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Mobile communications giant Nokia has taken the wraps off the new version of its N-Gage game platform, N-Gage QD, revealing a substantially redesigned and cheaper device which will begin appearing on retail shelves next month.

Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow held on for its third straight week at the top of the UK games chart this week, holding off Sonic Heroes and James Bond 007: Everything Or Nothing to score an Easter No.1 for Ubisoft.

Nintendo has announced a new GameCube bundle to help commemorate the launch of Pokémon Colosseum next month. The Pokémon Colosseum Mega Pak (a miracle of modern spelling) apparently consists of a black GameCube, a 251-block memory card, a GameCube-to-GBA link cable, and copies of Pokémon Colosseum and Pokémon Box. You can expect to find it in your local gaming emporium from May 14th onwards priced 159 Euro (presumably £99.99 in the UK).

Microsoft-owned dev studio Bungie has taken time out from developing Halo 2 to relaunch its website this week. The new-look site features launch-week sweepstakes (win a trip to the studio to see the game!), a downloadable MP3, Xbox Live Friends List integration and, best of all, a new screenshot. It's not the most exciting thing we've seen this week, to be honest, but it's a new screenshot of Halo 2, so we figured we'd mention it. Click here if the idea of the Master Chief in a cave with a pistol in each hand does things for you.

Nokia has followed the official unveiling of the N-Gage QD this morning with news that Activision's World War II-based Call of Duty FPS franchise will be swabbing game decks everywhere come Q4 2004. And if that didn't make any sense to you, Call of Duty is being ported to the N-Gage this year.

Atari UK has confirmed reports that a special DVD edition of Unreal Tournament 2004 has been re-released in the States to help satisfy demand, but reckons there will be no repeat in Europe, where "there should be no problem with supply" according to a spokesperson.

Konami may have a carefully orchestrated promotional campaign in motion - gently fostering free-range MGS hype with a drip feed of new information and footage - but that hasn't stopped series creator Hideo Kojima from giving an insight into the development of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater this week.

Canadian development studio Silicon Knights has parted ways with Nintendo, ending a second party exclusive development agreement which created GameCube titles Eternal Darkness and Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes.

John Riccitiello, Electronic Arts' former president and COO who departed from the company only last week, may well have put it most succinctly. "When I picked it up I knew it was a dog," he said of the original N-Gage game deck, "it just feels stupid." However, he wasn't entirely damning in his condemnation of the platform. "Nokia will figure it out," he predicted. "It's just that they haven't figured it out yet."

Gearbox Software has joined the growing ranks of FPS developers trying to give us a handle on the soldiers behind the guns of World War II, announcing the 'revolutionary' Brothers In Arms military franchise this week. Ubisoft will be publishing the "first game in the series" on PC and consoles this winter.

The DS handheld will not be the only new hardware on show at Nintendo's E3 conference, according to a Japanese newspaper which this week reported that the company has a new Cube peripheral to unveil.

Gaming service provider Jolt has announced a deal to host Steam content servers for the UK, hopefully giving the likes of us nippier access to patches for Half-Life-based games, and a chance to get our mitts on Half-Life 2 without having to rely on transatlantic routing.

Australian developer Krome Studios and publishing behemoth Electronic Arts look set to resurrect "everyone's favourite Tasmanian Tiger" (which is obviously a big feat given the ferocious competition) for a second platform outing later this year. Due out on every platform under the sun, Ty The Tasmanian Tiger 2 picks up where the last game left off, and sees Ty facing off against his nemesis Boss Cass, who has apparently fled Currawong Jail (yes!) and now plans to take over the world with an army of reptiles, operating from his offshore bird and lizard dictatorship, Cassopolis. Crikey. Fortunately Ty has learnt some new tricks, and now has 21 upgradeable boomerangs (including the, er, Lasharang, Kaboomarang and Megarang) and various "mech units" to aid in the fight. We're also promised unlockable cart-racing mini-games and all sorts of other excitement when the game hurtles into view this autumn.

In the past few months we've learnt a lot about Metal Gear Solid 3, but, of its many new features (including the survival/stamina system, context-sensitive combat and jungle setting to name only three), the ambitious Camouflage Index has undoubtedly captured the most attention. To be fair, the idea of recrafting the series' sneaking antics to focus on Snake's level of visibility in his new jungle environment has drawn a degree of criticism (and plenty of cynicism), but judging by a ten-minute movie posted on Konami's official MGS3 website (direct link), Hideo Kojima's team is deadly serious about making it one of the player's primary concerns.

Devil May Cry 3 will take centre stage alongside Resident Evil 4 at Capcom's pre-E3 trade event on May 10th, US sources close to the publisher told Eurogamer this week.

Resident Evil will return to PlayStation 2 this winter when Capcom revisits the Outbreak strain of its infectious survival horror series. Resident Evil Outbreak File #2 will once again be exclusive to the Sony format, with the same cast of characters and new dangers including zombie elephants. Tsk.

Condition Zero has long been a millstone around Valve's neck. It was always going to be a difficult project to get right - a single-player adventure infused with the spirit of the world's most popular online game - but over the course of its creation the game has fallen victim to countless delays and reshuffles that saw the project tossed around no less than four different developers. It also suffered thanks to pre-release review versions that felt like cheap knock-off copies, seemingly designed with no first hand knowledge of what made the original such an epoch-defining multiplayer experience in the first place. With middling scores and harsh conclusions in the can, Condition Zero looked set to limp into the wider world without much fanfare, and succeed only in giving the Half-Life-was-a-fluke crowd a slogan to replace "Whatever happened to Team Fortress 2?"

Activision has officially confirmed the title and revealed details of the first expansion disc for World War II based FPS Call of Duty. Fight sighted in the current issue of the American PC Gamer magazine, Call of Duty: United Offensive is in development at Return To Castle Wolfenstein helmers Gray Matter, and promises more of the same gritty war dram-action delivered by Infinity Ward last Christmas.

Namco has confirmed rumours that the next PS2 title in its Tales RPG series will be called Tales of Rebirth, and revealed that recent GameCube outing Tales of Symphonia will be ported to the PS2 as well. Both games should be out in Japan this year. But while Symphonia dabbled in 3D, Tales of Rebirth will be returning to a hand-drawn 2D style with gorgeous background visuals, as these early screenshots aptly demonstrate.

Vivendi-Universal Games is planning to give away Starsiege: Tribes and sequel Tribes 2 via FilePlanet and on a DVD bundled with the American Computer Gaming World magazine this May. Apparently the French publisher is doing it all to celebrate the forthcoming release of Tribes: Vengeance, which is currently in development at Irrational Games and due out by the end of the year.

You can imagine the scenes in Kyoto (loosely translated):"You know, what the world needs right now is another Golf title."

In a surprising move, Electronic Arts' president and COO John Riccitiello has announced that he is to resign from the industry-leading publisher, effective immediately, with CEO Larry Probst to assume his duties while a replacement is sought.

Half-Life 2 disciples will rejoice that the remaining videos of its celebrated E3 presentation are now available for download.

The 1.05 patch for Hidden & Dangerous 2 is now available for download, and the 25MB patch makes several additions including an updated Normandy multiplayer map, a new Normandy2B multiplayer map, and several other minor tweaks. An expansion pack with the much missed co-op mode is also on the way.

Ghost Recon 2 will be released on 'consoles' and PC in time for Christmas, Ubisoft confirmed this afternoon, while promised to deliver "an emotionally charged storyline, a completely redesigned graphics engine and the most intuitive gameplay to date, to fully immerse gamers into the chaos of a high tech war."

SCi has always had something of a fetish for old movie licenses, and it would appear that Wandsworth-based publisher has plans to turn its attention to 1963 action classic Jason And The Argonauts.

The ever-generous Ubisoft has released yet more free downloadable content for Rainbow Six 3 on Xbox, with the fifth and sixth multiplayer maps now available for Live subscribers to suck down the pipe. It's apparently the most popular Live game ever - we can almost hear the garbled Xbox Live whoops from here.

Brotherhood Of Steel is to Fallout what Dark Alliance is to Baldur's Gate - or at least that appeared to be Interplay's intention when it commissioned a "gritty and darkly humorous" (their words not ours...) third-person action-adventure take on its successful PC-derived RPG series from the late 90s. While DA and its recently released sequel are largely entertaining action-adventure approximations with a smattering of RPG, BOS (as it shall be referred to from now on) isn't far off being a travesty for those who enjoyed the post apocalyptic series a few years back.

With Easter coming up, we had hoped to reward this week's best review with a jolly old chocolate egg. Unfortunately, we didn't remember to buy one, so instead we'll be inflicting something else on this week's winner. Speaking of whom... This week was a tricky one. Although there was a temptation to reward Peej (again) for his unusual approach to Battlefield Vietnam, Tannerd narrowly wins this week, partly because it makes a nice change and partly because we enjoyed his piece, but mostly because he too worships at the altar of brevity, and we managed to read the entire thing without having to pop to the loo. Tannerd: we'll be in touch.

Easter: a time of eggs, relatives, Jesus and, most importantly, the four-day weekend. Four whole days. With that much time we could paint several fences, tile the bathroom, reorganise our entire CD collection in seven different ways, write an abridged version of the last Potter book and still find time to wash the dog. However, in reality all we'll do is sit around on a beanbag eating chocolate and playing videogames, and if you're honest that's probably what you have in mind too.