Tom Bramwell (Page 26)

New measures to drive the installed base of Xbox in Japan, including a significant push for Xbox Live with new features and lower pricing as well as a wider range of software, have been confirmed by Microsoft this week.

Bungie's critically acclaimed first person shooter has hit another sales milestone this week, with the announcement that it has broken the three million barrier.

Publisher Activision has filed a lawsuit against media giant Viacom for failing to make enough Star Trek, in a lawsuit filed in the Superior Court of the State of California yesterday.

Reports this morning suggest that EA is making another game based on Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, this time for PS2, Xbox and GameCube, which would appear at retail in early Autumn.

Bristol-based SN Systems has increased its presence in the Japanese games market by opening an office in Tokyo and signing an agreement with Sega, moves that will go some way to strengthening their position in the region.

Atari's licensed multi-platform Matrix title has sold more than 2.5 million units in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan), making it the biggest and fastest-selling title since the publisher's rebranding.

Microsoft and Sony have cut their console prices in Australia within hours of one another, with both companies introducing a new price point of AUS$329 (€180), broadly in line with recent price cuts in continential Europe and the USA.

In the end, Sony did decide to make a hardware announcement at this year's pre-E3 conference. Just not the hardware we'd expected. Instead, we were treated to our first glimpse of PlayStation Portable..