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Nintendo has shocked and disappointed with an announcement that it will not be showing any first-party online titles at this year's E3 in May, Computer and Video Games are reporting.

As you've probably gathered, this final week of March is rather hectic, with a lot of big name releases and an even greater number of other, less exciting ones. However, it strikes us that Championship Manager 4 will be top of the charts on Tuesday regardless - and Kristan will be bringing you his verdict on that very soon.

Infogrames (and not, for example, Atari. No siree...) has announced that it's going to be publishing Horizons, a massively multiplayer online RPG currently in development by Artifact Entertainment.

The launch of Capcom's unique mech shoot 'em up Steel Battalion and its gigantic custom controller is set to turn into a farce, as limited stocks leave pre-orders unfulfilled while copies flood onto eBay.

Sega has finally confirmed plans to resurrect its publishing operation in Europe, announcing that it will build up sales, marketing and PR efforts in the region and publish Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution (PS2), Sonic Adventure DX Director's Cut (Cube) and Phantasy Star Online: Episode I & II (Xbox) by the end of June.

Glasgow-based developer Steel Monkeys has started work on a new racing game for publisher TDK Mediactive (not THQ as reported earlier), celebrating the 50th anniversary this year of the Chevrolet Corvette.

Back in February we reported on Sony's intention to host an art exhibition in conjunction with the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, featuring art from Studio Cambridge's Primal alongside submissions of work based on the game from art students at universities all over the country.

Sony Online Entertainment has today released a short trailer for their eagerly anticipated massively-multiplayer first-person sci-fi shooter, PlanetSide.

In a move to get as many gamers as possible using Devastation-related puns against each other, publisher NovaLogic and Jolt are teaming up to launch the Official Devastation Death Match Demo Tournament.

The GameCube was the UK's biggest selling console last week, beating back both Xbox and PS2 with sales of 14,000 units, with Nintendo now hoping that its GBA SP rebate deal will keep sales high.

THQ Wireless has signed John Romero and Tom Hall's Monkeystone Games to develop Red Faction for the Nokia N-Gage portable.

We really like it when publishers give us free crap to play with on our mobile phones. Obnoxious ringtones, pointless logos - you name it. If it can annoy people on the train or make us look stupid, then we're there.

Ubi Soft has released another video showing off one of its First Person Shooters, this time Crytek's Far Cry, with its powerful CryEngine. The four-and-a-half-minute video shows off the game's physics, long-distance combat (hello Delta Force), realistically deformable terrain and fierce gun battles. Far Cry is due out in November of this year.

Popular Battlefield 1942 modification Desert Combat could become a retail expansion, although not necessarily through official EA channels, GameSpot reports by way of CNN/Money (of all places). Apparently the US news conglomerate ran a piece on war-themed games and the recent surge in sales they have enjoyed (ulp), and quoted Desert Combat project lead Frank DeLise as saying that several publishers have expressed an interest in his mod.

IGN reports that EA is courting Hypnos Entertainment to develop the GameCube and PC versions of The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. Hypnos carried out the GameCube ports of The Two Towers and FreekStyle, so their ability to port games is certainly not in question.

Sonic Team head Yuji Naka has given us some idea of why Sonic Adventure DX is so-called. Speaking in Japan, the Sonic creator said that versions of all the old Game Gear Sonics would appear in the new Cube release, jokingly referring to it as "Mega Collection 2". According to various sources, DX will come complete with Sonics 1 and 2, Sonic & Tails 1 and 2, Sonic Labyrinth, Sonic Drift 1 and 2, G-Sonic, Tails Sky Patrol and Tails Adventure, which is quite a lot of games, really…

EA has confirmed interweb reports that a second Battlefield 1942 expansion pack is in the works. GameSpot claims that the pack could be called Secret Weapons, although EA has merely confirmed the existence of a pack, rather than naming it and so forth.

Datel has announced Action Replay for Xbox, the latest in a long line of cheat devices which represents the third and final prong in Datel's next-generation thrust. However, anybody hoping for a FreeLoader-style import-friendly device had better think again, because AR for Xbox is a cheat device - useful if you want to unlock all the bikinis in DOAX, presumably, but not so much if you just want to run Bistro Cupid.

The GameCube has its first UK All Formats number one of the year this week in the welcome form of Metroid Prime, proving that despite retail worries, the console is still far from dead in the UK.

Ubi Soft has been showing off its cel-shaded FPS XIII recently, and one of the things we're quite interested in is the player's ability to smack enemies around the head with chairs, ashtrays, bottles, shovels, broken glass, bricks and other assorted objects in the game world. This is something we've wanted ever since Quake - although really we just wanted to throw giblets at one another.

This morning we've gotten our hands on a few screenshots of various PS2 online and EyeToy games, and we thought we'd draw your attention to them here, lest they drown in the onslaught of "other shots" we're going to be shoving into play during the day.

Sega will publish the US version of From Software's Xbox title Otogi - Myth of Demons, the publisher's American arm announced while we slept. As you may recall, excited by From's Xbox debut Murakumo last August, we found some details and unearthed some screenshots of the game - a 3D action title with magical combat set in a fairytale world. The US version of the game is now due out in September from Sega, who may well pick up the publishing rights to any PAL port.

Proving once and for all that Dark Alliances prosper, Vivendi and Interplay have announced a sequel to the rather excellent Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, due out on PS2 and Xbox in the States before the end of the year.

Nintendo has suspended its informal campaign of neglect in Europe, admitting this afternoon that we'll be getting a Platinum GameCube and Zelda bundle - but refusing to be drawn on further details.

Publisher Cenega has announced its three-pronged line-up for the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles this May. Located at booth 6322 in the Kentia Hall, Cenega will be targeting not just the PC but also the so-called next-generation consoles with its 2003 line-up.

The Xbox budget range is set to launch at €29.99 / £19.99 on April 11th in Europe, Microsoft has today announced. "Xbox Classics", as the range will be known, boasts a slightly different line-up to that of the US' Platinum Hits range.

Flash games. They're great, aren't they? Two of our favourites are Fly The Copter and a rather excellent keepy-uppy football game with a manic Japanese commentary for which we've misplaced the URL. Flash games being pretty detailed these days, we even have conversions of our old favourites. Like Lost Vikings.

Hideo Kojima's "other game", the twirly aerial mech-combat title ZOE, is to receive a lick of paint for it European release this September. The PAL version of the game, subtitled The 2nd Runner, will benefit from exclusive stages, added battle sequences, several new game modes, two new difficulty levels (European Hard and European Extreme) and a brand new opening sequence with a remix of the main theme tune.

SCEA recently announced Syphon Filter Omega Strain, a single and multiplayer update to the renowned PSX series, and several useful details have made it out in a Game Informer article in the US, dutifully reported on by IGN.

Techland's tactical sci-fi shooter Chrome is entering the beta stage according to the developer and North American publisher Strategy First. The open beta will begin on April 7th and run until May 9th, and registrations are being accepted via the interweb. All you have to do is fill in a form and articulate why you should be a beta tester.