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Electronic Arts' Need for Speed Underground was the best selling game in the USA during the key month of December, with three other EA titles in the top ten and continuing strong performance for Nintendo's Mario Kart.

Leading publisher Electronic Arts is set to publish the third instalment in the popular TimeSplitters franchise, after Nottingham-based Free Radical Design signed a global deal with the US giant.

Brendan McNamara, the director of SCEE's multi-million selling London gangster title The Getaway, has set up a new development studio in Sydney, Australia, which will work on titles for new Sony game hardware.

Nintendo's mystery game hardware has been unveiled after months of speculation, with the Kyoto-based giant planning to bring out a radically different type of portable game system at the same time as the PSP next Christmas.

British publisher Eidos has warned that revenues for the first half of its financial year will fall slightly short of market expectations following the underperformance of certain titles, but expects to make up the difference by the end of the year.

Nintendo Europe has followed last week's announcement of a major global boost in GameCube sales over Christmas by announcing specifics for the European market, revealing that the console's installed base is approaching 3 million.

Mobile games developer IOMO has recorded a significant victory in the burgeoning sector, with half of the games in the top ten of the latest Vodafone Live chart being created by the company.

America's law enforcement agencies are treating the theft of Half-Life 2 source code and assets from developer Valve very seriously, it has emerged, with a dawn raid being carried out on the home of one suspect last week.

There was no change at the top of the UK chart this week, as the 700,000-selling Need For Speed: Underground stayed firmly ahead of the GTA Double Pack at number two and the half million-selling Simpsons: Hit & Run at number three.

Sony's Gran Turismo 4 Prologue is still the best selling game in Japan this week, driving the PS2 to the top of the table in hardware sales terms once more as the market declines overall following the busy New Year period.

Allen Adham, a co-founder and vice president of successful development studio Blizzard, has resigned from the company to pursue a career in finance, although a spokesperson claims that he has not cut ties completely.

Leading publisher Electronic Arts has acquired the rights to the next instalment in Criterion's highly regarded Burnout series of racing games, and plans to make it into one of its key titles for 2004.