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Across March, there are something like 20 games which are probably worth buying. If you take the value of a game to be somewhere between 25 and 40 quid, that's between £500 and £800's worth of games to buy. Nobody can buy that many, right?

Massively multiplayer RTS (ooh Matron!) Time of Defiance has been updated to version 4.410b, apparently, and the 10MB patch can be found at www.timeofdefiance.com.

Nintendo has confirmed that Metal Gear Solid is coming to GameCube, according to Cube Europe and others. "I can confirm that Nintendo is working with Konami on Metal Gear Solid for the GameCube," a spokesman reportedly said. This after Shigeru Miyamoto apparently let slip to the Italian press that the game was in development - with Ninty and Konami collaborating on it. A GBA game is also said to be in development, with link-up options to keep those GC-GBA cables selling.

Ubi Soft has penned an agreement with Natsume, Inc. to distribute Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life on GameCube and Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town on GBA in all PAL territories. Both versions are expected to ship in October 2003, and we're sure plenty of you will be very pleased to hear it.

Dorimaga, which is apparently a Japanese gaming magazine, has reported that System 246 based arcade beat 'em up Capcom Fighting All-Stars, which we liked so much we found you pictures of, has been removed from publishing schedules. All-Stars was set to include a mix of Capcom characters both old and new in a Tekken/VF/whatever style 3D fighting arena. No official reason has been given for the game's cancellation, but sources suggest that Capcom only wants to make arcade products in future when in partnership with other companies.

A PC demo of TOCA Race Driver has squirmed its way out and onto the Internet having first appeared on a PC Format coverdisk by the sound of it. 3D Gamers has the 92.2MB playable demo, which we're not too sure the Codies will be thrilled to see mentioned here, but with the demo in the public domain and probably already installed on a number of your PCs, we can't see any great problem with spreading the news. The demo, which claims to be 80 per cent final, gives you a Proton Satria GTi for use on the Monza track, and a Lexus LS200 so you can bomb round the Brands Hatch Indy circuit. The full game is due out in Europe on the PC this March.

Activision's Pitfall Harry, of which we still only have one very lonely screenshot, is starting to sound rather good - to us at least. We fully expect to see the bottom of the page soiled with an unending stream of cynicism, and since the things we've heard remind us of various gaming clichés and even Trespasser (God forbid) we aren't expecting sympathy for young Harry. But still, try to show a little compassion…

Tolkien grotto Yanta Eanna has some interesting news about the Cube-exclusive Hobbit game being developed by Inevitable Entertainment (whose name is surely on EA's list of acquisitions). The news being, surprisingly, that it is no longer a Cube exclusive, with PS2 and Xbox versions also due out of Inevitable. Although French publisher Vivendi failed to address the subject at its Berlin Games Faire (to which Eurogamer was not invited), it did confirm that Amaze Entertainment's KnowWonder studio will be responsible for the PC version, having already worked on the PC release of Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone for EA. Meanwhile, the GBA version, which is a totally different game (obviously) will be handled by Saffire. Got that?

Infogrames has confirmed news reports that circled earlier in the month that Driver is to be made into a film by Impact Pictures - a subsidiary of German independent production and distribution company Constantin Film, you'll no doubt be enthralled to discover.

Speaking of wrestling games, EA has confirmed that Def Jam Vendetta has gone gold, and is shipping off for mass distribution. The yanks are getting their grubby mitts on it on March 18th on PS2, with a Cube version following shortly afterwards, but the AKI Corporation/EA Canada developed wrestler won't be out in Europe until April 11th on PS2. The Cube version is out on May 16th.

Eidos has proudly announced that Insane Clown Posse will be providing music for their forthcoming PS2 and Xbox brawler Backyard Wrestling. Insane Clown Posse's lead singers "Violent J" and "Shaggy 2 Dope" will also be secret characters in the game, which is starting to sound more like EA's Def Jam Vendetta every day. That said, the latter is actually very good, so they might want to steer clear unless BYW is up to scratch.

Take-Two has announced Wing Commander Prophecy for Game Boy Advance, reuniting Blair, Maniac and Rachel to defend the universe from enemy assault. Etc. Where's Mark Hammill!?

Yesterday, Microsoft confirmed that Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon, MechAssault and company can only look forward to being joined by NFL Fever 2003 (wrong continent, chaps) and Capcom Vs. SNK 2 EO on March 14th, Xbox Live's official launch date. Apart from a couple of games with vaunted downloadable content, it's pretty much the same picture as it was when Test Drive kicked off on November 30th. All of which leaves Clancy and his mech-saddled friends leading the charge for online gaming. We'd be sceptical, if we didn't know first hand just how brilliant both games are.

Dark Age of Camelot was released in the US in late 2001, boldly stepping up to the podium to try and take the MMORPG crown from EverQuest. Most people simply couldn't wait for the UK release in February 2002, so by the time it was released here there was already a well-established base of local folks on the US servers. Unfortunately, the UK and US versions were incompatible, meaning that if you wanted to experience the lag friendly Euro servers you had to start again from scratch. Not something you wanted to do if you had a cherished high-level character or guild to stick with.

Third person tactical warfare adventure Söldner has been given what publisher JoWooD believes is a much needed first person viewpoint. Developer Wings Simulations made the change due to public demand, the press release beams, because "the huge online community that has followed each stage of Söldner: Secret Wars development expressed a desire for a first person view".

With GameCube titles conspicuous by their prolonged absence from the UK Top 40, Nintendo rolled up its sleeves yesterday with news of five million Euro promotion of the stupendously brilliant Metroid Prime, with a limited edition 'Metroid Pak' being released at around £130 (199 Euros) on March 21st to tempt gamers into buying the console.

Real Time Strategy games aren't exactly a rare beast on the PC - in fact, the last few weeks alone have seen two massive releases in this field, namely the disappointing C&C Generals and the brilliant but niche American Conquest, and as for the last year, well, suffice it to say that it's been one of the best years ever for fans of strategy gaming. If you're releasing a game into this market, you'd want to be certain that it's either so stunningly good that nobody can afford to ignore it, or that it has a very unique and interesting new approach on offer.

The Belmonts are on their way to PS2, according to a press release which shot out of Konami US sometime after we dozed off last night. Castlevania will appear on PS2 during E3, between May 14th and 16th, and should be out in the land where the UN is irrelevant by 'the fall'.

When Acclaim announced that the Xbox version of Burnout 2 would be Live enabled, it seemed like Winter had ended there and then. The prospect of taking our devil-may-care driving skills into the online arena seemed likely to provide one of the console's killer apps.

The Sims was again the nation's best selling game, as EA continued to utterly dominate the ChartTrack Top 40.

In an era when publishers are going to the wall faster than Nationwide League football clubs, it's quite a novelty to hear from a new one. Let's welcome DreamCatcher to the party. It has a single player Sci-Fi Action RPG coming out on the PC called Harbinger and it wants to tell you all about it.

The long rumoured X-Men RPG has finally come to fruition, with the Raven-developed X-Men Legends likely to emerge pre Christmas on PS2, Xbox and GameCube, via Activision.

THQ has released in-game footage of Xbox/PC racer MotoGP 2, which will follow in the latter day footsteps of its predecessor by offering Xbox Live online play.

With the likes of Burnout 2 and Xtreme G Racing under its belt, Acclaim has carved itself a reliable niche in the Stupidly Fast Racing game genre, so the news that the follow up to the latter, XGRA, is coming to PS2, Xbox and GameCube this August made our eyes bulge and faces wobble alarmingly at the prospect.

Acclaim Studios Cheltenham is currently busy at work on Beach Volleyball (working title, presumably), due out in August, which "delivers the hottest, most intense arcade-action volleyball game on PS2".

Empire Earth developer Stainless Steel has announced Empires: Dawn of the Moden World, its first historical RTS game since it signed a lucrative publishing deal with Activision in December.

We don't normally announce game website launches. This is partly because they are horrendously appalling (certainly 95 per cent of European offerings) and partly because however pretty they rarely offer much of an insight into anything.

Shigeru Miyamoto appeared in London on Friday, and between 1 and 3pm over a thousand of you flocked to meet him at Virgin Megastore on Oxford Street. Some even queued overnight, whilst others reported travelling from as far abroad as Holland, Denmark… and Belgium. Anybody we know?

Sports Interactive is keen to remind you that the second edition of the official Championship Manager Magazine is due out this Friday, February 28th and will be the only place to get hold of the first half-season playable demo of CM4. They won't even let us pesky journos have it, forcing us to wait just as long as you.