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Oregon-based developer GarageGames Studios has announced plans to develop games for Microsoft's next-gen Xbox 360 console, acquiring BraveTree Productions as part of a new expansion.

Sony Computer Entertainment boss Ken Kutaragi has claimed that the PlayStation 3 is being positioned as a supercomputer capable of running multiple operating systems, with the Linux system to be pre-installed on the machine's hard drive.

It's official - downloading games is the new going to the shops. First we had Nintendo's revelation that you'll be able to access classic titles from its expansive back catalogue to play on your shiny new Revolution console - at a price, of course.

Interesting times at Planet Konami, with the company yesterday finally getting around to showing off its latest batch of UK-developed titles. Long-term Konami followers will realise that this is still very much a novelty, with the Japanese publisher finally looking to break free from the shackles of its long-term policy of producing only home-grown titles. Konami will certainly be looking for a big improvement on its UK output to date, following on from Apocalyptica and Casino, Inc. - two inauspiciously low-key efforts that represented a bit of a false start for the company's European ambitions.

Munetatsu Matsui - editor-in-chief of Famitsu Xbox, well known for its close connections to Microsoft's Japanese operation - has stated that a grand total of 20 launch titles are lined up for the Xbox 360's November debut.

A set of specifications purporting to be for Nintendo's Revolution console have appeared on the Internet, outlining a system with impressive graphics capabilities - but the company has confirmed that high-definition outputs won't be supported.

As refreshingly optimised as Half-Life 2 was to run on low and mid range PCs, there's no doubt that a hugely significant chunk of its owners went out and upgraded their rigs with the specific intention of playing Valve's game without compromise, in all its staggeringly gorgeous glory. But while many of us went out and upgraded to a gigabyte of RAM, stuck in a high-end Radeon or GeForce and spent a fortune, it's pretty clear that our PCs had plenty of headroom left - and now Valve wants to take advantage of that with the forthcoming release of a specially designed level called 'The Lost Coast'.

Everyone's favourite bald, barcoded bad guy, Agent 47, is back in action later this year, as the Hitman makes his return to our gaming systems on PS2, Xbox and PC. And with the game expected to make its public debut at E3 in just a few day's time, Eidos has released new screenshots of the game which you can sample right here.

To say that a new single-player Quake has been a long time coming is something of an understatement. It's been positively agonising, with nearly eight years skipping past since id's legendary Quake II took PC gaming to new heights.

You've just created a first-person shooter lauded as one of the greatest ever, selling not only millions of copies of the game itself but also millions of consoles to play it on; what do you do next? If you're Bungie, you knuckle down and start working on a sequel. On the other hand, if you're Bungie co-founder Alex Seropian, here's what you do: you bail out, move to Chicago, start a brand new developer, license the Halo engine and start building something almost - but not quite - completely different.

Don't you love it when games companies go and make something specifically tailored to your specialist subject? A game so up your street that you already instinctively know you'll be the feared conqueror of all who dare to challenge you? A game that Tom has already conceded defeat on six months before its release. That game is Buzz, Sony's latest in its growing range of family entertainment titles that brings the madness of the 'fingers on the buzzers' quiz show into your living room.

Those onetime Britsoft gods at Rare have had a bit of a rough ride from the press in the last few years, and with some justification. Since Microsoft signed a gobsmackingly large cheque to add the studio to its internal development repertoire back in 2002, it hasn't exactly justified its price tag - producing only the fun but not exactly world-igniting Grabbed by the Ghoulies, and the forthcoming, foul-mouthed, Conker: Live & Reloaded. In what must be a bit of an embarrassment for Microsoft, if you wanted to play a really good Rare game in the last few years, the best place to do it was on Game Boy Advance.

Under conditions of security that would shame the average prison, one of the undoubted highlights of our recent sojourn to E3 was the chance to sit down in front of a ten-minute presentation of King Kong, undoubtedly Ubisoft's big Christmas blockbuster for the year. Based on the Peter Jackson-directed remake of the 1933 classic, we got to hear a few words from the man himself, explaining how the videogame gave him the opportunity to use creatures that didn't make the cut and the like before we got to enjoy one of the more impressive demos of the show.

Speaking exclusively to Eurogamer, an EA insider has confirmed that the handheld version of crash-and-bash racer Burnout will indeed get an outing on Nintendo DS.

Codemasters has revealed more details of LMA Manager 2006 for PS2 and Xbox, along with some new screenshots which you can find here.

Although you could argue that Pandemic's first "Spectrum Warrior" title didn't exactly leave us "Full", you'd be hard pressed to convince me that it didn't give us something interesting to chew on. With the sequel, Ten Hammers, the developer has reacted to criticism and refined a number of elements that ought to make for a more enjoyable game - helped no doubt by its newfound distance from the core specification demanded by the US Army for the original training tool upon which FSW was based.

Juice Games, the helpfully named developer of street racing title Juiced, has told Eurogamer that it is already working on projects for the next generation of console formats.

Ever since we first clapped eyes on the tech demo for Black about a year ago it was glaringly obvious this would be a game to watch. A game where the central concept was about "being able to have fun with a gun in an empty room," where "the gun is the star," and one that was "going to do for shooters what Burnout did for racing games". Or in other words, the most insane levels of destruction your eyes have ever seen outside of a big-budget Hollywood blockbuster. When Criterion's Alex Ward talks about recreating the famous lobby destruction scene in The Matrix you nod politely. And then you see it for yourself and your eyes don't even blink for about four minutes.

Few GTA 'inspired' titles deserve to get away with borrowing ideas wholesale as much as Scarface. How so? Well, for a start Rockstar's multi gazillion-selling Vice City was virtually a homage to the Al Pacino movie, while the seminal GTA III featured almost the entire movie soundtrack. In an 'Indiana Jones borrowing from Tomb Raider' display of justifiable mindshare payback, Tony Montana is spraying an M16 in the direction of Tommy Vercetti, if you will.

Namco has revealed more details of Real Time Conflict: Shogun Empires, the forthcoming RTS game for Nintendo DS. Screenshots can be found here, and there's also a new trailer on Eurofiles.

A new demo for Digital Illusions' Battlefield 2, the sequel to hit PC shooter Battlefield 1942, is now available on Eurofiles.

Microsoft's tough demands for the proposed Halo movie may have turned off many large Hollywood studios, but the firm's gamble may still have paid off - with Universal and Fox reported to be nearing agreement on a deal to make the film.

Konami is currently hard at work on a new PS2 spin-off from the Suikoden series, according to Japanese magazine Shonen Jump.

The PC version of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time - quite possibly this writer's favourite multiformat game of the past half-decade - is set to be released on budget this Friday, 17th June, as part of a new line-up of Mastertronic "PC Gamer Presents..." games.

Sony has shipped around 100 PlayStation 3 development kits worldwide so far, according to SCE boss Ken Kutaragi, but the company is currently struggling to meet demand from developers and publishers for the hardware.

Amazon.co.uk has launched its traditional summer sale and, for once, there's quite a bit of substance lurking around the £10 mark and just above, particularly on PlayStation 2 and Xbox - with offers split between a dedicated "summer sale" page and a more extensive "clearout" section.

Speaking exclusively to our sister site GamesIndustry.biz, Dan Morelle, MD of online retailer ElectricBirdLand, has announced plans to hold a secret meeting of independent retailers prepared to take a stand against Sony's clampdown on PSP imports.

Square-Enix has confirmed to Eurogamer that Europe is likely to get a Limited Edition version of the Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children UMD, complete with 30 minutes of bonus scenes from the original FFVII - just like our Japanese friends.

Microsoft's Xbox 360 will have better graphics performance than the PlayStation 3 despite the better on-paper specifications of the Sony console, according to graphics chip designer ATI's Richard Huddy.

Ah, the sights and sounds of Game Stars Live. The persistent throng around the Halo 2 and Pro Evolution Soccer 4 stands; the persistent thong around the chiselled backsides of legions of rent-a-totty, as they squeeze up against gold chain-wearing chavs and get their picture taken; and of course the hotpants-wearing silicone adverts doling out PlayBoy merchandise to ten year-olds. We shall miss them all - assuming we don't wander back over at some point this weekend to pick up one of the man-size Spider-Man cutouts we forgot to collect before we left last night.