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Lionhead is hosting another developer chat session this evening, giving fans the chance to grill Peter Molyneux, Simon and Dene Carter about their ambitious Xbox-only RPG, Fable.

Publisher Take Two Interactive has finalised its acquisition of TDK Mediactive, but the deal excludes one of TDK's most high profile properties, with Dreamworks' Shrek IP going instead to Activision.

They just wouldn't let it lie. The money men couldn't just leave a fantastic series alone and let its legend rest in peace. They had to go the whole hog and exhume the Terminator cash cow, defecate on its flaming corpse and wheel out an ageing Arnie for a familiar round of destruction, CG effects and one-liners in return for millions of dollars. But, ach, as much as I want to hate the cynical, gutless pointless self-parodied attempts at reviving the franchise, the third movie didhave its moments, and kept at least some of its less demanding fans happy enough for merely not being the complete pile of arse that everyone expected it to be.

If there's one game this year that has given Yours Truly an utterly hellish ordeal in order to review it, then Commandos 3: Destination Berlin would be it. Reviewing it was an ordeal I wouldn't wish upon anyone, except… well, I did, because I said it was good. And it is! And to thank those of you who listened and then went out and put yourselves through the mill in order to get past the first couple of missions, Eidos has released a patch.

Fed up of online cheats and people who refuse to play tactical action games properly? Want to see some action? We certainly do. Having spent the past week yelling at pissant hicks to run with the knife and buy their bloody equipment faster in Xbox Counter-Strike, the prospect of a bit of orderly terrorism or counter-terrorism is certainly enough to brighten our weary eyes.

According to reports, the US release of Tecmo's balletic third-person action title Ninja Gaiden for Xbox has been delayed until February 2004. GameSpot yesterday cited sources close to the developer and pointed to various online retailers to confirm (something we certainly can't argue with over here - Amazon lists it as mid-May 2004...).

We thought perhaps if we ignored this it might go away. Unfortunately it hasn't, and we're left with no choice but to confirm that Atari has renamed the third Driver game. From now on, we're all supposed to type DRIV3R.

When you think of Links games, you tend to think of lush but static backgrounds, immensely detailed physics and a control system that rewards precision above all else. Golfer's golf games, if you like. Tiger Woods, on the other hand, is best known these days for its analogue swing, preposterously unrealistic courses, forgiving controls and physics and its devotion to fun rather than authenticity. Unsurprisingly, ever since EA went down this route instead of trying to mimic Links, the series has struck something of a chord with the rest of the world - the folks to whom three clicks does not represent the swing of a golf club and bonuses for striking the pin or chipping in direct from a bunker are significant draws.

It was another massive week for Sony in the High Street as it celebrated the third anniversary of the release of the PS2 with its highest weekly sales figure for nearly a year, outselling the competition by over three and a half to one in the process.

A number of features have been removed from the original specification of the PSX home media centre, in a move which Sony claims is necessary in order to launch the system before Christmas.

Things are looking up for British developer Argonaut. Despite posting a rather worrying loss a few weeks ago, the developer has made good on its promise to get Xbox Live-based jetski racer Carve signed up to a publisher - with Take-Two stepping up this afternoon to confirm that they will be releasing it in Europe as well as North America, where they originally announced plans to release it.

Medal Of Honor: Rising Sun was the UK's best selling game last week [Boo! Hiss! -everyone], as EA continued to dominate the pre-Christmas best sellers list, with the top four titles all bearing the publisher's name.

Codemasters has picked up the global rights to another of Russian publisher 1C Company's charges - science fiction PC RTS Perimeter, developed by K-D LAB and due out in spring 2004.

I'm not exactly known for bottling up my outrage when it comes to frustrating games. I've thrown pads, screamed at the walls and even threatened to punch people in the face for goading me as I sit, thunderstruck by an appalling mechanic, a needlessly harsh bit of design or the looming spectre of forced failure.

It's equally a pleasure and a chore to review a game that dares to stray from the accepted norms. Capcom instinctively knows Gregory Horror Show is destined to be filed under 'quirky' by unsympathetic retailers already, and has been canny enough to release it at a knock down twenty quid to give it a better chance of a) making it into stores in the first place and b) selling to a confused but intrigued public after something a bit different. But is that enough to coax your moth eaten wallet out into the open air?

Sega has unveiled significant new details about the enigmatic Virtua Fighter Quest, the RPG-style adventure drawing on AM2's legendary fighting series, which is being developed to help commemorate the famous beat-'em-up's 10th anniversary. According to numerous reports based on US and Japanese press briefings and a few early screenshots, the game is now known as Virtua Fighter Cyber Generation: Ambition of the Judgement Six, and will be released on PS2 and GameCube in Japan during summer 2004.

Capcom representatives have apparently confirmed that Resident Evil: Apocalypse, the cinematic follow-up to last year's enjoyable Resi outing from Paul W.S. Anderson, is scheduled to arrive in US cinemas during October 2004.

LucasArts is working on a Battlefield 1942-like multiplayer action game set in the Star Wars universe, a spokesperson for the company has confirmed.

Sony is set to finally roll out the PlayStation 2 in China on December 20, priced at 1,988 Yuan (€200) and accompanied by two software titles, Ape Escape 2 and ICO, which will retail for 168 Yuan (€17) each.

Two and a half years into the GBA's life cycle and tens of million of units later (well over two million sold in the UK alone) Nintendo is still one of the only trustworthy sources of titles on the format. This year alone, the likes of Wario Ware, Advance Wars 2 and Zelda easily rank alongside our very favourite gaming experiences of the year on any format.

Good afternoon my little dears! What with today being the anniversary of young Thomas's birth, I've been called in from the tearoom to wade through his bundle of reader ruminations, while he tends to his birthday correspondence and sups on a slice of carrot cake. His grandparents sent him such a lovely card, too. I hope he likes his sweater. I think he looks so handsome in plaid. Now then, where did I put my spectacles?

Nokia has today unveiled seven previously unannounced N-Gage titles for release in 2004 - Ashen, Operation Shadow, Requiem of Hell, Sega Rally Championship, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Jungle Storm, Worms and WWE.

They say you can't keep a good man down. Today I aim to prove that the same is true of bad men with "What Was New?", the lesser known sibling of our recurrent "What's New?" feature.

EyeToy: Groove may have stiffed rather unceremoniously at retail, but Sony isn't about to give up on the million-selling peripheral just yet. With so many of those little cameras winking blue atop televisions all over Europe, the release of EyeToy: Play 2 during 2004 is a certainty.

Dutch publisher Playlogic has become the latest firm to announce plans for a PlayStation Portable launch title. According to a release late last week, the publisher recently received Sony's official blessing and has fellow Dutchmen Engine Software currently working on the project, dubbed PSP Racing, for worldwide simultaneous release alongside the PSP in winter 2004.

Composer Michael Giacchino, best known for his work on various videogame soundtracks (most recently Call of Duty and Secret Weapons Over Normandy) has been signed up to score The Incredibles, the next film we can expect to see from animation powerhouse Pixar.

When it comes to upsetting Daily Mail readers and other cantankerous moralists with no sense of humour, nobody does it better than Acclaim. Who could forget their hilarious "We will pay every speeding ticket in the UK" claim when Burnout 2 was released? Or their legendary "Name your son (or daughter) Turok for free cash" promotion? Truly they are the masters of excessive marketing, and we're glad to see they haven't lost their touch...

Although I've dabbled in Xbox Live games on numerous occasions over the past year, it wasn't until yesterday afternoon that Microsoft's online gaming service truly landed in my living room. Oddly enough, it happened during a single-player game of Project Gotham Racing 2. As I sat there happily throwing a curvy posterchild for "American muscle" into bend after bend in search of an elusive first-place finish, a little envelope-shaped icon appeared in the bottom of the screen. Eyeing it suspiciously, I finished my race, hit the A button a few times to check my score and compare it against worldwide leaderboards for that particular track, and then hit Y to pull up the game's Xbox Live menu. Sitting there at the bottom of my friends list was a request from Kristan to join him in a race - and all I had to do to switch from the cosy perfectionist pursuits of the single-player game to the heat of a six-player race over broadband was hit the A button.

Hot on the heels of its first two European releases, Digital Jesters has outlined plans to release multiplayer title Savage in the UK in February 2004. Developed by S2 Games, Savage is a sort of massively multiplayer RTS, with player-controlled commanders directing legions of warriors - each controlled by a real person - in battle against their enemies. It also distinguishes itself in that, unlike virtually every other multiplayer title these days, Savage doesn't charge an ongoing subscription fee on top of the £29.99 asking price.

Capcom has announced plans to publish a psychological adventure game called Glass Rose in early 2004 on PlayStation 2.