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If science fiction teaches us only one thing, it's that even the most shit-stained, blood shod cesspits of this planet barely compare to the dark, terrifying unknowns of outer space. Frankly, it's something Alter Echo could do with looking into, because despite leaving the player virtually alone on a planet where the very environment is a living, breathing, snarling entity intent on his destruction, it's about as frightening as a bouncy castle.

This just in! Or rather: this press released on September 19th without much fanfare! Auto Modellista is coming to Xbox in February 2004, with eight-player Live support in addition to all the features of the PS2 version. Sorry, we'll keep our eyes a bit more open next time.

Konami Japan has released a new five minute trailer of the Metal Gear Solid GameCube remake Twin Snakes, made up from cut-and-pasted footage of the game's cut scenes. The last time we had an extended peek at Twin Snakes was at this year's E3, and suffice to say Rob wasn't all that impressed. However even with this knowledge in mind, we couldn't help but get all clammy at the sound of old Snake's gruff tones once more. I think what we're trying to say is that it looks quite good for a bunch of cut scenes, as long as you don't take them too seriously of course. You can find the 17MB Window Media file sitting pretty on Konami's server.

Ubisoft has released a three-level demo of Michel Ancel's Beyond Good & Evil, a game that can't seem to make up its mind about what to be. When we played it at ECTS, we remarked that it took lots of different approaches and some worked better than others. It even confused onlookers used to pigeonholing games into single categories (we must have watched two or three people walk off after a cursory glance with a different misapprehension). However this demo is singing from the same hymn sheet, with three distinct sections (combat, stealth and pursuit) each with simple controls and hugely different objectives.

Japanese console giant Nintendo has revised its financial projections for the year, dropping its full-year profit outlook by 5 billion Yen and projecting a loss of 3 billion Yen in the first half, which ended in September.

This introduction was to play host to the requisite Polish/polish/Chrome jokes, but something happened after we played Techland's first ever action title. Something bad. Our sense of humour simply drained away, along with our will to live, sense of direction and the ability to clean ourselves. It's another random, practically unknown first-person shooter trying to be King of the Underdogs, which ends up wearing our sanity as a crown.

Reviewing movie tie-ins is normally akin to spooning your eyes out, such is the depressing inevitability of their being rancid, derivative exercises in interactive merchandising that suck the will to live out of any right thinking gamer. So how come we've just spent the last six hours completing Traveller's Tale's latest? Is this just blind devotion to our jobs, too many mind altering chemicals, or is this actually quite good? You know, stranger things have happened. Like Tom making his boss a cup of tea [actually that's never happened -Tom].

Those of you collecting files to plug into Halo when it's released on the PC next week might be interested in the newly available (Windows-only) dedicated server package to go with last week's pre-emptive patch. "Due to the overwhelming response and demand for Halo multiplayer, we are releasing this version of the Halo Dedicated Server earlier than we originally planned," says Gearbox. "The server is a stand alone application that does not require the retail version of the game to run. Because we are releasing the server ahead of schedule, there were a couple features that we did not get in on time. Most notable are support for RCON and Multiple instances on one machine. These features are nearly complete and will be released as an update in the next week or so. The dedicated server package is roughly 100mb. The update will be roughly 10mb." Halo is due out on the PC next Friday, October 10th, and we'll be bringing you our verdict on it very soon.

We don't normally 'do' soundtrack announcements, because we don't like companies who just buy up rubbish B-grade pop music and shove it between the power slides or platforms. It's lazy. Bring back Tim Follin, we say.

After a plump serving of juicy treats last week, this week's listing feels like a wafer thin mint by comparison, but there's still plenty of options for any paycheques that might be burning a your arse pocket to a cinder.

Back in September we rather cynically (what, us?) reported on Nintendo's expansion of the Player's Choice budget range in the US, with Super Mario Sunshine, Metroid Prime and Animal Crossing making up the new additions. Would we ever have gotten the same treatment? Well er... yes, actually. Ulp. That's the sound of us eating our words and/or hat.

720-degree spins. Stat points. Big air. Multipliers. Grabs. Tweaks. Flips. Grinds. Dudes. Eurogamer is in familiar territory. Very familiar territory. We've written so much about extreme sports games that we're running out of stock introductions. Bollocks. However there seems one obvious fact to kick off with: that we never actually reviewed Amped. Righteous.

Nintendo will cut the price of the GameCube to £79 in the UK from October 10th, the company has just announced, before dropping the price to €99 across Europe on October 17th.

Cauldron has released a map pack for underwhelming PC FPS Chaser, available here (52MB, direct link). The map pack adds five new environments; Arctic Siege (government/law breakers fight for domination on a CTF footing), Bad Place (steal a notebook as a lawbreaker or protect it as a government agent on an abandoned construction site), Night Shift (an old factory full of street gangs), Old Harbour (a gloomy, derelict harbour building) and Old Hotel (another hotbed of street gangs). You can see what we made of Chaser when it was released earlier this year in our review.

Ubisoft has released a multiplayer demo of cel-shaded first person shooter XIII, complete with "Bot Challenge" mode. And in fact, that's probably all it's good for, if Ubi.com community fellow Tim Ernst is to be believed. According to Tim, "the XIII MP demo was released but there was a large bug in it. The bug is not affecting the Bot Challenge but multiplayer hosting." Tim promises a new version soon. The tainted demo is available from all the usual places (158MB), or, for those of you who missed it the first time, there's a single player demo doing the rounds to keep you happy until this one's patched.

In this country at least, the massive, hulking frame of a boxed Steel Battalion controller is more elusive than Tony's mysterious Weapons of Mass Debate. After the limited distribution/eBay profiteering farce of its March 28th launch this year, just a few scant gamers and a lot of uncaring traders are left with one of the most ambitious peripherals ever conceived. And although at the time we were hard-pressed to recommend it (as, sadly, the game couldn't quite sell it to us), we did make noises about waiting for the second one.

As we've been hinting since we first covered the game at ECTS, Bits/Kemco's potentially exciting Rogue Ops will be distributed in Europe and Australia by Capcom, and will be available on PS2, Xbox and Cube from December 5th.

Details on Kingdom Hearts II and its GBA sibling Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories have appeared in the latest issue of Famitsu.

Russian publisher Buka Entertainment has signed a deal with Data Becker to bring its line-up of PC titles to the German, Austrian and Swiss markets. Thanks to the deal, gamers in those countries can look forward to Echelon: Wind Warriors, Horde: The Citadel, March!: Offworld Recon, Midnight Nowhere, Spells of Gold, The Ultimate Billiards, Steamland and The Entente: World War I Battlefields. In the UK, Buka's titles are published by publishing upstart Oxygen Interactive.

Valve Software's Gabe Newell has confirmed this evening what many in the gaming community had already feared since earlier today - Half-Life 2's source code has been leaked onto the internet. Actually, to put it more accurately, the Source source [Yes, very good -Ed] was stolen during a series of events that started on or around September 11th this year.

Popular young person's rhythm combo P.O.D. will be offering fans extra incentive to buy their new album later this year - a demo of Amplitude, featuring a song that didn't make it into the game.

On the face of it, Jedi Academy is the definitive Star Wars first person shooter; the one fans have been waiting patiently for, crammed with great ideas that finally give gamers the chance to live out their lightsabre-wielding dreams.

"Eidos Re-releases Hit Games," yells the press release (in capital letters). We misread it at first, had a chuckle, then realised they're right - it is good news that Hitman 2 and TimeSplitters 2 are joining budget labels.

Codemasters is not only making Pop Idol games for the PS2 and PC, but will be releasing a third game based on the TV show on the Game Boy Advance. Due out in November alongside the other two, the GBA version is "bang on the TV show's and the format's demographics," according to a Codies' marketing person. Look! Shots!

Guildford-based studio Lost Toys has become the most recent casualty among independent UK developers, with the company making its entire staff redundant and ending work on its current projects.

"Arguably the best-ever resource management game ever," it says 'ere. We couldn't put it better ourselves. Sim City 2000 is a classic that just about anybody can enjoy - and Zoo Digital has just cemented the final brick of the GBA version, announcing that it will be released on October 31st.

The Fatal Frame (Project Zero) movie is being fast-tracked! Apparently Steven Spielberg (get me his non-union, Mexican equivalent!) is currently working with writer/producer John Rogers to finalise the script, a director will be announced soon and casting will begin a bit later. The question, then, is "who should play Miku?" or "why don't some of you go out and buy the flipping game, eh? It's cheap as chips!"

Valve grand fromage Gabe Newell is a busy man. Tuesday was September 30th, a day that, until last week, every gamer in the world with an internet connection was frothing over. A day that was supposed to usher in the next generation of first person shooters. And then didn't.

Whoppers. More than just questionable meat. "Whoppers" is a word we could also use to describe Rapid Eye and Sony Online Entertainment's penchant for 400MB-plus demos. Who are they trying to appeal to with this?

"What is your name?"