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While Xbox owners are celebrating the promise of a new Rainbow Six title this August, GameCube owners can take some consolation from the fact that Rainbow Six 3 will be appearing on their console this June. Cobbled together by Ubisoft's Shanghai studio, the Cube version will feature a split-screen two-player mode to make up for the lack of online play, as well as just about everything that made the Xbox and PS2 versions so enjoyable. You can see how it's shaping up thanks to these five screenshots.

With Far Cry PC currently towering over its contemporaries at the top of the UK PC Top 20, French publisher Ubisoft has today confirmed previous reports that console versions are underway, and surprised a few of us by announcing that the new games will showcase an entirely new adventure built on the same technology.

It's not the most inspiring start to a promo movie... "In a world of peace... there is a legend 100 years old of an unspeakable evil and the battle between darkness and light, but when an ancient enemy awakens an unlikely hero would be chosen to save humanity once more."

Japanese giant Nintendo has established a special fund to provide for a programme of mergers and acquisitions in the near future, suggesting that the company is planning to accelerate its growth in certain technology sectors.

In Japan, Capcom has published Western games that nobody else would touch, like Grand Theft Auto III, and proven that they can be a success with the country's notoriously picky gamers. In Europe, Capcom has just signed up two games from Japanese developer Spike - Way of the Samurai 2 and this, Riding Spirits II - sequels to games that nobody around here can remember except fanatical weirdoes like me. So the question is, can they emulate their own success?

Yet another bundle deal for Microsoft's Xbox will launch in Japan next month, with the "Platinum Pack 2" set to include copies of Halo and Crimson Skies as the company continues its battle to build installed base in the Far East.

Capcom is poised to officially unveil a sequel to Resident Evil Outbreak 2 in the next few days, and hopes are that Europe will get to experience the game online this time around.

Samus Aran's adventures could appear on the big screen by the end of next year, following John Woo's decision to option the rights to the Metroid franchise. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Woo plans to co-produce the movie and also has the option to direct. "This type of story has a proven track record of success with film audiences," he said, the scent of a franchise prancing around his nostrils.

How's your smash-o-meter today? Wound tighter than a G-string? You might want to buy some extra pads, or at the very least some extra padding, because Uncle Sam Fisher is back to taunt us again. You half expect the grizzled old sleuth to appear upside down at your living room window, decked out in his best rubber perv suit, pointing a laser sighted silenced pistol right between your frazzled and disconsolate eyes - all the while singing 'That'll Be The Day'.

Game design veteran Harvey Smith has confirmed reports that he has left the ION Storm Austin studio, where he most recently worked as project lead on Deus Ex: Invisible War on Xbox and PC.

A new three and a half minute promo video of GSC's promising FPS mutation STALKER: Shadow Of Chernobyl hit the interweb today, and gives just a glimpse of what adequately specced PC owners can expect when the title hits the shelves in September.

The Unreal Tournament 2004 bonus map pack we mentioned on Friday has now been released, offering a pair of interestingly titled Onslaught maps - ONS-Ascendancy and ONS-Aridoom. Along with the official, Windows XP-only installer, this link should also take you to an unofficial distribution which packages the two maps as a zip file. Fight the power!

Sega will show "around six brand new games" at E3 this year, a spokesperson for the company confirmed today, although top level talk has confirmed that a new 3D Sonic game will not be among them.

Following Eidos' mid-year financial report last month, prying eyes have uncovered a corporate slideshow on the publisher's UK website that points to new Deus Ex, Commandos, Freedom Fighters and Backyard Wrestling titles within the next 18 months.

Gamers in the United States will be able to get their hands on a limited edition Halo Xbox pack as of next week, with the $169 bundle featuring a transparent green Xbox, branded controller and copy of the game.

If it were not for Return of the Jedi, videogame forests would be distinctly less interesting. Sure, everyone ribs a developer when they make the effort to craft a jungle and then give up fill it with furry critters and exotic interconnected tree houses, but for one this is hardly a LucasArts-only convention - we've seen Ewok Villages in everything from Donkey Kong Country to Brute Force - and for another it's difficult to imagine how else to do interesting forests in three dimensions.

Although Scottish developer Rage produced a lot of fairly rubbish games (sorry guys), the now-defunct software house did manage to polish up the occasional gem, and the original Rocky boxing title was certainly one. Clearly we're not the only ones who thought so either, because Ubisoft and MGM (those lion people) have this week announced Rocky Legends, which is in development at Venom Games - a developer comprised largely of ex-Rage talent.

Ubisoft enjoyed another seven days at the top of the UK games chart today as Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow held off Everything Or Nothing to claim its second week at the top, being boosted by the release of PC and GBA versions (No.4 and No.17 respectively).

Ubisoft continues to trail new products ahead of next month's E3 trade show (May 12-14th), popping up this week to opine on what's going to make the next Myst game brilliant. "Myst IV: Revelation will take players into the twisted minds and worlds of two evil brothers, deep inside an intense family drama," says Ubi producer Genevieve Lord, heralding its announcement.

When Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven was released on PS2 last year, it was hailed - third-person camera issues notwithstanding - as a gruesome and generally competent example of fleet-footed slaughter, and topped the charts. Upon closer inspection though, it was hamstrung by technical problems that regularly conspired to derail our ninja fantasies in punishing and frustrating ways, and ultimately it fell some way short of achieving its full potential. Yet, despite our initial misgivings, the thought that Return From Darkness might address Wrath of Heaven's technical failings was more than enough to tempt us back for another helping. And with so many look-but-don't-touch stealth titles doing the rounds, all that painstaking murder sounded slightly cathartic, too.

Fresh from playing the game and visiting Chernobyl itself, we sat down with GSC's Oleg Yavorsky to talk about how S.T.A.L.K.E.R is shaping up. You can read what we thought of the game ourselves elsewhere on the site.

Rather unsurprisingly, given all their past collaborations, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has emerged as the publisher of Namco's aerial shoot-'em-up Ace Combat 5, which it plans to release exclusively on PS2 around this time next year. "Quarter One 2005," it says. Set in the near future, AC5 has you protecting the nation of Osea from an unidentified threat, which needs dealing with over the course of thirty levels. New features in this one include Wingman Command, which allows you to bark instructions at wingmen and join forces with them to carry out group attacks.

With an official announcement in the offing, RollerCoaster Tycoon designer Chris Sawyer has spoken out about his latest project, which is said to be very much in line with what he was doing on Transport Tycoon. "Internally we're calling it Locomotion," he told GameSpot last week.

Nintendo has Intelligent Systems busily beavering away on a Fire Emblem title for GameCube according to reports originating in Japanese V-Jump magazine. The first images and details of the strategy-RPG appeared in the magazine late last week, and scans were on the Internet soon after. (And we're pretty sure they're not fakes this time, by the way.)

Nintendo will discuss the successor to GameCube, or N5 as we're calling it, at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, according to the company's executive vice president of sales and marketing Reggie Fils-Aime.

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has revealed that it plans to release several new consoles, including a PSX-style PS3 for 6-700 Euros, a slimmed down PlayStation 2 dubbed the PS Two, and also confirmed that it intends to kick off digital distribution on the PS3 as early as 2006.

With Colin McRae Rally 04 currently screeching to a halt at a retailer near you, publisher Codemasters has decided to mark the day by releasing a multiplayer PC demo of the game via its website.

Although we don't generally mention the black art of speed running much around here, certain members of the EG team have been known to dazzle spectators by beating a hasty path through the first episode of Quake from time to time, and we all thought that Super Mario Bros. 3 video that did the rounds on the forum a while ago was stunning to behold. Which is why we feel we can get away with mentioning one man's insane 1 hour, 10 minute completion of Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes. On Extreme mode. With no saves or anything. It's utterly dazzling, although obviously we wouldn't recommend watching it unless you've completed the game yourself or never have any intention of playing it...

At E3 2002, Red Dead Revolver was one of the most promising titles on the Capcom stand. With superbly atmospheric Wild West visuals and gun slinging action it marked a welcome change of direction for the Japanese publisher. It all looked set to be a big hit for them, and then, just a couple of months later it all went a bit pear-shaped for the Angel Studios-coded project.

This week we've brought you our transcription of John Carmack's GDC 2004 keynote address. In parts one and two the Id legend discussed how games would look like movies, and spoke about AI, development cycles and the impact of new technology. In the third, and concluding part of our transcription, Carmack discusses the slippage problems advancements in technology create and his hopes for smaller teams to breakthrough using this technology, and expands upon his theory that games will feature movie quality graphics sooner than you might think...