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Sumo Digital has gone back to work. Admittedly, with the Xbox port of OutRun2 long since completed, that's not particularly surprising, but, for anybody anticipating another fusion of fast cars and wacky cornering, the nature of the Sheffield company's follow-up certainly will be. Announcing that it has received "advice and support" from Business Link South Yorkshire, the developer last week spoke out about "a new software product that could change the way people exercise at the gym forever".

Mario Kart DS has been given a firm launch date, with Nintendo today announcing that the title will debut in Japan on December 2nd, with its US release following on January 10th.

Eurogamer has learnt that Football Manager 2005 has sold around 40,000 units in its first day on sale in the UK and is expected to sell at least 80,000 before the beginning of next week.

A Devil May Cry movie is in the works, Capcom has announced this week, adding to a plethora of film projects based on its hit franchises, including Onimusha, Mega Man, and of course, Resident Evil.

Blizzard has finally confirmed a launch date for its long-awaited massively multiplayer title World Of Warcraft, with North America, Australia and New Zealand all getting the game on November 23rd.

Renegade US retailers are facing the wrath of Microsoft this week by selling Halo 2 fully five days before its official launch date, it emerged today.

After the rip-roaring blockbusting global sales of success of Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, after the 677,000 copies sold in two days, after the £24 million generated at UK retail over the weekend we thought we'd ask Rockstar for an official response, as you do.

Launch weekend sales of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas in the UK grossed more than the biggest-ever opening weekend for a movie launch in the UK, it has emerged.

Eidos has confirmed it will release the fourth Hitman title next Spring, subtitled Blood Money - and intends to deliver the IO-developed stealth shooter on PC, PS2 and Xbox.

A PC demo of Bugbear's excellent racing title Flatout has been made available for download on NVIDIA's nZone website.

We don’t normally bother reporting on gaming strategy guides; they're just there lurking in the background, so we tend to pass over commenting on them - but given that Halo 2's official guide is something of an epic 224 page trawl through everything you could possibly want to know about the Xbox's most-wanted game, we thought we'd flag Piggyback's guide up for once.

Valve has confirmed that the Software Development Kit for its Source engine will be made available to the mod community when Half-Life 2 goes on sale, on November 16th.

Sales of the PlayStation 2 have tripled since the launch of the new slimmed down model, ChartTrack latest hardware sales figures have revealed.

The expanded, reworked OutRun 2: Special Tours is to make its Japanese arcade debut next month, SEGA announced yesterday.

The recently-launched Gizmondo handheld console is to get a flagship retail outlet dedicated entirely to it, based in London's trendy Carnaby Street, it was announced yesterday.

The celebrated Swedish development studio behind EG-favourite The Chronicles Of Riddick has signed its next gen console title to US-publisher Majesco.

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has comprehensively smashed the all-time UK sales record for a videogame's first weekend, selling an estimated 677,000 units according to UK research body Chart-Track.

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Probably the most anticipated MMORPG since the ill-fated release of Star Wars Galaxies is almost upon as. Blizzard confirmed yesterday that World of Warcraft is entering the final stress test phase of its beta ahead of what is expected to be a late 2004/early 2005 launch in Europe.

Atari is to full localize Bandai’s Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex for Europe, the companies have confirmed, for release in March 2005.

Koei will chuck its fat into PSP’s launch fire, so to speak, by backing the release of Sony’s portable in Japan on December 12.

Sega will not publish Altered Beast for PS2 in America, the company has confirmed, citing the fact that it is “more particular about the titles it ships in the US” as reason for the decision.

Sports Interactive's eagerly-awaited Football Manager 2005 is to be released a day early, after retailers across Europe began selling the game over a week earlier than its November 5th launch date.

The Matrix Online will benefit from the voice talents and likenesses of many of the movie trilogy's original cast, Warner Bros. has confirmed, with the likes of Lawrence Fishburne (Morpheus), Monica Bellucci (Persephone), and Mary Alice (The Oracle) all signed up to play their respective parts in the game. No Keanu or Carrie-Ann, understandably. Presumably the publishers want to actually make a profit (and couldn't fashion a way to reincarnate them? - Ed).

One of Britain's longest-established developers appears to have reached the end of the line, with reports indicating that Argonaut's administrators have shut down the firm's Edgware head offices and made the remainder of the staff redundant.

GSC's promising-looking survival FPS S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow Of Chernobyl has been pushed back again, with THQ now hoping to release the game in late spring 2005.

The staggering scale of Sony's total global dominance of this generation of games consoles was underlined today with the consumer electronics giant releasing its latest set of official figures for both incarnations of the PlayStation.

Valve's long awaited sequel to Half-Life is heading to Japanese arcades, following news that arcade veteran Taito has signed a deal with the developer to produce a version for its Type-X arcade hardware for release in the summer of 2005.

Question marks over the 'real-world' battery life of the PSP remained today, following comments made by Sony Computer Entertainment's Ken Kutaragi in a recent interview with Impress PC Watch which add weight to fears that the handheld console's lithium battery is currently ill-equipped to handle the more graphically intensive games for more than a couple of hours.

The news of Resident Evil 4's conversion to the PS2 threw up more questions than answers this morning; most obviously whether the end of its GameCube exclusivity deal would open the floodgates to the brand making a belated appearance on a slew of other platforms besides the PS2, as well as whether the previously GameCube-only Resident Evil Zero and Resident Evil Remake would also be making it onto other platforms.