Dreamcast price cuts
British sales of Sega's Dreamcast games console boomed over the recent holiday, according to trade reports, after retailers slashed the price by £50 to £149 or less - Dixons was advertising them at £144.95. The question now is whether Sega will attempt to get the price back up. Sega is selling Dreamcasts for much less - $149 - in the US, by sending buyers a $50 rebate. This offer is scheduled to close on August 31.

Doom 3
ID Software programmer John Carmack is working on a new version of Doom, the first for more than five years, following a confrontation inside the company ("We are working on Doom for the next project unless you fire us"). Apparently Doom 3 will be based on new technology and will focus "on the single-player game experience". The release date is not known.

Warhammer
Games Workshop and Climax, a software developer, have formed a joint venture to produce a free online multi-player version of GW's Warhammer games. It will be available at www.games-workshop.com and will be promoted through Games Workshop's chain of shops and White Dwarf magazine. Although the multiplayer version will offer "personalised armies", you probably wont have to paint them online.

Net game
Wimbledon opens on June 26, and French publisher Cryo Interactive will launch Tennis 2000 (£29.99) the week before it starts. The PC game, developed by Carapace, is said to be the most realistic tennis simulation so far, with eight male players and eight female players playing on different surfaces with different racquets. A website will let players download extra courts, racquets and players. Carapace developed the Roland Garros tennis games for the French Open, which is on until June 11.

Ulala
Dance is the ultimate weapon is Space Channel 5, which Sega might release for the Dreamcast in September. Invading Moralian aliens put unfortunate earth people into a hypnotic dance trance but Ulala can free them by winning the battle of the dance. It's the kind of thing that plays better in Japan than in the Doom/Quake-driven west, but the retro-futuristic graphics should be fun for five minutes.

Female frag
The Playing Fields resident female gamers Samantha and Nicky are hosting what they think is the UK's first Ladies Night in London on Thursday July 13. Guillemot and Won.net are sponsoring the event, with prize money going to breast cancer research. Details will appear at www.theplayingfields.co.uk