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Sitting around at a restaurant the night before Capcom's "Annual Producer Day" event, traditionally the springboard for various new game launches during E3 week, we found ourselves joking that the big announcement would be something like Dino Crisis 4. Instead we got Final Fight: Streetwise - another Capcom franchise increasingly maligned as it got into the latter stages. I seem to remember Super Play giving the last SNES version something like 45 per cent despite it being a cover title.

Mythic Entertainment, creator of massively-multiplayer online RPG Dark Age of Camelot, has secured the rights to produce MMORPGs set in the fantasy world of Warhammer in a new deal with Games Workshop.

Metal Gear Solid 4 is coming exclusively to the PlayStation 3, which - if you've been paying attention - you probably knew already. What you may not know is that that series creator Hideo Kojima, world-renowned for creating damn fine stealth action games and having a rather tenuous grip on reality at the best of times, is back at the helm for this next instalment of the series.

Bah. Turns out the rumours that Ninja Gaiden: BLACK was to be an Xbox 360 title were wrong - in fact it's just a new version of the original game for plain old Xbox.

Speaking to Eurogamer last week, Xbox VP Peter Moore confirmed that Microsoft is planning to run a European showcase event once again this year, where it will present its Xbox and Xbox 360 line-up.

Half-Life 2 expansion Aftermath will be getting a retail release after all, Valve's Doug Lombardi has confirmed, and the developer aims to release the game in September.

Anyone who's a fan of Tomb Raider, ICO, Prince of Persia and the like will have spent plenty of time wandering around ancient structures whilst avoiding swinging blades, rolling boulders, pits full of very sharp spikes and the like.

Sony has gone all out for the news that EyeToy: Play 3 is coming to PS2 this winter, with an announcement that not only includes the words “whacky”, “zany” and “hilarious” but also “crazy” - no less than five times.

Calling all fans of Robot Wars - Konami has announced a new mech combat game for PS2, and there's not a Craig Charles in sight. You can check for yourself here.

Blizzard has revealed a few more details of forthcoming tactical action game, StarCraft: Ghost for PS2, Xbox and GameCube.

Some fans might not agree with this, but probably the most improved game series of 2004 was Ghost Recon, getting a long overdue and very welcome visual overhaul that made it one of the most enjoyable tactical shooters released all year. Fast-forward a few months and suddenly Ubisoft's Red Storm studio has pulled a third game out of the bag, somewhat unexpectedly (at least when it made the announcement a while back), with the French publisher also using brand as the spearhead to its concerted next-gen assault.

Being stupidly young (or young and stupid; depends who you talk to), this is only my third E3, so I've never in all honesty arrived at the show and made a beeline for SEGA's booth before. But this year I did, because I had a hunch about Full Auto. And having driven through walls, corkscrewed off a ramp into a bridge whilst upending the competition with missiles, and then ripped my car almost in half only to rewind time and retake the offending corner without my nitrous firing - all within the first three minutes - I'm glad I did. Full Auto has more hooks than a Peter Pan convention.

During the introduction of his first Xbox 360 title, Keiji Inafune joked that it was obviously a huge surprise to see Capcom doing a game about zombies. Well, no, it isn't - but it is surprising to see Capcom doing a next-generation zombie game that seems to be trying to splice State of Emergency and Final Fight with the recent Dawn of the Dead remake and a Bruce Campbell-in-Evil Dead style lead character.

Tecmo is working on a sequel to Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball, according to Team Ninja lead Tomonobu Itagaki, which will include several sports besides volleyball and retain its focus on "customisation and collection". Apparently that was the focus last time, too.

More than 15 years after they first appeared on our screens, the world's most suicidal games characters are getting a new outing on PSP. You can see some screenshots here.

Heading into Nintendo's pre-E3 press conference last week, a journo pal of ours joked that yours truly would be find himself kith and kin with the yelping yank hordes. Well, he was wrong for the most part [Tom's just so reserved -Ed], but there was one game on the showreel that prompted squeals of delight: Mario & Luigi 2 for Nintendo DS.

As well as a new version of Metal Gear Solid 3, Konami also used E3 last week to unveil another instalment in its PlayStation Portable spin-off series Metal Gear Acid. Or "Metal Gear Ac!d" as we will never ever be calling it.

A number of new details of the PlayStation Portable's planned European launch in September have emerged at SCEE's pre-E3 conference, including the first-party launch line-up and strong support for the UMD movie format.

Developer Silicon Knights - the one-time Nintendo second party studio behind titles such as Eternal Darkness and Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes - has announced a publishing deal with Microsoft for next-generation title Too Human.

Konami has announced a revised version of Metal Gear Solid 3 for PlayStation 2, bringing online play to the series for the first time, introducing a third-person camera perspective for every stage of the game and bundling in ageing Japan-only MSX2 titles Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake.

It wasn't just the consoles that were outlining their next gen incarnations at this year's E3. With barely more than two years as serious players in mobile games market under their belt, Nokia is already unveiling their plans for the next generation of phone-based gaming.

There are two things you're inevitably going to run into during any given five minutes on the E3 show floor this year. The first is an overweight, bearded, pasty white programmer with male pattern baldness using words like "fronting", "representing", "tricked out" and "pimping", and sometimes even making rapper hand motions, in an attempt to seem as "street" as possible while presenting his company's latest and greatest GTA clone. This is, as Pat would say, all a bit wrong. The second is the ear-shattering, eyeball-endangering spectacle of World War II being brought to life in more stunning reality than ever before - except, er, when it was actually happening. Obviously.

Look out, Lara - your daddy's coming home and he's about to teach you what raiding tombs is really all about.

Hong Kong film legend John Woo has signed up to direct a new action game for next-gen consoles, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

As we reported previously, Majesco is set to publish a game based on Scorsese classic Taxi Driver next year - and now they've released the first screenshots, which you can find here.

Thanks to a new deal with on-demand service Game xStream, 3D Realm's forthcoming PC shooter Prey will be available to buy online - and you won't even have to wait for it to download.

Following earlier indications that the Xbox 360 will only be backwards compatible with some Xbox games, Microsoft has attempted to clear up the issue by waffling on about chip architectures. And failed.

The version of Square Enix' massively multiplayer title Final Fantasy XI which was announced with a fanfare for Xbox 360 earlier this week will not feature any major enhancements over the existing PS2 and PC versions of the game, representatives of the firm have confirmed.

The entire board of British publisher Eidos has resigned with immediate effect, and are being replaced with SCi's senior executives in the wake of the announcement that SCi's acquisition bid had become unconditional earlier this week.

Sid Meier - well, someone who works for him, anyway - has unveiled more details of the latest instalment in PC real-time strategy series Civilization IV. There are some new screenshots, too, which can be found here.