for Bungie. [As the always-enjoyable Kotaku notes, "Yeah, it's that reliable." - Ed]

A Korean husband and wife are facing criminal charges after their baby daughter died when they left her alone in order to play World of Warcraft.

Konami has confirmed today that Pro Evolution Soccer 5 will be returning to PS2, Xbox and PC this autumn in Europe - and has also released a number of screenshots showing it off, which you can find here.

A new teaser page has appeared on the Ritual Entertainment website, suggesting that an official announcement regarding the sequel to PC first-person shooter SiN could be on the way in just a couple of weeks.

In news that will make small children cheer and everyone else want to end it all, hateful ringtone character the Crazy Frog is to appear in his very own videogame.

Keisuke Kikuchi, producer of the Fatal Frame series, is leaving the scary stuff behind for Tecmo's first PSP title - an action puzzler titled Karakuri (Gimmicks).

British publisher SCi has announced that it's to begin using the Eidos brand for all of its future products, as part of the integration process of the two businesses following SCi's acquisition of its larger rival in mid-May.

Following earlier rumours of a deal between Sony Online Entertainment and Warner Bros., it's been confirmed that the EverQuest creator has taken MMO The Matrix Online off the hands of developer Monolith.

Regular readers are probably well aware of my Ben Folds obsession ("infatuation" would be the wrong word; he looks a bit too much like the Pepperami man, despite being my longstanding personal hero), but rarely before today have I felt so compelled to intone one of his compositions in this particular column.

As independent retailers across the UK continue to defy Cease and Desist orders issued by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe over the sale of import PSP consoles, the Japanese giant has begun court proceedings.

As we reported last month, SEGA has a treat in store for long time Sonic fans this summer with the release of Sonic Gems Collection for PS2 and GameCube.

Lionhead Studios has dipped into its postbag to answer some questions about The Movies, the forthcoming film-making sim for PC, PS2, Xbox and GameCube.

Codemasters has released some new screenshots for forthcoming PC, PS2 and Xbox dogfighter Heroes of the Pacific. There's also a new trailer on Eurofiles.

Relating new game releases to current affairs is often difficult, but this week was something of a gift. Not only, on this week of Medal of Honor's European Assault, has Tony Blair been busy tackling Europe on the subject of the UK's "rebate" - surely the international equivalent of signing on for dole cheques whilst working at Costcutters - but apparently we've even got basking sharks fleeing, nay, deserting England in favour of Scotland where they hope to find different, er, European salt.

Following yesterday's announcement that Buena Vista is releasing Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy on UMD, two more entertainment giants have shown their support for the format.

As the European launch of the PSP draws ever nearer, Buena Vista Home Entertainment has declared itself the first movie distributor to support the UMD format in the UK.

Actor Vin Diesel has signed on to play the lead role of Agent 47 in the forthcoming movie adaptation of Io Interactive's Hitman series - and may also be starring in future games in the franchise.

In a speech delivered yesterday in London, Brian Bruning - director of handheld content for NVIDIA - issued a call to action for the industry to "explore and innovate in the field of 3D graphics."

UK hardware review site Bit-Tech, home to old-school Eurogamer staffer Geoff Richards [woo! - Ed], has some spanky new screens from Half Life 2: Lost Coast up, plus an interview with Valve's Doug Lombardi. You can check it all out here.

Microsoft has signed a deal with NVIDIA to license the company's technology in order to enable backwards compatibility in the Xbox 360, which uses an ATI graphics chipset that isn't natively compatible with Xbox titles.

As rumours surrounding the Nintendo Revolution controller continue to fly around the net with increasing ridiculousness, Shigeru Miyamoto has declared that it really is going to be a really big deal.

Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima has told Famitsu that he chose PlayStation 3 for the next instalment in his stealth-action series because of loyalty to Sony, according to a partial translation by US website IGN.

After the travesty that was Rising Sun, it was pretty obvious Electronic Arts had some work to do to restore the tarnished Medal Of Honor series. Most of the talent behind Frontline had evidently fled to Spark to work on the practically identical Call Of Duty series for Activision and the cupboard was well and truly bare, leaving behind a team that churned out a horrendous by-the-numbers shooter with broken AI and lead-you-by-the-hand level design that was so easy we finished the entire game in one sitting and slapped it in the face with a 4/10 in disgust. Not so European Assault. The fifth console MOH is unlike any previous title in the series, being simultaneously the most intelligently and infuriating designed of the whole bunch.

Daxter was one of the surprises of the show on the PlayStation Portable. What with all the hullabaloo elsewhere we'd almost forgotten it existed until we stumbled upon the game and a couple of members of the development team in amongst the weird Perspex hummocks in Sony's PSP area.

It's with no small horror that I realise I'm inching towards my ten year's anniversary of doing this (i.e. Writing nonsense about videogames in exchange for a small pile of money). Starting on the Amiga, I was in the front line of its battle in the post-Sonic Brushfire conflict where everyone and their dog made a rudimentary side-on action game of varying flavours. I've still got the scars, man. Hell: I get Flashback flashbacks [not as good as Another World, was it? - Equally ageing Ed].

Specialist publisher Strategy First has teamed up with handheld developer Pocket PC Studios to bring the company's range of PC titles over to the Nintendo DS.

Having followed Black's progress since Criterion first invited us to see its tech demo over a year ago it's been blindingly obvious that the Guildford-based developer had something very special in mind. A year on the team put together one of the most impressive technical demonstrations at E3 2005 which you can see our thoughts on here.

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It doesn't take much to pass from courting disaster to marrying her. Such is the case with Imperial Glory, which does a lot of things right and a handful of things wrong and ends up being disqualified from our affections by a few own goals. But at least it doesn't mix its metaphors.

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