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Tecmo's charismatic Tomonobu Itagaki, head of Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden dev studio Team Ninja, has taken a pop at Namco's Tekken series, describing the developers as "a pretty weird bunch", labelling the game "prehistoric" and even having a dig at spin-off title Death By Degrees.

Microsoft has confirmed that the Dead or Alive Ultimate tournament currently underway in the USA and Canada "will not be happening in Europe".

Sony Online Entertainment plans to release the first "Adventure Pack" for EverQuest II on 21st March, - an e-distributed expansion pack - featuring "countless hours of new content" in a new story-based realm beneath the surface of Norrath. And it sounds like a positively charming place, home to virtually every conceivable flavour of undead. It couldn't just be an underground car park or something.

Eidos has announced that Championship Manager 5, the publisher's first foray into PC football management since its split with Sports Interactive 18 months ago, will be released in the UK on 18th March and internationally on 1st April.

Clearly unfazed by EA's dominance of the genre and the toll its financial and marketing might has taken on its pursuers, Ubisoft has revealed that it plans to produce a number of sports games for current and next-generation consoles and PC.

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has said Nintendo needs to "expand the definition of games" to catch people's attention. He also spoke about new DS game concepts that will do that, writing in a comment steeped in the company's "Revolution" rhetoric for a Japanese website.

This 17th April, dedicated gamer and Eurogamer regular David "kincaide" Howlett is to repeat his feat of running the London Marathon, and we'd very much like you to pledge a few quid to help him achieve his target of £1500 sponsorship money for the Vision Charity, which raises funds to help blind, visually impaired and dyslexic children. You can sponsor or pledge money on David's fundraising webpage here.

Sony is reportedly working on a trio of PlayStation Portable titles for release in Japan this May. The first of these is Gagharv Trilogy: A Tear of Vermillion, the follow-up to December's Gagharv Trilogy game on the same format. We suspect there may be another yet to come. The second, from Now Productions, is called Intelligent License and is an IQ-measuring puzzle game, which, in making its calculations, presumably overlooks the fact that the player spent 30 quid on a service freely available to anybody who can type "IQ test" into Google. The third, meanwhile, is a first-party horse-breeding game called Derby Time, although we would have called it "NeighneighneeeeeiiiiiEEEEEEEEEEEE! Slump. Flick. Drag. Aaaaah."

There's doubly good news for fans of Football Manager 2005 this evening as Sports Interactive and SEGA have just announced that next Wednesday, 2nd March, will see the release of the game's final patch along with a substantial free data update.

17 years ago, Uematsu wrote the score for a NES role-playing game being developed by Japanese publisher Squaresoft. Final Fantasy went on to become one of the industry's biggest selling franchises - and Uematsu became one of its first musical stars.

Atari has signed on to publish Quantic Dream's PlayStation 2 and Xbox title Fahrenheit after the game was seemingly dropped by previous publisher Vivendi. The developer's crime-thriller is due out in September.

Unless you have been living in a cave for the last 15 years, there is a very good chance that have played it at some stage. Super Mario World was a launch title for the SNES, and easily the best game available at launch.

Massively multiplayer game specialist Funcom has announced that the free version of its online RPG Anarchy Online is set to feature dynamic in-game advertising billboards, thanks to a new deal with Massive Incorporated.

Nintendo has begun a Japanese nationwide test of its content download service for the Nintendo DS. Taking advantage of the handheld's onboard wireless networking capability, the service will allow gamers to wirelessly download demos and bonus game content from special kiosks in locations all over Japan.

News Corp sources have today flatly denied that the company is in any kind of buyout talks with Eidos, despite several sources from within the British publisher this week boasting that a deal between the two companies was imminent.

Specialist RPG developer Troika Games has shut its doors, with final confirmation of the closure coming from co-CEO Leonard Boyarsky after weeks of industry rumour-mongering about the fate of the studio.

Finding themes to fixate upon is a constant problem for What's New (as is Kristan effing off and leaving me to write everything so this doesn't get done until lunchtime). After all, it's not every week that you get an avalanche of Midas games, including one based on a children's cartoon like He-Man that you vaguely remember and pretend to cherish because it was always very camp and it now seems ironic to do so although let's face it it was no Thundercats and couldn't hold a candle to Super Ted [gasp], along with a couple of modern-day updates to some of the original, old school hardcore fighters and shooters.

Nintendo has warned South Korean developer Webzen over screenshots released last week to accompany the announcement of massively multiplayer online title Wiki.

Britsoft publisher Digital Jesters is to give away a full version of its critically acclaimed racing/puzzle crossover PC title TrackMania with a national UK newspaper tomorrow as part of its efforts to promote the sequel, TrackMania Sunrise.

As is traditional, Nintendo of America has press-released some of its key release dates for Cube and GBA. However, bucking convention somewhat, it's decided to announce the four games launching in the States this May on or around E3, which is either a good or a bad idea depending on how you look at it.

Last night I spent most of the evening attempting to transfer over expanses of water using huge half-pipes, carefully measuring the hastening effect of boost pads against my trajectory and trying to avoid ending up in the water - or on my head.

Sources at UK publisher Eidos have confirmed that the company is about to be sold to Rupert Murdoch's media empire News Corporation, with the deal expected to be announced within the coming week.

Atlus has announced plans to publish Puyo Pop Fever for the Nintendo DS in the States this April, and... actually, just read the press release. We'll port it across verbatim. Not as a comment on Puyo Pop Fever's ubiquity through constant recycling (though, in hindsight, that would have been a clever justification). Just because it was, well, interesting! It's okay; we'll do something constructive with the time we save.

BattleBorne Entertainment has announced its second project, 6GUN, a third-person modern combat tactical-action game for PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC due out next year. You can find PS2 screenshots here.

Microsoft and Day 1 Studios have released 3977 blocks of downloadable bonus maps for MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf - their recently released futuristic third-person shooter featuring giant robotic transmogrified unlicensed money lenders. Probably. The downloadable content's free (we checked) but don't get too excited - apparently the two maps are merely the extras featured in the limited edition version of the game.

Sony Japan has stopped manufacturing both models of the PSX media centre cum game console, with the company revealing that production has stopped and giving no indication of whether it plans to resume at some point in future.

Uno-Fisher-ly, we expect, there's a single-player Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory demo doing the rounds this morning, reportedly extracted from the cover disks of a German games mag. It's very probably the same demo currently spinning around in our drives thanks to PC Gamer UK's demo disc, too.

Its inevitability probably had more to do with rumours of its existence than any actual solid evidence, but, perhaps spurred into action by media speculation [punches air], Sony has now officially confirmed that Zipper Interactive is working on another PlayStation 2 SOCOM game, due out this autumn. Which obviously confirms speculation relating to this, the third game in Sony's third-person squad-based online shooter. And you know, isn't it a touch ironic that we can now predict when elite, super Special Forces who Do Not Exist are about to turn up? We can smell clampers too, you know, and quite frankly Echelon has nothing on us. [Actually, I bet it has a heck of a lot on you. -Ed] You know, since we mentioned it, we've always wanted to try this...

Nintendo has dated the titles it plans to release during Q2 in Europe, giving firm release dates to promising GameCube and Game Boy Advance titles and clarifying when one of its first offerings for the Nintendo DS post-release will be made available.

For ages it seemed like Ubisoft was playing some elaborate practical joke on fans of the Tom Clancy games. On the one hand you had Splinter Cell, a game of such startling visual opulence its initial late 2002 arrival seemed to descend upon us a generation ahead of anything else, and on the other Ubi were busy chucking out Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six games so visually retarded they appeared to belong to the generation before. It probably says everything about how good Red Storm's efforts were in gameplay terms that even our inner graphics whore was forced to pipe down while we hugged them to our imaginary bosoms and cherished them for what they were. Beauty is often only pixel deep.