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   If any of you grey-haired gamers remember a game called Saboteur on the ancient Spectrum or Commodore, then forget about it: the Saboteur revealed over the weekend is nothing like it, whatsoever. This one is developed by Pandemic Studios, who - as you may know - have various secret projects currently in development, mysteriously codenamed Project B, Project Q, Project Y and Project Z. To be quite honest, we don't know which of these is actually being titled Saboteur, since there are currently no solid details posted on Pandemic's website about either four of them.

   What little we have come to know is thanks to the Game Informer magazine's April issue, whose cover heralds an "exclusive first look at Pandemic's Saboteur - A game where everything isn't black & white". In it, they also confirm that Naughty Dog's PS3-exclusive game shown at E3 2006 (trailer) will be titled Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, as recently revealed (by mistake) in one of Naughty Dog's employees' online portfolio.

   Game Informer also says that Saboteur will be "an original take on World War II", while other reports describe it as a stealth action game (set during World War II indeed), in which you'll take the role of a saboteur in the French resistance. A speculative release date currently points at 2008, though we should know more (including target platforms) in just a couple of weeks on the official Saboteur website - "Set to explode on Thursday, April 5". TVG also notes that the website has been online since the beginning of March, and that Pandemic actually registered the Saboteur trademark back in October 2005 - almost a year and a half ago!

   Development on Saboteur should therefore be pretty advanced by now, but even so, the game we're most looking forward to from Pandemic is Mercenaries 2, recently confirmed for the PC, PS2 and Xbox 360 as well, aside from the known PS3 version. The multi-platform release of Mercenaries 2: World in Flames is set for this year's holiday season.