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Microsoft has confirmed the UK launch date for 1 vs 100 . A Twitter post from Xbox Community Manager Graeme Boyd, tells us, " 1 vs 100 coming to Xbox LIVE in the UK and ROI on July 10, France and Germany on July 12... more details coming soon." That makes a lot of sense, given that Microsoft is hosting a launch event for the game this Thursday .

Wii and other console-based adventures. A blurb in Japan's Nikkei newspaper notes that the feature, which allows players to skip difficult areas and watch them played automatically, will also be used in portable games in the future.

HALO 3: ODST: Bungie unveils three multiplayer maps from the forthcoming next installment in their flagship FPS franchise.

Wii Fit, Wii Play and Mario Kart Wii are the UK's best selling games of 2009 so far, according to GfK Chart-Track figures distributed by ELSPA.

Japan's most popular robot animation, Gundam, turns 30 this year, and the creator of the anime series says the times have caught up with the futuristic show launched in the late 1970s.

Video games are usually made for kids, but a new system is designed just for senior citizens.

Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising In Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, gamers play the decisive role in defusing a military flashpoint between two global superpowers that threatens the entire world.

GWYNNE DYER Eagle-eyed columnist analyses Global issues VENEZUELA'S president, Hugo Chavez, has declared that any attack on his country's embassy in Honduras will lead to war between the two nations, and I cannot help wishing that the Hondurans would call his bluff.

You could call it a sign of things to come--or just one good PS3 bundle. According to Kotaku , next Sunday Best Buy will begin offering an 80GB PS3 with two of the best exclusives for the system-- Metal Gear Solid 4 and Killzone 2 --for the price of the PS3 .

NEWS RELEASE MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE ************************* It's game time McGuinty government lands major video game studio, 800 jobs One of the world's leading game developers - Ubisoft - is coming to Toronto to establish a major video game studio and create 800 high-quality jobs over 10 years.

Oh god ... it's real. Yes, you can lose money playing online, even when you're just spending interstellar kredits Online RPG banker steals 200 billion Trades EVE kredits for real money Filter: WoW, Second Life may be censored AN Australian tech worker has been caught stealing virtual money from a popular online game and exchanging it for cold, hard ...

Virtual goods are big business nowadays, in online worlds like Second Life and World of Warcraft, so much so there is discussion over taxing profits made from such goods. Real as the virtual reality is, someone in the online game EVE Online stole virtual money from the virtual bank he ran and exchanged it for real cash.

Although it includes bluetooth support and 16 GB of on-board memory, the PSP Go has been billed more as a hardware upgrade than as a totally new successor to the current PSP lineup.

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Nintendo and Five have announced auditions for a television show that will see a nationwide quest to find the "best brains in Britain". The two companies are putting prospective contestants through a series of challenges in a nationwide road show which will visit major cities across the UK during July and August.

Sony's quirky 32-player online video game "Fat Princess" is set for release soon on the PlayStation Network.

Ubisoft is now the hero of every prospective Heroes of Europe player, having just announced that it will publish the World War II flight simulator on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC.

Okay, okay, maybe not directly , but by way of Joker setting up a nasty ruse for Gotham's greatest hero at Arkham Asylum itself.

Kenji Matsubara, CEO of newly-formed publisher Tecmo Koei, has wasted no time in making a repeat request for a PS3 price cut, and is cautiously optimistic about Xbox 360 in Japan.