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Team 17 has released a one-minute teaser trailer for Worms 4: Mayhem, the 3D, back-to-its-roots style Worms title due out on PS2, Xbox and PC this spring from Britsoft publisher Codemasters.

Those of us who can remember the days when EA and DICE used to release games instead of just trying to consume one another will be pleased to clap eyes on a pair of Battlefield 2 movies that appeared over the weekend.

SEGA is preparing a PlayStation Portable version of Virtua Tennis for release as soon as May, according to reports bouncing back and forward and back and forward and back and forward over the Internet this past week.

I'm soaring across the skyline of Steel Canyon, simply because I want to, I can and it's been a while.

Japanese mag Famitsu has revealed details of a new collaborative PS2 project between Namco and Capcom called, strikingly enough, Namco x Capcom. Developed by Monolith Soft (not the F.E.A.R developer, mind, but the chaps behind Xenosaga and Baten Kaitos), it's a near-future strategy-RPG which sees a whole host of characters from both companies' vast back catalogues infused into a new story thanks to some dimension-tearing plot device called "Yurigi".

EA has revealed certain details about the Nintendo DS version of Need For Speed Underground 2, which is due for release in the USA on 21st March. At the time of writing, its big brother on PC and consoles currently rides high at the top of the UK charts despite proving divisive amongst critics.

A new music download service specifically targeted at PlayStation Portable owners is in development at Sony, with the company hoping to use the platform to challenge Apple's lead in the digital music marketplace.

Codemasters has released video footage of Colin McRae Rally 2005 in action on the PlayStation Portable and elaborated on the sorts of features that rally fans can expect to see when the game showers us in mud this spring.

The Nintendo DS is due out in Europe on 11th March, but if you're really keen to get hold of one now and happen to have 1,000 or more Stars on Nintendo's website and £130 going spare, you can get your hands on a "Limited VIP Pak" ahead of time. As long as you're quick.

Konami will distribute Death, Jr. from Digital Eclipse offshoot Backbone Entertainment, the first PlayStation Portable game ever seen in public, across the USA this spring. Apparently the deal is actually six months old, but Konami has managed to avoid telling anybody about it for all this time.

Although we've yet to see all that much of Castlevania DS, Konami did use its Gamers' Day event in the US this week to unveil a pair of other Nintendo DS projects called Dragon Booster and Lost in Blue.

Konami has used its annual "Gamers' Day" event in the States this week to announce a knife-bearer's handful of new titles for various platforms, and amongst them was another title derived from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise.

Ubisoft is set to publish and distribute Bomberman DS for the Nintendo DS and Bomberman Hardball for the PlayStation 2 throughout Europe, having signed an exclusive deal with developer Hudson Soft.

Would you pay £25 for Tetris? No, probably not in this day and age. Besides, if you're any kind of gamer you've probably already played it to death at some point in your life. Probably several times. On lots of formats.

If there's one handheld game destined to be right at the top of gamers' Most Wanted lists this year, it's the DS version of Mario Kart. And right on cue at the European launch for the DS, Nintendo treated the assembled audience to a live eight-player wireless multiplayer session comprised of senior Nintendo execs and hand-picked members of the press.

Atari is preparing to release the PC version of DRIV3R this March after its, er, inconsistent reception on PS2 and Xbox last June. The PC version will benefit from a brand new, exclusive level as well as a 12-minute "Making Of" movie. (Not real-time, before you do that joke.)

The arduously monikered MotoGP: Ultimate Racing Technology 3 for Xbox and PC will feature a new street racing mode and increases the degree of online integration to levels previously unseen in a racing game, sensibly abbreviated publisher THQ announced this week.

Ubisoft is set to make games out of Sony Pictures' first attempts at feature-length animated films as part of a long-term collaboration deal with Sony Pictures Animation, the French publisher revealed this week.

Myst IV Revelation is on its way to Xbox this March in the States, Ubisoft announced this week, and will retail for a wallet-friendly $19.99 when it arrives. The game has yet to appear on Ubisoft's European schedules, but we'd be surprised if this was a US-only endeavour.

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater will be released in Europe on 4th March, Konami of Europe announced today, although we're still waiting for full details on the Europe-exclusive extras that Konami has previously mentioned.

Only a day after its launch, Take Two Interactive's new 2K Games brand has its first high profile title signing - with the Civilization franchise and its developer, Firaxis Games, finding a new home at the label.

Empire is preparing to launch an updated version of its arcade racing title Mashed, which ten out of ten Eurogamer employees called Kristan Reed rate very highly, on PS2 and Xbox this coming March.

EA and Nintendo have confirmed our report from earlier this month that they plan to beef up Fight Night Round 2 on GameCube by including an unlockable version of SNES classic Super Punch-Out!!

Sam-Fisher-nados [like it -Ed] will be interested to hear that they can this week get their hands on a public multiplayer beta version of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. Well, not their hands, obviously, since it's a downloadable demo, but they can at least get the computer-representation of a white-gloved hand with one finger raised aloft on it. By going to FilePlanet and wiggling their mice. (And then tapping keys that correspond to a suitably believable fictitious name and address.)

Battlefield 2 will be released between April and June in Electronic Arts' first financial quarter rather than in March as had been anticipated, the publisher admitted this week, as it reported uncharacteristically normal results that realistically still ought to leave its accountants' knees trembling like ravaged peasant girls lying on a bed of roses.

Hot on the heels of the announcement of a new Castlevania title for the Nintendo DS, scans from US magazine Play have revealed that Konami's Tokyo development studio is hard at work on a new vampire slaying epic for the PlayStation 2.

Sony has described reports that it plans to release a silver version of its slimline PlayStation 2 in Europe as "purely speculative" and described images of the unit circulating the Internet as "completely unofficial".

Sony Computer Entertainment boss Ken Kutaragi has defended a design decision in the PlayStation Portable which has led to a high rate of returns for the console, saying that it had a "clear purpose" and "wasn't a mistake".

Electronic Arts' racing title Need for Speed Underground 2 has racked up a ninth week at number one in the UK software charts, making it the only game in the past five years to hold the top spot for over two months.

Developeer 3D Realms has stepped in to stop work on an amateur mod for Half-Life 2 which aimed to recreate classic first person shooter Duke Nukem 3D using the engine of Valve's latest hit PC title.