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JoWooD has announced that Neighbours From Hell will be released on May 30th, priced £19.99. The PC game is a 'virtual gameshow', in which the fiendish Woody and his next-door nemesis Joe make like Spy vs. Spy and attempt to terrorise one another.

Activision came running through the door like an excited child this morning with news of its Call of Duty franchise, a new umbrella brand that "lets players experience the dramatic intensity of war through the eyes of common soldiers". Starting with World War II, Call of Duty will try and map elements of the 20th century's most devastating conflicts from the perspective of various unsung heroes. The games will be released on both console and PC in line with Activision's multi-platform strategy.

Cypron Studios is planning to fill the real-time strategy gap on the GameBoy Advance by revealing Command & Destroy Advance, and showing off some shots of the game in action.

Championship Manager 4 was the UK's top selling game once again in a chart that was largely unchanged from the previous week, with no new entries.

Midway Sports is altering NFL Blitz, NHL Hitz and so on to appeal to a broader gaming audience. Apparently, Midway has been focus testing (uh-oh) and determined that gamers would like to play in an authentic, simulation context. The new line of games will be renamed "Pro", of which NFL Blitz Pro and NHL Hitz Pro will be the first two. NFL, for example, will now include authentic 11-on-11 gameplay with realistic rules and options. Midway is describing their sudden awareness of simulation sports titles as a revolution, which we don't quite understand.

IGN has confirmed from its sources that the first GameCube-exclusive Final Fantasy title, Crystal Chronicles, will be fully playable at this year's E3 in May. This will be the first time the game has been totally exposed to the press.

GameSpot reports that Sega GT Online is in development for Xbox and due out in "the fall" (sigh). As well as allowing up to six players to race against one another, the game will encourage the customisation and tuning of each car, and offer 160 of them in total - from three different eras and including several prototypes. You can even trade or wager the pink slips for each before the start of a race, which could be interesting if you genuinely risk losing the car from your copy of the game via some sort of save data mechanism.

The revered and enigmatic Valve has signed a worldwide multi-title deal with US giant Activision, kicking off with the Half-Life powered WWII multiplayer only shooter Day of Defeat.

Combat Mission: Afrika Korps will be the next game in the Combat Mission series, Internet-based publisher Battlefront.com has announced, and will introduce various upgrades and changes relevant for North African desert combat, and conflicts in the Italian mountains and on the island of Crete. According to the press release, Afrika Korps will be a 1-2 player, hybrid turn-based/real-time strategy title in full 3D, simulating parts of the Mediterranean Theatre in World War II - which means multi-turreted tanks, dust and smoke and all the rest. And according to Battlefront.com, the game will be released worldwide via the Internet during Q4 2003.

Ubi Soft and IGN readers have selected the four Ghost Recon maps to appear in the upcoming Xbox expansion pack Island Thunder. They will make up a third of the game's complement of multiplayer maps.

GameSpot reports that Namco has announced Tales of Symphonia for GameCube, the latest game in the long-running 'Tales' series. Symphonia is set in the homeland of Lloyd Arving, a 17-year-old boy raised by dwarves after his parents' death. Along with his 12-year-old magician friend Genious Sage, he sets out on a mission with a girl called Colette Brunel, whose fate it is to save the world by turning into an angel. Which sounds eerily familiar.

Choo-choo! Take-Two, PopTop, Gathering and God knows who else have announced plans to release Railroad Tycoon 3 on the PC this autumn. This time, we're told, the game will be in full 3D, allowing it to get a better handle on everything from the Golden Era of Railroading to the strike and accident-prone, never-hit-a-timetable farce that counts for modern railways.

Gathering (Take-Two) has accumulated a number of groovy 60s tunes to add to Vietcong's authenticity, apparently. Among the artists on the soundtrack will be Iggy Pop's Stooges (I Wanna Be Your Dog), Deep Purple (Hey Joe), The Standells (Riot on Sunset Strip), and The Groupies (Primitive).

Sold Out has again marked itself out as the master of budget software by signing a stunning deal that brings a string of Eidos PC titles to its already enormous range.

Veteran gamers rejoice! The revered Geoff Crammond and his Simergy team are back with Stunt Car Racer Pro - an update of his classic Amiga/ST title from fourteen years ago.

Delta Force - Black Hawk Down is proving so popular that NovaLogic has signed a contract to add 100Mbit-per-second of bandwidth to its NovaWorld online gaming network, in order to improve the quality of the service for its many users.

"Microsoft Game Studios has made the difficult decision to end development on Tork," an official statement from the Xbox platform holder reads today. The Tiwak-developed platformer could still appear somewhere, but will have little to do with Microsoft if it does. "We recognise that Tork is a great game and value our developer relationships, so we are doing everything we can to help Tiwak bring their ideas and development of Tork through another publisher," MS wept. But we can't help picking up on the crocodile tears, because MS will publish any old crap these days and Tork actually looked good. "We currently have a huge portfolio of titles in development, including a number of exciting platformers and great new games from Rare, and made the decision to focus our resources on other games," the statement concludes.

Capcom prompted more questions than answers yesterday when its Japanese HQ issued a statement to clarify its software development strategy.

Codemasters hopes to have hit it big by securing worldwide rights to develop and publish games based on Pop Idol, anticipating that the game of the TV show, due out on PS2 and PC this autumn, "will become the mass-market video game of the year and be Codemasters' biggest video game launch in the company's 17-year history." As this story at GameSpot indicates, Codies has plans for both sides of the Atlantic.

As we recently reported, there's a new Jedi Knight on the horizon, and Activision finally confirmed the news late this week. As expected, players will not control Kyle Katarn in Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy (which has lost its numbering, as you can see), but an apprentice at Kyle and Luke Skywalker's Yavin 4 training facility. Players will rear their own young Jedi, RPG-style from scratch, with custom species, gender, clothing, physical attributes and lightsaber design giving players a wealth of options.

And so slip back into another lull, with nothing tremendously exciting on the horizon. Fortunately, there is still one totally indispensable game to add to your collection this week, and that's Super Monkey Ball Junior. Ooh-ooh! More on that here. Oddly though, the only exciting things in the line-up other than that (in our humble/collective opinion anyway) are the Player's Choice titles on the Cube. Budget re-releases have now put Luigi's Mansion, Pikmin and Super Smash Bros. Melee well within reach of thrifty GameCube owners, and we'd recommend each of them at the price.

Panzer Dragoon Orta is one of the most entertaining games on Xbox - one of the reasons why everyone on the team here at EG owns a copy - and last week we offered three of our readers the chance to win their own. Well, the time has finally come to draw the winners, and according to our magic, Dragon-run selection machine, the three lucky recipients of this delicious shoot 'em up will be Gary Norton, James Russell and Jani Klingberg. Congratulations to them, and thanks to Infogrames for donating the prizes!

Konami is feeling the need to reassure us that it really likes PCs and Xbox, honestly, and has committed itself to developing Apocalyptica in support of its convictions. Developed by Telford-based Extreme FX and overseen by Konami's new European studio, the game is said to be a third-person action title that charts an epic tale of good versus evil.

Gamers.com are reporting on the somewhat bizarre idea that Namco has developed an arcade version of online tactical shooter, Counter-Strike. Yes.

The murmurings of a special edition orange GameBoy Advance SP made their way to our office on April 1st, and so the rumours were met with some consternation as to whether to report on it or not. We'll we're now able to tell you what most of you already knew: Yes, there is an orange GBA SP, and yes, we want one.

Doors. Resident Evil fans know only too well what a door means. It means a few seconds to sweat blood, mop brows and generally panic about what's on the other side, because apart from a few staircases in the RE remake, virtually every door in a Resident Evil game since the days of the Saturn has incurred a loading screen.

When Donkey Kong Country snuck onto a recent Nintendo release schedule, we weren't 100 per cent sure it was a port of the GBA game. After all, Nintendo has been failing to name its first party Cube projects distinctively. F-Zero, anyone? But according to IGN today it's very much confirmed that DKC is a GBA port of the SNES classic.

GameSpot is reporting that Microsoft has started its search for "America's Biggest Halo Fan". We had to restrain ourselves from replacing "Halo Fan" with something completely different, but we won't get into that for fear of repercussions. Anyway, we digress.

Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII (aha) has been announced today by EA and DICE. The multiplayer expansion pack will introduce new weapons and vehicles (hold the bloody phone!), many of which never made it out of German and Allied labs into real-life combat. SWOWII will also introduce elite German troops and British Commandos, along with a new objective-based gameplay mode, which sounds a bit like Assault from the original Unreal Tournament.

PopTop Software and developer Frog City Software have announced that Tropico 2: Pirate Cove is gold. The game is the sequel to Tropico (obviously), a game which we lapped up like seadogs a couple of years ago. We seem to end up explaining what it is every time we write about it, so we're not going to do that this time. No. You can just read this instead. There's a demo through that link too, so you probably want to go and look.