A few days ago Activision, Inc. announced today True Crime: Streets of L.A. for the PC has shipped to retail stores nationwide. The PC version takes the driving, fighting and shooting action of the best-selling console game to a new level with sleek PC graphics, new weapons, unlockable characters, and an online multiplayer feature. True Crime: Streets of L.A. for the PC is rated "M" by the ESRB and carries a suggested retail price of $49.99.

America is full of run down, broken rust-belt towns where nobody cares and anything goes. In Carcer City, nothing matters anymore and all that's left are cheap thrills. The ultimate rush is the power to grant life and take it away, for sport. This time James Earl Cash, you are the sport. They gave you your life back. Now, they are going to hunt you down.

Before E3 officially kicked off, several of the biggest publishers have their annual pre-E3 conferences where they give speeches about past achievements and look ahead at things to come. Micrsoft had its pre-E3 conference on Monday, and we were treated to some exciting Xbox Live news, footage from the new Forza Motorsport racing game, several announcements, but above all, a live demo of Halo 2 multiplayer. Read on for our report ...

Once again, Garrett finds himself without allies, standing alone between the City and the forces that would crush it. Will his skills be enough to save the dying City? Can he survive betrayal, assassins, and war in the labyrinthine city streets? Will he destroy or be destroyed by the evil he awoke? And finally, what must he do to get what he wants most of all: to be left alone plying his trade as the City’s greatest… Thief?

Garrett finds himself without allies, standing alone between the city and the forces that would crush it. Will his skills be enough to save the dying city? Can he survive betrayal, assassins, and war in the labyrinthine city streets? Will he destroy or be destroyed by the evil he awoke? And finally, what must he do to get what he wants most of all: to be left alone plying his trade as the city's greatest ... thief?

It’s unbelievable to think that only 10 years ago the internet was nothing more than a curiosity. I remember my first experience of the net in my first year of university in 1997. We were all handed printed A4 guides to introduce us to this new technological marvel by the IT department. I loaded up Netscape and found my way onto Yahoo. The first thing I searched for? Spiderman. Why, I couldn’t say? A few hours later I’d browsed a couple of Transformers fan sites and checked out some porn with my neighbour. It was a fun afternoon, for sure, but it was a few years before I realised just how useful, no actually – vital, that internet thingy was to become.

E3 is over, it was great fun and we literally brought back a truckload of material, 40+ previews, trailers and hundreds of screens which we will be bringing to you over the next few days...Today we start with Sony's lineup of roughly 20 titles, check the new screens for :

• Jackie Chan Adventures
• WRC 4
• DJ: Decks & FX (PS2)
• Smash Court Tennis Pro Tournament 2 (PS2)
• Death by Degrees (PS2)
• Crisis Zone (PS2)
• Ghosthunter (PS2)
• Killzone (PS2)
• Rise of the Kansai (PS2)
• Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal (PS2)
• Jak 3 (PS2)
• 'Siren' (PS2)
• MLB 2005 (PS2)
• NHL FaceOff 2005 (PS2)
• Sly 2: Band of Thieves (PS2)
• Athens 2004: The Official Videogame of the Olympic Games (PS2)
• Hot Shots Golf Fore! (PS2)
• World Tour Soccer 2005
• Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain (PS2)
• ATV Offroad Fury 3 (PS2)
• God of War (PS2)
• Gran Turismo 4 (PS2)
• The Getaway: Black Monday (PS2)