Twice as big as last year’s Crib, gamers will find a two-story house which they can design everything from having a waterfall in the atrium, to what message flashes across the electronic ticker above the bar area. Read more for new screens & trailers ...

O~3 Entertainment today announced a deal with Monte Cristo Games to publish two PC games: D-Day, a real-time tactical game, and Medieval Lords: Build, Defend, Expand, a city building game, in North and South America.

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:

• Everquest 2 - E3 Demo Trailer
• Ace Combat 5 - Intro Movie
• Xpand Rally - Trailer (2)
• Gungrave: Overdose - Trailer
• Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone - Trailer #2

StormRegion has released a second demo for their 3D World War II RTS 'Codename: Panzers,' featuring Utah Beach from the Allied campaign. Earlier than expected, this is the ENGLISH version of the demo. Massive tanks are a crucial element in this tactical combat action title. Russian, German and Allied troops fight in three campaigns and more than 30 breath-taking single player missions (thanks 3DGamers). Read more for download links ...

Codemasters has released the first patch for their freshly released snooker simulation game 'World Championship Snooker 2004.' This update brings your retail game to v1.1 and addresses compatibility with all gfx cards, a few network/multiplayer fixes and the usual bug fixes and game tweaks. Read more for details and download links ...

Build your own movie studio and make films to capture the world’s imagination. Start filming in the break-neck 1920s and rewrite history as you pioneer the great cinematic advances. Be the first to introduce talkies, colour, animation or computer-generated special effects. Pick the scripts you want to shoot, design and construct the sets and hire the director, the crew and the stars.

Xpand Rally races take place in different parts of the world, the player gets to race in different environments – from deserts to polar snows. This gives him opportunity to experience cars’ physics changing in different weather and on different surfaces (gravel, sand, snow, ice and asphalt). Read more to find out about designing and downloading additional car models for the game ...

Sony Online Entertainment is offering EverQuest Classic plus two expansion packs, The Ruins of Kunark and The Scars of Velious, including up to 30 days of gameplay, as a FREE download to people with registered Station Accounts which do not currently and have not had an EverQuest account. Read more for links to the download, as well as the ever-important rules and restrictions.

"The Ice Age is coming!" – only a few more months before a new exciting Ice Hockey season begins! In time for the start of the season, JoWooD is planning to publish "Ice Hockey Club Manager 2005." Scheduled for release in September 2004. Check our previously posted screens, or read more for details ...

As promised, Digital Jesters has released the demo for their 3D RTS D-Day. The demo is a single and multiplayer demo, featuring one single player mission, "The Longest Day," and one multiplayer map that supports up to four people at once. The demo also features archive trailers from the full game as well as detailed descriptions of each unit's abilities and how they were used during the second World War. Read more for the download link ...