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Blade Interactive, developer of World Snooker Championship, believes that expensive next-generation consoles must provide a significant "qualitative difference" - and this is precisely what they aim to deliver with new title Hydrophobia.

World Snooker Championship developer Blade Interactive is working on a next-generation title called Hydrophobia.

Heatseeker is kind of a damning indictment of Western games development. In reviewing it you've got to draw a comparison to the Japanese arcade jet fighting Ace Combat series because, well, Heatseeker is something of an 'homage' to it, and the differences between the two are clear. Ace Combat is an enormously polished license that tries to wrap you up in a beautiful frontend and an atmosphere of desperate comms chatter, highly vulnerable planes and a story that's rich with personal belief and tough decisions. Heatseeker on the other hand is being sold on its 'Impact Cam'. The Impact Cam is a camera that follows your missiles right up to the point of impact then shows you the explosion up close and in slow motion. Imagining the project lead meetings side by side is pretty depressing. Immaculately dressed Japanese men discussing how to best convey the horror of war next to twenty-something execs in t-shirts unanimously deciding the player needs to see the explosions closer and slower.

Epic Games has revealed details of the "Annex" multiplayer mode set to be introduced to Gears of War in a forthcoming patch.

Oxygen has revealed that 8Ball Allstars will be potting its way onto DS this summer.

Those of you eager to get your hands on Konami's rather excellent pocket Snake adventure will be slightly upset to see it has slipped out of April.

Capcom has told Eurogamer this afternoon to expect an announcement soon about Resident Evil 4 on Wii.

Nintendo has shed more light on the online options available in Mario Strikers: Charged Football for Wii, which is due to launch here on 25th May.

It may be out across America on Monday, but Nintendo fans aching for their latest dose of the quirky Mario RPG series will need to keep their hands in their pockets for the time being, as Super Paper Mario is mysteriously missing from the official European Q2 release line-up.

Guild Wars 2's top designers have said that the game will be one for existing fans, rather than a different game trying to entice a new audience.

Like all the other games in the Call of Duty series, Roads to Victory is bursting at the seams with cinematic intensity and gritty historical realism. It depicts World War Two from the perspective of the American 82nd Airborne Division, the Canadian 1st Army, and the British Parachute Regiment, and it's full of nasty Nazis, big explosions, shouting soldiers and lots of shaking cameras. And it's probably one of the best first person shooters on the PSP. But like all the other first person shooters on the PSP, Roads to Victory is constrained by the technical limitations of the platform.

Microsoft has decided to give its warranty policy a spring clean, updating its cover period on new Xbox 360 units from 90 days to one year.

SEGA has updated its NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams website, shedding more information on the freshly announced Wii title.

Rumours that NiGHTS is on its way to Nintendo Wii appear to be on the money, with Swedish magazine GameReactor revealing that the game forms the basis of its next cover story.

Microsoft has confirmed reports that a Forza Motorsport 2 demo will appear on Xbox Live Marketplace fairly soon. "The rumours this week of a downloadable demo are true and the details on timing will be confirmed in the coming weeks," the publisher said in a statement.

Nintendo has sold more than twice as many Wiis in Japan as Sony has sold PlayStation 3s, according to research firm Enterbrain, which owns Famitsu.

Rock Band - the Harmonix rhythm-action game that brings together guitars, drums and vocals, announced on Monday - will be compatible with "Guitar Hero guitars", according to the developer.

Nintendo has confirmed that Metroid Prime 3: Corruption won't be released in the first half of 2007 because Nintendo and developer Retro Studios want to make sure it's "perfect".

The third instalment in Aruze's completely bonkers Shadow Hearts RPG series will get a PAL release on PlayStation 2 this May, courtesy of Ghostlight (go on, curtsy).

"The definition of insanity," my friend told me, as he stood on a petrol station forecourt watching me wrestle a wing mirror onto my car using packing tape and rubber bands, "is doing the same thing again and expecting a different result." "I seriously doubt that is the actual medical definition of insanity," I responded grumpily.

Sales of the PlayStation 3 have dropped dramatically on the second week of release in the UK, with official Chart Track figures revealing a fall of 82 per cent, GamesIndustry.biz is reporting.

Releasing late into the last console cycle, and coming in as a distrusted newcomer, Xbox never stood a chance against PlayStation 2. That much was expected; but it was also not a situation Microsoft intended to repeat, and so its springboard gaming system's lifespan was artificially curtailed in an act of cold, digital euthanasia. For all that mattered was being first the next time around; or, more exactly, never being second to Sony again.

Ubisoft's latest release schedule has revealed it will be bringing Wartech Senko no Ronde to European shores in May.

In a long-forgotten cavern deep within the bowels of Middle-Earth, filled with lost treasures and the vengeful, embittered wraiths of an ancient race of warrior men, I am desperately flicking my mouse pointer over my toolbar in the hope of working out where the hell my healing spells are.

THQ has confirmed in its latest release schedule that we'll be seeing more wriggly Worms on handhelds this summer.

The Wii version of Mario Strikers is due out on 25th May, Nintendo said today, and will offer online multiplayer via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.

Denki Games boss Colin Anderson reckons Microsoft's willingness to allow so many rubbish games onto Xbox Live Arcade is "trivialising" the service.

Tetsuya Nomura insists his next game won't be Kingdom Hearts III, but a whole new series.

A spokesperson for Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has confirmed that the price of the PSP has been cut in the US, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Evolution scares me. Not in the same way that it scares evangelical Alabama hillbillies who think God planted dinosaur fossils as some enormous cosmic prank, but in the way it's often applied to modern updates of classic games. In that context, "evolution" usually translates to "we pretty much changed everything - so it must be better."