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Electronic Arts has announced that the console debut for its Battlefield franchise, Battlefield: Modern Combat, has slipped a full year to autumn 2005 due to the decision to add single-player to the previously multiplayer-only title.

Sony's next-generation console system will be unveiled before the end of this year, it has emerged, with the first generation of development kits for the platform set to ship to developers at the start of 2005.

A number of new details about Sony's PlayStation Portable have been revealed, including the ability for up to 16 players to participate in wireless multiplayer games, and software called "Talkman" which translates between spoken languages.

Interplay's Fallout franchise has finally found a new home, with Bethseda Softworks today announcing that it is to develop and publish Fallout 3, having licensed the exclusive rights to the property, excluding online gaming rights.

Microsoft's zoo management simulation franchise, Zoo Tycoon, has sold over two million copies in the USA - with the double-platinum success placing the Blue Fang Games developed title in the top 15 PC games of all time.

Nintendo is set to launch a new Pokemon game for the Game Boy Advance in Japan this September, with Pokemon Emerald set to carry on from the massively successful Pokemon Ruby and Pokemon Sapphire titles.

Sony Computer Entertainment boss Ken Kutaragi has confirmed that a playable version of the PlayStation 3 will exist by next spring, with the console set to appear at E3 next year, quashing rumours of serious delays to its development.

Sony's hybrid hard disc video recorder, DVD burner and PlayStation 2 console, the PSX, will not be launched in North America until 2005 according to the head of the company's American electronics division, Hideki Komiyama.

The US Federal Trade Commission has issued its fourth annual report on the marketing of violent media to children, with praise for the games industry's ESRB rating system but criticism of ongoing marketing to unsuitable audiences.

British Formula One star Jenson Button has signed up to endorse Chicane, an F1 title being produced exclusively for the forthcoming Gizmondo handheld games console, which is set to launch in the UK later this year.

Former Microsoft Game Studios lead project planner Jon Kimmich has announced that he is leaving the company to join MechAssault developer Day 1 Studios, which is already working on a next-generation title for Xbox 2.

The first titles from Square Enix' mobile games catalogue to launch in Europe are set to arrive this summer, with Aleste, Actraiser and Drakengard rolling out on operator portals across the territory.

Lionhead satellite Intrepid Games has confirmed that it plans to develop a sequel to ambitious Xbox action-adventure title B.C., and that one of the sequel's key features will be multiplayer on Xbox Live.

EA's European publishing boss Gerhard Florin and ESA president Doug Lowenstein are to deliver the keynote addresses of the conference programme at the European Games Network trade show in London this September, it has been announced.

There was no change at the top of the Japanese software chart this week, as Sega's Let's Make J-League Pro Soccer Club '04 made it a fortnight at number one - but sales slipped overall after last week's huge launches.

Publisher Ignition Entertainment has announced that it is to bring a range of titles from the SNK NeoGeo stable to Europe, including Metal Slug, King of Fighters, Samurai Shodown and SNK vs. Capcom.

Mobile entertainment publisher MFORMA has announced its expansion into the Chinese market, with the establishment of local subsidiary MFORMA China and the opening of offices in both Shanghai and Bejing.