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Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness took the top spot in the UK sales charts this week, selling more copies in its first week than any other previous Tomb Raider title - while Sony's Eye Toy: Play made a solid start at number two.

UK developer Warthog has been signed up to work with Electronic Arts on the publisher's next outing to Hogwarts this Christmas, but despite this coup it has issued a profit warning for its full year results at the end of this month.

George Harrison, Nintendo of America VP of marketing, has hinted strongly that Nintendo will not be rolling out any online strategy in this generation of hardware, although the company is looking into it for N5.

Major new releases from some of Japan's biggest publishers, including Sega, Nintendo, Capcom and Square Enix, saw the first major upturn in the software market in several weeks - with even an Xbox title making it into the top ten.

SCEE boss Chris Deering has spoken again about the company's plans for the PlayStation Portable, and for the forthcoming PSX, in an interview published in French newspaper Les Echos this week.

The GAME Group has issued a short trading update for the 21 weeks to June 28th, revealing the overall sales are up by 4.1 per cent so far this year, although like-for-like sales have declined 2.9 per cent.

Free-X, the Xbox hackers who were at the heart of the controversial attempt to extort a signed Linux boot loader for the console from Microsoft, claim that they have now released details of their software-only Xbox security exploits.

Publisher Majesco has announced that it is to continue its distribution agreement with Vivendi Universal Games into 2004/05, in a deal which will see VUG publishing 15 Majesco SKUs across multiple different platforms in Europe.

Leading UK retailer GAME has come under fire for breaking the street date of Eidos' latest Tomb Raider title by a full two days - but the company says it was simply responding to moves by its competitors.