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Konami is re-releasing Policenauts on PSone through its online store in Japan, according to reports. Policenauts, created by reclusive Metal Gear Solid developer Hideo Kojima, is an adventure in which players manage a private investigator placed in charge of protecting one of Earth's first space colonies. Apparently it'll be out on August 7th, although we might be more interested in Konami's other big Japanese release that day - Winning Eleven 7! Still, one for his fans.

Will Wright and Shigeru Miyamoto waxing on about the brilliance of The Sims on Game Boy Advance and GameCube, and the benefits of connectivity. Were you convinced? We were having trouble.

Opinion on retrogaming here at Eurogamer is somewhat split to say the least. Some of us would just love to wile away the hours giving Gauntlet another once over on a green screen Amstrad CPC or something while mumbling about how "they don't make 'em like this any more", while others just can't see the point, yelling till they're red in the face that they should be consigned to and remain in history where they belong.

70s funk, microphone hairstyles, flapping flares, high speed chases, shooting, wise cracking pimps... is it any wonder Empire picked up the Starsky & Hutch license? But hang on. We just used the L word. Not a good sign.

The preliminary line-up of games due to the shown at Sony's PlayStation Experience 2003 event in London at the end of August has been unveiled, with visitors to the show set to be treated to first looks at over 100 games from 13 publishers.

Although it was last year's third best selling PC first person shooter, Solider of Fortune II was one of those games that was quickly forgotten about amid complaints over terrible AI, uninspired level design and a general lack of variety.

Fire International, whose output includes the Blaze product range, has developed and is now distributing cheats to make things easier for SOCOM players. The cheats, which let players take advantage of unlimited ammunition and grenades, eliminate recoil, enable rapid fire and swipe ammo from terrorists, are being heralded as "a breakthrough" by Fire.

EA is currently working on extending the Medal of Honor franchise on the Game Boy Advance, announcing Medal of Honor Infiltration as next title from the popular series to arrive on the platform, following in the footsteps of MoH Underground. The brand new game will take the form of a top-down action title, and sees the player as lone soldier Corporal Jake Murphy infiltrating and sabotaging enemy bases, and letting rip with a stolen tank.

The Hollywood Reporter claims that Christian Slater (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, True Romance, Hard Rain, etc) is set to take on the role of Edward Carnby in the upcoming film based on Alone in the Dark. The film is said to borrow elements from The New Nightmare, and will begin shooting in Vancouver on July 14th, which IMDB seems to confirm. The director is Uwe Boll, who also directed the movie version of The House of the Dead.

All the IP rights and assets formerly owned by the now defunct Creature Labs (and parent company Cyberlife Technology) have been successfully acquired by Gameware Europe, which also retains many of its staff by the sound of this press release. Amongst the rights now owned by Gameware are those to the various Creatures titles (1, 2, 3, Adventures, Playground and Docking Station) and erstwhile 16-bit platform hero James Pond.

Also available to download this morning is the 86.7MB demo of MotoGP 2, or MotoGP: Ultimate Racing Technology 2 as it's actually known. You can grab that here, and apparently this playable demo lets you slog it round the Sepang circuit, giving you a nice taste of one of our favourite Xbox Live games. Except on the PC, obviously.

A coverdisk demo of Pivotal Games' adaptation of The Great Escape has escaped onto the interweb, popping up here and demanding 240MB worth of attention. As anybody who's ever spent Christmas Day in the UK will know, The Great Escape is based on the film of the same name starring Steve McQueen and others, and focuses on their ongoing plot to escape the Nazi POW system. The game is being published in Europe by SCI for PS2, Xbox and PC on August 29th, finally offering Wide Games/Codemasters' Prisoner of War a bit of competition.

Activision has filed a lawsuit against media giant Viacom for failing to make enough Star Trek, according to a rather amusing press release we received this afternoon. The suit was filed in the Superior Court of the State of California yesterday.

We probably all whinge and moan about the standard of telly these days; the endless diet of reality TV shows, dreary soaps and celebrity chef crap turns our brains to custard. Somehow we can't stop ourselves watching this fast food TV, and we really have to chastise ourselves when we end up getting sucked into heated discussions about the standard of Big Brother totty. Must. Stop.

A mailout from Sega in Japan has left gamers and conspiracy theorists aflutter, proclaiming as it does that the AM2 development studio will announce a new game sometime in the next month.

PS2 online gaming lynchpin SOCOM: US Navy Seals finally made it to the top of the UK All Formats chart, dethroning Enter The Matrix after its six week stint in pole position.

A lone sniper sits atop a small hill among the trees, scanning the walls of the installation some distance away with his scope. The skies have opened up today, the rolling thunder and rain falling from the thick grey clouds washing away the sniper's ability to hear enemy footsteps. No matter, the reinforcements will be here soon enough. There's a rumble now, and as it gets louder, it turns into a synthetic whine. The sniper turns to see what's coming, and a huge blue and yellow machine collides with his face, then blackness. "WTF!!!11" cries the sniper. "LOL! sorry man" says the soldier driving the personnel carrier. Welcome to PlanetSide.

Outspoken Blizzard vice president Bill Roper and the three cofounders of Condor, the Diablo developer acquired by Blizzard in February 1996, have resigned, it emerged last night. For leash holders Vivendi, the timing couldn't be worse, and some are already speculating that the high-level change could further derail the media company's very public efforts to flog VU Games.

Overnight a plethora of mirrors for the multiplayer demo of Monolith's TRON 2.0 sprang up to be mauled, including this one. Ooh, and this one. They both offer you a simple way to get hold of the 160MB demo, which offers a Light Cycle tutorial including the Conscript's Revenge map with four AI opponents. As it's a multiplayer demo, you can then of course play online in Light Cycle mode and Disc Arena, with support for 16 players.

Driving a taxi is not guaranteed to increase your sex appeal. In a recent survey, a mere one per cent of women polled claimed to have found a taxi driver sexually attractive at some point in their lives, and nobody appears to have gone home with one. Or at least, invited one up for coffee once he pulled up outside. What's more, the survey didn't ask how drunk you had to be in order to succumb to the allure of cockney wheel-sloggers, so it seems that apart from a few fares and a thorough knowledge of back roads and one-way systems, taxi drivers aren't likely to score heavily.

Silent Hill 3 fans in Japan will want to be on the lookout for the first shipments of the series' latest instalment, which will reportedly ship with a bonus audio CD featuring five music tracks - including one that wasn't used in the game, oddly.

A report on Coming Soon suggests that the film and TV rights for Eternal Darkness have been bought up by a firm called Hypnotic. No further details are offered, but we're hoping - if it's to happen - that developer Silicon Knights and particularly their genius storytellers at least oversee things. Eternal Darkness' twisty turny plot centring on various members of the Roivas family and their connection with The Tomb of Eternal Darkness was one of our favourite gamey narratives last year.

Eidos sent word this morning that the PS2 version of Angel of Darkness will ship in the UK this Friday, July 4th, with the game available in the rest of Europe from Monday, July 7th. With the PC version already confirmed for release in Europe on July 4th, hopefully this lays to rest the ongoing Tomb Raider release date saga. At least until next June, Core Design's current target for Tomb Raider 7...

GameSpot reports that EA's next multi-platform Bond offering - James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing - will be voiced by the current range of actors, and plenty more besides. Pierce Brosnan will of course reprise his role as Bond, with John Cleese as Q and Dame Judi Dench as M. Other actors involved in the project include Richard Kiel (Jaws!), Willem Dafoe (as bad guy Nikolai Diavolo), Shannon Elizabeth (as the latest bond girl, Serena St. Germaine) and Heidi Klum (as an evil lass called Katya Nadanova). We can also look forward to likenesses (hopefully full body likenesses in some cases, although with the greatest possible respect for Dame Judi Dench, not her).

If you were inspired by the recently announced Make Something Unreal competition for up to one million dollars, but you have questions, then you might want to make a note to be online today at 5:00pm EDT (9pm GMT or 10pm BST) and on IRC (channel #ut2003 on server irc.enterthegame.com). Epic's Mark Rein, Tim Sweeney and Steve Polge (all fine gentlemen) and other sponsors and community pundits will be hanging around in order to clue you in on anything you like - even if all you have is a plain old Unreal-related topic that's bothering you. So, make a note.

A couple of years ago, we were quite taken with Twisted Metal: Black. It might look a bit crap these days, but back then each car's dainty, projectile-launching protrusions throbbed into life eye-catchingly enough, illuminating the post-apocalyptic wastelands of wherever with some fervency, and the fast-paced, Carmageddon-esque gameplay held our attention for quite some time, with a little help from countless gratifyingly destructible levels.

Following weeks of speculation, Eidos has confirmed that Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness will not be out in Europe in time for the end of the company's financial year, and has therefore reduced profit expectations for the year.

Yes. Hamsters. They're surprisingly intelligent. Why, when I were more of a lad than I be now, my little sister's nascent furball not only escaped its cage by unfastening a gate, but then evaded capture by outmanoeuvring three hungry, roving, predatory cats and disappearing under a rug, before vanishing beneath and subsequently inside my mother's Chesterfield. It's no wonder the little bastards have their own RPGs, now, is it? OK, it's not going to keep you particularly busy if the highlight of your youth was compiling a sound test Action Replay code for Final Fantasy III and getting it published in Super Play, but if it's anything like its GBC predecessor, then Hamtaro: Ham-Hams Heartbreak on the GBA is a good way of steering nippers towards the path of true gaming enlightenment (and rampant Japanese existentialism), or even occupying your dizzy self on a long-haul flight. Or a trip to the pet shop.

Ubi Soft is, by all accounts, having a bit of trouble with Raven Shield and its patches. Having released the 1.3 patch on June 17th, the game's official forums were set ablaze with complaints of the patch breaking CD-keys and servers. Ubi now reports that the development team has been able to reproduce these issues, and is working on a patch. For the patch.

NCSoft and Cryptic studios are offering superhero fans the chance to create one of eight non-player characters in the forthcoming online superhero RPG, City of Heroes. The contest lets players design one of The Surviving Eight, a band of heroes who, it says here, "survived the ravages of the Rikti War and dedicated themselves to training the next generation of heroes." Players are requested to send in details of the character's origins, background and super powers, and provide a detailed physical description of them, along with a picture should they so desire (this is just like Hartbeat!).