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In not exactly shocking news, Ubi Soft has confirmed the GameCube version of the excellent Splinter Cell has been delayed by a couple of months, and will now be released in May.

Microsoft claims Digital Anvil's ambitious space sim FreeLancer will be released in the UK in April. And though we'd love to be sceptical about it, the presence of several beta discs in the office this week - like little twinkling stars amongst heaps of unreviewed mediocrity - has left us thinking that Digital Anvil might actually hit the date.

Capcom has some explaining to do in the US after it went back on its word to sell the GameCube ports of Resident Evil 2 and 3 at a budget price.

Nintendo's long awaited update to the F-Zero series will be available in the US from June 23rd, it was announced yesterday.

Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto: Vice City remained an immovable object at the top of the UK chart this morning, with Sony's The Getaway storming back up 19 places to No.2 after its recent run in with BT.

Taking its lead from Microsoft's successful strategy of offering free software with the Xbox in order to drive sales, Nintendo of America is to offer a free AAA title with all GameCubes purchased in the USA from February 9.

Sony's recent onslaught of laudable first party titles has been warmly received around these parts. First Ratchet & Clank, The Getaway and Sly Raccoon, with the likes of Primal and SOCOM still to come.

Sega AM2 is working on Virtua Cop 3, as this video (smaller version) demonstrates. This time out the game's make-up is closer to Time Crisis, with a foot pedal toggling slow motion effects - so that you can shoot his damn bullets right out of the air!

Flaws within GameSpy, a popular program that allows game clients to find and connect to game servers, might permit crackers to flood systems with useless packets and tie up processors through DDoS attacks.

Konami will be bundling a 70-minute soundtrack CD with Silent Hill 3 in the US, the publisher confirmed at its Gamers' Day last week. The disc will consist of music composed, performed and edited by the game's producer, Akira Yamaoka in Tokyo, and also includes four 'exclusive' vocal tracks.

Square has taken the unusual step of adding colour adjustment options to Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, the tactical RPG which will launch on the same day as Game Boy Advance SP in Japan.

Cheat specialist Datel is celebrating the success of its flagship product, the Action Replay V2 for the PS2, which took an "unassailable" lead in the cheat sector last year - with sales figures over 25,000 ahead of its nearest competitor, according to Chart-Track figures.

AquaNox 2 publisher JoWooD has revealed that the game's storyline will run parallel to the conflict in the original game. After years of turmoil atop the planet earth, humanity has fled to the deep, dark oceans which now offer a stunning backdrop to peculiar power struggles - and new threats.

Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow will be the first game in the long running series not tied to the infamous Belmont clan of vampire hunters, the first set in the near future and the first that lets you acquire the souls and abilities of enemies, Konami has revealed.

Lara Croft's second big screen outing helped attract more than £500m (€755m) to British film making last year, a government backed study has revealed. The study, released by the Film Council, show that £566.88m was spent on making films in the UK during 2002.

Ok ok, it's past five thirty on a Friday, and you can't very well pick any of these up from your local gaming boutique right this second - but then again, it's the weekend tomorrow, and I'm sure you all know what made this January 17th special anyway, right? Sim City 4. Of course.

Publisher KOCH Media has signed up the rights to the next title from legendary British developers the Bitmap Brothers, an RTS game for the PC titled World War II - Frontline Command.

Wanadoo has unveiled details of its long awaited Dark Age Of Camelot expansion pack, moodily entitled Shrouded Isles - a pack that overhauls the visuals, the music, and adds three new races, six new classes as well as three new continents.

This week we gave you the opportunity to win lots of goodies. If a selection of GMX Media's latest software (Runaway: A Road Adventure, The Watchmaker and Global Power - plus a free T-shirt!) wasn't enough, you could always run next door and compete for a copy of Empire's highly anticipated Dance eJay 5. And judging by a bulging post bag this week, you appreciated the double opportunity.

Konami Gamers' Day has drawn to a close in San Francisco, where the publisher announced 16 US titles for 2003. The publisher chose to announce several new titles - Casino Manager (PC), Cy Girls (PS2), K-1 World Grand Prix (PS2), McFarlane's Monsters (PS2), Ninja Five-O (GBA), Street Kings (working title, PS2/Cube) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (PS2/Cube/PC/GBA) - whilst also updating classic franchises with Bloody Roar (Xbox), Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (GBA) and Gradius V (PS2).

Microsoft's Xbox Live online service formally launched in Japan this morning, with the Xbox Live starter kits appearing in retailers across the country for the princely sum of 6,800 Yen - roughly £36.

Valve has finally released Counter-Strike version 1.6, only to pull it several hours later due to the unexpected stress it placed on their content delivery server at Steampowered.com.

Take-Two has continued its rapid expansion plans in the light of flogging millions of crime-soaked Florida vacations. Rockstar Vienna is the latest product of the firm's shopping spree - the once proud, 10 year old dev studio by the name of Neo Software, behind such titles as "The Clue!" and "Whale's Voyage" according to their vital stats. Although their games which didn't enjoy wider distribution in Europe and the world, you will certainly recognise their handiwork if you've played the Xbox port of Max Payne.

Capcom has denied that five recently announced GameCube titles are exclusive to Nintendo's console. Speaking to journalists at its annual Gamers' Day event in Las Vegas this week, Capcom representatives said that with the exception of Resident Evil 4, which is bound solely to the Cube, the games, dubbed the "Capcom Five", may or may not be ported to other platforms in the future. They cited a "miscommunication" with the media, although apparently had no idea just how important the distinction was to fans.

Despite poor sales and a canned Cube conversion, NBA Street is to make another appearance under the EA Sports BIG label, in the unusually named NBA Street Volume 2.

EA will publish Soul Calibur II for PlayStation 2 and Xbox across PAL territories, thanks to an existing agreement with Namco. However, nobody in Chertsey is prepared to say when the game will be released, and nobody knows what's happening with the Cube version.

Despite Sony's recent cracking line up of games, when Treasure Planet arrived in the office some months back, the second we saw the Disney license our cynicism got the better of us. It's not that we don't like Disney (who could?), it's just our experiences of the associated videogames have left us with nothing but the bad taste of license exploitation in our mouths (with the exception of the Square collaboration Kingdom Hearts, of course).

Capcom has released some tantalising footage of what is surely the most important evolution in survival horror games to date, Resident Evil Online. Although the publisher revealed a few details last November, this is the first time we've really seen how the game looks - and it looks very good indeed! Detail wise the video portrays it as a slightly fuzzier looking version of the RE Cube remake, with intricately detailed levels and character animations. In the three-minutes-thirty-seven of the video we get to see characters limp, stagger, crawl and even drop kick zombies clinging onto their legs.

Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II could launch alongside Xbox Live on March 14th, Sonic Team's Yuji Naka has hinted.

The Sims could be on their way to both Xbox and GameCube, Internet reports citing pre-order initiatives and distribution schedules are speculating.