(All this Friday's new releases.) Singstar versus Rallisport Challenge 2, Way of the Samurai and Riding Spirits sequels, and a whole lot of strategy. As they say in LA: are you PUMPED?
(Updated throughout the day.) Fell down the back of E3: Big Mutha Truckers sequel, Capcom and Atari developing for N-Gage, with games from EA and others also on the way, Titus announces Lamborghini FX for consoles and PC.
Game Frontier is running regional qualifiers up and down the country very soon, with Counter-Strike, WarCraft III and even Pro Evolution Soccer 3 represented. Fancy a piece of the $210,000 prize purse?
(Updated throughout the day.) Win a Sonic Advance 3 print signed by Yuji Naka, Codename Gordon released on Steam, full FFVII: Advent Children trailer available on the net.
More gorgeous rollercoastery from Frontier and Atari. Ride the spirals, gawp at the smoothness and try to understand the pumpkin man. Trailer available via Eurofiles.
World Exclusive: The biggest independent publisher in the business has even bigger plans for the future - and there's no time to rest on his laurels for EA's CEO Larry Probst, who spoke exclusively to GamesIndustry.biz about his company's ambition.
Id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead confirms that the developer's next game will be new intellectual property for the company, and defends Doom 3's "summer" release date.
(Updated throughout the day.) Capcom Fighting Jam announced, Death Jr gets movie and comic book treatment, Pandora Tomorrow and TOCA Race Driver 2 patched.
Just because the whole industry has sodded off to E3 doesn't mean there aren't stacks of great games out this Friday. Because there are. There's even one that'll be fun to play outside in this glorious sunshine...