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Gauntlet and I have a bit of history together.

ParaWorld, the prehistoric real-time strategy game for PC, has been delayed once again - and is now due out this summer.

Hollywood producer Scott Faye has confirmed that the big screen adaptations of Max Payne and Alice are still on track and are coming along nicely, thank you.

Indistinct deathly murmurs abound about some movement on the next Resident Evil film.

Satoru Iwata is to return to the stage at the Game Developers Conference in San Jose next month, with the Nintendo president delivering a keynote address titled "Disrupting Development" at the event.

Those of you thinking about buying the Doom film on DVD might have heard that there's going to be a demo of the Xbox version of Doom III on it. Unfortunately, Activision UK just confirmed that that only applies to the US "Unrated Extended Edition DVD" and not the one you'll be able to buy over here. Dang.

Activision and Lionhead will shortly announce the development of an expansion pack for The Movies, according to a Lionhead forums administrator - and Activision's doing the traditional "can't comment" thing about it.

Those of you looking forward to hacking things up in Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach can get an early start this Friday, Atari's announced, by picking up the pre-order pack from retailers.

Heard the one about the new Italian tank? It has six gears: five reverse and one forward just in case it gets attacked from behind. How about the one about the new Italian flag? It's a white cross on a white background. Dubious jokes like these have been circulating in Britain for more than sixty years. Though inspired by real events (the mass Italian surrenders in North Africa in 1941) they perpetuate a myth uncorroborated by the history books. In reality the failure of Mussolini's men at battles like Tobruk and Beda Fomm owed more to poor leadership and inferior equipment than cowardice.

Electronic Arts' Need for Speed: Most Wanted is back in pole position in the UK sales ranking this week, displacing Dead or Alive 4 after just a week at the top to take its ninth week at number one.

PSP owners still looking for something to follow on from the puzzling fun of Lumines (at least, those of you who haven't given up and bought a DS yet) might be interested to hear that 505 Gamestreet has signed up Japanese developer Cyber Front's puzzle game Koloomn for release on February 24th.

Ubisoft has announced the release dates for Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter - and there's now a new trailer for the game on Eurogamer TV too.

Sony Pictures has announced that CGI feature film Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children will be released in Europe this coming April.

THQ has announced a new squad-based action game for Xbox 360 from Relic Entertainment, the creator of Homeworld, Impossible Creatures and Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War.

World War II games are big business and don't we all bloody know it?

Microsoft uberbigwig Bill Gates has praised Nintendo's efforts at innovation - but says he doesn't wish his underlings had come up with the idea for a remote control-style joypad, oh no.

What an adventure it's been. First there was the glamorous London launch party, attended by no less than Sting and at least one member of Girls Aloud. Then came the flagship Regent Street store, expensively kitted out with all manner of designer fixtures and fittings and never once housing more customers than staff. And the fun never seemed to stop - GPS! EA games! "Smart Adds"! Dodgy connections with the Swedish mafia!

Oops, here's one we missed last week: SEGA's German website has word that Xbox 360 shooter Condemned: Criminal Origins will be released on PC on March 31st.

Newcastle-based Venom Games is handling the Xbox 360 port of Prey, 2K Games announced this week, which presumably explains why Prey overlords 3D Realms don't have a devkit.

SEGA's going absolutely PC MENTAL on March 31st by the sound of it.

Following the announcement that Scottish developer Visual Science has gone into administration, MD Tim Christian has told GamesIndustry.biz that there are now plans to launch legal action against Vivendi.

So anyway, as we get firmly into all this "LOOKING FORWARD" stuff for 2006, it's interesting to see how everyone's handling the transition to Xbox 360.

The British Red Cross has told Eurogamer's sister site, GamesIndustry.biz, that it hopes to work with developers to prevent the "illegal and detrimental" misuse of the red cross emblem in videogames in the future.

Nintendo bigwig Reggie Fils-Aime has announced that there's plenty yet to be revealed as far as the Revolution is concerned - and we're unlikely to get so much as a whiff of it until this year's E3 kicks off.

Atari has released a whole bunch of new trailers for Driver: Parallel Lines, and they're now available for your viewing pleasure on the Eurogamer TV beta site.

Activision has announced that a movie tie-in for the new X-Men film is currently in development for PC, PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360, GameCube, GBA and Nintendo DS - and released some screenshots into the bargain.

Activision's latest financial report has revealed details of the company's plans to publish a range of titles for all three next-generation consoles.

Blizzard has admitted to Eurogamer that many World of Warcraft players are still facing problems when they attempt to log into the game - promising that they're doing everything they can to sort it all out.

The US PlayStation Magazine's reporting that Sony's going to launch a PSP email service and release a GPS adapter - both before the end of 2006.

Sensible Soccer will be with us this summer on PS2, Xbox and PC, says publisher Codemasters - a bit later than the Easter date we were given last November.