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With Half-Life 2 drawing ever closer, Valve Software has released the latest in a long line of high resolution trailers drawn from its extensive E3 presentation this year, and has been kind enough to let us debut it exclusively on Eurogamer this weekend.

TrackMania is one of the most unusual and engaging driving games of recent years - so much so that it seems rather pointless to describe it as a driving game. It almost defies description. You may drive, and race online, but the real fun of the game comes from building new tracks and sharing them with your friends - and the many thousands of gamers that make up the TrackMania online community clearly agree.

Hey there! I'm Chris Degnan, one of the designers on Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War, and today I get to do a designer diary! As part of the Dawn of War design team I work closely with Jay [Wilson], the lead, and the other designers and get to poke my nose into a lot of cool stuff! For me, one of the most exciting aspects of the game development process has always been the creative process that goes into developing the game and all of its many bits and details. And that's what I'll be delving into in this here diary.

Rez and Space Channel 5 creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi plans to unveil his first project since leaving SEGA at next week's Tokyo Game Show, according to an update on the developer's blog.

In keeping with its dripfeed approach to promoting Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Rockstar has this month detailed the intricacies of the game's firearms system, and given us a look at some of the many activities that CJ can get up to in the vast Californian countryside that separates the cities of Los Santos, San Feirro and Las Venturra.

Electronic Arts has confirmed reports that Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 will not feature online support in Europe on Xbox Live, despite the fact that the PS2 version will go online via EA's existing infrastructure. American gamers will enjoy a full suite of options for both versions.

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Electronic Arts has announced that its PS2 Online and Xbox Live titles - including the now-officially chart-topping Burnout 3: Takedown - will suffer a degree of downtime today as the publisher performs "scheduled server maintenance," including "lobbyserver deployment," for Burnout 3. Fans of the game will be hoping that this may go some way to alleviating the strain on EA's hardware that seems to have caused so much trouble for Criterion's game since its official release on Friday.

Crystal Dynamics' forthcoming first-person shooter has undergone another name change, Eidos announced this week, but the results are already impressive - as you can see from the first trailer for the game mirrored on Eurofiles (11MB) today.

Ignition Entertainment, which is currently preparing to launch a range of SNK's classic titles in Europe, has pleased fans with the announcement that King of Fighters 00/01 will remain uncensored in its European incarnation.

The latest entry to the handheld console market, Gizmondo, is set to launch on October 29th - with the UK leading the rest of the world, where the powerful games, multimedia and communication device will roll out during 2005.

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With the multiplayer beta up, running, and rightfully popular, Vivendi-Universal Games has now released a single-player demo of Irrational Games' Tribes: Vengeance, featuring a mission taken from about halfway through the game.

Codemasters has signed a deal with West Indian cricket captain Brian Lara as it plans to return its cricketing series to store shelves after a five-year hiatus. Brian Lara International Cricket is now due out on PS2, Xbox and PC in summer 2005.

The producers of the Doom movie have announced a new director to take charge of the project this week, according to film magazine Variety, after original director Enda McCallion decided to bow out "due to personal reasons".

LucasArts has confirmed that Knights of the Old Republic II will debut on Xbox before the end of the year - but only in the US. The game had originally been planned for release in February 2005.

SEGA of America has confirmed that it plans to release Super Monkey Ball Deluxe on the PS2 and Xbox in early 2005, after reports on this website and others "went bananas" over the details late last week.

As you may remember, a couple of months ago we dropped in to Vivendi's Paris headquarters to have a look at Tribes: Vengeance. We certainly remember; it's not every day you encounter a hotel pianist who's willing to tackle a Nick Cave and Kylie duet on his own and then segue into Enter The Sandman afterwards, whilst throwing worryingly flirtatious glances across the room from behind his stubble and tossing his hair around like a model. But anyway, one of the most interesting things about that trip came about before we'd even set foot on the Eurostar; it came when your dutiful correspondent asked a few of his first-person shooter loving friends if they had any questions they'd want the game's producer to answer while we were there.

Two of Sony's biggest forthcoming titles have been unveiled ahead of their first showing at the Tokyo Game Show later this month - including the long-awaited announcement of the next game from the team behind cult classic ICO.

Vivendi-Universal Games announced today that it has signed a global distribution agreement with HD Interactive to distribute Nexus - The Jupiter Incident. Which effectively means that they will be putting it on the shelves, where you will be able to pick it up, bag it up and take it home in early October.

"You shouldn't be sat inside on a day like this. You ought to be outside playing with your friends." Fortunately, we didn't take our parents' advice, which is why we were (still) sat inside this time last week, on a lovely summery afternoon, playing a game about stealing valuable artefacts - and not peering out from behind bars because we'd given our youth over to trying to do the same thing for real.

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Renowned id Software engine programmer John Carmack might not be making videogames for that much longer. Speaking to CNN/Money's Chris Morris this week, Carmack admitted that he "wouldn't make any promises" beyond id's next game.

The Pro Evolution/FIFA battle is going to be more interesting than ever this year thanks to the addition of a Live enabled Xbox version to the PES ranks, but by the sound of it EA isn't taking that lying down; in fact it's standing up, shoulder to shoulder with the real FIFA, and running its own interactive World Cup. Which is one way to win the punters' affection...

THQ has released a demo of Relic Entertainment's Warhammer 40,000 real-time strategy title Dawn of War. Weighing in at 319.2MB (surprisingly precise, eh?), it should give you a decent impression of what's unquestionably the most interesting Warhammer videogame spin-off in ages. (Although given its competition consists of Fire Warrior that's probably not saying much.)

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has been set back a week, Take-Two announced last night as part of its latest financial report, but the publisher has finally confirmed plans to release the game on PC next year.

3D Realms boss George Broussard has responded sarcastically to suggestions that Duke Nukem Forever will make use of the Doom III engine, after Take-Two CEO Rich Roedel mistakenly said as much in a financial conference call yesterday.

It's the day our neighbours prayed would never come: Sony has announced that it plans to launch a follow-up to London Studio's SingStar title this November, featuring 30 new songs from artists ranging from Duran Duran, Elvis and George Michael to Busted, Destiny's Child and Natasha Bedingfield.

As those of you admiring the plains of Azeroth on a nightly basis at the moment probably know, the World of WarCraft MMORPG "stress test beta" has been extended until this Sunday, and developer Blizzard plans to allow thousands of additional testers onto the closed-beta who are currently languishing on the waiting list.

Sports Interactive has revealed which countries will be featured in Football Manager 2005, and how many levels and divisions will be included per country, along with a host of other FM2005-related statistics.