Electronic Arts today announced that its EA Partners division has signed an exclusive distribution and publishing agreement with Square Enix Co., Ltd for FINAL FANTASY X-2 on the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system throughout Europe and all PAL territories. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Cenega UK today let us know that the eagerly awaited global strategy and tactical warfare PC game, UFO: Aftermath got a European release date of 3rd October settled ...

Combining global strategy with small squad tactical combat, the challenge offered is to fight against an alien invasion. Featuring run time generated tactical missions with innovative simultaneous combat action; the genre is also enhanced with strong RPG elements, offering a quite unique mix of strategic ideas.

Warner Bros. Consumer Products has granted the license to its record-breaking television series “ER” to Hollywood-based Legacy Interactive, to create the first computer game based on the show. Legacy Interactive, known for its expertise in developing entertaining simulation games and the successful launch of the first “Law & Order” computer game, will allow fans of the series and gamers alike to experience first hand the excitement of life in the emergency room. The “ER” computer game, distributed by Take 2 Interactive, is scheduled to release in fall 2004 to coincide with the 10th season premiere of the television series. Read more for details ...

Atari is bringing all the action and intrigue of the "Mission: Impossible" movie franchise to video games with "Mission: Impossible - Operation Surma" for the Xbox video game system from Microsoft, the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system and the Nintendo GameCube and Game Boy Advance. Developed by Atari's Paradigm Entertainment and scheduled for release in November, "Mission: Impossible -- Operation Surma" provides players with a chance to become IMF super agent Ethan Hunt in the stealth action game of the year... In Surma-ry, ten screenshots from the GBA version.

GMX Media today announced that it has secured the worldwide rights to publish Euro Club Manager 03/04. Will you be able to place yourself in competitive world of professional football? Face up the challenges : buy and sell players to build your dream team, plan your tactics, coach your team and manage your club's finance and resource to became the number one. Read more for details ...

ValuSoft has released a playable demo for their recently released racing simulation Hot Rod: American Street Drag. This demo features one track on which you participate in a pre-arranged race using randomly selected cars (thanks 3DGamers). Read more for download links ...

Another day, another batch of game trailers were released. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are trailers for :

• SimCity 4: Rush Hour - (3) Trailer
• Max Payne 2 - Trailer
• Chicago 1930 - Trailer
• Project Gotham Racing 2 - Trailer
• Ford Racing Evolution - Trailer
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

The much-anticipated second version of this very popular mod has been released. New features include character selection, anti-trainer/cheat systems, a scoreboard, and much more...including the ability to ride as a passenger while another player drives (thanks BigMac). Read more for download links...

Super Trucks - a totally new motor-racing experience! Wrestle with 5 tonnes of 1,400 horsepower Super Trucks, at speeds approaching 150mph, on circuits designed for cars a third the size. Adrenaline fuelled, immense and dangerous, Super Trucks™ is an incredible blend of close quarters neck and neck racing-jostling for position over 10 furious laps. Already available in Europe, SX Games is bringing this truck racing game to North America, in stores October 2003.

Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge combines thrilling aerial combat with the swashbuckling style of a Hollywood action-adventure movie. Set in an alternate 1930s world of gunship diplomacy and sinister intrigue, Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge lets gamers pilot powerful aircraft against nefarious air pirates and behemoth war zeppelins. Read more for some new screens taken from the first level ...

In Star Net Frontier you will be taken to the future world of alien planets, travel and trade, battles on planets and in space, alliances and intrigues, battle machines, rogue AI, and space battle-ships. You will be transferred to the far fringes of the Galaxy to survive battles, to travel from planet to planet, to make a fortune as a captain of free space trader, or to fight as a soldier for freedom, friends, ideas, fame, and money. Read more for details and screens ...

Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is a dynamic single and multiplayer action experience featuring an all-new epic story. Raven Software has released an v1.01 updated dedicated linux server for Jedi Academy which adresses mMinor update to fix faulty rand() calls. Read more for details and download links ...

After yesterday Judge Dredd demo, we have another magazine cover disc upload. Directly off the latest North American PC Gamer is a demo for EA's upcoming action-adventure game Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. This demo features a mission where "The Citizens of Minas Tirith must be saved! Get 200 Gondorian women through the exit, up to the next level of Minas Tirith. The invading horde will try to stop you at this task, and dispatching them quickly will allow you accomplish your goal at a faster pace! The survival of Gondor rests in your hands, Gandalf the White!" (thanks PCGamer). Read more for download links ....

Capcom has released a playable demo ketting you sample their upcoming third-person action RPG Chas Legion. This is a multilanguage demo (originally a PS2 game), sports high-res, but apart from that there are no details as to what it really contains (thanks Impress/3DGamers). Read more for download links ...

A new Hellfire bonus map for Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne is now available for download (127 KB)..

Shattered beyond repair by powerful magics, the Orc homeland is a landscape of broken dreams and despair. Only those with an iron will can overcome the armies of Hellfire.

Barely out in stores Take 2 hase already released the first patch for Techland's sci-fi first-person Chrome. This upgrade is for the European edition of the game only (not available in North America yet) and brings your retail game to v1.1.1.0. This patch adresses rendering problems with Radeon 7500 cards and incorporates several single- and multi-player improvements/fixes. Be warned, your save games will NO longer function after updating. Read more for details & download links ...

“Halo” now makes its highly anticipated move to the PC, courtesy of Gearbox Software. “Halo,” enhanced for play on the PC, contains all the action-packed combat and thrilling gameplay that made it a smash hit for video game fans everywhere. Armed with a new arsenal of weapons and vehicles, “Halo” delivers challenges and surprises as well as intense online multiplayer competition exclusively for the PC. Read more if you are up for a 50 or so screens...

Players assume the role of different characters from multiple sides of the Allied forces and experience the bonding and brutality of war as they fight alongside their squad mates through a variety of missions, including battlefield assaults, search and rescue, stealth, sabotage, vehicle chases and tank battles. Heeding the call of duty, gamers step into the boots of a U.S. paratrooper, a British commando and a Russian infantryman as they take on the Nazi War machine through pivotal World War II battles and authentic military campaigns. Read more for some new screens.