Rockstar Games and Interscope Records, a part of Universal Music Group, proudly announce the details of the 8-CD box set soundtrack to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the latest installment in the best-selling Grand Theft Auto franchise. The box set is scheduled for release on December 7th, 2004 in North America and December 6th, 2004 throughout Europe.

GMX Media today announcing that they will be publishing the ground breaking military Real Time Strategy game Will of Steel for PC. The game is to be launched across the UK in the Q4 2004. Read more for details, screens ...

Oddworld Stranger's Wrath combines first and third-person gameplay with familiar Oddworld elements and an all-new engine to deliver a unique gameplay experience. Set to award-winning visuals, players will be moved by the complex and inspiring story as the Stranger comes to grips with his true nature in the hunt for the ultimate bounty.

Konami today announced that King Arthur for the PS2, Xbox and GameCube has shipped to retail stores nationwide. Developed by Krome Studios PTY, Ltd., and based on the true story behind the tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, players will relive the legendary action as they wield Excalibur and battle on horseback.

Cossacks - Napoleonic Wars returns one of the most successful strategy games of the past years to the real-time battlefield - with reinforcements: Meet Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France and probably the most ingenious strategist in European history! Enter the battle on the side of one of 10 great European nations and rewrite European history in six exciting campaigns.

Microsoft has issued a new patch for Gearbox/Bungie's first person shooter Halo: Combat Evolved. This upgrade brings your Halo retail to v1.06 and addresses a rare crash bug that could occur if a malicious individual (hacker) purposely imitates a game server and sends invalid data to clients who try to browse the server list (thanks Joe). Read more for details and download links ...

THQ today announced that it has acquired Blue Tongue Entertainment Limited. The Australia-based studio recently developed THQ's Polar Express for the PS2, PC and Gamecube, and is currently developing two cross-platform releases for late 2005.

id Software released an updated version of SDK for their sci-fi FPS DOOM 3, allowing the mod community out there to go to town and bring on the mods. This v1.1 SDK adds the promised vehicle support as well as a few bug fixes over the previous version (thanks 3DGamers). Read more for download links ...

Fire Department 2 (known in the US as Fire Captain: Bay Area Inferno) will feature a lot of improvements and new features such as multiplayer capabilities, better AI, control over a larger amount of units, improved graphics, five campaigns, and, of course, more realism. Pointsoft has released a demo featuring the 'Das Einkaufszentrum' mission from the first campaign (thanks Demonews.de). Read more for download links ...

Parkan II is a 3D space simulator combined with first person action planet side. In the game players will get an opportunity to explore a vast universe, visit different planets, their satellites, huge space stations and immense space destroyers.

Ubisoft has released an update patch for its adventure game Myst IV: Revelation bringing your retail game to v1.02 and addresses no bug fixes, only improvements in performance (thanks 3DGamers). Read more for download links ...

In Half-Life 2, the player again picks up the crowbar of research scientist Gordon Freeman, who finds himself on an alien-infested Earth being picked to the bone, its resources depleted, its populace dwindling. Freeman is thrust into the unenviable role of rescuing the world from the wrong he unleashed back at Black Mesa. And a lot of people people he cares about are counting on him. Beware of the spoilers...

The Inquirer is reporting that shortly after Valve's Half-Life 2 became available in most retail outlets people bringing home their boxed copy faced a majpor disappointment as Valve's Authentication Servers came crashing down and people could therefor not authenticate their purchased product. Vivendi's technical support said that fixing the problem could easily take up to three hours or longer.

Ignition has secured North American and European rights to publish Zoo Keeper, a puzzler from developer SUCCESS Corporation that will be one of the first Japanese launch titles for Nintendo's highly-anticipated new handheld video game system - the Nintendo DS.

Another day, another batch of game trailers were released. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are trailers for :

• Creature Conflict: The Clan Wars - Trailer #3
• God Of War - Trailer #2
• Shadow of Rome - Trailer #4

Electronic Arts announced today that All-pro New York Giants tight end Jeremy Shockey and hip hop artist Xzibit will share the cover of NFL STREET 2 from the EA SPORTS BIG brand.

Battlefront has released the first patch for their recently released WWII hybrid turn-based/realtime 3D simulation Combat Mission: Afrika Korps. This upgrade brings your retail game to v1.02 and addresses the usual gameplay tweaks, bug fixes and so forth. This patch works for the US as well as European edition of the game but games saved in v1.02 can't be loaded in by the older version. Read more for detailed fix list and download links ...

Prince of Persia: Warrior Within features a deep, mysterious storyline starring a darker, edgier Prince who is vigilant in his quest to unseal his mortal destiny. Read more for new screens ...

Listen up, partner. Megaman and his pals, Axl and Zero are calling for your help. The evil cyborg Sigma wants to destroy the world. He must be defeated. Megaman must prevail. Join the battle!

Namco announced today that their most breathtaking role-playing adventure yet, Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean, has shipped to North American retail outlets.