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Rockstar doesn't like to give much away about its forthcoming projects. And when we say "much", we mean "anything more than the game title and half a screenshot until release day", generally.

Coincidence is a funny thing. No sooner had we dashed off frothing impressions of Q Entertainment's latest, Nintendo DS puzzle title Meteos, than we were alerted to a missive from Nintendo of America revealing that it will publish the game in the USA this June 27th.

As I was putting some things on the washing rack wojim in the other room just now, out of the window I noticed an old man wander up our road, spy a near empty whiskey bottle discarded on the curb, pick it up, examine it, glance around, put it in his pocket and then walk off. In my mind, I imagine he'll now go home, scrub it clean, fill it with something wonderful and sit down to cherish its contents in a way its previous owner clearly did not.

EA is bringing successful PC franchise Battlefield to PS2 and Xbox this autumn, as you know, with the release of Battlefield 2: Modern Combat. But now there's a two too.

SEGA has harboured shadowy intentions for some time. And we're not talking about another Headhunter sequel. According to Takashi Iizuka, lead developer on the Sonic Adventure/Heroes series and the chap directing SEGA Studio USA's Shadow the Hedgehog, the team has wanted to make a game about Sonic's mysterious clone-like opposite for some time. The result will be out on "all current generation console platforms" this winter.

UK publisher SCi's offer for embattled rival Eidos has received a major boost this afternoon, with investment firm Schroder accepting the offer on behalf of shareholders representing almost 20 per cent of the firm's stock.

For a while back there it looked like Juiced might never make it, what with the beleaguered racers' previous publisher Acclaim having bitten the dust just as the game was due for release last September. But since THQ took over Juiced has been tweaked and enhanced and is now firmly on course for a May release, with a PC demo now available at Gamers' Hell.

Two year's after The Bard's Tale was first announced, Brian Fargo's quirky RPG is almost here and its European-publisher Ubisoft has released a demo to celebrate.

It's 10 years precisely since Team 17's Worms first started blowing each other up, and Codemasters is celebrating with a new trailer for Worms 4: Mayhem.

Sony America celebrated the launch of the PSP recently with an exclusive fashion show in West Hollywood.

The "Postal Dude" is back this April with the release of Postal 2: Apocalypse Weekend.

It's nearly a year since the last E3, and that means it's nearly a year since Sega first whet our appetites for Phantasy Star Universe with a teaser trailer. But we've been starving hungry ever since thanks to a lack of any more details whatsoever - until now.

Codemasters has secured the rights to publish two Asheron's Call expansion packs in Europe.

Publisher Vivendi Universal Games has announced the acquisition of one of its closest partners, with Simpsons: Hit & Run and Scarface developer Radical Games becoming the company's latest internal development studio.

Following confusion over a California recycling law, Sony has stated that residents will not have to pay more for their PSPs - but local government officials still don't seem to have made up their minds.

Vivendi Universal has signed over the rights to publish forthcoming MMORPG Middle-Earth Online.

Sega has confirmed that multiple Sonic games are slated for release in 2005, including a PSP title, according to website 1UP.

Fans of Halo 2 could have a multiplayer expansion pack to look forward to this May. After appearing on and then disappearing from Microsoft's Korean Xbox website last week, the Halo 2 X-Pack seems to have been demystified by another errant webmaster - this time on EBGames.com.

THQ has released a pair of rather enjoyable videos showcasing Destroy All Humans, the aliens-run-amok-in-50s-America weird-everything-'em-up in development for PS2 and Xbox at Brisbane, Australia-based Pandemic Studios. Both vids are on Eurofiles now.

THQ has released a 9MB trailer showing off Juiced, its first stab into the burgeoning sub-genre of tuning arcade racers for PS2, Xbox and PC. You can find it on Eurofiles.

At least one major American sporting league has opted out of the current trend for exclusively tying themselves to a games publisher, with the NBA today announcing that it has signed new deals with no fewer than five publishers.

Time to don that sheepskin coat and gold sovereign - or designer suit and wireframe spectacles, depending on your management style - because LMA Manager 2006 is coming to consoles this October.

Sega has trademarked the title 'Gunstar Super Heroes' with the US patent office, suggesting that a sequel to the Megadrive classic could be on its way.

European gamers will be offered a special edition of Guild Wars when the game is released next month, according to publisher NCsoft.

Former EA president John Riccitiello is back in the games business, after beleaguered British publisher Eidos last night accepted a UKP 71 million buyout bid from Elevation Partners, the private equity firm which he co-founded last year.

GMX Media has announced June release of Beyond Blitzkrieg, a first-person MMOG set on the battlefields of Western Europe.

Although the game itself has been out on Xbox since last summer and PC since before Christmas, it's taken VU Games and Starbreeze this long to sort out a demo version of The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay - one of our favourite games of 2004.

Square Enix says it's "highly likely" we'll see one of composer Nobuo Uematsu's Final Fantasy concerts in the United Kingdom this year, but final confirmation is still to come.

A second offer has been made for British publisher Eidos, with rival firm SCi announcing details of a stock offer which would value each share in the company at around 53.6 pence - significantly higher than last night's offer from Elevation Partners.

Square Enix has announced a second concert of music from the Final Fantasy series, to be performed in LA during this year's E3.