Rumours of Carrier's delay have been greatly exaggerated, according to Jaleco USA. A number of news websites have recently reported that the Dreamcast survival-horror game had slipped until spring 2000. A spokesman for Jaleco believes that Carrier is still on schedule for its January 2000 release in the US.

Crawfish Entertainment are set to release a Game Boy Color version of Midway's Ready 2 Rumble in the US this November.

It looks like we might be getting Yu Suzuki's Shenmue on Dreamcast slightly sooner than we thought. Unconfirmed rumours from Japan suggest that this promising title has been brought forward to December 17.

Sega will release Let's Play in the Professional Baseball Team for Dreamcast in Japan on December 23. You'll be able to use the teams created in Let's Make a Professional Baseball Team and play against your mate's boys over the Internet.

AKI are currently working on a crazy Dreamcast RPG called Anima Star. It looks set to use the tried and tested breeding formula, only this time the emphasis is on real animals, including tigers, lions and panthers. When your beasts are big enough you'll be able to enter them in races against up to three of your mates.

Sega are allegedly developing a top secret racing game for the Dreamcast. Believed to be around 50 per cent complete, the game will most likely be unveiled in Japan before the year is out.

If you want to know if a game is any good before you buy it, we recommend downloading the demo. You know it makes sense. This week we've got Army Men: Toys in Space, TrickStyle and Wild Wild West. Latest additions to the Hints and Tips database include Age of Empires II on PC, NFL Gameday 2000 on PlayStation, Road Rash 64 on N64 and NFL Blitz 2000 on Dreamcast. We've also got patches and updates for all the latest games.