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The unlikely alliance between French publisher Ubisoft and the US Army announced last April will blossom this summer with the release of America's Army: Rise of a Soldier for PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

Vivendi's released a playable single-player demo of Irrational Games' SWAT 4, which looked mighty fine when we saw it running recently. It even lets you choose between a simplified interface and the original SWAT 3 approach, ya know. This single-player demo features one hostage-rescue situation set at the Victory Imports Auto Centre, and allows you to create variations on it using the Quick Mission Maker. You can find the demo here.

An engineer working for leading publisher Electronic Arts has become the second staff member to file a class action lawsuit against the company, seeking back pay, damages and penalties for unpaid overtime hours.

Digital Illusions' latest financial report, released this week, has confirmed the suggestion that multiplayer PC first-person shooter Battlefield 2 will not be released until the second quarter.

Nintendo this week unveiled its Garage Games website, which allows owners of its brand new Play-Yan peripheral to download and play mini-games using the device - primarily designed to allow Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance SP owners to watch movies and play back music on their handhelds.

Sony Computer Entertainment has offered to repair PlayStation Portables returned in Japan that suffer from a defective square button - despite conflicting comments from SCE boss Ken Kutaragi, who last month insisted defiantly that the issue "wasn't a mistake" and was "according to specifications".

Publisher LucasArts has debuted a second title in a row at number one in the UK, with PS2 and Xbox military action title Mercenaries taking the top spot and knocking Knights of the Old Republic 2 down to number two.

SEGA Europe is set to publish NHL Eastside Hockey Manager 2005 this summer on PC/Mac, full of new features and revisions - many of which were influenced by feedback from fans of last year's Eastside Hockey title.

Anno 1503 publisher SUNFLOWERS (whose need for capitalisation we've never quite understood) has revealed that its chums at Spieleentwicklungskombinat (or SEK for short - theirs we do understood) are working on a 3D real-time strategy game called ParaWorld for release on the PC in Q4 2005.

With Brothers In Arms: Road To Hill 30 due out on PS2, Xbox and PC this 18th March, Ubisoft is ratcheting up the PR campaign by bringing Colonel John Antal (US Army Retired), historian and military/authenticity advisor at Gearbox Software, to visit GAME and Gamestation stores around the UK this week.

Those budget maestros Sold Out have announced their line-up for this coming March, giving anybody with a spare fiver another few ways to get rid of it in exchange for some cheap, faintly retro-sexual thrills.

It appears that GameCube title Killer 7, Capcom's split personality action game, will be released worldwide at roughly the same time this summer.

This is no ordinary game launch.

Our nightmares aren't very creative. They mostly involve being chased by hungry bears and discovering that your legs are made out of lead, or being 18 years old and faced with final year exams that you'd completely forgotten about, or waking up one morning to discover that you've got to review an Army Men game. If we ever did dream about being asked to turn The Godfather into a videogame, though, we'd probably wake up screaming. It's the kind of prospect that the word "daunting" just doesn't quite cover.

Arcade game designer Eugene Jarvis, whose titles include Defender, NARC and Smash TV, is to be honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the IGDA at the Game Developers Conference next month.

Ubisoft is offering the gamers of Great Britain the opportunity to play Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown on PlayStation 2 for a whole day next week.

Nintendo has unveiled a new Mario Kart game in Japan - but anybody expecting to get a closer look at Mario Kart DS or hear about a new GameCube game may be slightly confused when they learn what the company has in store.

Irrational Games has released a demo of its forthcoming third-person superhero action game Freedom Force vs. The Third Reich. The demo is available from a number of mirrors including the likes of FileFront (full list here) and consists of a single-player level called "The Voice of Doom" and two multiplayer modes.

Konami has refused to comment on reports suggesting that a fifth Suikoden game is in development.

Microsoft is taking steps to try and educate parents about their children's increased involvement in the internet with a series of guides including A parent's primer to computer slang and 10 tips for dealing with game cyberbullies and grifers, which we found linked on Slashdot the other day.

Speculation continues to mount over the future of French publisher Ubisoft, after market leader Electronic Arts this week declined to rule out the possibility of taking a controlling stake in the firm following its 20 per cent share purchase in December.

A number of promotions including television programming sponsorship on the Sci-Fi channel and a two week horror film tour are being planned by Nintendo to support the launch of Capcom's Resident Evil 4 in March.

You know you've been playing too much Splinter Cell when you switch your lights off at home and expect to nod your head forward and activate your night vision. Oh dear. This certainly happened after finishing Pandora Tomorrow, and we're fully expecting similar after-effects this time around, especially given the high hopes we have for Chaos Theory, the third Sam Fisher adventure to hit in little over two years.

Unfortunately, due to a scheduling mishap, this week's What's New will not be full of commentary from my cherished younger brother Edward, whose ruminations on games past and present are near-legendary in the context of whatever else is in my head. He's coming along this afternoon instead to ignore the likes of Gran Turismo ("why can't you park the cars?"), Prince of Persia ("there's no guns"), EyeToy ("you're too fat") and Halo ("I 'ate this") and to complain bitterly about my buying the wrong sort of lemonade ("don't like that one") and biscuits ("you shouldn'ta got these ones"). Fortunately, given his burgeoning pubescence and apparent acceptance of the Kylie calendar I bought him for Christmas (the most embarrassed I've ever seen him), the addition of Dead Or Alive Ultimate to the pile ought to give me something to fall back on. Before I fall over and cry into the fluffy cushions ("these are WAY too fluffy; you shouldn't've got 'em") about the fact that he can probably beat me at an arm wrestle by now. How I long for the day when I can go out and get drunk with him and harness his innocence, selflessness and good looks to appear interesting to the opposite sex by association. (They say true love is blind. It bloody well better be.)

Capcom is reportedly developing a PlayStation 2 game that will bring Resident Evil 4's Hiroyuki Kobayashi and Devil May Cry's Makoto Tsuchibayashi together on the same project.

Valve has updated Half-Life 2: Deathmatch with new weapons, a new level and various other tweaks, fixed various Source Engine bugs and added some new functionality to its Source Software Developer's Kit.

Midway has done a deal to publish Stainless Steel Software's forthcoming real-time strategy game Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War this winter.

Midway this week announced "the rebirth" of the Gauntlet franchise under the direction of John Romero (Doom, Quake) and Josh Sawyer (Icewind Dale) at the publisher's San Diego studio.

The bananas are no longer on the Dole.

Sony has announced details of a Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit-style cops-and-robbers racing game for the PlayStation Portable this week, bringing the total number of racing games announced for the handheld to 472.