Take 2 reports that the 8th November 2002 is the official UK release date for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City on PlayStation 2. Better start saving those pennies!

Loadedinc has posted up a new preview of Knight Rider, the upcoming driving game game from Davilex that's based on the classic David Hasslehoff TV show. GameSpy has posted up a new preview of Conflict: Desert Storm based on checking out a beta build of the Playstation 2 version of the upcoming tactical shooter from Pivotal Games, SCi, and Gotham Games. XGR.com is the latest web site to post up a No One Lives Forever 2 preview based on playing the press build of Monolith's upcoming first person shooter. GameSpot has posted up a new preview of Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin, the upcoming sequel to the popular WWII themed turn based strategy game from Big Time Software and Battlefront.com. RPGDot has posted up a brief preview of ArchAngel based on playing a beta of the upcoming action-RPG from Metropolis Software and JoWood. PC.IGN has posted up a new preview of Arx Fatalis, the upcoming first person fantasy RPG from Arkane Studios and JoWood.

In the game, players will take the role of Chase Corrada, a young sexy stuntwoman, who is starting her promising career as a movie stunt driver. Chase will take players through four unique movie sets including a gangster movie setting, a post-apocalyptic movie set and more. Players will not only drive traditional four wheeled vehicles, but will also have motorcycles, a three wheeled Ramen delivery Tuk-Tuk and a large missile truck at their disposal. Njoy the new screens ...

GoneGold has just reported that the PC version of Codemaster's "Prisoner Of War" just went gold and is due to arrive in stores somewhere next week. Already available on PS2 and Xbox, Prisoner of War is an 'escape adventure' game where "you play the role of Lewis Stone, a US pilot sent on reconnaissance in the midst of World War II, to investigate strange goings-on in the POW camps of Europe. Shot down and captured, you’re impounded in the very camp you were sent to observe." Sounds good to me !!!!

Encore today announced that it has signed an exclusive co-publishing agreement with Phantagram Interactive, an international publisher and distributor of electronic entertainment software, to bring five new videogames and PC games to market. Under this agreement, Phantagram will deliver game content, while Encore will manage sales and distribution in North America. The first of these games will be Phantom Crash, a 3D mech action game scheduled for release by year end on the Xbox.

You are the chosen one - foretold by the prophets as a stranger who would come to save the land. Your main quest is to rid the land of a plague, called the Blight, which afflicts the province of Morrowind. How you save the province is your decision alone. The choices are endless, as are the quests in this open-ended single-player game. As the game unfolds, complex political and religious machinations are revealed to you. Some in game footage in this new Morrowind (XBX) trailer to ease the wait for our European readers ;) Read more for link where to grab it...

The only football title to carry the official approval of FIFPro (the organisation representing the interests of professional footballers), This Is Football 2002 was a huge critical success and one of the best-selling football titles on PS2. This Is Football 2003 takes it one step further, featuring a number of enhancements in gameplay, tactics and graphics to ensure it retains its position as the cutting edge of real-time football simulations, providing the most intense football experience on next generation consoles.

Sierra Entertainment, Inc., a studio of the Games division of Vivendi Universal Publishing, and Impressions Games today announced that their new city-building game, Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom, has shipped to retail stores nationwide. Developed by Breakaway Games Ltd., Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom takes aspiring city governors to ancient China, adding several revolutionary features, including local area network (LAN) and Internet multiplayer gameplay, a first in the city-building genre.

Namco's cult arcade hit, Ninja Assault, makes its much-anticipated debut on PS2, combining the scenery and mythology of feudal Japan with up-to-the-minute weaponry and pinpoint shooting action to provide one of the best gun games on any next-generation console. All you need to know about weapons, magic and the clothes (and its neat little tricks) being used in Ninja Assault. Njoy!

GGMania got a chance to talk with Deep Shadows' project scenarist and dialog writer Alexander Khrutsky, as he answers a few questions regarding to Xenus, the upcoming action role-playing game which is powered by new version of Codename: Outbreak's Vital Engine. He graciously filled them in on many details in this Xenus Interview, which is accompanied by six new screenshots.

To celebrate this Friday’s (13th September) release of its staggeringly involving role playing game Divine Divinity, CDV Software Entertainment UK is offering all Web browsers the chance to win some excellent PC hardware – provided they defeat the Black Knight. Read more for details!

SAS hero Chris Ryan has become the military consultant to Codemasters¡¦ forthcoming stealth-based first-person shooter IGI 2: Covert Strike, due on PC this November.

Mark Reign from Epic games Inc. today made a interesting post on the official UT2003 forum about the upcoming demo. Here it is:

Demo should be ready this week

Hi Folks,

The demo is nearly ready to go. It should be out sometime within the next few days. Keep watching this space (the stickies) for an announcement. When it's ready we'll just be releasing it randomly to a few major sites so that hopefully it will spread like wildfire and everyone will be able to get it from their favorite games site. There won't be any special exclusives or anything like that. We want everyone to be enjoying it the minute it goes live.

More details to follow, keep watching this space.

Update: The forum is now updated with following news from Mark Reign.. I'm expecting the demo to be out sooner than 5 days but things have a way of cropping up and biting us in the ass so you never know. It could be as early as tomorrow or as late as the weekend but I'm pretty confident that it's this week.

Majorem Ltd., a developer of massively multiplayer games and technology, is pleased to officially announce the development of a software development kit to provide solutions for both server-side and client-side needs in facilitating the creation and running of massively multiplayer worlds.

The official Red Faction 2 web site now has a sign-up page where people can fill in to receive a free Playstation 2 demo disk containing a partial build of Volition and THQ's upcoming "destroy everything" first person shooter sequel. Only the first 20,000 people who sign up will receive demo disks and only accept US and Canadian entries.

Bioware has just released a new patch for the English language version of Neverwinter Nights, updating their high profile RPG to v1.24 (previously only as beta). The new release applies a variety of enhancements and bug fixes. Accompanying the new patch there is a v1.24 Neverwinter Nights Linux Dedicated Server (thanks blues). Read more for detailed fix list and links where to grab the files ...

Midway is a real-time 3D tactical/strategy game that adapts the naval battles of the Second World War. It introduces how the naval warfare changed during WW2 - from the dreadnaughts protecting the memory of Battle of Jutland to the forerunners of modern carriers. The player may control different vessels in real or hypothetical naval battles. The fleet comprises ships, captains, officers and crew of different abilities. In order to achieve victory, an effective team should be forged. Check the new in-game screens ... Today some screens from Japanese Zero in action.

Gamers take to the skies aboard their own dragon for intense aerial combat through 10 branching stages as they battle to save humanity from the brink of extinction. Dragons morph in real time, allowing players to constantly change their fighting styles as they master devastating techniques that influence both the action and the storyline in this Xbox exclusive. A bunch of screens, a mixture of new and old... Njoy!

Currently in development at The Bitmap Brothers, World War II: Frontline Command is a squad-based action RTS game that captures the heroism of some of World War II’s most significant and bloody battles. As a commander of Allied forces in Europe in the last year of World War II, the player will enter into combat with the Axis forces to drive the enemy back deep inside its own territory. 9 new screens to drool over!

Zapper is an action-packed and addictive game that starts with the “avoid-em-up” game play mechanics of Blitz Games’ own Frogger 2: Swampy’s Revenge, and then takes the action to a whole new level. In this action-adventure game, Zapper (a cricket) hops his way through six interactive worlds in a quest to find his brother, held captive by the evil magpie queen. Dangerous traps and even more dangerous enemies await Zapper. It will take fast-footed skill and timing to conquer all the worlds and survive the final showdown with the magpie queen.