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Sit down; this might come as a bit of shock. You know those big rusty things with the pointy fronts and the funnels and the anchors and the little round windows? Well, according to VSTEP - the creators of this atmospheric maritime sim - not all of them are crewed by terrorists and gangsters, or packed to the gunwales with dirty-bombs, guns or drugs. Apparently some have holds stuffed with completely innocent cargoes (bananas, disposable nappies, tropical hardwood, mercury-laced industrial waste...) and ply the oceans on totally legitimate business.

Ubisoft could be closing its grip on another hot Hollywood property, according to film nut Variety, which says the publisher is in the final throes of an agreement to create a game based on TV show Heroes.

Xbox Live users got a pleasant surprise yesterday when a demo of Climax's MotoGP '07 popped up for download.

Neversoft has revealed four more of the songs that make up the line-up in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, due out later this year on PS3, Xbox 360, PS2 and Wii.

Japanese developer Yuke's has come up with a novel new DS puzzle game to appeal to mature audiences. (By which we think they mean granny and granddad - otherwise their vision of bongo gaming is somewhat different to ours).

The second season of the episodic Sam & Max adventure game series will kick off in the autumn, Telltale Games said this week.

Factor 5 has finished work on Lair, with the North American version currently in manufacturing ahead of its 14th August release.

Mercenaries 2 producer Jonathan Zamkoff reckons that going underwater is the next step for Pandemic's playground of destruction.

NCSoft MMO dev legend Richard Garriott keynoted Brighton's Develop Conference this morning, talking loosely about upcoming sci-fi title Tabula Rasa, but failing to add detail to the E3 announcement that the publisher is to create PS3-exclusive online games.

Empire has announced a new Ford racing game for PC, PS2 and PSP.

The first in-game footage of Meta Gear Solid 4 PS3 is now showing on Eurogamer TV.

The Eurogamer TV crew will be catching up with Peter Molyneux for tea, chat and maybe more this Thursday at the Develop Conference in Brighton, and we're giving you the opportunity to interview the Fable creator as he sweats under the glare of our spotlight.

Xbox Europe boss Chris Lewis has said that mistakes were made when Microsoft launched its original console in some European countries - but pledged they won't be repeated with Xbox 360.

The New World Assembly has bought gaming league Enemy Down so it can revamp it and get more people shooting each other.

NCsoft has just released free expansion Issue 10: Invasion for City of Heroes and City of Villains.

Microsoft UK has refused to comment on rumours it will be chopping the price of the Xbox 360 in August.

Blizzard Entertainment announced that its World of Warcraft MMORPG has now reached a player base of more than nine million subscribers worldwide, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

It has taken three long years to get over the abject misery of playing the last Driver game. Lest we forget, it was a title with so much expected of its four years of development. Yet Reflections' massively hyped game emerged in such a sorry bug-ridden and unplayable state that it should serve as the textbook example of When Game Development Goes Wrong. That the follow-up, Parallel Lines, should end up being slightly above par felt like a triumph, if you can believe that.

FASA Studios expects the second Shadowrun Title Update (patch patch patch patch) to be released on Live "early next week", with the Vista version close behind.

Nintendo has said that Mario Party 8 will be re-released on 3rd August.

It'll be almost two and a half years since WipEout Pure by the time the latest PSP incarnation of Sony's Liverpool-borne future racer hovers into view. In an industry increasingly built on yearly sequels, that's a dangerous gap. Thankfully, based on an excessive amount of time spent hammering around the solo mode, it looks like Pulse continues the series tradition of franchise refinement rather than total reboot.

It's happy days for Ubisoft financially, but those of you looking forward to Splinter Cell: Conviction will be less than happy to hear it's snuck into 2008.

We're not exactly short a few sci-fi action games in the coming year; in fact, a glance at the release schedules suggests that we may be in danger of being buried under sci-fi action games in the relatively near future. I wake up at night from lurid dreams where Halo 3 sits on me while Haze, Crysis, Army of Two and all their burly, steroid-enhanced space marine pals shout "pile-on!", only to discover that the damned cat has taken up residence on my chest again.

Heavenly Sword is one of those annoying games that everyone has heard everything about, but nobody actually knows anything about. Of course you've heard of it; how could you not? It's one of Sony's great white hopes, one of the much-vaunted PS3 exclusives which have the unhappy fortune of being pivotal to the next salvo in the Great Console War of 2007.

Unreal Tournament 3's most eye-catching new feature is a two-metre-square block of pink gelatinous wibble that Epic is currently calling the "slow bubble". Once deployed, it slows the pace of anything that passes through it to a crawl. You can fire a rocket into one end and then run round the side and watch it slowly carve through the centre, before resuming its breakneck pace as it exits. More usefully, you can also dump it in a corridor that chokes your enemy's progress and use it like a flytrap, snaring the opposition and then blasting them at will. And, brilliantly, anybody stuck inside also gets to watch your bullets seep towards them at the same gradual pace that prevents them getting out of the way. Surely this is the best deployable since Armed & Dangerous' rarely mentioned shark that leaps out of the ground and eats you when you walk over it, if not the can of Red Bull I just found in my desk drawer.

Variety reckons that Roger Avary is to write and direct a film based on Driver.

Atari has agreed to sell the Driver franchise and most of developer Reflections' assets to Ubisoft in a deal worth EUR 19 million.

Some fresh information about the next instalment of Driver has been divulged by Germany's Official PlayStation 2 Magazine.

Ah, the Driver series. How we loved the first game. How we sort of liked the second one, even though the on-foot bits were rubbish. How we wept when we played the third, shaking our fists at the sky and crying, �WHY?� whilst filled with loathing for everything from the rubbish physics to the impossibly hard missions to the stupid, stupid �3� in the middle of the title.

Buoyed by the critical success of Puzzle Quest on PSP and DS, D3Publisher has been shouting to anyone who'll listen recently about Xbox Live Arcade, Wii, PS2 and PC versions. Judging by an ESRB game rating posted on the Internet, that might not be the end of it.