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Another quiet week for game sales in the UK has seen Codemasters' Brian Lara International Cricket 2005 returning to the number one spot, replacing Activision's movie license Madagascar which drops a single place to number two.

November 2003. We'd just finished Beyond Good & Evil. The review began: "Hear ye, hear ye! From this day forth, Michel Ancel is no longer 'the creator of Rayman'. From now on, he is 'the genius that brought us Beyond Good & Evil'."

The International Game Developers Association has established a new Special Interest Group designed to "address the issues and challenges facing the use of adult sexual content in video games."

Following yesterday's revelation that Zelda: Twilight Princess has been slipped into 2006, Nintendo of America has elaborated on the game's new timing, and poured cold water on speculation that the game will now appear on Revolution instead.

A new demo for Heroes of the Pacific, Codemasters' new World War II PC dogfighter, is now available for download.

Ubisoft has confirmed that it will fully support Nintendo Revolution in the next-generation of gaming consoles, just as it has supported the full range of gaming formats throughout its existence.

Nintendo has confirmed that its main hope for Christmas, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess on GameCube, has slipped to 2006. The platform holder says creative leads Shigeru Miyamoto and Eiji Aonuma want it to spend more time in development, and said the result would be a "more enjoyable gaming experience".

Sullen, slumped, moping, brooding - these are all words you might use to describe him. There he sits. It's about 9:30am on a Friday, and it's getting close to that time of the day.

With announcements due from both Sony and Microsoft at Game Convention in Leipzig tomorrow, rumours at the show suggest that Sony will be dropping its PS2 price point - but that Microsoft may have little news to announce.

Atari has announced that a new expansion pack for PC theme park sim RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 is currently in development.

WildSnake Software, the developer behind titles such as heXlines and Pinball Invasion, has announced that Alexey Pajitnov has joined the studio to collaborate on a new range of titles.

Those of you interested in learning what Q Entertainment's PlayStation Portable puzzle game Lumines is all about might want to take a look at Caboodle, a shareware PC puzzle game that, er, owes a certain amount to the Japanese.

The beta test programme for intergalactic trading-combat game X3: Reunion has now begun, according to a statement on developer Egosoft's website.

Sony has announced details of a series of PlayStation 2 Freedom events at the UK's top theme parks on September 1-4.

As some of you may have heard, Microsoft executive and Xbox 360 point-man J Allard had a nasty fall last week while mountain biking. Poor chap took a tumble and broke his left arm's radius and scaphoid, and cracked a couple of ribs too.

Speaking to a packed crowd the QuakeCon event last week, id Software legend John Carmack confirmed that the developer is currently hard at work on a brand new title for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 - but didn't so much as mention Nintendo's next-gen console.

Microsoft's forthcoming next-generation console may not always ship in a configuration with a hard drive, key Xbox executive J Allard has confirmed, with developers being warned not to rely on the component for their games.

The problem with cheerleaders (apart from eating disorders, low IQs and other Saved By The Bell stereotypes we're lazily appropriating for these parentheses) is that their obvious aesthetic qualities can be overpowering. The motivational benefits of lithe, blonde, pompom-wielding acrobats are better measured in the crotch area than the cranial cavity. It's certainly our excuse for being rubbish at basketball and, thanks to the finely balanced televisual marketing equation of "product + woman = sale", the reason we're writing this in the early hours of the morning and not earlier, when we'd set aside time. It's bad enough trying to get anything written with neighbouring curtains, cushions and biros throwing shapes in the dancehalls of our eyes; introduce dancing girls to our periphery vision and the two would get on so well they'd probably elope, leaving us with tunnel vision, a lingering sense of inadequacy and an impending deadline.

There's a part of Eurogamer's personality it doesn't talk about too much. It's the part that wants to bulk up, cover itself in oil, strip off and slide into a customised leather harness, wear a hockey mask, move to the Australian Outback, wait for an inevitable collapse of the world's socio-economic structure and then rule a tribe of barbaric machine-riders as king supreme. It's not satisfied often (except for a private party back in 1996 which still causes it to toss and turn at night at the memories), but it's always there.

A new game that combines Kung Fu moves with hip hop beats and, er, string puppetry will soon be available via Steam.

Going to Mars? Don't bother taking any cheese. Judging by the recently released trailer for the DOOM movie, which is available download now as a High Definition video, there's plenty to go around.

A new demo for PC, PS2 and Xbox action adventure Pilot Down: Behind Enemy Lines is now available for download.

Codemasters has announced plans to open a brand new online games portal, complete with a catalogue of more than 1,000 titles.

Here's an email yours truly recently received from a friend-of-a-friend who is also a mother (altogether: aww), and sometimes asks about what she should buy for her son:

DreamWorks is to take over production of the big screen adaptation of Splinter Cell, according to Hollywood news site Variety.

id Software's John Carmack has announced that the source code for Quake III is due for a release under the GPL some time this week, according to US website IGN.

Budget PC games publisher the Mastertronic Group has announced plans to release a whole bunch of SEGA games under the PC Gamer Presents... and M.A.D. brands, at the bargain price of just £9.99 a pop.

It says a lot about the nature of the games business that a game as exciting as Fahrenheit can be left hung out to dry by its publisher. Less than a year into the game's development, Quantic Dream was left contemplating its options once it became clear that its publisher Vivendi-Universal Games was no longer interested in releasing it. With the personnel that originally signed the game for VUG having left the organisation, those left in charge seemingly had no clear understanding of where the project was heading or its commercial value.

Diablo and Starcraft fans with eyes resting on Blizzard Entertainment's inaugural BlizzCon event, taking place in California in late October, will be disappointed to learn that the "unannounced product" the developer plans to unveil is a sequel to neither.

14th August 2005, 23:12. Unknown place.