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Activision and Infinity Ward have released a 1.2 patch for the PC version of Call of Duty 2, introducing Punkbuster anti-cheat support and a pair of new multiplayer maps.

Celebrated PC developer Firaxis is "not at all" concerned about the prospects for the platform in the face of the arrival of the next-gen consoles, director and senior producer Barry Caudill has told GamesIndustry.biz in an interview.

As Take-Two announces that more than 1.7 million copies of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion have now been shipped, market research firm NPD has reported that it's the fastest-selling Xbox 360 game released so far in North America.

Software publisher Cenega has announced that it has severed its ties with developer Tanhauser Gate, and that development on the PC and Xbox title The Roots has been cancelled.

The first thing you need to know about Metroid Prime Pinball is that it's bundled with a rumble pack. Nintendo, up to its old tricks again, has seen fit to launch a new accessory for a system by attaching it to a game, which works fine when it's the calibre of say, Lylat Wars (the N64's rumble pack bundle) but less so when it's a Donkey Kong 64 (the N64's memory expansion bundle).

If only real life science would catch up with sci-fi and invent domestic robots that aren't fundamentally a bit rubbish. Years of research, and what have we got to show for it? Sony's silly robot dog, and that Honda robot which can walk up stairs - as if that's going to get the washing up done and your tax return filled out. It's pretty obvious who'd win in a fight out of those two versus K-9 and Robocop. Or even C-3PO, for that matter.

Datel's announced another one of its gadgets for copying saved data off a console and storing it on your PC hard disk.

Doom, BloodRayne, Silent Hill... Big screen game adaptations are big news these days, even if they are almost all completely rubbish.

Due to popular demand, Eurogamer TV now has a new comments feature - so you can have your say about each and every one of our tip top game trailers.

Karaoke is simultaneously the greatest thing ever invented and the most traumatic, torturous experience imaginable, but you can't ever win. Ever.

It's taken a while, but 2K Sports has released a demo version of Xbox 360 snowboarder Amped 3, which you can download now from Marketplace.

Activision's announced a PSP version of Wild West shooter GUN.

More than two years after Top Gear Rally appeared on the GBA, developer Tantalus has announced that a new instalment in the series is currently in development for the Nintendo DS.

Despite Bungie's claims to the contrary, US magazine Game Informer has declared that its article on Halo: Forerunner is not, in fact, an April Fool's joke.

FIFA foes fumbling for reasons to change their mind about EA's "is it good this week?" football series might want to check out a new demo of the World Cup edition, 2006 FIFA World Cup and see if things have improved.

Microsoft plans to launch the Xbox 360 in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and South Africa via both specialist and mainstream retailers by the end of 2007, according to European Xbox boss Chris Lewis.

Nintendo's Revolution console will be supported by around 20 software titles when it launches later this year, with a third of them being first-party games, according to Nintendo of America senior VP George Harrison.

It's not the best name ever, SpellForce. It sounds like some sort of educational spelling challenge, given a trendy edge to appeal to the kids. And indeed, when the original SpellForce was released, the name plus the concept - an RTS and RPG combination - left you with a sense of impending dread. But, as it turned out, this was misplaced. Surprisingly, the RPG element wasn't just tacked on as a gimmick, and the game was packed with sub-quests, proper character development and Diablo-style loot-hauling. It did have its problems, sure, but what's really impressive is that the developer seems to have listened to reviewers' and players' moans alike, and fixed most of these issues for the sequel. It sounds like a fairytale, doesn't it?

It's hard not to love The Apprentice. Some things, though, simply do not lend themselves to the medium of video games. We can fully imagine a virtual Sir Alan Sugar telling us we're fired after we fail some half-assed coin-collecting mini-game and just thinking about this potential buggery of car crash television's finest hour makes us very sad. The worst part is that it'll probably happen, too. At the other end of the spectrum, though, there are shows that may as well have been created with licensed games in mind. Time, it seems, for this review to attain some degree of relevance then, as the long-running Dragon Ball series is just such a specimen. Over the years, games tied into the popular anime have ranged from borderline unplayable to pretty damn good and more recently, the Budokai series has evolved from tepid beginnings to become a genuinely entertaining fighting game by its third instalment. And so with the expected array of tweaks and refinements, the series now moves into a smaller and more portable new home with rather pleasing results.

We can't get enough of games constructed around surreal conversations and slightly silly puzzles. There's something so charmingly timeless about the formula, that when a developer comes up with the right blend of sharp writing and wry characters, we're putty in their hands. It's probably the main reason that something like Psychonauts was our Game of the Year, and why we still trade pirate insults when drunk. I am rubber, you are glue.

A teaser trailer on the official Project Gotham 3 tournament website has revealed details of the first downloadable content for the game.

Having "stuffed" 20 of its finest games-you-can't-remember-if-you've-heard-of-or-not onto a PSP disk that it released in the US just last month, Capcom's announced another compilation of arcade classics for the Sony game-slab.

Just days after Tomb Raider: Legend hit the shops, Eidos has released a new patch for the PC version of the game.

EA's released a new video of Half-Life 2: Episode One in action - and we've whacked it up on Eurogamer TV for you to check out.

I'm thinking about developing my own military action game but I can't decide which of these two concepts I should go with:

Paris has recently, it seems, been a hive of activity for videogame creators. On Monday March 13, two French game designers - Michel Ancel (Rayman, Peter Jackson's King Kong), and Frederick Raynal (Alone in The Dark, Little Big Adventure) were joined by Nintendo's legendary Shigeru Miyamoto to receive from the French Minister of Culture a medal with the honorific title of Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight in the Order of Arts and Literature) - one of the highest honours the French government can bestow on any creative or artistic talent. And the weekend prior to this ceremony, the fourth annual Carrefour de l'animation (Animation Crossroad) cultural show offered the opportunity, for a small audience of passionate fans, animation and videogame students, to attend several conferences by another legend from Japan : Yoshitaka Amano, the painter-illustrator behind the imagery and character design of most of Square's Final Fantasy games since 1987. One of these conferences had a particularly original ideal - putting Amano and French game designer Michel Ancel on the same stage to talk about game and character design.

If you can't make it to Los Angeles for E3 next month, have no fear - Eurogamer TV will be there to bring you extensive video coverage direct from the show floor.

Eagerly awaited (and really rather good, as you'll know if you've read our review) PS2 RPG Dragon Quest: The Journey of the Cursed King is out next Thursday - and HMV Oxford Street is planning to celebrate in style.

Empire Interactive has announced that the long awaited sequel to point-and-click adventure The Longest Journey will be released for PC and Xbox next month.

Outpost Kaloki X developer NinjaBee will bring another game to Xbox Live Arcade in the near future.