It's bikes, boats and big fat blokes this week with Future Gamer's diverse selection of demos. The bikes come courtesy of Hasbro's GP500, a tough simulation that's definitely worth your attention. If speed's not your thing, push the boat out and download the huge Cutthroats: Terror on the High Seas demo. As for fat blokes, they don't come much bigger than in Microsoft NFL Fever 2000. Get all the demos here.

New additions to the Hints and Tips database include Braveheart on PC, Fisherman's Bait on PlayStation, Fighting Force 64 on N64 and a few tips on customising your Dreamcast VMS (Visual Memory System). We've also got patches and updates for all the latest games. Because we're nice like that.

The Forum got off to an amusing start this week when Kev informed Forum users of a great story involving Sega and Sony. Apparently, Sony had arranged a corporate golf afternoon for the bigwigs, but Sega heard about it and sabotaged the event by putting Dreamcast logos on the balls, getting a Sonic mascot to run about in the car park and having a plane with a huge DC banner fly above the course all afternoon. One - nil to Sega then, eh? Elsewhere, Vita has started an interesting thread after reading a six-year-old issue of GamesMaster magazine. He came across a product called the 'Activator' from Sega, a plastic hexagon-shaped thing that you stood on, which used lightbeams to monitor your movements and translate them to your on-screen character. A source at Sega proclaimed it was the beginning of the end for the joypad. If you've seen a similar old feature showing off an amazing new product that's disappeared out of sight, drop into the Forum and let us know.

"Are girls allowed to use the Forum?" was the big question this week. The answer was, of course, a resounding 'yes'. Non games-related talk this week included 'Boyzone - Beginning of the end?', 'Summer recipes 99' and 'Haircutting in the year 2000 - The Way Forward'. Suggestions that all these topics were somehow linked were completely unfounded, though.