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id Software has announced Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, a class-based PC multiplayer shooter that lets you choose whether to fight for Earth Defense Force or invading alien hordes, the Strogg.

The first details of Raven Software's plans for Quake 4 have snuck out this afternoon after subscribers to PC Zone in the UK and the American edition of PC Gamer received the latest issues of the magazine and scanned in screenshots and preview information.

Back in April, you may recall, Playboy announced plans to offer downloadable content for PSP - mainly comprising clips of a chesty woman dressed up as some kind of videogame heroine and going "Oooh yeah."

Team Ninja's Tomonobu Itagaki has revealed a few more details of Dead or Alive 4 for the Xbox 360 to Japanese magazine Famitsu, before going on to take a pot shot at his fellow developers.

Sony Computer Entertainment president Ken Kutaragi has confirmed that PSP production may be outsourced as consumer demand for the handheld continues to rise and a European launch approaches, according to a report on Bloomberg.

Dead or Alive Code Cronus is now officially an Xbox 360 game, Tecmo's Tomonobu Itagaki, head of "Team Ninja", has confirmed.

Development of Dead or Alive 4 for Xbox 360 is taking up "90 per cent" of Team Ninja's time at the moment, according to Tomonobu Itagaki, one of the Xbox dynasty's fiercest proponents and "leader" of Tecmo's Team Ninja.

Sony Computer Entertainment's chief technology officer Masayuki Chatani has cast doubt on the company's plans to include a hard disk unit in the PlayStation 3's launch package next spring.

"You would think that such a demo would tremble to begin..."

Following the appearance of a listing for the Xbox 360 on Play.com - complete with a price tag of £399 and a launch date of November 29 - Microsoft has told Eurogamer that it's all mere guesswork on Play's part.

As movie studios continue signing up to release movies on the UMD format, two companies have announced that US PSP owners can also look forward to a selection of music and anime titles.

The European release of stupendously splendid GBA title WarioWare Twisted has been put back to September, Nintendo's UK office told Eurogamer this week.

Ah the job advert. Second only to the US Patent and Trademark Office website for unwanted, unconfirmed revelations about new product. Today's example appears on the website of Call of Duty scribes Infinity Ward, proclaiming that the Activision-owned developer is in the planning stages on Call of Duty 3 and another unnamed PC title based on new intellectual property.

Whatever your feelings on Duke Nukem Forever, the sequel to classic first-person shooter Duke Nukem 3D, which came out a new Doom, a couple of Quakes and two goalpost-shifting Half-Lives ago, it's still interesting to hear how the game's progressing.

Star Wars continued to dominate the top of the UK software charts once again this week, with LucasArts' Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith taking the top spot for a third week running as the movie launched in the UK.

Operation Flashpoint creator Bohemia Interactive has announced that it is currently hard at work on three new military combat games, including one for Xbox.

Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima has weighed in on the battle of the next generation consoles, stressing their diversity and cautioning that he is "not sure if everyone can live up to that high standard that Sony is expecting" on PlayStation 3 - the platform for which his Konami subsidiary Kojima Productions is developing the next Metal Gear Solid title.

There was a little spark of PlayStation 3-related excitement on Friday (you know, relatively speaking) when it emerged that KOEI, maestro of the Dynasty Warriors series, was planning two further PS3 games in addition to Ni-Oh, the title announced at Sony's pre-E3 press conference.

Microsoft corporate vice president J Allard has confirmed that the Xbox 360 will be priced "in the neighbourhood" of $300, which was the initial launch price of the Xbox, with a final decision on price to be made in about two months.

"An atmospheric, brooding tale set in mysterious lands". Sound familiar? Sounds like the perfect high concept for the next game from the team that brought you ICO.

Half-Life 2 is a game I always wanted to review but never got the chance to [Ed snips 4,000 words]. In the end it was a science-fiction first-person shooter - usually a very narrow-minded genre - that managed to encompass many themes on many levels, but the thing I probably liked most about it was the way it applied "less is more" logic all over the place.

Jak may be the one who says "how high" when we hit the jump button, but anybody who's spent longer than half an hour with a Jak & Daxter game will know only too well that it's Daxter providing the fun to temper Jak's oft-frustrating platform mechanics. The wily, ferret-like fulminator perches atop Jak's shoulder, continuously spouting witticisms that are often actually funny, and takes a leading role in cut-scenes with a sarcastic streak wider than the near-seamless game world he's come to call home.

Psychonauts, a game for whose form we are very much warm, is coming to Europe after all and will be coming out on Xbox, PS2 and PC as it has-slash-is in Americaland, according to Majesco's Europe MD Jason Dutton.

Epic boss Mark Rein has countered Xbox 360 front man J Allard's assertion in a recent Eurogamer interview that Gears of War will be released on both the Microsoft console and the PC platform, however he has not ruled out the possibility of a Halo-style PC port further down the road.

US publisher Midway has confirmed that it intends to support Microsoft's Xbox 360 console in future despite having no software ready for the system's Q4 launch, with seven titles for the platform currently in development.

BioWare has revealed despite developing games exclusively for PC and Xbox up till now, and confirming support for the 360, it's also considering what the other next-gen consoles have to offer.

Following on from our recent interview with Codemasters studio head Gavin Raeburn, a few more details of TOCA Race Driver 3 for PC, PS2 and Xbox have been revealed.

The next generation console fight kicked off like never before this week with drama, claims, counterclaims, rumours, whispers and loud opinions that would put a soap opera series to shame. It's been compelling, controversial, surprising, disappointing and exciting all at the same time. You can't take your eyes off it for a second.

The partner companies behind the new Cell microprocessor - Sony, IBM and Toshiba - have committed to providing full specifications to the chip and libraries for open source developers for free.

The RSX graphics part which will sit alongside the Cell CPU at the heart of the PlayStation 3 is still under development, according to NVIDIA chief financial officer Marv Burkett, with E3's tech demos being run on a different NVIDIA chipset.