Ubisoft is happy to announce that Playboy the Mansion is now available in all European retail stores starting today on PlayStation2 , the Xbox and PC.

Ubisoft today announces that Cold Fear is now available across all European retail stores on Xbox and PlayStation 2.

Vivendi Universal Games today announced a deal with multi-million album selling hip-hop superstar and entertainment icon 50 Cent to collaborate in the creation of a new video game that will hit retail shelves in late 2005. 50 Cent: Bulletproof, in which 50 Cent will star and provide his likeness and voice, will be unveiled at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles on May 18th, 2005. Read more for details and screens ...

JoWooD's Stargate SG-1: The Alliance, developed by Perception using a greatly enhanced Unreal Engine 2.5 engine, is the spectacular interactive game expereince that puts players in the action packed universe of the Stargate SG-1 TV series, which is scheduled for release in late 2005 for all major platforms. Being BIG Stargate fans here over at Worthplaying, this trailer merits its own article. Read more and check it out, its looking good!!!

While last year Hip Interactive announced it had signed a publishing deal for the PC edition, today Codemasters confirms it has signed a co-publishing and distribution agreement with Namco to bring the PS2 & Xbox editions of Eutechnyx's high-speed multiplayer street racing game to Europe.

Europe 1942. These are desperate hours for Allied forces as the Nazi war machine rages across a devastated European landscape. You are US Army Lieutenant William Holt, hand-picked by William “Wild Bill” Donovan to be the first field agent of the newly formed Office of Strategic Services­the OSS. Medal of Honor European Assault makes you the driving force in the struggle to liberate Europe.

Boiling Point: Road to Hell, previously known as Xenus, will combine intense armed combat with exploration and interaction with a vast and seamless open-ended gaming world. Boiling Point: Road to Hell is in development by Ukrainian developer Deep Shadows and is scheduled for release in Spring 2005.

Atari today announced that Act of War: Direct Action, a near-future, techno-thriller for personal computer, featuring a story created and written by New York Times best-selling author Dale Brown and nearly one hour of original, live-action feature film footage has gone gold in Europe and is on schedule for its March 18 ship date.

In DF: BHD players will take on the role of an elite Delta Force Operative as they participate in a number of daring raids against the oppressive Somali warlords in and around Mogadishu. Black Hawk Down brings the intensity of Modern Warfare to Xbox with a range of intense single player and multiplayer missions. Yesterday we announced that the Xbox version would support 50 players on Xbox Live, today we have some new screens ...

Matrix Games announced today that they will be working with Strategic Studies Group to release an updated version of the Reach for the Stars sci-fi strategy game. The original classic was released in 1983, but the new release is an updated version of the second Reach for the Stars release in 2000.

Presenting rFactor, the new racing simulation series from Image Space Incorporated. After successfully creating over a dozen products in the past ten years, Image Space takes the next logical step, creating a completely new technology base and development process. This new isiMotor 2.0 environment will be the foundation on which to build exciting products for many years to come.

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 :

• Brothers in Arms - Sountrack Trailer
• Cold Fear - Intro Movie
• Phantom Dust - Trailer #3

Today is the 4th March 2005, the launch day of Darwinia. From this moment onwards Darwinia will be available to the public to buy, and Introversion's fate will be decided. If you live in the UK and you do not wish to buy Darwinia direct from Introversion's website, you can instead purchase the game from most high-street games stores which will be stocking the game starting today (thanks Blues).

Valve's SteamPowered website has been updated with details regarding yet another update for its Source SDK which adds motion mapper, new example character model, new character creation documentation, QC eyes tool, more in-depth shader examples and a fix to the dedicated server. Just restart steam for the effects to take place. Valve also announced that they have selected the three winners from the Half-Life 2: Deathmatch map competition, the winning maps will get added somewhere during the course of the month.

Capcom and Disney Interactive today announced Disney’s Magical Quest 3 Starring Mickey and Donald for the Game Boy Advance and Game Boy Advance SP. Disney’s Magical Quest 3 is a 2-D side-scrolling action adventure based on Capcom’s SNES game.

Wartime Command: Battle For Europe 1939-1945 is the stunning World War II tactical real time strategy game from Russian developers 1C Company in Russia. The game development project has been retitled from Battlefield Command to give it prominence in a cluttered market of similar product brands.

Star Heritage is an adventure game in which you play the role of Earth’s secret agent, helping human coalition in the struggle with alien invaders. As fate would have it, you have found yourself on an unknown planet, not registered in any space catalogue, a long way away from any space trade lines. Your main goal is to leave the planet and continue the struggle for Mankind’s freedom.

Due to a mishap in our calculations (always confusing when companies start their fiscal year in November) we falsely reported GTA: SA being delayed, it is still on track for its scheduled June-ish release date. Our apologies for the confusion. At the same token it was also revealed that Rockstar Leeds (May Payne for GBA) is working on a GTA title for the PSP, set in GTA III's Liberty City, which is planned for release in the Q3 2005. Out of a total of 140 upcoming titles, Rockstar has two all new, yet undisclosed, products in development for later this year.

As we mentioned yesterday, Sports Interactive has a new patch for the North American edition of 'Worldwide Soccer Manager. This update brings your retail game to v5.0.3 and adds all changes in personnel that have occurred in the world of football since the game's initial release on Nov 4th 2004 and the closure of the recent transfer window on January 31st (a total of more than 160,000 changes of player, coaching and managerial staff.) Read more for download links ...