It's not often we post links to eBay, but this collection, spotted by ElectricBoogaloo, is large enough to be worthy of mention. There is a lot of software for sale, with more than 3,000 titles included.

It's offered for sale as a job lot, and would be perfect for the comfortably well off Japanese video game fanatic. The asking price? US$100,000 and it's yours today.

Following Acclaim's bankruptcy, the future of street racing game Juiced started looking shaky. Now publisher THQ has stepped up and been awarded the publishing rights to the game.

THQ submitted the winning bid for the property, which was approved on October 6, 2004, by an order of the U.S. bankruptcy judge overseeing the Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceedings of Acclaim Entertainment. Acclaim Entertainment had previously held the rights to the "Juiced" property. Subject to final contract and certain closing conditions, THQ plans to release "Juiced" for the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system, the Xbox® videogame system from Microsoft and PC in summer 2005.

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The following games are slated for release today in the UK. Also apparently released today is Tony Hawk's Underground 2, although we can't confirm that yet.

PC
Age of Mythology Gold Edition, Athens 2004, Club Football 2005, FIFA Football 2005, My Little Pony: Best Friends Ball, Sudden Strike: Resource War

PS2
Club Football 2005, FIFA Football 2005, Jackie Chan Adventures, NHL 2005

Xbox
Club Football 2005, Fable, FIFA Football 2005, The Bard's Tale

Game Cube
FIFA Football 2005, NHL 2005, Pikmin 2

Game Boy Advance
FIFA Football 2005

THQ will taking the latest WWE game, WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW, on tour in the UK as part of the WWE SmackDown! Down & Dirty and WWE RAW Live & Loaded tours during October.

A version of the game will be available to play at all six arenas taken in by the two WWE tours in the UK this October. The full tour programme will include Sheffield Hallam Arena (7th October), Belfast Odyssey Arena (7th & 8th October), Wembley Arena (8th October), Cardiff International Arena (10th October), Nottingham Arena (11th October) and the Manchester Evening News Arena (11th & 12th October).

WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW is the next title in the massively popular and critically acclaimed SmackDown! series. The franchise is being taken to the next level with added features, improved graphics, Superstar voiceover and commentary and head to head online play for the first time in the series. WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW is due to release on PlayStation 2 this November.

(article by Media Create)

Top 100 title sales amounted to 711,372 units, 71.01% of last week's total and 75.36% of the weekly average. Sales continued to bubble along nicely as a result of the strong releases of last week and the week before, but the only notable new release this week was "NARUTO: Narutimate Hero 2". Other than this title, sales were weak at approximately 481,000. The market has started to track gradually downwards.

Twelve new titles made the ranks, with new releases accounting for 43.56% of total sales. "NARUTO: Narutimate Hero 2" sold approximately 231,000 copies. It is a good start for the title, which clocked up almost 100,000 more first week sales than its predecessor, "NARUTO: Narutimate Hero" (about 136,000 copies for the first week). It clearly shows that NARUTO has become very popular now. However, other new titles are making little headway, and the weakness of the new titles is reflected in the difference in overall sales between this week and last week.

TDK Mediactive has released some screenshots from the upcoming World Racing 2, sequel to Mercedes benz World Racing. The original game stood out amongst similar games not only for it's realism, but for the free form nature of the game world, with racing tracks overlaid onto a completly accessible world, rather than restricting racers to only the confines of the track.

World Racing 2 enhances the technology of the game's fore-runner World Racing, which introduced an innovative 3D landscape technology and sophisticated driving physics. While World Racing focussed on the simulation aspect, World Racing 2 will put the fun of driving at centre stage and offer optimised arcade racing characteristics, rich and varied range of mission modes, lively scenarios, enhanced tuning options and a great variety of cars.

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For those of you who signed up for and didn't get invited, Blizzard and Vivendi have announced that the closed beta test for World of Warcraft has now started. Along with this news comes word that the apparent release date for the game is November, at least in the US. European gamers will have to wait until early 2005 (with the most likely date set some time in February) before being able to get involved.