Our Italian readers will be glad to know that Rage, one of the UK's leading publishers and developers of entertainment software, today announced that it has extended its current partnership with Italian distributor Leader SpA (“Leader”) to ensure the release of three further titles from its growing catalogue of games throughout the Italian market place.

Tiscali Games just informed us that JoWood has released a playable demo of Cultures 2 (its in German though). It gives you the chance to try out this isometric management strategy game. The demo is a whoppin 69 MB. Mirror Link HERE

Microids has launched the product page for Syberia, their upcoming 3D adventure game directed by Benoît Sokal (also known as the author of Amerzone). They will open and announce the official website soon. Game is expected June 2002 (thanks Gamershell).

We scored 3 new pieces of artwork for Capcom's upcoming Resident Evil game for the Gamecube. Its been a little while since last update (Capcom likes to pump em out periodically it seems), so today we got three shots of some giant snake. Njoy

Sweden based G:son International recently signed a partnership agreement with Comdex organisers Key3Media and ExpoNova to arrange Scandinavia's second game exhibition called Nordic Interactive Media Expo. The show is mainly addressed to the Nordic computer games industry and set to run between 30th of October to 1st of November 2002 at Sollentuna Exhibition Centre in Stockholm, Sweden. Alongside the trade show there will be a public exhibition called Gamex, primarily targeting the Swedish consumers.

START! games is pleased to announce a partnership deal with Criterion Software to provide games developers with access to the acclaimed RenderWare platform. The new licencing arrangement supports developers in the crucial early stages of development without any up front costs.

Rage, one of the UK's leading publishers and developers of entertainment software, today announces that it has entered into a number of individual agreements with three of the UK’s leading independent game developers to produce conversions of two of its major licensed properties.

A new report just published by independent market analysts Datamonitor, reveals that the next 3 years will bring buoyant growth to the electronic games market globally, spearheaded by console games.

Sierra is making plans to re-release Tribes 2 with some new additions such as a the free mod Base++, new maps, game enchancements, new skins and other undisclosed features (i guess to actually make the re-release interesting) all crammed together on the same cd, for good measure. The tuned up T2 is expected end of the year at the regular 40$ retail price (and 20$ off for previous T2 owners).

A bit later than usual .. too much gaming lately .. HomeLAN chats briefly with Taldren's Erik Bethke as he talks about their upcoming space strategy sequel Star Trek: Starfleet Command III. Gamers.com has posted up an interview with a few Vicious Cycle development team members as they talk about Robotech, the American version of three Japanese anime TV series. Action Vault has posted up a Q&A with Sergey Mironov of Revolt Games discussing their upcoming first person shooter Neuro. The Electric Playground has another brief Postal 2 Q&A with Running with Scissors' Vince Desi as talking about their upcoming first person shooter (whihc is using the Unreal engine). GameSpyDaily has posted up a Q&A with Ritual's Jon Galloway talking about Star Trek: Elite Force II, the freshly announced Star Trek FPS sequel. GameSpy talks with Ragnar Tørnquist and Sverre Kvernmo of Funcom about the changes to Anarchy Online since its release, and the future of this sci-fi/corporate flavored online roleplaying.