PC:

• Close Combat: First to Fight
• Heretic Kingdoms: The Inquisition

Playstation 2:

• Dead to Rights II: Hell to Pay
• Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition
• Yourself Fitness

Playstation Portable:

• MLB

Xbox:

• Dead to Rights II: Hell to Pay
• Jade Empire
• Jade Empire: Limited Edition
• Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition

GameCube:

• Donkey Konga 2

Nintendo DS:

• World Championship Poker

GameBoy Advance:

• Killer 3D Pool
• Mr. Driller 2
• Pac-Man Pinball Advance
• Scrabble Blast
• Tokyo Xtreme Racer Advance

DVD:

• All in the Family: The Complete Fourth Season
• Arakimentari
• Bad Education
• Blood Trail
• C.H.O.M.P.S.
• Convicts
• Criminal
• Hawaii
• Hey Babu Riba
• Hotel Rwanda
• Knight Rider: Season Two
• Land of the Lost: The Complete Third Season
• Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N.
• Mac and Me
• Magnum, P.I.: The Complete Second Season
• Memento Mori
• Million Dollar Duck
• Namu: My Best Friend
• Ocean's Twelve
• Sasquatch Hunters
• Space Ghost Coast to Coast: Volume Three
• Staying Together
• Suspect Zero (Full Screen)
• Suspect Zero (Widescreen)
• The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
• The A-Team: Season Two
• The Barefoot Executive
• The Bob Newhart Show: The Complete First Season
• The Crook
• The Flower of My Secret
• The Golden Seal
• The Hitchhiker Volume 2
• The Jeffersons: The Complete Third Season
• The Woodsman
• Trip to Bountiful
• Twin Sitters
• Viva Maria!

Movies - Now Showing:

• Eros
• Fever Pitch
• Kung Fu Hustle
• Sahara
• Smile
• Winter Solstice

Movies - Opening Friday April 15th:

• House of D
• Palindromes
• State Property II
• The Amityville Horror
• The Year of the Yao

Close Combat: First to Fight comes to the PC a week ahead of schedule, but perhaps hold off rushing to buy it until it's rated by a few more reviewers, especially as it received a 2.8 from OXM, and an 8.0 from IGN. Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition will hopefully be a continuation of the quality seen in the first two Rockstar editions, but once again there are no reviews. Then there's Jade Empire, probably the best CRPG to date (9.9 from IGN) and probably the most anticipated - personally can't wait to get my hands on it.

DVDs and movies don't do much for me this week, though I'm sure Knight Rider: Season Two will be popular here in Germany.

What will you be spending your money on in the week ahead?

Need for Speed Most Wanted Announced 09:56 am - Andrew Burnes - Games: Racing
Leaking out of EA this weekend is a press release announcing Need for Speed Most Wanted:

Combining the thrill of illicit street racing and tuner customization with the intensity of strategic police pursuits that rivals any Hollywood-style chase scene, Need for Speed Most Wanted challenges players to become the most notorious and elusive street racer.

"Out-race your opponents, evade cops and exploit the open world in Need for Speed Most Wanted; street racing doesn't get any better than this," said Larry LaPierre, senior producer, EA Canada. "Players instantly will feel the thrill of the ride as they hit the streets in an open world environment where drivers can tune their cars to compete against any class of vehicles or use their wits to out-fox the law to satisfy their need for speed."

Need for Speed Most Wanted delivers a unique, fast-paced and gripping ride in the racing genre as players build up their Rap Sheet and street cred to move their way up the Black List to become the most wanted racer on the streets. Players will go head-to-head with the top drivers on the scene as well as strategically evade more than half dozen cops at any one time. Add in a dynamic open world, new gameplay and customization as well as tuners, supercars, muscles and sports cars and Need for Speed Most Wanted will be on every gamer's "must-have" list.

Developed in Vancouver, B.C. by EA Canada, Need for Speed Most Wanted will be available for a next generation console as well as the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system, Xbox videogame system from Microsoft, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance, PSP handheld entertainment system and PC.

Hot Pursuit always was my favourite, so it's nice to see a return to that style of gameplay.

In Other News... 09:52 am - Andrew Burnes - In-House: In Other News...
My connection to our site-publishing software is incredibly sketchy, so I'm gonna slap our content up as quick as possible...

Refer to yesterday's ION for a question.

Today's question:

List the last five 9.5/10 caliber games you've played