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American Conquest developer CDV has established that we all know less than a pass mark's worth of American history, despite the historically accurate RTS title putting on a good show critically and hopefully worming its way in to some of your collections.

Delta Force - Black Hawk Down has reached the end of its long and winding path through development, and will emerge as planned on March 28th. NovaLogic has confirmed the game is gold, and we should be getting our hands on finished code in the near future.

Dr. Muto's not your average mad professor. No, before you ask, he's not mute; he's apparently a Doctor (although of what, we're not entirely sure) and he can mutate himself into other creatures. Do you see what they did? Those crazy fools.

No One Lives Forever 2 will finally get the multi-player modes it deserves courtesy of patch 1.3, available today at 9am PST/12pm EST. We don't actually know when that is, but the patch will be made available at this FTP location when the hour dawns.

Although Vivendi has published a number of Fox Interactive titles over the years, the French publisher yesterday announced that it will publish and distribute all Fox titles currently underway and not subject to other arrangements.

Bohemia Interactive's Xbox project, Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis, was announced on April 16th, 2002, but this is the first time we've actually seen what it looks like. It looks pretty good, and it's due out this summer.

As we found out last Friday thanks to Eidos chairman John van Kuffeler's address in his company's earnings report, the UK-based publisher has secured a deal to make a game of The Italian Job. Terrifyingly, however, it is to be based on the dreaded Paramount remake starring Marky Mark.

Microsoft has announced that Lleyton Hewitt, some sort of professional tennis player (I know), will adorn their game of the same sport. Mr. Hewitt has apparently won two grand slams in his time, and will feature alongside tennis legend Michael Chang and another as-yet unnamed player on the game's cover.

UT2003 fans - it's time to get your download on! For, lo, Epic has followed in the footsteps of Digital Extremes and released a rather spangly bonus pack for their beloved multi-player FPS. Yes, that's past tense! Go get it now! You'll want to start soon anyway given that it's a whopping 150MB…

Ubi Soft has shed some more light on the GameCube and GBA versions of Splinter Cell this afternoon. Confirming that the duo will link up, Ubi Soft also announced that the Shanghai studio responsible for the PS2 version is behind the GameCube version, and that both will be released on June 5th in Europe (May 6th in the US).

Cartoon violence is a difficult subject to tackle. Broadly speaking, we have two different schools of thought. On the one hand, people will often argue that cel or toon shading and similar techniques detach games like GTA from reality, and thus exclude them from the sort of Commons witch-hunts we've seen in the past. "Why not focus on more brutally realistic titles like The Getaway and their wanton take on real-life violence," Vercetti followers may bitterly muse.

On a grey Tuesday in winter, it's always nice to be able to pluck out some random piece of research to make us feel better about having a hobby that involves sitting down and staring at a screen for hours on end. We're part of a revolution, honest.

GAME does not stock either the GameCube broadband or modem adapter required to play Phantasy Star Online, a game they are otherwise happy to sell you, Eurogamer has learned this morning.

A report in Taiwan's Commercial Times claiming that Sony was in talks with manufacturing companies to begin production of PS3 consoles with a view to a 2003 launch has been categorically denied by the company.

The Sims spent its sixth straight week at the top of Chart-Track's All Formats listing, despite fierce competition from Capcom's Resident Evil Zero, which was forced to settle for the No.2 slot.

"The real question is, as we start '03, what are we going to do differently?" according to Nintendo of America's marketing veepee George Harrison. Well, the real answer certainly isn't delaying key titles, but according to IGN, Nintendo is slipping two of its biggest in order to spread out its release schedule.

Microsoft has unveiled "point release 1" for MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries. The 5MB file is available from this, rather businesslike location, and adds a number of bug fixes, tweaks and so on to Cyberlore/FASA's mech title. OK, so we're not sure exactly what's in it, but you can blame Microsoft for that. Suffice to say, owners of the game will want to download it anyway.

JoWooD has announced a new "virtual gameshow title" called Neighbours From Hell this afternoon. Due out "later this year" on the PC, the game sees players controlling cheeky neighbour-from-hell Woody, as he tiptoes from room to room, evading the gaze of next door's watchful pets, carrying out increasingly mischievous feats of neighbourly disaffection. The "traps" he sets require precise timing and "a healthy dose of cunning, creativity and skill".

Capcom has announced two new Onimusha titles, with a spangly, all-singing, all-dancing website packed with movies and info to celebrate the fact. The "sound off" button will be in the bottom left area of the screen.

Microsoft has announced a sequel to in-house snowboarding sim Amped, which will take the series online and expand upon the 'realistic' dynamic used in the first game.

Halo 2 has been delayed until Q1 2004 according to developer Bungie and leash-holder Microsoft. With the Xbox now strongly established, presumably neither company sees the need to make the Christmas rush. After all, wasn't that sort of thinking to blame for the copy-and-paste level design that blights the middle of the first game?

We're not sure we understand this one, but according to IGN, Midway is planning an exclusive sequel to Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance this summer on a Nintendo platform. Just not the one you'd expect.

Much as we love Grand Theft Auto, we've always had our doubts about Rockstar. Not the developer, which shines like a beacon across the whole of Scotland, but the company as a whole. There's definitely an Umbrella Corp. vibe about the place, with seedy goings-on and outbreaks of concentrated evil (State of Emergency, for example), timed to inflict massive damage in the aftermath of a big release.

DICE has patched Battlefield 1942 again, bringing the WWII online FPS up to version 1.31. The latest release conquers a server crash bug, which occurs right after the occasional map switch, removes the default remote admin password so that foolish operators can't be exploited, and solves the "Coral Sea" bug problem, where players could hide inside objects. On the client side, you can no longer exploit the game to see through walls. It's not all that interesting, really, but you should still download it.

Despite finally getting around to telling us about its online plans today, Sony spectacularly failed to mention in its press release that not only will its online gaming trial be broadband-only, but that the rest of the service will be broadband-only too, unlike its US offering where a narrowband service is supported too.

Friday, February 28th. It was a cold day. Not as rainy and mucky as this one, mind, but pretty chilly and not altogether enjoyable for those of us who had to trudge to the video shop to return the rather lamentable Four Rooms. However, it was the day that we asked you who it was that developed mechtacular action title Battle Engine Aquila - a question so easy, the answer so resoundingly obvious, that we didn't even really need to throw in erroneous, barely amusing options like "Lost Boys and Golden Girls" - which four of you went for. Lost Toys! They made it! And the rest of you realised this and went into the draw. But as you know, there can only be three winners, and the names [oh just bloody say it already - Ed]

Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino's first film, is to become a PS2 and Xbox game courtesy of SCi, who announced the acquisition of rights at their Annual General Meeting this morning. "Reservoir Dogs will be developed by SCi on Sony PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Xbox," the announcement reads. "The game design will remain faithful to the original movie with gamers able to play all of the key characters, including the infamous Mr Blonde. As well as a significant amount of combat action, the game will also include strong driving sequences." So it's a GTA clone, then? Nice to see art imitates art imitating art.

Sony has press released the news that PS2 online trials commence on March 31st. Those of you hoping to get onto the trial will need to own a PS2 (obviously) and have a broadband connection. As announced recently, sign-ups for PS2 online will be fielded by regional websites - in the case of UK gamers, UK.PlayStation.com (click Register).

UK-based developer Bits Corp has signed an agreement with Kotobuki System, a division of Kemco, to make "an innovative new stealth-action videogame to be unveiled at the upcoming E3 games convention in May". No more details are available, but it's bound to be a console release.

Ideal world, right? We'd have Guilty Gear X2, Paris Dakar Rally 2, Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven, Capcom Vs SNK 2: EO (for the Live factor), MGS2: Substance, ToeJam & Earl III: Mission to Earth, Evolution Worlds, Phantasy Star Online, Resident Evil Zero, Sonic Mega Collection, Master of Orion III, Phantasy Star Chronicles and Shining Soul. 13 games. Pretty good week, we'd say.