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A sequel to Tecmo’s survival horror classic Project Zero is in the works, entitled simply Zero 2, the company has announced. The game is scheduled for an Autumn release in Japan on PlayStation 2. PZ was of course known simply as Zero in its homeland, so expect it to become Fatal Frame 2 in the US and Project Zero 2 over here.

Operation Flashpoint 2 will be a globe-straddling behemoth, Codies confirmed today, with the combat due to be set across Southeast Asia, Central Europe and Africa, with the mission-based campaigns taking gamers through fictional conflicts based upon authentic events during the years around 1970.

The first details of Meteor Blade, a 16-player online fighting game for PC and Xbox, have been released. Developed by Taiwan-based InterServ, the game takes place in huge destructible environments with players duking it out with weaponry that's currently a mystery, and pulling off special finishing moves. So it's a deathmatch then. We'll have a look at E3.

Here's one we forgot earlier.

Microsoft has revealed some of its plans for the US operation of the Xbox Live service, hopefully giving us some idea of what they have lined up for us over here. The pricing structure for renewals will start at $49.99 for a year's subscription, and $5.99 for a month's, and subs can be topped up either online or with top up cards bought from various stores. The voice communicator will sell separately for a rather princely $29.99, but new users will also be able to buy an all-in starter kit including bundled games, communicator and one year's subscription for a pretty respectable $69.99.

Bethesda Softworks' upcoming Morrowind expansion Bloodmoon will include the vocal talents of Lynda Carter, best known for her TV role as Wonder Woman. Lynda is responsible for the voices of the female Nords, the native race of Solstheim, where players venture in this latest instalment in search of new quests, werewolf tussles and so forth. Bloodmoon should be out in the next couple of months.

Having never played Tecmo's original and apparently well-loved Rygar, it's safe to say I was going into this one blind. Yes, I've seen all the shots, and even the little movie of Rygar swinging his yoyo about, breaking bits of rock, but honestly... I wasn't anticipating much, despite the game's esteemed dynasty. [We were - Eds] Piss off guys!

The Xbox version of MotoGP 2 is due out on May 16th, THQ has just announced. Unlike the first title, whose online play was literally a bolt-on, the second instalment of Brighton-based Climax's multiplayer two-wheel extravaganza has been constructed from the bottom up to work on Xbox Live, and should offer the best-yet realisation of the Dorna-owned motorcycle grand prix.

EA has finally announced its massive E3 line-up, most of which we've heard about before. New additions include James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing [nothing please! -Ed], the next Nightfire-style game, third person this time, to combine James Bond's gadgets, wit, women and objectives with intellectually devoid and meaningless gameplay. Well, hopefully not, but you know! That'll be out on PS2, Xbox, Cube, GBA and PC.

Yes, we know you're probably picking yourselves up off the floor after reading this latest stunning revelation, but it's true. Electronic Arts is set to stun the gaming world with its 15th version of FIFA.

You know, we pity the poor developers who get tasked with projects like this. We bet they don't ask for them. But these days, whether it's a 3D platformer or a complicated tactical shoot 'em up and spy sim, the publisher behind the purse strings always seems to want a GBA conversion. Ubi Soft is no exception. And that's why we should all be upstanding for the publisher's Montreal development studio, whose efforts have - against the odds - created damn near the best 2D sneak 'em up we've ever played.

Ubi Soft is so sure it's about to "reinvent adventure gaming" with URU: Ages Beyond Myst, that it felt the need to tell us all about it all over again. Probably the most interesting aspect of the game, over the improvements to the traditional Myst adventure model, is the introduction of Uru Live - a social portion of the game which takes place in a persistent "ever-expanding world." And, er... that's all it says about it here, apart from the fact that it's due out late 2003. Mark it in your diaries.

If you were one of those on the end of Rockstar's email periodical this morning then you may have noticed a couple of release dates for Midnight Club II - on Xbox and PC. The good news is that you won't have to wait long. Although we aren't sure these are anything other than American dates, June 4th for Xbox and June 25th for PC still sound pretty good. We'll let you know if we hear anything else.

Sony has announced that an expansion for EverQuest Online Adventures is planned for release in the fourth quarter of this year. Frontier will enable players to get their beard on with new items and quests in three new cities, and 24 dungeons, in addition to a new playable race of ogres and an entirely new continent to explore.

Being the only '70s child around these parts, I feel somewhat more qualified to check out Empire/Mind's Eye's attempt to make a mission based driving game out of possibly the most memorable '70s TV show of them all. After all, I had the big hair and the flares the first time around [some things never change -Tom]; although in those more innocent days, irony was something you pressed your big collared shirts with.

Square designer Tetsuya Nomura has revealed in a recent interview that the possibility of a Kingdom Hearts sequel is very high, with discussions between Disney and the developer already in progress on the subject. In the same article, the designer snubs any likelihood of there being a Final Fantasy VII sequel, stating that the only reason it was possible with FFX-2 was the ability to re-use much of the technology from X, thusly halving the development time of a brand new title - something that simply wouldn't be viable with VII without starting from scratch.

Ubi Soft has once again left us high and dry over news of… whatever the hell it was planning to announce on www.splintercell.com last night. "We understand that you are very anxious for the announcement and have been patiently waiting," the Splinter Cell team comments. "We are sorry to let you down but there will be no news today. Stay tuned and we'll have more news in the coming days." 'More', chaps? Anyway, we imagine this will now sit still until E3 itself, at which point we expect to be talking about Shadow Strike, Splinter Cell 2, Splinter Cell Online or whatever other variation Ubi Soft has envisaged. Not long now for all Fisher-man's friends.

Another tale from Famitsu this morning is that Dead or Alive Online for Xbox Live will be a compilation of the original DOA and DOA2. Visually the original DOA will be Saturn-quality, but apparently DOA2 is being enhanced for the Xbox - and DOA Online should be playable at E3.

The latest Famitsu apparently announces a new Capcom cel-shaded 3D action title called Crimson Tears. Described as a collaborative effort between Capcom (publisher), Dream Factory (developer) and Spike (marketing), PS2 title Crimson Tears takes place in a near-future Tokyo where a biotechnology company called Weaponix secretively plots the course of the world as an underground manufacturer of war machines (you'd think someone would spot the possibility in the company's name).

Sony's US-based Jak II teaser site has a stuttery trailer (it may just be our PCs) which gives you a small, windowed opportunity to gain a glimpse of this year's most anticipated platformer. We've been hearing some... 'interesting' things about it on the grapevine. And we're sure we couldn't possibly tell you what exactly, but we understand that it's actually getting pretty close to the end of its development and that the new approach is a lot more freeform. Rather like a certain organised crime simulator that may have been popular recently, but in a platform vein...

A supposedly leaked Nintendo of America release schedule tells us that Metroid: Zero Mission is the name of the series' next GBA instalment. Metroid Fusion still ranks highly around here as one of our favourite games on the system, with only the likes of Advance Wars and A Link To The Past nipping anywhere near its shiny heels.

A major overhaul of the Xbox Live platform is in the works, with the console set to get new online functionality including the ability to talk to friends outside of games and use streaming video and audio services.

In recent years, gamers have turned their mice to managing everything from banana republics to restaurant empires, and if the world's biggest publishers have anything to do with it, the gravy train has plenty more stops to make. Perhaps we'll even get to manage that before long, tending to the driver's tea, wiggling thumbsticks to blow whistles with various beard-force modifiers working against us, and button-mashing our way through games of Pocket Connect 4 between Lewes and Eastbourne.

We swear this was common knowledge already, but THQ has signed the worldwide publishing rights to GSC’s Game World’s swanky first person survival horror title (their choice of genre phrasing, not ours) S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Oblivion Lost.

The French publisher that’s not Ubi Soft or InfogramesNotAtari has a ton of games on show at E3, and we have to admit we know very little about any of them. Whether they’re any good or not remains to be seen, but with the likes of Tecmo and Rebellion handling some of the development, we might be in for some surprises.

EA has announced that the first mission pack for Sim City 4, Rush Hour, is in development, and has released shots to prove it. The pack concentrates on rapidly expanding control over the transportation aspects of the game with additional management and route planning tools, as well as brand new methods of ferrying your Sims about, such as the elevated train networks of Boston, the wide-avenues of New York, or the winding one-way streets of San Francisco. Players can also develop a seamless mass-transit system including rail, subway, or even a scenic ferry service that connects to a greater regional travel network.

Fledgling publisher Xicat is the latest to unveil its E3 line-up with a trio of "highly anticipated" titles confirmed, along with more to be (foolishly) announced at the show, including one GameCube title, one Xbox title, and two PC titles.

As regular visitors to Eurogamer will know, we like to shoot things. A lot. First person, third person, aerial combat, stompy robot Mech games with ludicrous controllers you need an entire annex to house - all the best ones are welcome in our manor. But what of the urchin faced submarine based first person shooter? If you enjoyed the likes of Subwar 2050, Archimedean Dynasty, and the previous AquaNox, then you're in the right place, and after the deluge of World War II, shooters, Vietnam shooters, sci-fi shooters and stealth shooters, we must admit we were looking forward to a change.

Empire has announced its E3 line-up with days to spare, and they're dragging plenty of producers and other folk from developers over to the show, so presumably if we stand there complaining loudly enough we can collar them for a quick word. Anyway, the games on show will be Ghost Master (Sick Puppies, PC), Starsky & Hutch (Mind's Eye, PS2/Xbox), Vegas: Make it Big! (Empire, PC), Bad Boys II (Blitz, PC) and Bulletproof Monk (Empire, PS2), with several previously released titles also on the floor.

One of the most frequent topics of email feedback this week has been "who won Tropico 2?", which either proves that the game is really popular, or that we pretend to get sent feedback via email. In all honesty, the competition sort of "fell off" the page what with the redesign and all that malarkey, but rest assured we accepted entries right up to the last minute and took great pride in picking five winners. The correct answer, by the way, as "Um Bongo". Wrong answers included "Mandy Moore".