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City Interactive has unveiled Project Earth 2, the sequel to last year's space-based Homeworld clone, which we weren't so happy with. PE2 promises a new physics engine and an overhauled interface to name but a couple of things.

EA and DICE have released a free new map for download. Operation Aberdeen is set in North Africa and lets players duke it out in one of the biggest tank battles of World War II. Each team starts with armour-filled control points, and it's a quest to grab outposts and points surrounding the map's central town.

A FASA Interactive spokesperson has told the Dropship Command message boards that the long-running MechWarrior series has been put on hold. The last release, Mercenaries, may well become the last release.

LucasArts is to produce a run of 75,000 special edition versions of Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided, which will be available when the game launches. Whenever that will be.

Despite the attention of an over-zealous father, sitting by a river freezing our nuts off never really appealed. Even worse, sitting in a leaky boat in the middle of the night, fearing for our lives; surely this is as close to madness as you can get? And what's this? Sega's made a third Bass Fishing game? Are we missing something?

The European multiplayer demo of Devastation has been released today and the 190MB file is available from Jolt here. The demo should be identical in terms of content to the US release, which means it's a two-level demo with Streetwar (DM) and CTF modes.

As reported elsewhere, the GameCube version of V-Rally 3 is still on track for a June 26th release in Europe. Various Internet sites reported the game's cancellation this week, but Infogrames' PR man Simon Callaghan told us earlier this week that "it's not being released in the US, which is where the confusion has arisen."

ITV's gaming star search kicks off tomorrow in The Tram Studios, Camden, between 10am and 6pm, as gamers from all over the region flock to the recording of Game Stars.

This week in gaming is a bit like the Oscars. There are lots of nominees, but only two real winners - Metroid Prime and Panzer Dragoon Orta. Both are fantastic games, well worthy of the scores we've given them, and both make a worthy swap for that wad of scrounged, bequeathed, purloined, fenced, laundered or perhaps even hard-earned cash.

There were lots of entries this week for our Rally Championship competition - proving once and for all what a significant effect the promise of a free hat and T-shirt has on the average unkempt videogamer.

Polish development house City Interactive yesterday announced two currently publisher-less games; Nina - Agent Chronicles and Smash Up Derby. Their previous released include Project Earth and Aces of World War I.

Take-Two is once again giving us lots of ethereal junk for our mobile phones. Last time out we had free Vice City images, ringtones and so forth, and in order to promote Vietcong this week we have much the same; six colour images, a few operator logos and ringtones both normal and polyphonic. We particularly like "Vinyl girl".

Activision and Disney have joined forces to try and woo 6-14 year olds with Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure for PS2 and GameCube. Based on Tony Hawk's fourth Pro Skater engine, the game will feature characters from three animated films; Toy Story 2, Tarzan, and The Lion King - 12 in total - with the usual Create-A-Skater option customised to help build youthful skating representatives. Furthermore, Activision is to hold a nationwide casting call for 10 real kids to become digital skaters in the final game.

Here at Eurogamer, we don't normally host adverts because, well, they're usually crap. We've made exceptions in the past though, if warranted. We felt that recent pro-peace advert from Sony probably deserved an airing, for example.

According to some sources, NDCUBE's next futuristic racing game may well have been F-Zero GC if Nintendo hadn't farmed the work out to Sega/Amusement Vision, but this week sees NEC Interchannel announce plans to publish the game exclusively on GameCube anyway, under the name of Tube Slider.

Jaleco Entertainment is to develop and publish a new Real-Time Strategy title, with the aim of turning it into a successful IP over the next few years. Goblin Commander: Unleash The Horde is set in the war-torn world of Ogriss, where goblins spawned by the hand of the mighty wizard Fraziel have fallen under a corrupt influence and must be put down before they tear the world apart. The player will control armies of specialised goblin warriors and fearsome beasts as they fight the evil goblin surge. Perhaps surprisingly though, the game is due out on all next generation console platforms, with no PC release in sight.

Yesterday we brought you DreamCatcher's 2003 line-up, and today we have their pseudo-sibling The Adventure Company's offering, riddled with games that we're sure some of you will be interested in.

Nintendo of America has clarified the release date information on its website, which last week reportedly showed F-Zero GC and Wario World slippages before a gust of wind kicked up and returned the page to its original state.

One of the most famous videogame character franchises of all time, Sonic the Hedgehog, is to be revived by creator Sega in a series of new moves designed at reinvigorating the brand.

Although you've been admiring the first screenshots of Jak & Daxter II for a couple of days now, SCEA only confirmed Naughty Dog's latest title in writing while we were asleep.

GOD Games has announced that Illusion Softworks/Pterodon's jungle FPS Vietcong has gone gold, and should hit store shelves in March.

Ferrago reports that LucasArts has canned Martian shooter RTX Red Rock for GameCube, meaning that the game is now something of a PS2 exclusive. Sure enough, the game is gone from Lucas' Cube listings, with Gladius the only unreleased title on the platform listed. LucasArts promises a big announcement soon (Rogue Leader II, please).

Chariots of War sounds a bit like those lamentable roman-era chariot-racing games we've been subjected to lately, but according to joint developers Paradox (Europa Universalis II) and Slitherine Strategies, it's actually a strategy game due out in North America in Q2 2003 under Strategy First's banner.

The recently unveiled European subsidiary of US publisher DreamCatcher Games has today announced its release list. Starting in May, the publisher will release Kaan - Barbarian's Blade (PS2/PC), which is an arcade hackandslash title, along with Superpower (PC), a turn-based geopolitical and militaristic simulator which utilises accurate UN/CIA data.

Square is expected to make its GameCube debut with Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles this summer. According to Famitsu, the Japanese release date has no been set at July 18th, although of course there's no mention of US/European dates just yet.

Some time ago, we all realised that while there are good racing games and bad racing games, at a fundamental level they all involve roughly the same thing; going around a track at slightly higher unsafe speeds than the other players.

Nintendo may be facing a fight for its life at UK retail, as the decision by the Dixons group to liquidate GameCube stocks is replicated by another leading retailer - high street and catalogue sales outlet Argos.

IGN has a report on game retailers' release lists, which include several new titles from out of sorts publisher Midway. Now, they don't publish outright rubbish all of the time (we could name a lot of publishers with more guilt in that area), but even their most ardent in-house apologists would have trouble batting away the irony of new titles like "Highway to Hell" and "The Suffering" (an "action-horror" title set in a prison). Also sparking at Midway are Spy Hunter 2 (which will not be in the hands of Paradigm again, we understand, but Angel Studios!), NARC (which could be based on the Ray Liotta film of the same name we suppose), and ESPionage (which is an MGS-style game which sounds like a sports crossover). All of these titles will be multi-platform, appearing on PS2, Xbox and Cube, and as you'd expect, we're promised more on them during E3.

Datel (remember them?) has announced a keyboard for GameCube, allowing PSO owners to explain to one another how and why they all suck. The "PowerBoard" will cost £19.99 and should be in stores "worldwide" by March 28th. Beyond that it's nothing too special - you've all got keyboards, and this one is the same as those. There's one in front of you right now in fact. This one looks like that, except it's purple and black. Enjoy.

This week, Microsoft is "recognising that colour allows people to express their individuality," announcing a range of coloured Xbox controllers - and asking that gamers pick the shades for themselves. Until March 31st, you'll be able to vote at www.xbox.com on which colours you want to appear in the MS range, with "a vivid palette of choices, including red, green, orange, green, blue, clear and green". Or thereabouts. Microsoft will then unveil the new range of controllers at E3 on May 14th. They will go on to appear on US store shelves by October, priced $29.99, and in Europe soon after.