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Wanda to Kyozou (or "Wanda and the Colossus"), the latest game developed by the team that created ICO, is due to be unveiled at the Tokyo Game Show this week, but it seems that game designer and art director Fumito Ueda and producer Kenji Kaido - both of whom worked on the seminal ICO - have already spoken to the Japanese press about the project in more detail.

The ongoing US beta of World of Warcraft has been knocked offline after the Virginia-based datacentre housing all the servers was hit by a tornado on Friday night and the servers were shutdown to avoid damage. Fortunately none of the servers wound up wrapped round a tree, but the roof of the datacentre wasn't so lucky judging by the photographs on the WoW community site at the moment.

Doom not shooty enough for you? Rather wrestle with a US Army-funded game of potentially dubious morality that involves killing the locals in a middle-eastern hotspot? Probably best to keep that on the down-low, then, but you can at least download the demo of Pandemic Studios' Full Spectrum Warrior this week from Eurofiles.

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With Final Fantasy XI due out in Europe this week, we sat down with Square Enix senior vice president and Final Fantasy XI producer Hiromichi Tanaka and the company's lead translator and localisation director, Richard Honeywood, to discuss the European launch of the game, the new expansion pack Chains of Promathia, and Square Enix's future online plans.

A release date for Half-Life 2 could be coming "soon" Valve's marketing director Doug Lombardi told Eurogamer last night.

The massively multiplayer Matrix Online (the MMMORPG?) has been pushed back from the crowded confines of its November release slot to the relative wasteland of early next year it was announced yesterday, with a simultaneous Europe and US release now planned for January 18th, 2005.

The second issue of The Official Football Manager Magazine is to include an exclusive cover-mounted beta demo of Sports Interactive's keenly-awaited Football Manager, it was announced this morning.

Following on the heels of a similar price cut in the United States earlier this month, Nintendo of Europe has today announced that the GBA SP is set to drop to UKP 69 from September 24th, giving the handheld a pre-season boost.

Death to you. Here. What we mean is you can now download the single-player demo of id Software's Doom III, which was released the other month to the whinnying satisfaction of thousands of underused and overpriced graphics card cooling fans the world over, from Eurofiles.

Having given us a taste of CJ's countryside adventures recently - with the news that players will be able to drive lorries and bull dozers, take part in downhill mountain bike races and chew tobaccah - Rockstar has now given us a glimpse of one of the "RU Haul" trucks we'll be jack-knifing vigorously at the end of next month, along with a couple of other new sights.

The first details of the remodelled PStwo console are expected to emerge at Sony Computer Entertainment's strategy conference in Tokyo next Tuesday, where division president Ken Kutaragi will outline the firm's plans for the second half of the fiscal year which runs to March '05.

BioWare Corp's next all-new title will use Epic's stunning Unreal 3 technology, it was confirmed today.

Novalogic's 'record breaking' online FPS Joint Ops is to receive the expansion pack treatment in time for Christmas, the company has announced.

Valve Software has delivered a Half-Life 2 release candidate to publisher Vivendi-Universal Games, head honcho Gabe Newell has announced in a forum post on H2fallout.com.

Someone listens! Having voiced our concerns recently over Ubisoft's rather combat-heavy promotional efforts and the tonal shift in Prince of Persia: Warrior Within evidenced in the E3/Game Stars demo version, today we've gotten our hands on a trailer that goes some way to restoring our faith - and excitement - about this year's follow-up to The Sands of Time.

SEGA is working on a brand new SEGA Rally title for PlayStation 2, according to reports based on a story in Japanese magazine Famitsu Weekly. Called SEGA Rally 2005, it's due out in Japan sometime in 2005.

Ever seen those hateful adverts that encourage idiots to take legal action if they’ve ever had an accident that wasn't their fault? ("I got struck by lightning! I'm suing God!"). KOEI had better watch out for rabidly litigious gamers slapping in writs as they slap their withered RSI-wracked wrists, blaming the company for getting them hooked on a succession of button-mashing hackandslashers. The latest in its long line of these repetitive, but entertaining and action packed games has just caused our carpal tunnels some consternation, so we'd better make this quick before those shooting pains go to our head and get us started on the problems with Premier League referees.

Bungie has updated its official website with an amusing page that debunks a whole host of different Halo 2 related rumours, some of which are vaguely plausible but sadly untrue, and many of which are so obviously not true that the developer's tongue-in-cheek reactions more or less say it all.

Square Enix is working on a new massively multiplayer PC title called Fantasy Earth: The Ring of Dominion it emerged yesterday after the publisher snuck promotional leaflets about the game into copies of Final Fantasy XI expansion Chains of Promathia as they went on sale in Japan.

Tecmo's Team NINJA is planning to unveil the second Hurricane Pack of free downloadable content for Ninja Gaiden later today for release in late September, but Tomonobu Itagaki has already indicated that the second volume of content will provide a smaller self-contained adventure rather than rejigging the original game once more.

Square Enix is developing a Final Fantasy VII spin-off title with Vincent Valentine as the lead character, according to stories that reportedly originated in Japanese magazine Shonen Jump. The game is apparently called Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII ("Dirge of Cerberus" being one of the many enigmatic trademarks attributed to Square Enix this year), and will be released exclusively on PS2 in 2005.

Having spent many a happy handheld hour hiding in the corner with an Advance War in progress, or steering our ragtag band of oddly named Fire Emblemeers towards their goal, we've long kept an eye open for a turn-based strategy title to play on our consoles under the TV. And with Kuju's Advance Wars offering still some way off, and surprisingly few similar titles in the PS2, Xbox or Cube's back catalogue, Zed Two's Future Tactics has swallowed up a fair bit of our curiosity ever since we first heard about it - the subsequent downfall of the UK-based developer notwithstanding [Zed's dead - dead Ed]. It's been out for a few months in the States, as you may know, but now it's on its way to Europe, and should be with us by the end of October courtesy of the good folks at the questionably capitalised JoWooD. We couldn't be bothered to wait any longer.

SCi has released a playable demo of Pivotal Games' chart-topping squad-based Conflict: Vietnam title, which you can get hold of on Eurofiles this morning if you fancy seeing what all the fuss is about.

Nintendo has rebuffed suggestions on a Japanese website that Advance Wars: Under Fire, under development at UK-based Kuju, will support the GameCube microphone.

Valve has updated Counter-Strike: Source again through Steam. The changes should download themselves and take effect when you next restart the content download service wotsit. Amongst the changes this time are fixes to the spectator cameras and support for Windows 98 and Millennium. The Terrorists will also now win if all the hostages are dead and the round timer expires. (Which surely doesn't affect too many people at the moment, given that the beta focuses on de_dust, and there are no hostages on that map?)

Electronic Arts' hugely anticipated arcade racer Burnout 3: Takedown has gone straight in at number one in the UK leisure software chart, with the Xbox SKU becoming the fourth fastest selling Xbox title ever in the process.

Crystal Dynamics' Tomb Raider game "will be unveiled this autumn and is scheduled for release in the fourth quarter of the current financial year," Eidos told the City today, as insiders claimed that the version they had seen was a lot more responsive and closer to the series' original ideology than previous sequels.

With Half-Life 2 drawing ever closer, Valve Software has released the latest in a long line of high resolution trailers drawn from its extensive E3 presentation this year, and has been kind enough to let us debut it exclusively on Eurogamer this weekend.