Activision, Inc. and id Software have teamed up with the Online Gaming League to host the Return to Castle Wolfenstein "Battle on the Beachhead" tournament. Gamers from across North America will hit the front lines and battle for world domination and exciting prizes including the Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo Game Boy Advance and hundreds of popular games. The tournament will run from January 29 through March 12, 2002 at wolf.worldogl.com, on the Speakeasy Network, home of the largest broadband gaming community and the official ISP of the OGL.

Stockholm based games developer Paradox Entertainment, has finished work on the role-playing game Valhalla Chronicles and will be releasing it in signed territories starting in March.

Strategic Studies Group has updated the official site for Warlords Battlecry 2 with some new features and new screens. There is also new information about the three armies, The Summoner, Hellbore and Spider.

EA send us some nice fishing screens from the upcoming game, Matt Hayes' Fishing. The releasedate for this new title is March 15 2002.

We have some nice photos showing of the XBOX console and controller from various angles. Check them out below. Enjoy!

BlueMonday tossed up an interview with Quicksilver Software president William C. Fisher. They talk about their upcoming 4X strategy game, Master of Orion 3... The people over at GameSpy sits down and talk with Microids' Marie-Sol Beaudry about their recently announced adventure title, Syberia...

Head back behind enemy lines with Lt. Jimmy Patterson in Medal of Honor Frontline. In this installment of the smash-hit Medal of Honor series, Lt. Patterson returns and must use the confusion of the real-world offensive Operation Market Garden to infiltrate the German frontline and steal the HO-IX flying wing, an experimental Nazi weapon so powerful that it could turn the tide of World War II.

Avault tossed up an interview with IO Interactive's Jacob Anderson & Thor Frolich. They talk about about their upcoming third person action game, Hitman 2. Read on.

Larian Studios today released two new screenshots from their upcoming RPG, Divine Divinity. The first one shows what to do when meeting 25 imps. The second one demonstrates the err... more subtle approach. You find them here.

The official site for Shadowbane got five new character screenshots posted taken during the Shadowbane demo at the Wolfpack/Ubi Soft party in Austin last weekend. There is also an City Building Update available to check out. Follow this link.

We have three new screenshots from Pharaoh Productions and their upcoming action RPG DOMINION. The initial release of DOMINION will be for the Microsoft Xbox. Pharaoh anticipate releasing the PC version of DOMINION roughly 3 months after the initial Xbox release.

Trakers is an new online role playing first person shooter that uses the Torque Game Engine "same engine as Tribes 2 use". The screens reminds us a bit of Ghost Recon. Here is a small description from devs about the game:

What makes this game different to other first person shooters is the fact that every player is different. Everyone runs at different speeds, fire weapons in different ways, has different skills, can carry different amounts, etc, etc. The game are getting fairly close to an alpha.

The Star Trek Bridge Commander website has been updated with four new shots with one showing the ship registry decal map for the U.S.S. Dauntless. Several federation ships throughout in the game will now feature registry information. Custom models created by fans may be able to tap into this option as well to create and designate their own ships. To check out these latest shots look in the Visuals section of BridgeCommander.Com

Blizzard have once again updated the Warcraft III Web Site with a new unit, The Death Knight, which is one of the undead heroes. Here is a description:

Death Knights were once virtuous defenders of Humanity. However, they were corrupted by the subtle machinations of the Lich King and lured to his standard. These former heroes were given untold power and the promise of immortality in exchange for their loyalty. Although they retained their humanity, their twisted souls were bound to the Lich King's will for all time. Bestowed with black, vampiric Runeblades and shadowy steeds, Death Knights now serve as the Scourge's mightiest generals.

Robert Duffy from Id Software has updated his .plan to clear up a bit of confusion initially surrounding the Return to Castle Wolfenstein tools SDK that was released yesterday. Here is a snip:

To clear up a bit of confusion, what we released yesterday was the level editing tools and not the full SDK for Wolfenstein. Everything is there to create both single-player and multi-player maps. Also included is Escape ( from single-player ) and Beach ( from multi-player ) for reference.

The source code will be available soon.

GamingGroove just tossed up 3 new screens from Burut Software's upcoming action title, Kreed. The games engine is quite promising and is already being compared to that of the revolutionary Doom3 engine. Check them out.

GBC with some new honey! Yum Yum "Tiger is my man".. Take a look at the new screens that Ubi Soft send over to us.. You can grab and start to enjoy this new GBC game Feb.01 - 2002. There is over 100 new ones for you to check out below! Take your time to load them all!

A new movie of the arcade combat chopper game, Red Shark, that is in development by the Russian based company, G5 Software, is now available for download. The movie comes in two AVI sizes and sports a minute playing. Get the movie over at Daily Telefrag.

Take2 Interactive let us know that the official US website for the game AoW II is now fully functional. GoDGames and Triumph Studios proudly announce Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne, the sequel to the award-winning strategy title, Age of Wonders, Official Website. You can also find some brand new wallpapers posted on the site.

Fountainhead Entertainment announced today the release of Sidrial a Total Conversion game expansion for Quake III Arena. Sidrial will be available as a free downloadable game expansion featuring animations, characters and scenes from the original animated feature, Sidrial.