According to the Cenega web site, Shade: Wrath of Angels a third person horror action adventure, has gone gold.

Men of Valor is an historical action experience that portrays infantry combat during the Vietnam War. Combining the latest Unreal technology with the gameplay expertise of 2015, the game immerses the player in the humid jungles of Southeast Asia in the most controversial conflict of the modern era. The game will ship during Fall 2004 for Xbox and PC.

Shocking and evil, Mortal Kombat: Deception pushes martial arts-style fighting and the Mortal Kombat franchise to new heights with an innovative fighting system, unparalleled depth and brutally intense action, lightning-fast hand-to-hand and special weapons combat, secret and returning characters, moves and combinations with new death-dealing battles and fatalities.

For the first time, Sims are living in the city where reputation (rep) is everything. Players will custom-create these new Sims, called Urbz, by customizing their unique style and building their status to become the biggest "player" in the city. Read more for some new screens or download the walkthrough trailer.

Skate Rat fuses the freedom of skateboarding trick-style play with the challenging puzzles of platform adventures. The player guides Skate and his friends through a story-based adventure — in which he must throw skateboarding tricks, dodge urban hazards, fight enemies, and rescue friends - to find out what's wrong in Park City.

Picking up right where the game’s story left off, Battle out of Hell includes an additional single-player chapter with 10 levels, as well as new multiplayer modes, maps and models. It will also offer an amplified arsenal of un-deadly weapons, bigger and badder bosses and the map editor Software Development Kit. Check the new screens...

Paradox has released a new patch for their strategy game Crusader Kings. This update brings your retail game to v1.04 and addresses various game bugs & fixes, AI tweaks, UI improvements, scenario adjustments and plenty more. Read more for detailed fix list and download links ...

NIS America Inc. announced today that Phantom Brave, its role-playing game available exclusively for the PlayStation2, will ship to retailers nationwide on August 31, 2004. If you haven't yet, check out 'Phantom Brave' preview.

Cenega Publishing's Shade: Wrath of Angles is a third person horror / action adventure. Black Element Software, have re-worked the graphic’s engine and storyline to produce a greater gaming experience in every possible way.

WWII's Pacific theater was the backdrop for some of the most famous aerial battles in history. In places like Midway, Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima, allied fighters and bombers went head-to-head against the air power of the Japanese empire. Pacific Fighters provides the opportunity for players to experience the realistic action, intense flight combat and immersive gameplay of WWII's Pacific air war.

NASCAR 2005: Chase for the Cup challenges players to battle through a ground-breaking new story mode to rise from entry-level series to NASCAR stardom. Drivers compete for opportunities in NASCAR Featherlite Modified, NASCAR Craftsman Truck, and NASCAR National rides before competing for million-dollar purses in the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series.

Fable is a ground-breaking role-playing adventure game from Peter Molyneux, in which your every action determines your skills, appearance, and reputation. Create your life story from childhood to death. Grow from an inexperienced adolescent into the most powerful being in the world.

Def Jam Fight For NY challenges players to step into the shoes of a ruthless street fighter battling for control of the hip-hop underground. The game features an all-new fighting engine including weapons, interactive environments, 40 characters and five unique fighting styles.

Stalingrad is a real-time strategy based on the modified Blitzkrieg engine. The game tells a story of one of the most dramatic periods of World War II and covers all major events from June 1942 till January 1943. The game consists out of two campaigns. During the first one players will lead the advancing German forces and after that will assume the role of a Soviet commander, whose aim is to liberate the city and smash the 6th Army of Wehrmacht...

Team 6 has released a demo for their helicopter action game Elite Heli Defender giving you the chance to try out the game for 60 minutes, featuring 2 missions and 1 helicopter. Read more for details, screens and download links ...

Team 6 has released a demo for their racing game ATV Mud Racing giving you the chance to try out 1 track, 2 ATV's. Read more for details, screens and download links ...

Valve's Gabe Newell has been known to trickle out little information about Half-Life 2's progress now and then on the HL2Fallout.com forums, and it seems he did again just that Friday night. After a long night of partying or not, Gabe has posted a short blurb simply stating "We're going gold monday..." Various online retailers have been changing the HL2 release date in their db's to early September over the past week, and it seems, for once, they may be right.

Update: Seems this was a fake/hacked forum post... bummer!

Valusoft has released a demo for SCS Soft's truck driving game '18 Wheels of Steel: Across America' giving you the chance to try out the full game for 60 minutes, after which you must purchase a reg key to unlock and continue (thanks 3DGamers). Read more for download links ..

The Leisure Suit Larry videogame franchise began in 1987 with The Land of the Lounge Lizards, the first of seven games in the series. Since then, the Leisure Suit Larry games have sold more than 35 millions of units worldwide and its games are considered collector items. Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude is scheduled for release on next-generation consoles and the PC in late 2004.

Set during the "New Generation" era of Robotech, Invasion is a first-person shooter that features transforming Cyclone motorbikes and Invid alien fighters. Other features include progressive scan support, widescreen mode, and 16-person online play. Developed by Vicious Cycle, the team behind BattleCry. Read more for new screens...