The Japanese-language version of a popular role-playing game developed for Sega Dreamcast is infected with a highly destructive virus. Full story below!

Yesterday Blizzard posted up a new Warcraft III unit: The Dread Lord, an Undead unit in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, that you can check out here.. Today they tossed up a new Warcraft III unit ability: Learn about Metamorphosis, the Ultimate spell of the Demon Hunter, a Night Elf Hero in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, and this one is avaliable right here!

A fisherman was killed last week while using his PlayStation, when a wave crashed through a trawler's porthole.

For the Sony PlayStation 2 action gamers, Freekstyle by EA SPORTS BIG™ is the most dangerous motocross game around. Freekstyle dares you to harness the power of your bike while pulling off sick stunts in insane, over the top worlds.

MindArk seeks 5,000 participants to test its virtual world’s economy system with real cash. MindArk AB announced today that the initial trial of the revolutionary Project Entropia economy system will begin in the near future as part of MindArk’s release schedule.

Another Resident Evil game coming for the PS2. Gun Survivor 2 Code: Veronica transfers the action to a first person perspective, placing gamers even closer to unknown terrors. Sounds interesting? Well head over to ToTheGame to check out the screens!

JoWood's RPG game Gorasul Legacy of the Dragon is on it's way out to stores. GameSpot reports: The game is set in a medieval fantasy world, and players assume the role of Roszondas, a man who was raised by dragons. Roszondas has a number of special abilities due to his unique upbringing, and he is recruited to fight in an epic war against demons. Gorasul: Legacy of the Dragon was developed by Berlin-based game studio Silver Style, and it will soon be available in stores for an approximate retail price of $29.99.

Sky Sports introduce the first massively multi-player online football management game with over £25,000 worth of prizes up for grabs..

The World Cyber Games is the biggest international game event, where the gamers selected through national preliminaries pit their skills against others for their countries. Similar to the Olympics, the World Cyber Games is a competition for the honor of countries, and citizenship of the pertinent country is required to participate in it. The 1st World Cyber Games will be held in Korea as was the World Cyber Game Challenge last year. Approximately 430 players from 37 countries will be there. Event Period starts: December 5, 2001. Take me there!

I just noticed over at Voodooextreme that Liquid Entertainment is working on a new expansion pack for Battle Realms. Ed Del Castillo "the front man" recently revealed during the course of a chat session over at Gamers.nl. Here is a spot from the chat:

[goodieman] are you thinking about an addon?

[castillo] we are already working on the Expansion Pack to Battle Realms called Winter of the Wolf. and we are also working on Battle Realms 2.

TVG let us know that Take 2 Interactive today announced the PC version of the hit PlayStation 2 game Grand Theft Auto 3 will ship for PC during April of 2002. It may seam a little far away but hopefully the developers will have time to tweak the game for maximum performance on the PC.

A new Enhancement Kit 1.5 is now available for the Real Time Strategy game, Real War. This new kit is 5.46 Mb to download and got a bunch of improvements. Here are a few: four additional new skirmish maps, additional "stars and stripes" camouflage, improved sea pathing and much more! Head over to the official site for all information and download this beauty..

Nintendo of America reported today that, based on direct communications with its retailers, its new NINTENDO GAMECUBE(TM) home video game console has reached sales of nearly 600,000 units in America in 15 days, or an average of 27 per minute -- nonstop -- since its November 18th introduction.

It's official. The full retail version of Medal of Honor Allied Assault is scheduled to ship on January 22, 2002. Until then, gamers can get a taste of the action by playing the single player demo, which is available on Computer Gaming World's February demo disc or by pre-ordering the full game at Electronics Boutique or GameStop stores.

Acclaim today shipped the wrestling game, Legends of Wrestling for the PlayStation2. Get in action and fight against Hulk Hogan, Kamalla, Terry Funk, The Von Erichs, Brett Hart, Sabu, Rob Van Dam and many others. Check out the Legends of Wrestling pressrelease here. You will also find a nice contest here! // Thanks to GameSpyDaily.