Putting the reboot in.

There's no getting away from it. Yes, the new True Crime game looks a bit like Grand Theft Auto. But the old True Crime games were a bit like Grand Theft Auto, so that comes as no surprise. More intriguing is the longer list of titles from which this new instalment in the series has taken its cues. Burnout, Batman, Ghost Recon, Need for Speed, Mirror's Edge, Assassin's Creed, Ratchet & Clank, Bejeweled... All of these games are referred to during the course of our 45 minute demo, and only the last one as a joke.

Then again, the variety of influences comes as no surprise when you consider the pedigree of the development studio. United Front was established two-and-a-half years ago but most of its employees have been around for a lot longer than that. They came from the likes of EA Black Box, Radical and Rockstar, having worked on games such as Skate, Bully and Prototype. Two of them, producers Stephen Van der Mescht and Jeff O'Connell, have come to the Game Developers Conference to show off True Crime.

They begin by explaining the thinking behind the subtitleless game name. "We're looking at this the same way JJ Abrams handled Star Trek," says Van der Mescht. "It's a reboot of the franchise. We're going back to the beginning, taking it back to ground level and building it up from there."

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Add 10 of the world's best cars.

Forza Motorsport 3 has gained a new batch of cars courtesy of the Jalopnik DLC.

A meaty 10 new motors are up for grabs: a Mazda, a Jaguar, a Ford, an Aston Martin, a Porsche, a Bugatti, a BMW, an Audi, another Aston Martin and a Honda.

I thought I'd spare you the extraneous numbers and letters and just link straight to pictures. Better that way.

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Buy Metro 2033, get RF: Guerrilla free.

THQ digital distribution has stretched to Europe today with the launch of the E-Shop.

To drag you away from Steam, THQ will offer anyone pre-ordering promising shooter Metro 2033 a free copy of Red Faction: Guerrilla. What's more, the first 6000 people to pre-order Dawn of War II expansion Chaos Rising get the Librarian Wargear Pack for nothing. Nadda.

THQ's E-Shop is available in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK, according to the little flags at the bottom of the site.

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UK's big three laying out future plans.

Update: Embarassingly, this has turned out not to be an episode of TV show Question Time but an event using a similar title as a hook. Sorry for the confusion. Am a plonker.

Altered story: The UK's leading political parties will be questioned later this month on their party's videogame plans, should they be elected to power.

An invite sent out be ELSPA set the date as 29th March. The Telegraph's Matt Warman will chair.

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Grill MP trio on their party's plans.

There's going to be an episode of Question Time filmed later this month that will grill members from the UK's three leading political parties about their plans for videogames.

An invite sent out be ELSPA set the date as 29th March. Episodes are usually recorded two hours before transmission, although some have been broadcast live. The Telegraph's Matt Warman will chair.

Guests will be MPs Ed Vaizey (Conservative), Tom Watson (Labour) and Don Foster (Liberal Democrats). Vaizey has demanded more support for the UK games industry in the past and Tom Watson's pro-videogame stance was loud and clear last December. Don Foster, too, believes creating games to be a crucial part of the UK economy.

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A regular topic at HQ, says Brack.

Blizzard has said World of Warcraft heading to consoles is "unlikely" - a line we've heard almost annually since WOW-time began.

Producer J. Allen Brack decapitated this year's hope-head after wheeling out a familiar cart of reasons why not: console lifecycle, patch flexibility, keyboard design - pretty much the same reasons Paul Sams outlined to Eurogamer in 2006.

"It's unlikely that WOW comes to the consoles," Brack told G4TV.

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