Takara will release Toshinden Subaru on August 12 in Japan. The PlayStation fighter will be the fourth instalment in a series that's as old as the console itself. New features include breakable boundaries in the fighting arenas, a selection of mini-games and a database mode (eh?). There will also be loads of hidden features such as extra costumes, weapons and characters.

Sega of Japan have licensed Digital Intelligence Inc.'s 'Picture IQ' technology for use with the Dreamcast. A new peripheral using the technology should appear in Japan later this year, and will operate pretty much like the Game Boy Camera. Who knows, one day you might be able to stick your mate's head onto a character in Soul Calibur and then beat the crap out of him!

Strategy guide publishers Sybex are to release an officially licensed novel based on Pokémon Snap. The book will be fully illustrated with pictures of all your favourite Pokémon characters and will no doubt follow Ash around the island on his monster-collecting quest. The last Pokémon book, entitled Pokémon - Pathways to Adventure, has sold more than 225,000 copies since it was published in February.

A Canadian man has decided to sue an arcade owner after a little mishap with an arm-wrestling game. Kamaljit Grewel from Vancouver was trying to impress the ladies with his upper arm strength when his arm suddenly shattered, bringing laughs from all and sundry. "I was just pushing and pushing and then I heard this snap. I looked down and my arm was hanging down limp," he said. "Now I have a four inch plate in my arm." After the accident, Grewel spent five months with his arm in plaster and nearly a year in physical therapy. But bizarrely, his decision to sue was based purely on his humiliation. "When I told my friends what happened, they couldn't believe it," he said. "Everyone was just laughing at me, so I decided to sue."