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Midway has shed some light on ESPionage, the third person stealth actioner we learnt they were working on a couple of weeks ago. ESPionage is about an American psi-operative (that's a bog standard secret agent with psychic powers) called Nick Geller. Well, bend me over and call me a spoon!

Eidos has taken the time out of its undoubtedly busy schedule to entertain us with more of an insight into the forthcoming World War II strategy title Commandos 3: Destination Berlin. Way back in 2001, Tom absolutely adored the last in the Commandos series and we've got high hopes that the third in the series is going to continue the tradition of Being Good.

InfogramesNotAtari has announced a new Xbox-exclusive, Unreal-engine FPS called Dead Man's Hand. Set in the "Old West", the game is to be developed by Human Head Studios, whose plaudits include Rune on the PC, a game we really liked around here.

Nintendo has spread some more light on the Zelda/Platinum GameCube bundle, which we found out about last week.

Global domination. Now there's something to aim for. Total and utter global domination. Swirls around the mouth nicely, doesn't it? Imagine the power, and feel your ego stir. You are a world leader, and nothing can stand in your way! A crazy dream? Maybe, but it fuels the strategy market.

CDV has decided to change the name of sci-fi real-time strategy title Imperium Galactica 3 to the equally beardy-sounding Galaxy Andromeda. "While Galaxy Andromeda was originally conceived as the third game in the Imperium Galactica series, it has developed now to the point where we are confident of releasing it as a fully-fledged game in its own right," said Terry Malham, CDV president. "We have high hopes for this game and expect that, with its new title, it will go on to establish a whole new franchise of its own." Well, at least they didn't change it to Optimus Prime or something.

In a massive coup for Sold Out, the Super-Budget games publisher has secured a deal with Electronic Arts to release a series of games at a £4.99 price tag. The first games are due to be released this Easter, where we should see titles like Tiger Woods 2001, Black and White and NBA hitting the shelves at the incredibly low price, just in time for you to pick up the 'kids' some cheap Easter presents.

It's a bit of a slow day for gaming news really, so we thought we'd take the opportunity to point out something that could prove really quite enticing to the rhythm-music-action-arm-flinging-voice-wailing gamer in you, and we know there must be one in there somewhere. Anyway, that something is the arrival of MORPH-1, a device that can apparently turn any DVD player into a karaoke machine.

Our Sonic Advance 2 competition, which has over the past week offered you the chance to win a GameBoy Advance SP and a copy of the game, has finally ended. And as you might expect, we got quite a lot of entries.

Wallace and Gromit are about to land on Xbox courtesy of BAM! Entertainment, who have furnished us with a batch of screenshots for Wallace and Gromit in Project Zoo.

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.