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Play has issued a press release about its upcoming Play.com live event which is set to take place at Wembley Stadium on March 15th to 16th. The press release announces details about a world exclusive first play of Lego: Indiana Jones, but more importantly it reveals that LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures will hit retail stores on 6th June.

Joe Bennet played Lost Odyssey by Hironobu Sakaguchi (producer) of Final Fantasy fame working with award-winning Japanese novelist, Kiyoshi Shigematsu handling the story. That pair instills confidence right off the bat. Is that confidence ill-founded? Well one has to play the game to know for sure, but the author can share his opinion. Perhaps that will help.

Read the Lost Odyssey review.

One of the stranger news items to come across these days, website "setfreethedevilinside" hosted a list of survey's to the UK's population, sponsored by Capcom for the release of Devil May Cry 4. These surveys give some startling revelations about English society.

At least, that's what the press release shows. Upon looking at the site, it seems very easy to answer to certain survey questions in the most gruesome way, because hey, who would know.

Still, some of the questions are almost too weird to lie about, like how "80 per cent of Brits believe that Hilary Clinton is sexier than Margaret Thatcher". Much of it is morally and sexually explicit, and the site burns your eyes just a bit with awful english. It is entertaining though, so have fun checking it out.

American McGee's blog has revealed that the developer is working on a second project which will use the Unreal 3 engine. It'll be a full release with a big publisher and should appear on multiple platforms. McGee promises it will be a twisted tale.

This unannounced game is currently in development by Spicy house which is currently located in China. We expect an official announcement once the publisher that is helping develop this title is ready.

Micrsoft's Robbie Bach revealed that more Alan Wake details will be published soon as it'll be shown at this years Games Developers Conference in San Francisco.

Bach said: “ Were saving a lot of stuff for GDC, which is where we plan on showing off some big titles such as Halo Wars and Alan Wake”

Activision's recently released Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare has knocked Halo 3 right out of the top spot for this weeks most played Xbox Live titles. Halo 3 is now in second position, with Guitar Hero 3 being 3rd and Gears of War coming in 4th position.

Zavvi has told MCV that they'll be increasing their games area by 15 percent, taking shelf space from the music section.

The reason for this increase is because during the Christmas season the store saw a big increase in the amount of game products that got sold. This will mark the second time its increased its range of gaming products.

Sega Europe informed us this morning that its released a new downloadable patch for Virtua Fighter 5 on the Xbox 360. The patch will include a number of gameplay additions and enhancements including...

This weeks Xbox Live Arcade release will be Boogie Bunnies, it's available on Wednesday and is a 3D puzzle game from Sierra Online.

Microsoft describe it as: “an imaginative color matching 3D puzzle game from Sierra Online, players must use their wits to keep a herd of bunnies out of danger. “Boogie Bunnies” transports players to exotic locations where they complete extensive chain puzzles to trigger funky bunny dances. The game features Classic, Arcade or Endless game modes that players can join in for some furry fun either online or offline in two-player cooperative and competitive modes that the entire family will enjoy.”

We've been looking forward to Alone in the Dark 5 because we want to see if this is going to be the sequel that can live up to the original Alone in the Dark that we enjoyed so many years ago, it was actually one of the first PC games we brought!

But, the latest issue of the Games for Windows magazine has revealed another delay for AITD5, setting it back to September of 2008, which was originally set for a March release.