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Nintendo's mystery game hardware has been unveiled after months of speculation, with the Kyoto-based giant planning to bring out a radically different type of portable game system at the same time as the PSP next Christmas.

"Gran Turismo on Xbox" doesn't really do Forza Motorsport any real justice, although that is certainly how it will be branded by anyone with a passing interest. Seeing the latest version of the game at Microsoft's London offices showed a project far matured over that shown at E3. It's a different game to GT4, although the underlying principals are the same. It's a realistic racer, set on realistically modelled tracks with real cars and real physics. It's just that there seems to be so much... more to it.

The Salt Lake City based development studio behind titles including Top Spin, Amped and Links has been sold to Take Two Interactive, in a move which finalises Microsoft Game Studios' move out of the sports market.

Resident Evil 4 will launch in Europe on 18th March 2005, and will be distributed by Nintendo of Europe - which reflects just how significant the platform holder considers Capcom's latest survival-horror effort to be to the Cube's hopes for 2005.

Valve has released a new map for Counter-Strike: Source in amongst a host of bug fixes now available in one of Steam's nondescript product updates.

Radical Games is working on a new Hulk game for PS2, Xbox and GameCube, publisher Vivendi-Universal Games revealed today, and unlike the last example this one will be a free-roaming, 'sandbox' affair where the Hulk can destroy more or less anything and use whatever's lying around as a makeshift weapon. Or, as Vivendi eloquently puts it: "jump anywhere, climb anything and smash everything".

Although the PC and Xbox ports of GTA: San Andreas are bound to attract the most interest, Rockstar has also revealed that it has at least one new console title based on a "proven brand" in development, as well as two PSP titles based on existing products - all of which it plans to launch in 2005.

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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is due out on PC and Xbox in June 2005, Rockstar Games revealed this week as part of mother-publisher Take-Two's latest financial statement. Both versions will ship on June 10th in Europe, having appeared in the US three days earlier on the 7th.

Namco has updated its official Japanese website with a teaser page for the forthcoming PS2 sequel to Katamari Damacy, giving us our first glimpse of the game via four (tiny) screenshots and giving us something to call it.

Funcom is removing all barriers to the world of its science fiction MMORPG Anarchy Online, dispensing with subscription fees and even the need to use a credit card to sign up, the developer announced this week.

French developer Nevrax has begun the release of the "next chapter" of The Saga of Ryzom, issuing the first of three instalments of new content to players of the game this week.

Renowned horror director George A. Romero is set to become the figurehead behind a series of games published Hip Interactive, the company announced today in association with Living Dead Productions.

PlayStation Portable title Metal Gear Acid will be able to link up with its PlayStation 2 counterpart Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater in order to unlock bonus content in both games, according to reports emanating from retailers in Japan where both games go on sale today.

Electronic Arts' planned acquisition of Swedish developer Digital Illusions CE has hit a major obstacle, with shareholders representing 28 per cent of the firm's stock rejecting the proposed deal.

Atari confirmed today another PC title for early 2005 in Europe following the recent unveiling of its deadly serious racing simulation, GTR.

An open letter from Doom movie scriptwriter Dave Callaham addressed to fans of the series has emerged this week aimed at clarifying quotes recently attributed to him and the "perceived shortcomings of the film", as well as giving us an insight into how the project was originally conceived and developed.

Xbox-exclusive title Phantom Dust has been acquired for US release by publisher Majesco, after developer Microsoft Game Studios declined to launch the title outside Japan earlier this year.

In the past we've seen excitable fans of massively-multiplayer games spend hundreds of pounds/dollars/euro on characters, items and other trinkets in order to have more fun in their preferred online world. But if you thought that stuff was daft, just wait until you hear how much one chap is set to pay for a 25 square-kilometre plot of land in MMORPG Project Entropia.

If you've ever wanted to be in a film with Al Pacino, this is the closest you're likely to get: Vivendi-Universal Games is offering seven people the chance to get their face plastered over one of the "environmental characters" (so, "extras") milling around in the publisher's forthcoming Scarface film license, and effectively act alongside him. And probably get shot to pieces by him, which would be an odd thing to play through.

Leading publisher Electronic Arts has announced the signing of an exclusive five-year deal with the NFL and its players association, effectively eliminating any competition to the firm's NFL sports titles from rival publishers.

Worlds which are alive generally have issues. You never come across living worlds that are just happy, you know, and want everyone to get along. Eberron, for example, which is the setting for Liquid Entertainment's forthcoming PC RTS Dragonshard, has some serious demons stuffed under the carpet.

Electronic Arts' street racing title Need for Speed Underground 2 looks set to become the UK's Christmas Number One software title, maintaining its lead at the top of the charts with only one week left to go.

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has decided to put back the release of The Matrix Online in order to give developer Monolith more time to add polish, the company announced this week. The ambitious MMORPG, set to be published by SEGA, will now launch in spring rather than mid-January.

Owners of the Gizmondo games and multimedia handheld, which launched in the UK at the end of October, will soon be able to use the device to send and receive email wirelessly via GRPS, Gizmondo Europe has revealed.

KOEI is preparing to launch the fifth game in its Dynasty Warriors series on PlayStation 2 in 2005, the publisher announced today. Dynasty Warriors 5 is due out in "early summer" in Europe, following Japanese and American releases in February and March respectively.

We asked, you delivered. Well, a couple of you did. Praise be to squaylor and Talha, both of whom chipped in over the weekend, and while we're at it praise be to recovering lost email archives from Zip Disks we don't even remember using. It's thanks to that small miracle that some of the works of Robo_1 and Kami have been resurrected and beaten into shape here today. Having failed to get them up back in the day, it seems only fair to indulge Kami in one of his priceless rants about a really bad old game, in this case Superman 64.

Pandemic Studios' Mercenaries will be released on PS2 and Xbox in the US on January 11th, publisher LucasArts revealed last week, giving the yanks a full month's jump on the likes of us.

In addition to its continued development of the Oddworld brand, Oddworld Inhabitants is looking to produce another title which focuses on Earth in the near future and deals with issues like "martial law and the diminishment of civil liberties," president and creative director Lorne Lanning has revealed.

SEGA's PS2 Shining Force action RPG has been officially renamed and dated for release in Japan, bringing us closer to the end of Shining Force's brief revival on modern formats following the earlier releases of PS2 dungeon slasher Shining Tears and GBA revamp Shining Force: Resurrection of the Dark Dragon (review).