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Silicon Dreams is working on a new footy title for Acclaim, the publisher has announced. Urban Freestyle Soccer joins a long line of badly named footy titles on the CVs of Dreams' employees, but unlike UEFA Champions League, Michael Owen's WLS and various Sega WWS titles, Urban Freestyle Soccer is a four-on-four game which aims to capture the essence of a Sunday afternoon kickabout in the park. Or on a busy road, by the sound of it.

We had an amazing response to this week's competition, which attracted a record number of entrants, whose details will now be sold to several large multi-national spam merchants. Ooooonly joking!

Hamtaro is coming to GBA, says Nintendo, and it's got an equally silly name. Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Heartbreak (yuck) is said to be similar in design to its GBC sibling, Hamtaro: Ham-Hams Unite!, which was released earlier this month. That's about all we know.

IGN listened in on "Activision's extremely boring and ridiculously long quarterly conference call" and heard that a new Jedi Knight game is among "various Star Wars products" in the works. The next chapter in Kyle's saga is due out in the 2004 fiscal year (April 2003 to March 2004). DOOM III is also due out between those dates.

The long awaited PlayStation 2 version of Space Channel 5 Part 2 will not appear in the UK, Eurogamer has learned, but the rest of Europe can look forward to it.

The same issue of Famitsu that gave the Dead or Alive girls' volleyball antics a respectable 31/40 has awarded a much higher 37/40 to a relatively unknown Japanese Sony title called Operator's Side. Just to clarify, 37 translates to one 'perfect' score of 10 and three individual 9s from the mag's panel of reviewers. That's pretty impressive stuff - so what the hell is Operator's Side?

Retro Studios are planning the sequel to Metroid Prime. That's the latest word from the Texas-based developer, whose executives have told employees that Nintendo has approved the project, according to reports.

Nintendo plans to give Cube gamers cheaper access to "old faves" like Super Smash Bros. Melee, thanks to its new Player's Choice label for the console. Joining SSBM under the banner will be Luigi's Mansion and Pikmin. Each game will retail for $29.95 (down from the traditional $45-50), finally slapping the likes of Luigi with comfortable, justifiable pricing.

Neocron is to receive an update. On Wednesday, the web site for the 'world's first massively multiplayer FPS' saw an update announcing a free add-on called "Beyond Dome of York", which adds "a completely new city", with "a full set of brand new player and clan apartments".

With uncanny timing, Microsoft chose Nintendo's day of doom to announce its latest sales figures for the Xbox, which reveal the console was "firmly entrenched" in the No.2 spot in both the US and Europe during the festive period.

Let's get one thing straight from the start; Jesters do not make good video game characters. They make bell noises when they run, and have a fixed grin that merely inspires irrational hatred. Hands up who wants to be a Jester? Hmmmm. The Rent-a-ghost loon was mildly amusing 20 odd years ago, and Pandemonium was ok, ish, but we can't see anyone rushing to do a next gen sequel.

Hamburg, Germany-based independent developer Master Creating has announced that the firm's team of nine is currently working on Restricted Area, a Diablo II-style action RPG with real time combat, a dark future scenario, and tactical shooter elements.

Nintendo admitted it would miss its GameCube shipment target by over 10 per cent this financial year, and blamed a change in consumer trends for the shortfall - but said it would not be retreating from the console market.

Factor 5 has been very quiet since it shipped the phenomenal Rogue Leader at the end of 2001, but a recent GDC developer bio stated that the company has two projects in the works, triggering a lot of interest from fans.

The Cube version of Haven: Call Of The King has been cancelled, it has emerged. The Traveller's Tales developed platformer was released on PS2 in November 2002, but despite a concerted multi million pound marketing campaign, failed to excite a public far too busy playing Vice City.

When Konami announced plans to recycle another of its old school franchises at its Gamers' Day in San Francisco, we couldn't honestly have cared less. A fifth Gradius game, eh? A couple of screenshots and a sparsely detailed press release later and we couldn't really work out whether we should get excited at all - what could possibly raise Gradius V above its rivals?

Some good news and some bad news. 2015 (of Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault fame) has revealed details of its next title - an Unreal engine powered first person shooter for the PC and Xbox entitled Men Of Valor: Vietnam.

Koei has revealed more of what makes Dynasty Warriors 4 different. Musou mode returns in better shape than ever, promising multiple storylines, plot events and endings. You'll be able to select from one of three forces (Shu, Wu or Wei) and change character in each stage - your decision will be reflected in the course of the game, suggesting massive replayability thanks to the broad selection of characters.

Sony Studio Cambridge's long awaited action adventure title Primal has slipped to April 11th, it emerged yesterday.

WarCraft III was our favourite PC game of 2002, so the news that Blizzard is (of course) working on an expansion - called "The Frozen Throne" - was met with much delight and anticipation around here. Even more so when we learnt that it's due out this summer, "worldwide".

Whacked! is a rubbish name for a videogame, up there with Plok, James Pond, and anything with a colon and a hyphen in the title. Fortunately, it's a bit better to play than it is to say, but I'm sure I gave my Gran a stroke telling her I was off to do some whacking yesterday...

British developer Warthog is developing a game based on the forthcoming Looney Tunes live action movie from Warner Brothers, which will be co-published with Electronic Arts - the first deal of this kind for WB.

Warren Zide and Craig Perry of Zide/Perry Entertainment have bought the rights to a Metroid feature film, Variety reports. Both are Hollywood producers with Final Destination ("It makes you wonder if there is fate in this world", IMDB) and American Pie ("I laughed so hard I spit out half the bucket-o-pop I was drinking", IMDB) behind them.

EA has confirmed that the devs at its Irvine, California based Pacific studio have finished Command & Conquer: Generals, easily the most anticipated title in the series since Red Alert thanks to its glorious good looks, modern day settings and themes - and the promise of a worthy, 'next generation' update.

NTL is using Xbox to score points against BT as the contest for new broadband consumers hots up. Yesterday the cableco announced a new ntl:home 'Broadband + Console' offer, which "costs just £5 per month on top of your 600K or 1MB broadband service" with a £30 installation charged waived for sign-ups which occur before the end of February.

Today we catch our first glimpse of Codemasters' ambitious 15-game Club Football project, aiming to bring fans of fifteen of the world's biggest clubs their own "home branded" footy title. The Codies have released a bunch of screenshots (quite a few actually) of the PS2 title in action, which you can view here, and not content with that, a bit of digging on the Club Football web site reveals a "Stadiums" video, which also shows off a bit of in-game footy action. Albeit not a lot. You can find that video in several formats: high quality MPEG (14.9MB), medium quality MPEG (8.9MB), and, oddly, high quality MPEG4 (14.7MB) as well.

Bad news. In a statement to the city this afternoon, Eidos has announced that both Championship Manager 4 and Tomb Raider: Angel Of Darkness have been delayed to "enhance the gameplay experience". Yep, that old chestnut.

Xbox-only "Action Flight" title Yager will be gracing our screens on March 28th, THQ has enthusiastically proclaimed. The game, the maiden project of Germans Yager Development, is built around a tale of conspiracy, corporate shadiness and widespread control freakiness, but from the in-game action we've thus far witnessed it seems that Xbox owners can look forward to a chunky, highly detailed and nippy space combat title in the traditional pyrotechnic sense. And thanks to these two trailers - one released a couple of weeks ago when we were napping, and one just this second out the door - there's an opportunity for you to take a look for yourself.

James Bond is to make his long awaited debut on the GBA, in a first person shooter that apparently "delivers all-out Bond-style intensity" on the handheld system.

Microsoft can thank its lucky stars that Splinter Cell turned up just before Christmas to give the Xbox the boost it needed at exactly the right time. The Metal Gear Solid 2 beater convinced over 180,000 UK Xbox owners to part with their cash in an owner to installed base attach ratio that beat even the mighty Vice City, and was along with Halo was the reason many of you bought the big black box.