The latest Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 trailer seems to have been made just to drop the "we only play it for the volleyball and dating-game elements" case out from under us - no gameplay, and all notorious 'gravure' pose scenes. Hit the movies tab above for the scandalous footage.

So, if you're game for watching the cast roll in the sand, pole-dance, torment crabs, bob on inflatable killer whales and look vulnerable in the jungle, this is the flick for you.

If nothing else, you can check out the 360-powered cloth physics and self-shadowing, and wince slightly at the DOA4-style writhing mass of cables that pass for the girls' hair. All the more reason to play the close-cut-bonced Christie or Lisa, then.

Due out in late November across the pond, we're confident the incredibly addictive collectathon elements have received as much attention as the photo shoot scenes. We'll let you know as soon as we've sampled a few of DOAX2's pina coladas under a hi-def sunset.

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Proving that a picture can say a thousand physics and particle-effect buzzwords, new screens of Full Auto 2: Battlelines, the PS3-only sequel to the Xbox 360-only original, have crashed on to our images tab.

It's hard to fault Battlelines for ticking all the expected videogame boxes - cars, guns, explosions - and then scribbling over the boxes with doodles of cars with guns, exploding. If there are subtle ways to show off the power of PS3, you won't find them here; it's all about speed and destructible everything, and mostly the latter.

Battlelines should get its chance to shine in the early days of PS3 online, being one of few non-Sony titles to have guaranteed network mash-ups - but bang for buck, our money's on next year's MotorStorm to take the demolition derby top-spot.

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This fresh batch of in-game shots from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories shows off leading man Vic Vance's natty taste in tailoring, a bunch of Confederate flag-worshipping white trash you'll be running missions with and a dozy looking biker bloke in a spiked first world war helmet - brill. Hit the images tab to treat yourself to the new views.

If you're unfamiliar with Vice City Stories, check out our latest preview for the lowdown on what could be PSP's best ever game. VCS is out next week, with helicopters, jet-skis and bigger missions to beef up the already excellent action we loved in previous handheld GTA, Liberty City Stories. Expect to see a review soon.

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Selected PS3 games will offer the option to install, PC-style, on to the console's hard drive to allow faster in-game loading times, it was revealed at last Friday's Gamer's Day conference.

Slash-'em-up Genji: Days of the Blade allows a 4GB install that will drastically reduce the wait between scenes, MTV has reported - although that's not the entire contents of the game, as playing without the disc in the drive provides no music.

It's rumoured that two other PS3 launch titles shown at Gamer's Day - Resistance: Fall of Man and Ridge Racer 7 - also have this feature, in which case punters with the 20GB PS3 may find that those three alone would fill up their hard drive.

The more cynical among us might wonder if that means we can expect lengthy loading times from PS3 titles that aren't borrowing a chunk of our hard drive space - it's certainly been the case with our experience of games running off disc at E3 and the Tokyo Game Show. But it's still a welcome choice, and with some form of hard drive guaranteed in every PS3, no-one will be left out of the option. ...

Need for Speed Carbon on Nintendo's Wii console will provide four different control options in an attempt to make motion-sensitive racing as easy to pick up as possible.

The default setting sees the Wii-mote used as a steering bar, held parallel to the ground and turned like a wheel in order to manoeuvre your car on screen, but the three other setups offer more ways to take on your street-racing rivals. Hit the images tab for more explanation in pictures.

Carbon's other control schemes use the Nunchuk. First, you can roll the Nunchuk left or right to steer while holding the Wii-mote at a 45-degree angle, raising or lowering it to accelerate or brake. Or in another setup you could hold the Wii-mote pointing straight up, dipping it to accelerate and using the Z button on the Nunchuk to brake. Finally, you can also opt to use this Wii-mote option while steering with the Nunchuk joystick.

With no 'normal' set up - using the Wii-mote's ability to act as a standard controller - EA seems to be serious about experimenting with some interesting solutions for motion-sensing gaming. "Non-gamers had no trouble picking it up," producer Larry LaPierre told US publication Newsweek of NFS Carbon's default steering-wheel setup.

"The Wii market is more casual, so that's why this is the default control," LaPierre explains, adding that "experienced gamers don't like it much. So we have alternatives". We're still unconvinced that 'experienced gamers' will choose the Wii experience over identical (and better looking) games on other platforms. But what do you think of the odd controls you'll be wrestling with on Wii? Why not hit the forums and release your views? ...

Sony has stated its intentions to prosecute companies for what it calls "grey importing" of its products, including the PS3, from other regions to within the EU.

This comes hot on the heels of Sony's court win against Hong Kong based online retailer Lik-Sang, the second time the two have clashed, this time over Lik-Sang's selling Japanese PSPs to EU customers. The judge found in favour of Sony, and deemed that various intellectual property rights had been violated by Lik-Sang's activities.

Sony also asserted its intentions to prosecute other retailers who sell the PS3 console--which is launching around three months earlier in Japan and the US--to Europeans desperate to get their hands on it for Christmas.

Sony stated: "The law is clear, grey importing PS2, PSP or PS3 into the EU, without the express permission of SCE is illegal. Therefore, we will utilise the full scope of the law to put a stop to any retailers who chose to do this."

The company explained the reasoning behind this policy as trying to "protect" European consumers "from being sold hardware that does not conform to strict EU or UK consumer safety standards (due to voltage supply differences etc.), [and] is not (in PS3's case) backwards compatible with either PS1 or PS2 software, [and] will not play European Blu-ray movies or DVDs, and will not be covered by warranty."

When asked if Sony would be pursuing private customers, such as those who advertise PS3s on auction sites such as eBay and offer to ship their own consoles overseas (for a price), a spokesperson said that Sony currently had no comment. ...

Last week a Korean gaming site carried pictures from a presentation on Xbox 360 peripherals at Microsoft's X06 Korea event. The snapshots included art of the Xbox Live Vision camera, a 256MB memory card, the Xbox 360 wireless gaming receiver that lets players use the system peripherals on a PC without cords, and an Xbox 360 hard drive with "100GB" written across the top.

The news was picked up and reported around the Web, and Microsoft today finally addressed the issue directly. A representative for the company passed on the following statement:

"The reference to a 100GB hard drive in a recent presentation in Korea has been misleading, and in fact we have no plans to bring a 100GB hard drive to the market. We apologize for any confusion this may have caused."

The representative could not explain exactly how the reference was misleading. When asked if the company had plans for a larger Xbox 360 hard drive, he did say it was "always a possibility."

"The device is modular, and there's the possibility that different hard drives will be available in the future," the representative said. "To reiterate, we have no plans to announce such an accessory in the near future." ...

Rockstar Games' Bully has been the subject of controversy since it was first announced more than a year ago. The game shipped to retail last week after a failed 11th-hour attempt by Florida lawyer Jack Thompson to have it banned.

However, the controversy surrounding the game might not be over with just yet. In navigating the angst-filled halls of Bullworth Academy as 15-year-old Jimmy Hopkins, players can participate in some extracurricular tonsil hockey with significant others. But while these significant others are typically female, there's at least one other boy in the game whom Jimmy can successfully court, as documented by this in-game video from GameBrink.

The Entertainment Software Rating Board surprised some people last month when it issued a T-for-Teen rating for the game. The content descriptors listed for the game on the ESRB's Web site are crude humor, language, use of alcohol and tobacco, violence, and sexual themes. When asked about the boy-on-boy make-out sessions, the ESRB told GameSpot, "That content was considered in the assignment of the rating."

Thompson addressed ESRB president Patricia Vance in an e-mail he claimed to have sent to "every major news organization in America and the UK," as well as a host of lawmakers and industry representatives.

"Dear Ms. Vance," Thompson wrote, "We just found gay sexual content in Bully, as Jimmy Hopkins makes out with another male student. Good luck with your 'Teen' rating now, Patty."

A representative from Bully publisher Take-Two had not responded to a request for comment as of press time. ...

Gamasutra has the story (by way of the currently-down GamePolitics) that Jack Thompson could be facing a contempt charge over his antics during the Bully fiasco. From the article:
"According to the report, the contempt of court request could find Thompson facing jail time, though it is more likely that 'fines, judicial admonishment or censure' would result from this most recent turn of events. The report also notes that attorneys representing the Philadelphia law firm Blank-Rome have filed a 'Petition for Order to Show Cause,' which requires Thompson to illustrate to a judge why he should not be held in contempt ...