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Publisher Majesco has told US website GameSpot that Oscar winning thesp Ben Kingsley has signed on to play vampire overlord Kagan in Uwe Boll's movie adaptation of BloodRayne.

Xbox Live owners can finally get their hands on downloadable content for Ninja Gaiden this week, as Tecmo's "Hurricane Pack Volume I" muscles in to swallow our bandwidth.

Activision's movie licensed Spider-Man 2 has taken the number one spot in the UK software sales charts for a fifth week, making it the title with the longest innings at the top since Need for Speed Underground last Christmas.

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Time is an abstract concept when there's work to be done. For example, take this feature. A whole hour has just disappeared into the ether in the blink of an eye counting the raindrops outside. By the time you've finished reading this sentence you'll probably have grown a beard. When there's work to be done and the deadline's looming, you can be sure some pesky officer of time has pointed his remote control at our faces and pressed fast forward while putting our hands on pause. Must. Break. Free. Actually, we blame Microsoft for sending us an early playable demo of its latest stab at platforming in the shape of Blinx 2.

The Army Men brand may well apply to the toy soldiers we played with for all of ten minutes at some point in our youth, but as we've grown older it's become far more synonymous with mediocre videogames. Ubiquitous and generally half-arsed, they became something of a joke amongst the hacks over the years, particularly with those who'd followed the franchise from the very start of 3DO's ill-fated plastic putsch.

Square Enix has registered another inexplicable name at the US Patent & Trademark Office, and some eagle-eyed boffin has dug it up. Registered on July 26th, "Dawn of Souls" is the name, and we have no idea what it is, but it seems to be related to game software and accessories, unsurprisingly. Still, that doesn't mean it's a new Square RPG or anything obvious like that - in fact, we're guessing it's a mechanical pigeon developed to try and save the world from the impending invasion of the giant ants. Because we're tired.

Build-up to the increasingly eye-catching Game Stars Live consumer games show this September continued this week, as Vivendi-Universal Games and Britsoft publisher Digital Jesters both unveiled their line-ups.

Rockstar has released a few more Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas screenshots and details as part of its carefully orchestrated publicity campaign for the game everybody expects to clean up this October. The latest shots focus on specific areas in Los Santos - one of the three cities that make up the state of San Andreas, in this case modelled on Los Angeles - and also show off main character CJ's new swimming ability.

Microsoft will not be running its traditional European Xbox press event this year, a spokesperson for the company confirmed to our sister site gamesindustry.biz this afternoon. Instead, offices in individual territories will run their own smaller events to showcase games to each country's press and trade.

Former Final Fantasy series director Hironobu Sakaguchi's independent development studio Mist Walker is working on a pair of new role-playing games, Sakaguchi himself has revealed in an interview on a Japanese website.

Valve has begun preloading the beta version of Counter-Strike: Source to various cyber cafés this week, and plans to launch the first phase of the test for folks in these venues on Wednesday, August 11th - i.e. tomorrow.

Nintendo of America has launched an official website for Pikmin 2, highlighting the fact that the game is due out in the States this August 30th and giving you the chance to see some new footage of the game in action.

Gran Turismo 4 on the PlayStation Portable will be as straight a port of its PS2 progenitor as possible, according to series creator Kazunori Yamauchi, and should include the same volume of features and run comparably well.

Polish developer Heaven X has announced a PC first-person shooter called Alex Carver: Futurebrighter, starring a cynical, sarcastic convict who's hell bent on "saving his ass" using a vast arsenal of rather horrible-sounding armaments. In keeping with his bitchy persona, Carver will also have plenty of witty words for his adversaries, as he trails around the edge of the universe visiting prison ships and mysterious planets, and, according to Heaven X, success there will often depend on "tactics, reflex and use of enemy premises and vehicles". Other than that we don't know a great deal, other than Heaven X reckons it will look fabulous - you can judge for yourself thanks to the lone screenshot we've seen so far, which ought to be lurking over there [gestures left] - and that it's due out some time in 2005.

Sega has released a new two-minute trailer for Worms Forts Under Siege, featuring around 90 seconds of in-game footage showing off the new fort-versus-fort approach to worming - and a significant number of the game's 30 showpiece weapons.

Electronic Arts has decided to further delay PC first-person shooter Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault according to a carefully worded statement on the game's official website, which also mentions a new feature called Combat Squad Control. Pacific Assault is now expected to ship in November, having previously been expected in Europe a month earlier.

Operation Flashpoint 2 will not appear until spring 2006, according to publisher Codemasters. The Britsoft publisher and developer Bohemia Interactive have yet to reveal any new information or assets.

As you probably realise by now, Mars is suffering a stationery crisis. Caught up in the aftermath of some braniac's masterful decision to invite Satan round for tea and slaughter, UAC marines are being wiped out in their hundreds - and it's all thanks to a lack of duct tape, forcing them to relinquish the ability to see whenever they need to shoot anything. Which is often.

Gamers attending Game Stars Live this September will be among the first in the world to get their hands on Xbox first-person shooter Halo 2, organisers of the ambitious consumer games show have announced.

With the game due out on PS2, Xbox and PC this October, Codemasters is starting to chat about the specific new features that help Club Football 2005 stand out - apart from the bagillion different club-specific versions, that is. The latest of these is the Precision Trigger system, which enables you to slow the play down to help with your close control, allowing you to drag the ball away from other players, shimmy, jink, and turn extravagantly without having to perform thumb gymnastics at a rate of knots. It sounds quite handy, and we look forward to seeing how it works out.

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The weight of expectation is truly staggering. After so long in development, and with so much riding on it, the excitement is tangible wherever you go - so much so that the question of quality has arguably taken a back seat in the minds of many longstanding fans, who are just scrambling to get their bloodthirsty hands on it; whatever it is; with their caution thrown so sharply to the wind that it seems to have sucked air movement out of the whole of London and left us with a Hellish atmosphere all of our own. And so we roast. And so we wait... And then finally we get to read the latest 'What's New' and everything returns to normal.

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Recently revitalised European publisher Square Enix Ltd has announced launch and pricing details for its Final Fantasy XI massively multiplayer online title in this territory.

Lara Croft creator Toby Gard has joined US development studio Crystal Dynamics to work as a senior designer on the next Tomb Raider title - marking his return to the series after leaving Core Design following the launch of the original game.

Team 17 and publisher Sega Europe have released a playable demo of Worms Forts Under Siege, giving you the chance to see how the second 3D Worms game is shaping up. The 145MB demo is available now from Eurofiles.

Those of you waiting for the PC version of Pandemic's fabulous little action-strategy piece Full Spectrum Warrior will not go unrewarded, judging by the contents of a THQ fact sheet on the game which popped up yesterday afternoon.

BioWare is working on a new game engine, the noted RPG developer confirmed overnight, but has yet to reveal how the new technology will be applied. When asked for comment, the Canadian firm issued a statement confirming development of the engine, but ignoring speculation as to its intentions.

War really isn't what it used to be, if Battlefield 2 is anything to go by. Bolstered by critical acclaim garnered by Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield Vietnam, EA has chosen to catapult the PC multiplayer series into the modern age something of an obvious area, pitching US Marines again the Middle East Coalition, but while the pitching may look to be becoming increasingly exploitative, the gameplay on offer is looking increasingly sensational. Fans of 1942 will be amazed at what's on offer this time round.