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Xbox 360 officially revealed last night

Microsoft’s second games console was officially publicly revealed last night on the viral marketing website OurColony, and then on MTV in North America, although renders of the console have been online for sometime, and photographs from the MTV program were leaked after the show was pre-recorded.

PSP European launch in September

00.06AM 26/04/2005: By Cian Ginty: On September 1, the PSP, which is already available in the United States, and Japan, will be released in Europe. The announcement came to Games Toaster under embargo from SCE Ireland late yesterday.

The PSP ‘Value Pack’ will retail at 254.99 euro, or £179 UKP, it contains a PSP console, a protective pouch, 32MB Memory Stick Duo, battery pack, headphones with remote control, AC adaptor, wrist strap and a non-interactive demo of video, music, and game, on the PSP’s UMD format disk. No price was given for the standard PSP.

The ‘Value Pack’ is nearly identical to the current US/Japanese ‘Value Pack’, which currently retails on the import site lik-sang.com for 219 euro, while the standard PSP sells there for 195 euro – excluding delivery and related charges.

Games currently released for the portable console includes Ridge Racer, Wipeout Pure, Spider-Man 2, Tony Hawk's Underground 2, Tiger Woods PGA Tour, and Need for Speed Underground Rivals.

As well as the ability to use video, music, and pictures vie Memory Sticks, the PSP also plays music and film on the PSP’s protected read-only UMD format - although unlike games, films are region protected.

In a limited early offer SCEE will give free copies of the film Spider-Man 2 on UMD to people who buy the game ‘Spider-Man 2’ and register their handheld on vie their site yourpsp.com.

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Xbox 360 images?

Renders and photographs (above & below) apparently of Microsoft’s next games console, the Xbox 360, have being doing the rounds on the net yesterday and today. The images, which are believed to be real, match a close-up photograph previously released from Microsoft’s viral marketing website OurColony.net.

In not-so-great-news, a vague advertisement - that reveals nothing - is currently airing on MTV to promoting the console’s half-hour first-look TV program due to be broadcasted on the station the week before E3.

Next Xbox to premiere on MTV

First sight of console to broadcast on iconic US music TV station
By Cian Ginty: The unveiling of Microsoft’s second console is to happen first on MTV in North America on 12 May, and the next day to the rest of the world, not as first expected at Microsoft’s annual pre-E3 media event.

The move follows Sony’s plans to move their pre-E3 event to just hours before Microsoft’s press event.

From Scotland with voice

Goodbye Mr Brosnan, hello again Russia; shot from Everything or Nothing game
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Sean Connery will lend his voice and likeness to EA’s next Bond game, ‘From Russia with Love’, based on the 1963 film of the same name.