THQ Inc. today announced that it has entered into a letter of intent to acquire Rainbow Studios, a leading creator of digital entertainment. The acquisition is subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions, including the execution of definitive documents.

Havok has signed a deal with Eidos Interactive's Ion Storm Austin studio (ISA) to provide real time physics. Ion Storm will be building on the go-anywhere, do-anything theme of Deus Ex and Thief in their next releases to allow even greater interactivity with all objects in a scene. Havok physics will work alongside the ISA-modified Unreal engine in both titles. The freedom to engage the game in an unpredetermined way will be a hallmark of using the Havok physics engine.

Activision let us know today that the upcoming game Star Trek Armada II has gone Gold. The game will start to be shipped to stores nationwide in the US on November 13, and should start showing up on store shelves the day after.

There is two new movies from Take 2 and there upcoming game Mafia released today. Head over to Take 2 in Germany to grab these movies.

Several games gone GOLD today.. The games is as follow: Gorasul (PC), IL-2 Sturmovik (PC) and Etherlords (PC).

Empire Interactive is getting some Sega titles out to PC next year. The titles we are talking about is Crazy Taxi and Virtua Tennis. Releasedates is for Crazy Taxi April 2002 and Virtua Tennis February 2002.

TDK Mediactive, Inc. , a global publisher of entertainment software, announced today the shipment of "Shrek(TM)" for the Xbox(TM) video game system from Microsoft.

Return to the world of Khaldun, this time as a villain! Kohan: Ahriman's Gift ships to stores nationwide. Check out our preview we made on that game a little while ago ... Click HERE to read the preview

When you enter the world of Gothic you must prepare to be consumed by a landscape unlike any you will have encountered before and when you take on the challenge of Gothic you must be prepared to face your ultimate quest.

Strategy First continues to expand worldwide, announcing today that it has signed a distribution agreement with two leading European companies, Nobilis and Vision Park.