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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.

Now there really is no excuse not to own a PSP: Virtua Tennis has come to the Sony handheld fully intact and is every bit as good as you'd hope it to be. Stationed at various points around the Sony and SEGA stands at E3, this somewhat unheralded title could actually end up being a lot of people's most played games this year - for the simple fact that it has taken everything that was brilliant about the Dreamcast originals and ported it more or less perfect to a handheld that does it supreme justice.

Nintendo has taken the wraps off a new addition to the Game Boy Advance family of products at its pre-E3 press conference in Los Angeles, revealing the Game Boy Micro - the smallest GBA yet, with a backlit screen and snap-on covers. You can see a picture of it here.

As well as unveiling a number of next-generation tech demos on its stand at E3 this week, SEGA also revealed that it will publish From Software's Chrome Hounds, a mech combat game with online play for Xbox 360.

Through a montage of video snippets during its pre-E3 press conference and various press releases in its post-conference press pack, Nintendo today outlined a huge line-up of handheld games spanning GBA and DS platforms in Europe.

Nintendo today took the wraps off "Nintendo WiFi Connection", the online gaming system set to service Nintendo DS in association with GameSpy.

I'll probably sound like a small-minded xenophobic cretinous impatient simplistic boorish halfwit for saying this [promising start -Ed], but hearing that a game is based upon "Japanese mythology" tends to put me off these days. Normally what follows such a revelation is the equally startling revelation that swords, demons and wronged children and/or warlords are involved, with a lead character whose latent folklore-y-ness is key to progression, and pause menus drawn on scrolls.

Ask anyone here at Eurogamer what their favourite games were of the last two years, and Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time will almost certainly figure near the top of the list.

3D Realms has revealed some more details of Prey, its forthcoming first-person shooter for PC. You can find some new screenshots here.

It's official - Egosoft's intergalactic trading and combat PC game, X3: Reunion, is also getting an outing on the Xbox.

Okay, so there's another six months to wait before you can get your hands on Microsoft's next-gen console - but you could own a little bit of it now, thanks to top electronic car boot sale eBay.

In what would represent a massive break with tradition for the company, Sony Computer Entertainment America boss Kaz Hirai has suggested that the PlayStation 3 may not launch in Japan first.

Some of the hyperbole Peter Moore concocted in the Microsoft's Xbox conference tonight was nothing short of sublime. The Xbox 360 pad is, according to the ageing suit, a "gateway to gaming Zen". He actually said that. He said that Xbox 360 games will be "beyond real". How's that, Peter? Seriously, how is that?

Square Enix is set to reveal more details of Kingdom Hearts II at E3 today.

And so it begins. Just days after the PlayStation 3 was unveiled for the first time at Sony's pre-E3 press conference, Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbum claims the company has offered the first hint as to a price point.