The Warcraft III development team recently announced two new features to the game: Hero inventory has been increased from 4 to 6 slots to allow a hero to carry two additional persistent, consumable, or charged items. Also new to the world of Azeroth is Upkeep. Find out more here!

Blizzard will once again bring its legendary characters to life with the third collection of Epic Action Figures. Based on heroes from Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, this collection will include three highly-detailed 6" action figures and will be available when the game releases. Click on this link for a sneak peak of the unpainted master sculpture for Thrall, the Orcish Warchief.

Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord takes you from Normandy 1944 to Germany 1945 on World War Two's Western Front. Play as Allied or Axis, ranging from US Airborne to German Volkssturm. Battle across the blockage, tackle a village or two, drive through the plains, push into the woods, and slog it out in cities. We have four new screnshots from the Front Line.

Global Star Software has announced has it has gone gold with their most recent project, King Sol Solitaire. This collection of over 400 solitaire games for Windows will be shipping to stores across North America during the first week of January 2002, and will hit stores later that same month.

Forget Sonic, Mario, Donkey Kong, Pikachu and Harry Potter, it’s that ghost munching yellow ball that’s still the favourite, as Pac Man tops the Gameplay poll to find the greatest video game character of all time.

Mobile Forces offers all you'd expect from a 1st person shooter and more, the player takes a control of a wide range of vehicles, armed to the teeth with special weapons across a range of contemporary, military styled city locations. Crafty tactics need to be combined with a quick trigger finger if you're going to survive. Find out if you do… Njoy the screens!

One of AlliedAssault site's readers has figured out how to unlock the other gameplay modes in the recent multiplayer demo. The article at AlliedAssault includes detailed instructions on how to accomplish this trick. Check out full story here!

Infogrames has announced today its partnership with the Australian surfwear brand, Billabong, to support the forthcoming European launch of the long awaited "Transworld Surf" video game - one title of Infogrames' Atari-branded range of extreme sports video games carrying the official Transworld* licence.

EA SPORTS BIG™ presents a chaotic arcade racer, Sled Storm™, inspired by the critically acclaimed PlayStation title. Developed at Electronic Arts, Canada, Sled Storm builds on the formula that made the Sled Storm franchise so successful.

Feel what it's like to be on the court, battling with the best of the NBA, only with NBA LIVE 2002. Experience life in the paint and above the rim with emotion like that of an NBA Entertainment video, or highlight reel. See Steve Francis, up close and personal, debate a call with a referee or celebrate following a patented Francis high-flying slam-dunk. NBA LIVE 2002 brings the excitement and emotion into video game basketball.

Ad Hoc-Announcement: CDV Software Entertainment produces the second part of the blockbuster "Sudden Strike"..

Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. today announced that it sold an additional 1.5 million PlayStation 2 computer entertainment systems since Thanksgiving week, bringing the overall installed base to 6.5 million units since its October 2000 debut.

Gamers are heading for the great outdoors with two new games from Activision Value, a division of Activision Publishing, Inc. -- "Cabela's Big Game Hunter Ultimate Challenge,'' the company's flagship title for the PlayStation game console, and "Cabela's 4X4 Off-Road Adventure 2'' for PC.

Today Creative Assembly has opened up the official site for there 3D turn-based RTS game, Medieval: Total War. The site includes as usually a lot of game information, screenshots and much more. Check it out!

Do you think you have what it takes to be a space pioneer? Make your statement, play Star Peace and become a successful Tycoon! NEW PLAYERS WANTED. Oceanus is offering a new Star Peace installation. It is free, and permits players to play at the first level--Apprentice. To be able to continue onto subsequent levels, you will need to subscribe to the game. Find out more here!

Pet Racer introduces a crazy Pet Racing Championship, which takes place in different parts of the Earth and Moon. The player chooses his pet and leads it to victory to assert its position of the fastest pet on the Earth. Techland designed over 30 racing tracks, placed in 5 different sceneries, such as: forest, jungle, arctic, desert and moon. Each place features a characteristic environment and specific racing conditions making the players change their way of driving very often. Check out the screens at ToTheGame!

A few days ago we tossed up the first announcement informing that Lord of the Rings is coming to a game machine near you... Today more details came in.. Electronic Arts officially announced that they have signed an exclusive deal with New Line Cinema to create games based on the upcoming The Lord of the Rings movies.

Earlier today we brought you the new press release from Russian video game developer and publisher, 1C. They are gearing up to make their debut on the North American market with the PC 3D adventure game Jazz and Faust. We just managed to squeeze some screens out of them ..

Square Electronic Arts L.L.C. , the exclusive publisher of all SQUARESOFT products in North America, announced today that FINAL FANTASY X, a PS2 exclusive and the latest installment in the best-selling FINAL FANTASY game series, started shipping to retailers nationwide, weeks earlier than the originally scheduled release of January. Consumers can expect to find the game on retail shelves beginning December 20.

Hired to hunt, paid to kill - Soldier of Fortune - Gold, the best-selling first-person shooter, is coming to PlayStation 2. Codemasters has secured from Majesco Sales Inc the European publishing rights to Raven Software's 18-rated classic.