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Flagship Studios, the developer founded by former Blizzard staffers including Bill Roper, has revealed that its first title will be a post-apocalyptic PC role-playing game called Hellgate: London. What do you suppose they're implying?

Top counter-terrorist operative and hopeless smackhead Jack Bauer is coming to PS2 exclusively this autumn with the release of 24: The Game.

Electronic Arts' latest spin on the football genre, FIFA Street, has swapped places with Sony's Gran Turismo 4 at the top of the UK sales chart, knocking the eagerly awaited racing title from its perch after a fortnight at number one.

This summer sees the release of NHL Eastside Hockey Manager 2005 for PC and Mac. And you could see your very own face in said game thanks to the aptly titled 'Face in the Game' initiative.

Vivendi Universal has revealed that no more support will be offered for PC shooter Tribes: Vengeance, much to the annoyance of the game's community.

Sony's PlayStation Portable will feature web browsing capabilities out of the box when it launches in South Korea in early May, thanks to a new deal with the country's largest internet provider, Korea Telecommunications.

Aliens are living right here among us on planet Eurogamer. Speaking as someone who has to live with one I feel I'm in a position to speak knowledgably about the subject. Sure, they can be noisy, swear more than your regular homo sapien, have a pathological aversion to tidying up and a peculiar fondness for Smallville and Family Guy, but otherwise they're just like you or I. The regular Aliens that I've come across aren't into all that abduction/anal probe stuff, and frankly they're sick of the speculation from all these humans so quick to stereotype them as icky green bug-eyed sickos. Just like humans, Aliens can be massive perverts you already know, but y'know, manage to hide their undesirable/shameful character traits very well.

Tiger Telematics has announced plans to launch the Gizmondo in Ireland on April 19.

New York senator and former first lady Hillary Clinton has launched an attack on violent videogames, singling out Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto titles as a "major threat" to morality.

UK publisher Digital Jesters has signed up to publish 7 Sins, a saucy new title from Monte Cristo (the developers, not the Count of).

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.