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AquaNox 2: Revelation has slipped to Q1 2003, publisher JoWooD has announced today. "Massive Development are well on their way to completing the truly stunning AquaNox 2: Revelation and we wanted to be 100 per cent sure that it will blow fans away when it is released next year," says JoWooD CEO and part-time spinster Andreas Tobler. "The extra time will ensure that we release a game that is highly polished and as close to perfection as possible." We'll see.

"Do yooo waaaaant suuuuuuuum?!" roared Jay Wilbur at X02 recently, before producing a flak cannon and fragging the entire 900 strong European audience as if to prove a point. The Eurogamer staff miraculously lived to tell the tale, having nipped off to the gents at that point, and returned to wade through the bloodied chunks of the industry's finest littering the Isla Magica theme park. Wilbur was naturally mortified; having assumed his cannon wasn't loaded, and is now serving a life sentence in a secure institution somewhere near Seville.

While sales of the PS2 continues to thrash everything out of sight, the battle for second place is where the real action is, with Microsoft forging ahead of Nintendo in the latest figures released.

The Xbox version of Serious Sam, which is an amalgamation of the first two PC games in the FPS series, is now set for release on December 6th according to publisher Take-Two, having previously been pencilled in for Q1 2003.

In what must rank among the stupidest and most pointless acquisitiones ever, international production and distribution outfit Crystal Sky has inked a deal with Namco for feature film rights to, er, Pac-Man, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Yes, Pac-Man. "There is no other game title bigger than Pac-Man," says the firm's president Steven Paul. "From children to their parents, Pac-Man is a name everyone knows and loves." Worryingly, there are plans afoot to squeeze a "live-action fantasy adventure" out of the harmless franchise. So, another aspect of our collective youth falls to money-flustered morons in suits. Shame.

Those of you who, like us, found 2015's Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault a rather splendid addition to the packed FPS genre, will be pleased to hear that a standalone demo of the expansion pack is due out this weekend. The Spearhead demo will be made available at mohaa.ea.com sometime on November 9th.

Sony's official PlayStation 2 website carries news that the European release of the seven-disc Vice City soundtrack set will includes bonus tracks exclusive to the region. The box set, which is quite reasonably priced at £29.99, features a bevy of 80s music perfectly suited to the on-screen carnage, based on our hours with the game thus far. After all, there's nothing better to sooth your nerves as you whiz, Uzi-wielding, down narrow alleys on a Faggio motor scooter than the sound of Billie Jean blaring out of your speakers.

Capcom has cautiously revealed more information about Resident Evil Online, the first PS2 game in the esteemed series since Shinji Mikami's high profile marriage to Nintendo. From the looks of screenshots which have been circulating since E3, it's a couple of steps back from the Cube versions, graphically, but the gameplay is vintage RE. Upsettingly, so are the mechanics.

Although it's growing increasingly old, Gray Matter's Return to Castle Wolfenstein has been patched once again, to version 1.4. The update is said to improve weapon balance, the multiplayer browser and adds a few in-game options, like auto-reload and a new voting configuration. A number of bugs have also been quashed since the last release.

Jester Interactive is set to enter the mobile games arena by bringing Manic Miner to Java-enabled mobile phones. Having already proven its popularity on the GBA, Manic Miner seemed like the obvious choice for Jester's first foray, with Jester's Martin Kitney commenting that "with the technology available from a Java enabled mobile phone, quality games are now a viable option."

Capcom will be at the forefront of Xbox Live activities with the arguably long-overdue release of Capcom vs. SNK 2: EO. EO, which stands for Easy Operation, brings simplified controls to a game that was released on the PS2 quite some time ago.

According to various Hollywood sources, film production company Mindfire Entertainment has picked up the rights to Sega's Shinobi franchise, with the aim of bringing it to the big screen for summer 2004.

Konami will release Winning Eleven 6 (which of course became Pro Evolution Soccer 2) in the US next March. Previously, Americans were told that they didn't like the sport enough to receive Konami's simulation of the beautiful game, but clearly the publisher has undergone a change of heart. "Soccer fans around the world have declared Winning Eleven as their favourite soccer game," says Robert Goff, product manager at Konami of America. "Now, North American soccer fans have a chance to see what they've been missing."

Revealed to the public with some fanfare at E3, Blinx is one of Microsoft's biggest hopes in the run up to the crucial Christmas period, but has already been simultaneously fawned over and damned by the specialist press, which always makes relatively late reviews such as this one an even tougher proposition.

First-person role playing games have something of a patchy history, with examples ranging from the superb Deus Ex through the arguably mediocre Morrowind to the lamentably bad Kings Field series. Created by continental developers Arkane Studios, Arx Fatalis is the latest addition to this genre; the question being whether it scales the heights of Deus Ex, or plumbs the depths of the execrable Kings Field.

Micro Machines! Well, no, it's "MicroMachines", apparently. Still, semantic naming issues aside, it's no surprise to see a modern day update to this classic miniature racer, although instead of "Codemasters", the byline now reads "Infogrames Sheffield". After some sort of licensing coup and a modest period of development, the next generation PS2 and Xbox versions of MicroMachines have appeared - but has the formula grown with the technology?

Nokia announced several new handsets at its annual mobile internet conference yesterday, but the most interesting of them from our perspective was a new entry in the Series 60 range, which has been dubbed 'N-Gage'. And despite a babbling, spectacularly incomprehensible press release, we've learnt that N-Gage will have a cartridge-type slot for memory cards, and will run on the Symbian OS. Nokia plans to position itself as a publisher and gatekeeper for those interested in using the platform.

Acclaim has been forced to edit scenes containing topless nudity from the PS2 version of BMX XXX, after Sony ruled that it would not accept the game in its original state. However, Nintendo and Microsoft have no plans to censor the game, which appears on November 29th on all three home console formats and GBA.

Good though WWE RAW on the Xbox was, any claims that it beats out the latest edition of SmackDown will fall on deaf ears around here. Yuke's masterful realisation of everything that makes WWE entertaining is due in PS 2 owners' sights very shortly, and we fancy that Shut Your Mouth will remain a reasonable response to Xbox owners' protestations about RAW.

Activision and LucasArts are running a UK-wide treasure hunt to promote the release of Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, the PS 2 version of which is supposedly due out on November 29 (with the Cube version delayed until early 2003). The hunt begins on December 9th, but those wishing to participate will have to first sign up by calling 0906 3027 232 (premium) or heading off to the official website, http://www.thehuntbegins.co.uk. The competition ends on New Year's Eve.

This time last year: Grand Theft Auto 3 emerged with virtually no fanfare, no PR stunts, no reviews even. But what happened over the next 12 months was nothing short of a phenomenon. For the first time in many years, the power of word of mouth became hugely apparent as people realised just how good the game was.

After the years of hype and promises, it felt slightly odd when The Getaway preview disc arrived in the Eurogamer office. There it was, unheralded, vanilla, no armed heavies escorting us to a guarded smoke filled room to play it under cover of darkness. No 'Non Disclosure' documents, not even a manual; just a grey disc and our preconceptions to go on.

Apparently it's very difficult to find beta testers these days. Everywhere you look, PC developers are running around with their hands flailing in the air screaming "my kingdom for a pan-European PC-owning focus group!" Fortunately, they've managed to convince the powers-that-be that the Internet is full of useful individuals, and that beta-testing should be open to anybody with the ability to type their name and email address into a form.

LucasArts has revealed much of the back-story to immensely anticipated BioWare Jedi-RPG Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic. You can read it here. However, for those of you too impatient to click the link, it goes something like this.

As many of you will know, Id Software's DOOM III has been leaked. Or rather, an early demo build has trickled down from one of Id's corporate confidants, and has been circulating the Net since Friday.

Panzers, a 3D tactical combat title from Hungarian studio Stormregion, has found a European publisher in the shape of CDV. "[Panzers] looks set to push the 3D tactical combat genre to a new level," CDV UK president Terry Malham commented. "The 3D graphics are simply revolutionary and the circulating tech demo caused quite a stir among editors and gamers alike."

Microsoft has issued a press release this morning reassuring those in the trade that it still has a raft of key titles due out before Christmas, despite Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball, Brute Force and others now appearing in the first three months of 2003.

Rumours have emerged that the GameCube version of TimeSplitters 2 is not on store shelves and won't be until November 15th. However, Eurogamer can categorically refute these claims on behalf of sleepy-eyed publisher Eidos in the UK. We know the game is on store shelves, because when we tired of the Beano this weekend, we toddled into a shop called Unadulterated Megastore (names changed to protect the innocent) and purchased a shiny new copy of the game. It is quite literally on sale in the UK.

If you're anything like us, then you like freebies. The notion of getting something for nothing is a titillating prospect, and like you, Nintendo believes that everyone deserves free extras at the expense of money-grabbing corporations. We invest so much love and attention in games consoles - why shouldn't we expect a prize?

Dutch publisher Project Three has revealed that New World Order, the highly anticipated counter-terrorist first person shooter from Swedish dev Termite Games, went gold last weekend. Project Three points to a mid-November release date in Europe, with other territories to follow shortly after.