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Learn about Ratchet & Clank 3's story, enemies, environments, online play and more in this broad chat with various members of the development team.

(Updated throughout the day.) New Star Wars: Battlefront movies, Nightmare Before Christmas slips, Far Cry SDK released, Creature Conflict delayed, N-Gage rumbles with WWE Aftershock.

That's George Romero. As in Day of the Dead. Oh yes. Say hello to City of the Dead - it'll probably never die.

And no change in the top seven...

Ban this evil, in-depth, hands-on preview of the finished build of the game, and ban the sick people who wrote it.

Another brilliant turn-based strategy-RPG. What the hell is going on lately?

Web slinging free-form genius or a frustrating cursed mess? Both, actually.

In development at Gusto Games and due out in spring 2005.

(Updated throughout the day.) Ninja Gaiden Hurricane Pack delayed, gorgeous Okami trailer released, O~3 unveils Alien Hominid for PS2 and Cube.

Gearbox FPS will never surrender to mad Christmas rush tactics, it seems, although Ubi is keeping quiet about why the game's no longer on its line-up for 2004.

Feature-length Final Fantasy VII follow-up movie set to appear at the Venice International Film Festival this year.

Zoonami's Martin Hollis, formerly a director and producer on revered James Bond FPS GoldenEye 007, is planning to address the European Developers' Forum this year about the game's development.

Sensible Soccer and Jon Hare return after a period out of the limelight, and Eurogamer grabbed an exclusive interview with the development legend to talk about his role at Tower Studios, something of a Sensible/Bitmaps dream team...

This week's new releases. Yes, there are some this time. Including one on the GameCube (ooh), one involving cars, another made out of plastic, and one that implies war can fly. On to the rambling!

(Updated throughout the day.) Atari details UT2004 Editor's Choice Edition, JoWooD dates Future Tactics, Codies unveils LMA Manager 2005, Virtua Fighter 2 coming to PS2 on Sega Ages.

And Bruno Bonnell reckons they're not doing so badly. After all, DRIV3R's still selling, and nobody really liked Epic anyway...

(Updated throughout the day.) Area 51 delayed until early 2005, Battlefield Vietnam patched extensively.

A third-person action-adventure. Platform details, release date, etc, inside. We just hope it's not another Phantom Menace style outing.

We talk to Criterion's Alex Ward about Burnout 3 - the online aspect, the technology, the EA deal, breaking America, and plenty more.

GI.biz speaks to Criterion CEO David Lau-Kee and Electronic Arts worldwide studios VP Bruce McMillan about today's surprise announcement of Criterion's acquisition by EA.

Shock deal sees top publisher picking up RenderWare creator and key game franchises.

(Updated throughout the day.) Drakengard/Dead Aim dev seeks Xbox staff, Armored Core details, Arc the Lad could be going online.

Which we proceed to throw water over and then stamp on repeatedly whilst screaming HENSHIN-A-GO-GO-BABY!

Quiet week sees no new releases in the top 40, and no movement in the top four.

PS2 and Xbox owners can look forward to online play, although Cube owners will have to make do with whatever else is new.