Octagon Entertainment has signed People Can Fly as its newest client and is seeking worldwide publishing for the team’s debut title, Painkiller. Former Lemon Interactive designer Adrian Chmielarz, who directed the development of Starmageddon (otherwise known as Project Earth in the US) and Odium (a.k.a. Gorky 17) for Metropolis Software, recently founded the Polish development team.

Grandia II takes the player to a world, in which good and evil are putting themselves in an endless fight. Before long time Granus gave humans the light to hope and it attained satisfaction. But Valmur, the prince of the darkness, tries to steal this light from the humans . Granus fights courageously, in order to protect mankind, but the fight lasts eternally. It is now over 10,000 years ago that this fight took place, but the earth trembles already again under the influence of the forthcoming fight. UbiSoft is releasing Grandia II for PS2 and PC .. Check the 2 mins long NEW trailer (17mb)!

Ubi Soft send us notice about a new trailer they just prepared on a new upcoming game ... not much info is known nor available .. but its called Hoodlum's .. Grab the Real Player Media File here (2mb) or get our converted mpeg file HERE (7mb)...

Sega of America today announced that its recently launched "Sonic Adventure 2 Battle" for the Nintendo GameCube was the #1 selling game for the system in its first week of sales according to independent retail data from NPD TRSTS (week ending 2/16/02). Selling five times more than the #2 title and as much as the next 12 titles combined, "Sonic Adventure 2 Battle" marks the debut of Sega's mascot, Sonic The Hedgehog, on a new next-generation video game system.

Konami is coming up with a weird sounding title for the Gameboy Advance, Zone of Enders: Fist of Mars. From the looks of it some sort of top down view shooter ... Check the Screens!

Microsoft today announced that Xbox, the future-generation video game system, will launch on 14th March 2002 with 20 titles on day one, and a total of 60 titles throughout the launch window (up until the end of June). The portfolio includes US best-sellers Halo, Project Gotham Racing and Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee (all from Microsoft Games Studios) as well as 3rd-party titles such as Max Payne (Take-Two Interactive), Dead or Alive 3 (Tecmo), FIFA World Cup 2002 (Electronic Arts) and Wreckless: The Yakuza Missions (Activision)

Heavy Metal Geomatrix is a 4-player, 'death match-style' fighting game that combines Capcom's legacy of great fighting games with the sexy characters and over-the-top fantasy worlds made famous in the Heavy Metal comic books and movies. Characters and their environments have been designed by world renowned and lead designer of the Heavy Metal franchises', Simon Bisley.

With the newly released State of Emergency going straight in at NUMBER ONE, Chart Track today confirmed that Take 2 Interactive is the FIRST EVER software publisher to hold the TOP THREE POSITIONS in the Playstation 2 chart.

Cannon Spike is a 3-D isometric shooter that challenges players to strategically avoid enemies' projectile attacks while simultaneously attacking them. Players choose from seven different beloved Capcom characters as they travel around the world on high-powered motor boots to destroy evil terrorist robots. The smooth, easy controls and rich depths of gameplay will satisfy the action genre's most discernible fans.

UbiSoft's "Batman : Vengeance" got reviewed a few days ago and we have some "left over" screens .. so we did not want you to feel left out .. so here they are ;)