It’s mere hours until Apple wows crowds with the hugely-anticipated 3G iPhone, but the latest from the rumour mill is that party-poopers Microsoft plan on gatecrashing the party…with a Blu-Ray-enabled Xbox 360.

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Hold on to your wallets PS3 owners! It looks like the Sony console is burning its own hole in the ozone layer! An Aussie consumer magazine just ran a test to determine how much power games consoles suck up, returning for shocking results.

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Two years ago Microsoft unveiled Xbox Live Anywhere, letting gamers tap into Xbox Live from mobile phones and Vista PC’s. Since then we’ve heard little about it. Until now.

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GTA is here. Gamers all over the world are pummelling their joypads with glee, and now it looks like the game will be the best selling of all time, topping nine million sales with ease.

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Sony is anticipated to shift a further two million Playstation 3 consoles when Grand Theft Auto IV goes on sale. New gamers looking for their fix of virtual vice are likely to head for the PS3 over Xbox 360 according to a leading analyst.

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The Grand Theft Auto games have always featured star names: Ray Liotta, James Woods, Dennis Hopper, er, Danny Dyer - and it’s just emerged that Britain’s premier funnyman Ricky Gervais will have a small role in GTA IV.

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Filling up your Xbox 360 or PS3 hard drive already? You could replace it with a bigger version, but if you don’t fancy the extra cost/hassle Iomega has another option: its new Media Xporter offers an extra 160GB of storage for movies, photos and music. The drive is compact and doesn’t require any external power, getting all the juice it needs from USB 2.0, so you can easily take it round a mate’s house too. Of course, being an external FAT32 hard drive it’ll also work with PCs and Macs - it’s just the size and lack of a power supply that make it super-suitable for consoles.

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People are always banging on about the games industry being as big as Hollywood, and the 29th April launch of Grand Theft Auto IV looks set to be the clearest ever indicator of that. Variety magazine is predicting that GTA IV will pull in a massive $400m (£200m) worth of sales in its first week, which would make it the biggest game launch in history - and possibly the biggest ever launch for a single entertainment product.

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