REVIEWS...

• PS2: 7 Sins [30%] / Brian Lara International Cricket [8/10] / Flipnic / Full Metal Alchemist 2 [75/100] / Gungrave: Overdose [7.5]
• Xbox: Conker: Live and Reloaded [4/5] / Conker: Live and Reloaded [6/10] / Fantastic Four [7.2] / Fantastic Four [6.9] / Motocross Mania 3 [4/10] / Sid Meier's Pirates! [8/10] | Still Life [73%]
• Gamecube: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory [4/10] / Donkey Konga 2 [B-] / Killer 7 [8.7/10]
• PSP: Metal Gear Acid / Twisted Metal: Head-On [8.3]
• Nintendo DS: Puyo Pop Fever / Trace Memories [8/10]

PREVIEWS

• Battlefield 2: Modern Combat (PS2/Xbox) - If Digital Illusions can deliver on the rest of the maps and the single player campaign the way they did with Backstab, Xbox owners may finally have a good reason to eject Halo 2 from their consoles this November and participate in Modern Combat's 24-player mayhem on Live.
• Burnout Legends (PSP) - No other console racing game captures the speed and insanity of arcade racers like Burnout does. And Burnout Legends on PSP incorporates all the best features of the originals, the crashes and sense of speed
• LA Rush (Xbox) - The current demo version of Rush gives tastes of three modes. Race is your typical point-to-point contest, only with the aforementioned crazy traffic and arcade physics

MEDIA... 

• Ghost Recon 3 Shots - Gamespot has 20 new screenshots of Tom Clany's Ghost Recon 3.
• Ninety-Nine Nights (Xbox 360) - Here is a new image of Microsoft and Q Entertainment's Xbox 360 massive medieval action game Ninety-Nine Nights.
• Project Gotham Racing 3 Trailer (Xbox 360) - Microsoft has released a new Project Gotham Racing 3 trailer that was shown at the Xbox Summit 2005 earlier this week, showing over a minute of footage and features.
• Endless Saga trailer (PS3) - The game Endless Saga has been confirmed for the PS3, and will be available on the console in 2007.
• Smackdown PSP - THQ's Smackdown vs Raw 2006 is due to be unleashed on to PSP this autumn.

MISCELANOUS...

• FF XI Bundle ships - Square Enix US announced that FINAL FANTASY XI: The Vana'diel Collection will ship to retailers on August 16th, 2005. Including the expansion packs Rise of the Zilart, and Chains of Promathia as well as Tetra Master, the wildly popular and addictive mini-game, FINAL FANTASY XI: The Vana'diel Collection will provide the easiest installation ever of the first cross-platform, cross-continent massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) on one DVD. The special gold foil All-In-One packaging will carry a suggested retail price of $29.99.
• MTV Jackass Game In Development - Gamecloud has learned that MTV Games is currently developing a game based on Jackass, the classic MTV series starring Johnny Knoxville and his crew as they do wild and often painful stunts.
• GTA PSP details leak - Despite Rockstar trying to ensure that everyone keeps mum about GTA Liberty City Stories, a few new details about the game have leaked out. For example, we now know that the exercise and eating elements of San Andreas have been dropped, so Toni Cipriani, a man who was forced into hiding after capping a 'made' guy, no longer has to run, swim or go to the gym to keep his sex appeal up for the ladies.
• DRIV3R Goes GBA - Atari has revealed that it will be sending its free-roaming action game DRIV3R to the Game Boy Advance this fall. The GBA version is being developed by G. Dubail and F. Velez, the team previously responsible for Stuntman and V-Rally 3 on the handheld. 
• Unreal Championship 2 Upgrade Available Soon - Epic Games, posted some details on the first upgrade to Unreal Championship 2 (Xbox). Some of the upgrades, such as the server outgoing bandwidth reduction are fixes that the UC2 gamers have been eagerly awaiting. The patch is currently being tested by Microsoft and should be available soon
• Xbox 360 peripheral update (Xbox 360) - At Microsoft's Xbox Summit in Japan on Monday they revealed some more information on the peripherals included in the Xbox 360 box and those which you'll be able to purchase separately. Included in the box (which are green and white, in Japan at least) is a wireless controller, an Xbox Live headset, Ethernet cable, a 20 GB hard drive and presumably an AV cable. Peripherals available separately include additional wireless and wired controllers, faceplates, a number of AV cables, memory cards, remote control, larger hard drives, wireless adapters and controller chargers.
• FreeBSD for the Xbox - The port is fully functional. The framebuffer is fully supported, same goes for sound and USB devices (such as an USB keyboard for the console). Only ethernet is missing, currently, as the binary only driver in /usr/ports/net/nvnet fails with an error 5, for some reason. Assistance there would be very welcome.
• WAB PAD Region Swapper PSP - WAB have released their WAB PAD Region Swapper utility for the PSP. With it, the user can swap the X and O buttons on the JAP v1.50 PSP only, so in that respect (only the button mapping) it will function as a US PSP.
• Fuse TV offers free PSP video downloads - Look no further than to Fuse TV - it's like MTV, but with music videos. Just go to the main page, click on downloads, then portable video.