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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.

Everyone's favourite pill-popper turns 25 this year, and Namco is preparing to celebrate the occasion with the release of Pac-Man World 3 for Xbox, GameCube, PS2, PC and PSP.

Konami has shed a little more light on the sequel to Boktai, Hideo Kojima's solar-powered GBA effort.

Championship Manager 5 has been patched to bring the game's database up to date and to fix and refine a number of features across the length and breadth of the game.

Shares in embattled UK publisher Eidos have jumped by over 10 per cent in today's trading, after a report in the Sunday Telegraph newspaper suggested that rival firm SCi might be planning to bid for the company.

Disney Interactive has announced its chosen developers for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.

Czech developers Pterodon has announced the launch of two new add-ons for jungle shooter Vietcong Purple Haze.

Nintendo may be keeping details of the new Legend of Zelda title firmly under their minish caps, but a few snippets have emerged on IMDB.com.

Some of the more than 14 million Xbox owners told to replace their power cables could be left with a damaged console despite Microsoft's attempts to solve a power supply problem, according to IT news website The Register.

Keen gamers can already get their hands on US PlayStation Portable titles, according to reports from across the pond, with a number of launch titles already openly on sale - although the hardware itself won't be available until Thursday.

London development studio Blue 52 has gone into liquidation, according to a report in trade publication MCV.

Advance Wars is due out on Nintendo DS by the end of the year and will feature an aircraft carrier and stealth fighter amongst its new units, while Commanding Officers will now have a "TAG" stat to show how well they work with other COs during tag battles.

Nintendo Power, the Big N's official organ for North America, has revealed a list of forthcoming games for Nintendo DS in its latest issue, and amongst them are unannounced versions of Katamari Damacy, Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings and GoldenEye: Rogue Agent.

Tiger Telematics has announced a deal with Vodafone UK which will see the Gizmondo handheld device, which launched on Saturday, shipping with a pre-pay SIM card.

Speaking in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Square Enix' Shinji Hashimoto has discussed details of two of the company's biggest upcoming products - CG movie Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, and Disney crossover Kingdom Hearts 2.

The long-awaited next instalment in the Dreamcast and GameCube RPG series Phantasy Star Online will be on US and Japanese shelves this winter, according to Famitsu PS2.

Bad news for those of you eagerly awaiting X2: The Return: Egosoft has officially cancelled the planned expansion pack. But cheer up, cos here's the good news - you can now look forward to a fully-fledged sequel instead.

As some of you may have spotted earlier this week, Eidos has released a PC demo of its LEGO Star Wars tie-in game. It weighs in at about 200MB and you can download it from Eurofiles here.

Swedish developer SimBin is hard at work on an expansion pack for GTR, shortly to be available for free download.

With the PSP set to launch in the US next Thursday, 24th March, Activision has released some promotional vids showing off Spider-Man 2, which will be amongst the launch titles.

More than 1.5 million subscribers have signed up for MMORPG World of Warcraft, according to a statement issued by Blizzard Entertainment.

With less than a month to go until the game's European launch, Sega has announced that professionals have been hired to take on major roles in The Matrix Online.

You can tell it's getting warmer when you look out the window and the house opposite is literally ON FIRE.