Driver, he said
Following the huge success of Driver, the 70s-style car-chase game for the Sony PlayStation (Gameswatch, June 24), GT Interactive has started work on a sequel. It seems the original will also be converted to run on other machines, with a PC version appearing in September. Driver has already shipped a million copies, mainly in Europe, and has just been released in the US along with a TV advertisement featuring Antonio Fargas: Huggy Bear from Starsky & Hutch. There's also a website (you can skip the Flash intro).

Rats!
Sony will unveil the first of six animated cartoons about the Scratch Cats tomorrow on its website at www.playstation-europe.com/scratchcats. The cartoons (above) are designed to promote Pure Entertainment's game, Rat Attack, which Minsdscape plans to publish for the PlayStation in September. Pure is hoping to make its felines a "property", by launching another six Scratch Cats games and licensing them for comics, toys and television. It's a multi national effort. Pure is British, Mindscape is American, Sony is Japanese, and the Shockwave cartoons are being created by Silicon Artists Inc in Madrid, Spain.

Maximum munch-king
You can stop playing Pac- Man now. Billy Mitchell from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has scored the maximum 3,333,360 points while playing at the Funspot Family Fun Center in Weirs Beach, New Hampshire, according to US reports. This magnificent achievement will be recorded in the next edition of Twin Galaxies' Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records.

Free Caesar
Impressions is now giving away Caesar, its six-year-old city government game, for those willing to undertake the modest 800KB download, partly to promote its forth coming prequel, Pharaoh. You may also need the Adobe PDF file of Caesar's manual and installation instructions. Meanwhile Westwood Studios has posted a few screen shots of Nox, a role- playing game that is expected later this year. Go to: www.westwood.com/games/nox land say hello to Hecuba.