A Japanese woman has been charged and held in Sapporo, Japan, for deleting the character of her virtual “husband” in the game Maplestory, after he virtually divorced her without warning.

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Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console has enjoyed another week outselling its rival, the Sony PS3, in Japan. For the week ending October 17, the 360 outsold the PS3 by 25 per cent (4,800 PS3s versus 6,000 Xbox 360s). But other figures released show that Microsoft has a long way to go before it challenges Sony’s overall sales figures in the region.

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According to a survey of 500 UK gamers conducted by the London Games Festival, spiky blue hedgehog Sonic is the UK’s most-loved games character.

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A Microsoft patent filed in the US on October 14 looks set to curb the torrent of swearing every Xbox Live online player has to put up with (mainly from homophobic eight year old Americans).

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A man has been arrested with nearly 100 copies of Microsoft’s key pre-Christmas Xbox 360 releases: Fable II and Gears Of War 2. Rodney Gray worked for Technicolor in Memphis, Tennessee – the company prints game packaging and provides warehousing and distribution.

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HP this morning announced two new products - the iPaq Voice Messenger and iPaq Data Messenger. And we’ve got our grubby mitts on the data messenger already. Click below to see it unboxed in all its naked glory. And check back shortly for initial impressions of this Windows Mobile, slide-out keyboard, touchscreen smartphone.
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Watch out, it’s videogame handbags at ten paces time. The president of the PC Gaming Alliance, Randy Stude of Intel, has laid into LucasArts for its failure to bring throw-’em-about action-adventure game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed to the PC.

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The release of upcoming PS3 collaborative platform game LittleBigPlanet has been delayed (probably for a few weeks), after it emerged that music used in the game featured verses from the Qur’an. But the game is hardly the worst offender of religious sensibilities. Here are the others…

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