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With the legal battle between Marvel Enterprises and NCsoft well underway, both sides still say they're confident of success following the announcement of a preliminary judgement by the LA court last week.

French developer Quantic Dream has denied reports suggesting that Omikron II is currently in the design phase of development.

Calling all fans of guns, drugs, fighting and tequila - SCi has announced the release of Total Overdose for PS2, Xbox and PC, a third-person adventure with a distinctly Latin flavour. Screenshots here.

Changes to copyright laws in Australia have opened the door for a fresh legal challenge to mod chips, according to Sony Computer Entertainment Australia, which has instructed its lawyers to prepare a new case against the devices.

Datel has announced the launch of 'Get Connected', a new product described as "the ultimate media management utitilty for the PSP".

Activision has released new details, screenshots and a trailer for PlayStation Portable title Tony Hawk's Underground 2: Remix, which is due out alongside the handheld hardware in the US on 24th March and should also be a launch title in Europe later this year. Screenshots here, trailer there.

Codemasters has revealed that TOCA Race Driver 3 is due out on PS2, Xbox and PC this winter - and reckons it's going to look better, simulate things more completely and offer the most comprehensive array of options for the mixture of speed freaks and sim fiends who call its tracks home. Screenshots here.

Following last month's announcement that production of the PSX was to be halted - widely interpreted at the time as the death knell for the PS2-based media centre - Sony has announced the launch of two new versions of the hardware.

Massive Development's undersea shoot-'em-up Aquanox will make an appearance on PlayStation 2 this autumn, publisher JoWooD sends word in a bottle. Aquanox - The Angels Tears doesn't make any bold claims about additions since the PC version, which was reasonably well received when it quietly released on the PC a long time ago. Indeed, if anything it's lost an apostrophe. But we have absolutely no doubt that, in addition to the more-than-40 story-driven missions, "phantastically staged underwater cities" and vast undersea battles, it will be significantly deeper. Glug.

Digital Jesters has released a public demo of Nadeo's TrackMania Sunrise, which is due out in Europe this April. It's 210MB and you can get hold of it from Eurofiles.

Billy "Wicked" Wilson, one of the chief architects of the Internet gaming news machine, has passed away at the age of 33 with his family at his side.

Buena Vista Home Entertainment has become the latest film company to pledge support to the PlayStation Portable's UMD movie market, announcing five titles for release on the format "this spring" with more to be announced "throughout the year".

EA has quaffed some colourful liquids and donned a mask to announce details of its beat-'em-up collaboration with comic book maker Marvel. Well, actually, it just plonked the press release on its US website and didn't mention anything. But we found it anyway.

A new study conducted by California-based firm Macrovision claims that one in five Xbox and PS2 gamers is using pirated software - but that three quarters of them would have paid for the games if they hadn't been available for free.

The N-Gage QD is to drop in price to $99.99 in the United States, Nokia has today announced, in an effort to make the system more attractive to consumers in the region - which has so far been the toughest for the N-Gage products to crack.

Polyphony Digital's PS2 exclusive racing title Gran Turismo 4 has roared into pole position in the UK charts, selling over a quarter of a million units to clock up the fourth biggest opening week ever.

Speaking in London last week for the launch of Gran Turismo 4 in Europe, Kazunori Yamauchi, lead developer at Sony-owned Polyphony Digital in Tokyo, has confirmed that Gran Turismo is not the only game the firm will produce in the coming years.

If you're one of the hundreds of thousands of PS2 owners who've bought Gran Turismo 4 since its release last Wednesday, you may be surprised to learn that you can actually battle against likeminded drivers on the Internet at www.gt4league.com - despite Polyphony Digital's infamous excision of the game's online mode late last year.

Sony has confirmed the news that we brought you yesterday - that a new SingStar game is due out exclusively on PlayStation 2 this May.

Since we appear to have turned into Gran Turismo Gamer for the second time in a week today, it seems fitting that Konami of Europe chose this lunchtime to announce that its own GT clone (sorry, competitor), Enthusia Professional Racing, is due out on 6th May. The day after my Mum's birthday, that, which means that Konami's latest ought to be better than at least one other driver out that week...

The Nintendo DS got off to a flying start last weekend, with UK sales topping some 87,000 units in the first two days on sale according to Chart-Track data released this morning.

Sony's announced this year's PlayStation 2 Formula One title and says it will launch alongside the PSP version, which has been renamed F1 Grand Prix. Sony's reluctance to talk about specific PSP dates in Europe means we don't have release estimates for either title, although, as we now know, it'll be at least a few months.

Sony has confirmed our report that the PlayStation Portable is "at least a few months away" from release in Europe, with French chief Georges Fornay admitting the system's launch had been postponed for several months to satisfy demand elsewhere.

Nintendo DS is available in Europe today, priced £99 with a line-up of 15 or 16 launch titles depending on where you live priced between £20 and £30.

Ironically for a series that aims to simulate police tactics in extreme situations, the average Eurogamer reader's experience of the SWAT series is probably limited to chuckling over potentially illegal requests for new CD keys on our comment threads. We've never quite pinned down why we get so many for SWAT 3. When we saw the long overdue sequel, SWAT 4, on a recent Paris press trip, Sierra reps couldn't imagine why it was either, but judging by the game that Irrational has produced at its Boston studio over the past months, running foul of the Special Weapons And Tactics division isn't something to be taken all that lightly. So we'd stop asking, kids.

Sid Meier's Pirates! is due out on Xbox soon. You can read our review of the PC version here.

Although we've not had anything through the usual channels about it, an eagle-eyed reader alerts us today to a release on Sony's European press centre concerning SingStar Pop - a new title in the karaoke series due out on PS2 in May. Screenshots here.

Nintendo "hopes" to announce more about its new Legend of Zelda GameCube title at E3 in May, the company said today as it dismissed reports that game would be released in October as "speculation".

UK publisher Play It has revealed that it will publish Red Entertainment and SEGA's PS2 shooter Gungrave Overdose in Europe this April. The sequel to arcade shooter Gungrave, surprisingly, it's set to retail for just £19.99 - which, if it's anything like its predecessor, is a sensible reflection of the size of the game.

Hideo Kojima believes "Metal Gear Solid 3 is the best Metal Gear Solid game in the trilogy," he said today, adding, "I can probably say the European version is the best version of MGS3".