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Billy "Wicked" Wilson, one of the chief architects of the Internet gaming news machine, has passed away at the age of 33 with his family at his side.

Buena Vista Home Entertainment has become the latest film company to pledge support to the PlayStation Portable's UMD movie market, announcing five titles for release on the format "this spring" with more to be announced "throughout the year".

EA has quaffed some colourful liquids and donned a mask to announce details of its beat-'em-up collaboration with comic book maker Marvel. Well, actually, it just plonked the press release on its US website and didn't mention anything. But we found it anyway.

A new study conducted by California-based firm Macrovision claims that one in five Xbox and PS2 gamers is using pirated software - but that three quarters of them would have paid for the games if they hadn't been available for free.

The N-Gage QD is to drop in price to $99.99 in the United States, Nokia has today announced, in an effort to make the system more attractive to consumers in the region - which has so far been the toughest for the N-Gage products to crack.

Polyphony Digital's PS2 exclusive racing title Gran Turismo 4 has roared into pole position in the UK charts, selling over a quarter of a million units to clock up the fourth biggest opening week ever.

Speaking in London last week for the launch of Gran Turismo 4 in Europe, Kazunori Yamauchi, lead developer at Sony-owned Polyphony Digital in Tokyo, has confirmed that Gran Turismo is not the only game the firm will produce in the coming years.

If you're one of the hundreds of thousands of PS2 owners who've bought Gran Turismo 4 since its release last Wednesday, you may be surprised to learn that you can actually battle against likeminded drivers on the Internet at www.gt4league.com - despite Polyphony Digital's infamous excision of the game's online mode late last year.

Sony has confirmed the news that we brought you yesterday - that a new SingStar game is due out exclusively on PlayStation 2 this May.

Since we appear to have turned into Gran Turismo Gamer for the second time in a week today, it seems fitting that Konami of Europe chose this lunchtime to announce that its own GT clone (sorry, competitor), Enthusia Professional Racing, is due out on 6th May. The day after my Mum's birthday, that, which means that Konami's latest ought to be better than at least one other driver out that week...

The Nintendo DS got off to a flying start last weekend, with UK sales topping some 87,000 units in the first two days on sale according to Chart-Track data released this morning.

Sony's announced this year's PlayStation 2 Formula One title and says it will launch alongside the PSP version, which has been renamed F1 Grand Prix. Sony's reluctance to talk about specific PSP dates in Europe means we don't have release estimates for either title, although, as we now know, it'll be at least a few months.

Sony has confirmed our report that the PlayStation Portable is "at least a few months away" from release in Europe, with French chief Georges Fornay admitting the system's launch had been postponed for several months to satisfy demand elsewhere.

Nintendo DS is available in Europe today, priced £99 with a line-up of 15 or 16 launch titles depending on where you live priced between £20 and £30.

Ironically for a series that aims to simulate police tactics in extreme situations, the average Eurogamer reader's experience of the SWAT series is probably limited to chuckling over potentially illegal requests for new CD keys on our comment threads. We've never quite pinned down why we get so many for SWAT 3. When we saw the long overdue sequel, SWAT 4, on a recent Paris press trip, Sierra reps couldn't imagine why it was either, but judging by the game that Irrational has produced at its Boston studio over the past months, running foul of the Special Weapons And Tactics division isn't something to be taken all that lightly. So we'd stop asking, kids.

Sid Meier's Pirates! is due out on Xbox soon. You can read our review of the PC version here.

Although we've not had anything through the usual channels about it, an eagle-eyed reader alerts us today to a release on Sony's European press centre concerning SingStar Pop - a new title in the karaoke series due out on PS2 in May. Screenshots here.

Nintendo "hopes" to announce more about its new Legend of Zelda GameCube title at E3 in May, the company said today as it dismissed reports that game would be released in October as "speculation".

UK publisher Play It has revealed that it will publish Red Entertainment and SEGA's PS2 shooter Gungrave Overdose in Europe this April. The sequel to arcade shooter Gungrave, surprisingly, it's set to retail for just £19.99 - which, if it's anything like its predecessor, is a sensible reflection of the size of the game.

Hideo Kojima believes "Metal Gear Solid 3 is the best Metal Gear Solid game in the trilogy," he said today, adding, "I can probably say the European version is the best version of MGS3".

Blizzard Entertainment has permanently banned more than one thousand users from its massively multiplayer World of Warcraft title after an investigation into "gold farming".

The Entertainment Software Charity has relaunched its eBay website with a raft of new offerings donated by companies within the games industry.

Publisher Activision and media giant Viacom have settled a legal dispute concerning their Star Trek videogame license agreement, the two companies announced late on Friday.

Comic book giant Marvel's legal action against City of Heroes publisher NCsoft Corporation and developer Cryptic Studios has taken a heavy blow this week after a US district court judge in Los Angeles dismissed a number of key claims.

As much as I love the song "Smile Like You Mean It" by The Killers, I can't help but sing "Miiiichaaaael Cimiiinoooo" instead. I do not have any explanation for this. Somehow I discovered it fits and now it just happens. I liked Deer Hunter and that, but still.

One of the highlights of Satoru Iwata's keynote address at the Game Developers Conference yesterday was the sight of a brand new trailer for The Legend of Zelda on GameCube.

Big Blue Box's chart-topping Xbox RPG Fable will make its way onto PC this autumn - with Microsoft announcing that a Windows version is underway at Big Blue owner Lionhead Studios. Screenshots here.

Sony this week told its internal PlayStation Portable development teams that the handheld system is still "at least a few months away" from release in Europe.

Nintendo DS's midnight launch in London was an unqualified success last night, with hundreds of screaming punters and a sizeable gaggle of press descending on Virgin Megastore in Oxford Street to herald the arrival of the new machine.

In news that is sure to excite Rob, Square Enix has revealed through the pages of Japanese Famitsu magazine that it's working on another Fullmetal Alchemist game, set for release this summer in the Far East.