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Shares in British publisher Eidos dropped to an all-time low of 89 pence in trading on the London Stock Exchange yesterday, as rumours spread that football management title Championship Manager 5 could slip past Christmas and into next year.

As the description bit we just wrote for Eurofiles states: We don't normally post television ads up here, but this one is particularly amusing, and football related, and when you throw those two things together it's difficult for us to resist...

Ubisoft sends word that Playboy: The Mansion, its forthcoming management sim that puts you in the role of a virtual Hugh Hefner, has been delayed until the first few months of 2005 in order to avoid disappointment.

Developer 3D Realms, best known as the studio behind the Duke Nukem franchise, is working on a new unannounced original game as well as the much-delayed Duke Nukem Forever, according to an Internet post from studio president Scott Miller.

THQ has confirmed that it plans to release a PC version of The Punisher, the PS2/Xbox/Cube shooter based on the middling Thomas Jane movie of the same name currently in development at Volition. The PC version is expected to make it out alongside the console versions in early 2005. That's assuming they make it out at all; the last time we looked at Punisher it was so violent that even we were a bit taken aback.

Cancelled MMORPG Warhammer Online is back in development, according to comments attributed to Karl Jeffery, CEO of developer Climax, and could be released in around 18 months time.

It's probably safe to say that we all felt a little different when we heard about Superman actor Christopher Reeve's passing on Monday, but players of massively multiplayer online RPG City of Heroes - in which gamers create their own superhero characters and fight for justice in a fictional city - decided to express their sadness and respect this week by forming a living monument in his memory.

Microsoft has revealed that Xbox Live-enabled Forza Motorsport, the platform holder's requisite Serious Racing Game, will now pull into stores in the UK in February 2005, having previously been on course for release within the year.

EA's latest update to the FIFA Football franchise has gone in at number one in the UK all-formats chart, as expected - but all eyes are on Big Blue Box' Fable, which tops the Xbox ranking and becomes the fastest-selling Xbox game ever.

The exploitation of superheroes is something the X-Men would probably rail against, but in certain situations exploitation can be a necessary thing. Superhero action games have been pretty much polished off for now, with Spider-Man swinging at the peak of that achieved so far but with the likes of the Hulk, X-Men, Constantine, the Punisher et al all looking acceptable for the future, or raising eyebrows with smatterings of quality in the past. Catwoman made a fairly good job of being one of the worst games in memory, but then even superheroes can't have everything. But when it comes to spreading to other genres, they can try.

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Publisher Midway Games has announced that it has bought Austin, Texas based developer Inevitable Entertainment in an all-stock transaction which will see the formerly privately held firm being renamed to Midway Studios Austin.

That the EyeToy wasn't a Japanese invention came as something of a surprise; that Japanese publishers are now embracing the idea with their own take on webcam gaming doesn't. Next week both Konami and SEGA deliver their first EyeToy games - the latter, SEGA Superstars, being a keenly awaited high profile beast chock full of big name characters and excellent ideas; the former, U-Move Super Sports, landing on our desk with barely a flicker of pre-awareness and minus any Konami characters to pique interest among the faithful. Could it surprise us and somehow steal the crown from both Sony and SEGA? We're always happy to wave our arms around for a few hours in the name of gaming research...

Irrational Games is working on a "spiritual successor" to System Shock 2, the developer revealed recently, which pits the player against the used-to-be-human occupants of an abandoned science facility.

Halo 2 has survived the rigours of Microsoft's quality assurance department and is on track for release on November 9th in North and South America, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, November 10th in France, Belgium and Switzerland and November 11th across the rest of Europe.

Lurid adventure game Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude has been denied a rating by the Office of Film and Literature Classification in Australia on grounds of sexuality and vulgar content, effectively banning it from sale anywhere in the country.

Ubisoft has released a new two-minute trailer for Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2 demonstrating the Lone Wolf mode, where you play as one souped up high-tech soldier rather than as a four-man squad. Download it from Eurofiles here.

Florida-based lawyer Jack Thompson has launched his latest attack on the interactive entertainment industry, telling the media that Grand Theft Auto was used by a Massachusetts teenager to prepare for a planned massacre at his high school.

Monolith surprised a few people with the PC version of Tron 2.0. Although the developer has previously enjoyed success with the likes of the No One Lives Forever series, there was a sense that developing a convincing FPS game based on a near-20-year-old sci-fi might be a bit beyond, well, anybody's capacity. Fortunately it was a nonsense. Monolith instead delivered a memorable, graphically unique extension of the film that deservedly won much praise - including a glowing write-up here at EG.

Having enjoyed success dragging basketball and even American football out of the megabucks arenas for its five-a-side style Street series, Electronic Arts is now planning a football game along similar lines. "FIFA Street" is due out on PS2, Xbox and Cube in 2005.

When we reviewed Way of the Samurai 2 - the sequel to a game we very much enjoyed, lest we forget - we suggested that a wholesale rethink was in order if the developer planned to drag it out to a third instalment. It seems our cries didn't go unheeded, if the first details of developer Acquire's third stab at the series are anything to go by.

Capcom games are no strangers to obscure peripherals. In fact, over the past year alone we've had the chance to slash at things in Onimusha 3 with a katana sword-based peripheral, and turn our lounge set-ups into walking mechanised robots thanks to Steel Battalion. But now it seems peripherals firm NubyTech has cut down the competition with some style; it's planning a chainsaw shaped peripheral for Resident Evil 4 on GameCube.

SCi Entertainment has signed a deal with Gizmondo Europe which will see 12 of the British publisher's titles appear on the Gizmondo handheld, the two companies announced this morning.

FIFA 2005 may well go online with both Xbox and PS2, but EA's doing a far better job of milking its collaboration with Microsoft than Sony. First we had the FIFA Interactive World Cup, which kicks off this month, and now we're told that FIFA 2005 has become the basis of the latest limited edition Xbox Live Starter Kit. From around now, £59.99 gets you FIFA 2005, a 12-month subscription to Live and a headset.

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Given the large number of cancellations lately in the MMORPG genre (including Warhammer Online, Ultima X, Mythica and True Fantasy Live Online), Ubisoft's announcement of a forthcoming Heroes of Might & Magic online title this week makes for a pleasant change.

THQ has secured the global publishing rights to street racing title Juiced, the publisher announced last night, having seen its bid for the property approved by the US bankruptcy judge overseeing Acclaim's dissolution.

Nintendo is reeling this evening after an unprecedented leak saw the details of its DS press conference splattered all over the Internet before any of the key speakers had even taken the stage.

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