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Konami Europe's Crime Life: Gang Wars for PS2, Xbox and PC signals a new phase of development for the company, it said today, adding a Grand Theft Auto-alike title to its portfolio before the end of 2005.

With downloadable demos ballooning to monstrous file-sizes in recent months, it's not too surprising to discover that developers are now taking advantage of the prevalence of broadband to distribute time-limited versions of complete games - and one of the most recent examples is Elixir Studios' Republic: The Revolution.

Atari has released a handful of screenshots of Saber Interactive's time-bending PC and Xbox first-person shooter TimeShift, which you can find exclusively on the site today here.

Details of Electronic Arts' beat-'em-up crossover with Marvel Comics have emerged this week after writer/filmmaker Greg Pak spoke of his involvement in the project in an interview here.

Ubisoft revealed that it has struck a deal with Japanese firm Bandai to publish music and lights puzzler Lumines for the PlayStation Portable in the USA this March, confirming reports based on retail leakages earlier this year.

Anybody who thought WipEout had been wiped out by its failings since 2097 would do well to keep their eyes on this from Sony's Liverpool studio. You can tell we like it because we've even rebelled against our own standards and allowed it that preposterous capitalised "E" in deference. The reasons you should care are many, but the one that most accurately sums up its appeal, at least to us, is thus: it's a racing game again, and not some botched shoot-'em-up with corners.

Activision has promulgated that the Xbox version of Doom 3 and PC expansion pack Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil will both be released on 4th April worldwide.

Rayman fans preparing for the quirky French creation's first DS outing may have to double the amount they scrape off their paycheque as news arrives this week that Ubi plans to launch a separate Game Boy Advance adventure during the same month.

ZOO Digital has confirmed the rather badly kept secret that it's preparing to publish a PC version of Climax Action's Xbox RPG Sudeki this 25th March.

Sony has revealed that five of its first-party PSP titles will feature online play from the launch of the system in the USA, with the games set to be playable both over local wireless connections and across the internet.

A product page on the website for VU Games' Sierra publishing label has shed light on a Delta Force remake currently set for release this spring on the PC.

Well, it's been my magic word, which is all that counts. Were you to take a straw poll of people across the worlds of Paragon City, you'd have different results. Most common would be "Issue 4! Issue 4!" Probably followed by "Where have the Winter Lords gone?" and "I have way too much debt." Well... if you let people expand "Magic Word" into "Magic phrase" anyway.

Sega has proved the strength of its Sonic brand in the UK once again, with retro compilation Sonic Mega Collection Plus debuting at number one and ending Need for Speed Underground 2's record-breaking run in the top spot.

Frontier Developments is working on an expansion pack for RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 which Atari will publish in June. Called RCT3: Soaked!, the expansion unsurprisingly focuses on things like water rides, aquatic animal shows and "tons of interactive water".

Valve is preparing to release a few updates to Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike: Source over the next month or so via its content delivery system Steam, including new weapons for HL2 Deathmatch, a new single-player map showing off advanced lighting and an update for CS including a new map.

Nintendo is set to bombard individual retailers, shopping centres, bowling alleys, cinemas and other areas with Nintendo DS demonstration units throughout February and March and into April, the company said this week, and estimates that more than half a million people will have sampled the console by the time it launches on 11th March thanks to its promotional efforts. Presumably that figure doesn't include the countless others who will have imported or played on American and Japanese units, either.

Activision plans to release new Call of Duty titles for the PC and consoles before the end of March 2006, CEO Ron Doornink told investors and analysts this week during a post-results conference call.

In news that will only be surprising to those occupying basement apartments in a rock, Activision has informed investors that Doom 3 PC expansion Resurrection of Evil and the long-awaited co-op enabled Xbox port of the original game have slipped into April.

Electronic Arts is beefing up the development effort on its licensed Superman title, advertising for a number of positions on the project including producer roles at its Orlando-based studio EA Tiburon, where the game is being developed.

Former Final Fantasy series director Hironobu Sakaguchi has revealed that one of the projects undertaken by his independent development studio Mist Walker is an as-yet untitled strategy role-playing game for the Nintendo DS.

Capcom is preparing to launch a vicious-sounding action-adventure set in a GTA-style city this autumn on PS2 and Xbox. Beat Down: Fists of Vengeance will drop you into the role of five different mercenaries for the leading Zanetti cartel in Las Sombras who, having been double-crossed by forces unknown, are forced to try and build up an empire to unmask and strike back at their unknown adversaries.

Capcom has signed on to publish third-person shooter Without Warning on PS2 and Xbox. Due out across PAL territories this autumn, the game is the first from Circle Studio, the UK-based outfit set up by former Core Design boss-men Jeremy Heath-Smith and Adrian Smith, and will be the first European-developed game Capcom has ever published.

NCsoft Europe has warned buyers of its City of Heroes Deluxe Edition not to mix up the bundled serial code - worth 30 days of free play and in-game bonuses - with the "Sidekick code" included on a separate disc in the same set.

Entertainment magazine Variety is reporting that Microsoft has quietly done a million-dollar deal with Alex Garland, author of The Beach and the screenplay for 28 Days Later, to adapt the Halo games into one film.

Sony Online Entertainment has set up a new studio in Seattle, Washington, USA. Called SOE-Seattle, the new studio will, er, "further increase Sony Online Entertainment's global market share and will strengthen the overall planning and production of premium games".

Namco is planning to release a premium Tekken 5 bundle when the game is released there on the PS2 next month to celebrate the series' 10th anniversary. The $99.99 bundle will include a copy of the game, a custom peripheral, and a six-disc collector's carry case to house all six instalments in the long-running beat-'em-up series.

2K Games, Take-Two's new publishing label, is set to co-publish The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion after its mother-publisher struck a deal with developer Bethesda Softworks, who will continue to direct development and retain all future rights to the franchise. Not a bad deal for Bethesda by any stretch of the imagination.

PC first-person shooter S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl has been delayed for an unspecified period of further development according to a posting on publisher THQ's German website this week.

Electronic Arts' street racing title Need for Speed Underground 2 has broken a UK chart record by taking its tenth consecutive week at number one, giving it the longest unbroken run ever at the top of the All Formats chart.

Reports this morning indicate that Sony's PlayStation Portable will not launch in Europe until the second quarter of the year, with chip shortages blamed for this fresh delay to the system's arrival.