I don't usually bother with this sort of thing, but having travelled out to Montreal twice to see this epic production (four years in the making!), I thought I'd mention that Ubisoft's adventure has 'gone gold' and will be released on November 16. Finally we'll get the chance to see what all this genetic memory stuff is about. We'll also get our hands on the interesting but controversial context-sensitive control system, which is meant to turn all the free-running elements into a pleasure rather than a Prince of Persia-style challenge. Those who played the demo at E3 weren't sure.

Ubisoft has revealed the first details of its tie-in with hit series Lost, due out on Xbox 360, PC and PS3 in Q1 2008. The deal with ABC Studios was struck ages ago, but then Ubisoft suddenly stopped talking about it, as though silenced by The Others. Today, however, we've discovered that players will take on the role of a Flight 815 passenger who survives the crash (good start) and must work with characters from the TV show to unravel the island's mysteries. Helene Juguet, US senior director of marketing for Ubisoft, says:

Ubisoft is holding a big press event in Paris at the moment. I couldn't make it, sadly, but the press info and screenshots are now trickling back. Most interesting perhaps is Spinter Cell Conviction in which Sam Fisher, now resembling an early seventies Kris Kristofferson, is forced to become a fugitive when the government turns against him - a twist influenced by 24, perhaps?

I'm not even go to pretend to fully understand this, but it has interesting ramifications for future videogame console development, so here goes. IBM has announced a new computer chip based around self-assembling nanotechnology.