Apparently, Amazon was right on the mark with its dating for Europe's Crisis Core release. Square Enix has officially announced that their highly anticipated prequel to Final Fantasy 7 is indeed arriving this June. The exact date's available for reading in the full article.

Australia based gamers will be glad to know that they're going to be getting some big name Square Enix titles such as Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII for the Sony PlayStation Portable and Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors for the Nintendo DS this year. To find out more, head on over to the full article.

Anxiously waiting for LucasArts' Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii, DS)? You'll be pleased to know that the game has already been dated and that Spike TV will be showing some exclusive segments on the game. Head on over to the full article for more information

Sony Australia has sent word that they will be launching Ready at Dawn's God of War: Chains of Olympus to their regions PSPs by next week. The company's also readying a PSP bundle containing the game and Silver PSP Slim as part of their release plans. More details on these two matters are available in the full article.

Are you concerned with Take-Two's move to develop the sequel to BioShock in 2K Marin instead of Boston and Australia? Are you excited about a possible sequel to Max Payne next year? Is Take-Two locked down for EA's taking? All these were answered by the controversial publisher's top execs as they met up with investors. All the details after the jump.

Game Developers Magazine is starting a new trend, and it's to list out the Top 50 videogame developers of the year - just to give back to the groups that made our lives a bit more exciting through their realized (and digitized) works of art. Want to know if your favorite game developer made the list? Hit the full article to find out!

Quite a number of gamers were up in arms when Australia's Office of Film and Literature Classification board's refused to rate Digital Extremes' Dark Sector (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3) for release. Well, if you're one of those who felt a bit disappointed, you might want to know that the Australian federal government has revealed that it is currently considering an R-rating for videogames.

Sony PlayStation Portable homebrew developer Art is at it again with his time-keeping application for the PSP, Time Baby. This latest version updates the Moonrise/Moonset Time Calculator feature we first saw in version 10. Check out the entire scoop at the full article.


Download: Time Baby v10b
Visit: QJ.NET's PSP Development Forums

We've been talking about Sony Computer Entertainment's WipEout Pulse for quite some time now. While we're pretty sure that we've given you guys a general idea of how the game plays, nothing beats  actually trying it out for yourselves.

Gamers based in Europe can do just that with the announcement that a demo for the game will be released at the PlayStation Store PC. More details after the jump!

It's better late than never; while European gamers have always been a little behind on software title releases for the different consoles, the recent team up of Namco Bandai Games America, Inc. and Deep Silver shows that gamers on the other side of the world will never be left out no matter what.

For more information, check out the full article after the jump!