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I've only had a chance to play this for a couple of hours, but first impressions are that this game is fantastic! The classes are quite balanced (though my favourite class the demoman now lacks detpacks and mirv grenades), medics are greatly improved, and the whole game just feels very polished (though that might just be the shiny cell shading). Well done valve!

Ars Technica reports that the Unreal Tournament 3 demo is due out sometime in the next 2 weeks, according to posts on the official forum.
Team Fortress 2 is also out tomorrow at $29.99 for those of you who haven't purchased the Orange Box. Shack News has the new 'meet the demoman' trailer up.

I'm really looking forward to this Wii game, it looks like it's taking shape very nicely!

The new Enemy Territory: Quake Wars demo will be released to the general public at 6pm BST. I can't wait! There's a yahoo video preview here.

Bioshock seems to be getting fairly good reviews. As an ATI X550 user, i'm having trouble even getting a mouse cursor on the menu screen...

The ETQW website now has standalone binaries available for linux and windows. Shame that there aren't any free public beta keys available for the client

Id Software's new game "Rage" has some previews at gamevideos.com and shacknews.

E3 has officially started, news sites are slowly filling up with news and hype - Ars has reports coming in regularly, as does Shack News and Wired Notable news items:

• Beautiful Katamari - maybe not a 360 exclusive title?
• Gears of War [PC] details released

As reported by ars technica, the DS gets a webcam! Now all we need is someone to come up with a video phone program..

After having played it for a few hours (and indeed, watching my house mate Sarah play it for most of the time) I can safely say that it's a Gamecube port worth buying! The wiimote 'point and shoot' control method is much quicker and easier than using a d-pad, and the widescreen aspect ratio, extra bonus game extensions and countless other little improvements go a long way to making this a must-have purchase, especially if you haven't played Resident Evil 4 on the GC. MetaCritic agree!