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Speaking to us at the Game Developers Conference, Microsoft's global head of game content Peter Moore has ruled out the possibility of the company launching a mobile games console to compete with PSP or GBA.

The American edition of PC Gamer magazine has reportedly confirmed the identity of the first planned expansion pack for World War II themed FPS Call of Duty. The expansion is being designed by Return to Castle Wolfenstein developer Gray Matter Studios (so that's what they're up to) and will be called "Call of Duty: United Offensive". It's due out later in the year, and we'll eat our dog tags if it's the last we hear of the Call of Duty series on the PC.

As promised by Ubisoft, the Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow multiplayer demo has crept out from the shadows and nestled itself in reach of your probing mouse cursors.

The first details of the next N-Gage device, which is expected to be demonstrated at a press event in mid-April, have been revealed at GDC, with Nokia's developer relations chief discussing major revisions to the platform.

Valve showed new Half-Life 2 material at GDC yesterday, focussing on characters' facial attributes.

Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, which is quite literally due out tomorrow, reportedly suffers from a rather unhelpful Xbox Live bug that crashes the game irretrievably.

The "action division" of Kuju Entertainment is working on a first-party GameCube project, set to be unveiled in the near future, the developer told the London Stock Exchange yesterday afternoon.

The very first images of Croteam's Serious Sam 2 arrived hot from GDC today, showing sensational levels of detail on character models.

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker director Eiji Aonuma yesterday confirmed in his GDC presentation what we told you on Monday: that we will hear a good deal about "Wind Waker " at E3 this May, where it is expected to take centre stage alongside Metroid Prime 2.

Given that PS2 console games are region-locked, and that the average punter is very unlikely to have a Japanese console tucked under the telly, it seems fair at this point to bid a fond farewell to those of you with no prior experience of Winning Eleven. What you want is Pro Evolution Soccer 3, which remains the pinnacle of footballing accomplishments in your local gaming shop, despite the efforts of 878,000 FIFA fans to convince us otherwise. Go and play PES3, and, by the time you can curl a Beckham free kick into the top corner every once in a while, you'll be in a position to appreciate why this one is better.

Far Cry is still a couple of days away from its European release, but, having shipped in the USA just t'other day, there's already talk of a patch. According to reports, the patch will repair multiplayer issues and sort some compatibility issues between localised versions. Publisher Ubisoft also plans to release an online tutorial for the game's Sandbox editor sometime today, as well as a quick-save patch in mid-April. Cuh, whatever happened to finishing games before releasing them?

Eidos will not be showing the new, and as yet untitled, Tomb Raider game in Los Angeles at E3 this May, sources close to the company confirmed today.

Nintendo's Game Boy Advance SP passed the first anniversary of its launch in North America this week, with the diminutive handheld officially the fastest-selling console ever in the territory.

LucasArts currently has no titles in the works for GameCube, with none appearing on internal schedules, EuroGamer has learnt. That's right, kids: there are no GameCube Star Wars games currently on the slate.

What is it about the Japanese's sense of the macabre? Did Shinji Mikami lay awake at night dreaming of zombies after playing Alone In The Dark? Did he long to hear the "gnurrrrrrrgh" death rattles of 1,000 tortured undead souls, and the soft squelching sound of putrefying flesh rousing itself into twisted irrational battle one last time?

Luxoflux's True Crime is on its way to the PC in the next few months, and one of the key additions is multiplayer modes. Hardly surprising really, given that it's overflowing with street racing and beat-'em-up bits. What is perhaps surprising though is that it'll be one of the first Grand Theft Alsos to bother with multiplayer - unless you've dabbled in the user-made Multi Theft Auto mod for the PC Rockstar titles, that is. But we digress.

If you've played a first-person shooter in the last two or three years, then you know exactly what rag doll physics can offer a game. Essentially it's floppy models. Floppy models that roll around like Teflon-coated sacks of potatoes in a gale, tumbling their way down stairs, hanging over railings, folding up like ironing boards and generally looking energetically flaccid. It's quite an effect.

Authorities in China authorities have reportedly banned Codemasters' PC first-person shooter IGI2: Covert Strike on the grounds that it "hurt China's national dignity and interests."

20 years ago there was only one game developer you could really trust. Going by the justifiably arrogant and typically long-winded Ultimate Play The Game, this Ashby-De-La-Zouch based company had - in just over 12 months - churned out six bona fide classics on the Sinclair Spectrum. Cookie, Pssst!, Trans Am, Jet Pac for the humble 16k version, and Lunar Jetman and Atic Atac for the 48k.

GameCube will not be the recipient of a game based on upcoming footy tournament Euro 2004, with both EA and Codemasters declining to make versions of their upcoming footy games for the console.

Nintendo of America plans to release Cube/GBA hybrid The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventure (known as Four Swords+ in the Far East) across the pond on June 7th for $49.99, a price that includes a GameCube/Game Boy Advance link cable - something of a necessity for the largely four-player ARPG outing. Unfortunately though there's no word on Nintendo's plans for Four Swords in Europe. And we mean "no word". Absolutely none whatsoever. We spoke to Nintendo Europe earlier and it's not on the current Cube schedule at all. If we do get it, we're guessing it won't be until late autumn or early winter. Bah.

[Well they certainly fooled us. Word on the e-street is that the scan to the left - which purports to have been taken from a copy of Japanese magazine Shonen V-Jump - is a fake. It seems that someone, somewhere has brought Photoshop and Final Fantasy together, probably not for the first time, and conned a whole bunch of us into getting unduly excited. Such is life. Still, we're good sports, so feel free to point and laugh at the story we were hoodwinked into writing... -Ed]

EA Partners has signed (we should get a key mapped to that phrase, really) a deal with Chris Taylor's Gas Powered Games, which will see the celebrated Total Annihilation designer working on a new PC real-time strategy title due for release in - blimey - 2006.

'Diablo veterans' are the new 'Medal of Honour developers', it would seem. Following last week's announcement that Bill Roper and co. at Flagship Studios would be working exclusively with Namco, EA has this week announced an exclusive worldwide publishing deal with Castaway Entertainment, another group of chaps who worked on the Diablo series at Blizzard North.

Electronic Arts' increasingly active EA Partners division has secured the signature of another unlikely title this week in the shape of Koei's Samurai Warriors. Known as Sengoku Musou in Japan - where it did rather well - Samurai Warriors is another feudal Japan-themed tactical action game from Koei's internal Dynasty Warriors development team, Omega Force, and differs from its sibling series mainly in terms of historical theme.

Electronic Arts' latest James Bond 007 offering was neither shaken nor stirred by the launch of major PC titles Battlefield Vietnam and Unreal Tournament 2004 last week, with Everything or Nothing taking the top spot for a fourth week.

Eurogamer has learnt that Eidos will release European versions of Thief: Deadly Shadows for both Xbox and PC in June this year. A specific date has not been decided as yet.

The loss of a cherished loved one is always difficult to bear, particularly when the loved one in question was funny, outgoing, adventurous, and torn from our hearts before its time. Sam & Max: Freelance Police (or Sam & Max: Corporate Victims as our T-shirts will soon read) still had plenty to show the world, but for reasons-unfathomable were not bankable enough to justify their continued development.

It might be hard to imagine a world after Half-Life 2, but sooner or later (our money's on later), the game is going to ship to retailers, we're all going to play it, and life will return to normal. Even for Valve.

Okay, okay, you can stop averting your eyes. You are in no danger of seeing your humble review-ulator in the throes of Dancing Stage Unleashed. In fact, you've responded to our request for more reviews with such gusto that we'll be running another instalment later in the week at this rate. Not bad. Interestingly, a lot of you chose to pick the same games as one another, too.