The King of Route 66 can make a road-hardened warrior out of anyone! Get ready to experience life as a real American hero. Battle with the evil Tornado Corporation and their army of goons while you try to win the hearts of the beautiful Queens of the road. Hop in the seat of one of 5 giant 18-wheel trucks and blaze a nitro-fuelled path to glory across the United States. Each mode of play delivers amazing graphics, unique goals, and fully customizable trucks for over 30 hours of intense trucking action. Over 40 characters each with their own unique story and voice populate the turbulent ribbon of asphalt and you're going to have to meet them all. Most will be terrible foes that will stop at nothing to keep you from your goal, but 8 special ladies are guaranteed to be plenty friendly if you drive home the goods! Read more for a fact sheet that fell off the back of a lorry and some new screens!

Mindscape today served gamers a slice of liver 'with some fava beans and a nice Chianti' with the announcement of Hannibal - The Game, an action-packed first person adventure for PC in November priced £29.99.

Due to be published by ARXEL TRIBE, Hannibal - The Game brings all the suspense, fear and psychology of Ridley Scott's original movie release to the PC, with a unique blend of action, adventure, investigation and a new plot; enough to whet the appetite of the tubbiest man-eater.

Echelon: Wind Warriors is the next evolution in futuristic flight combat that delivers the latest technical and gameplay innovations demanded by today's experienced game playing audience without sacrificing accessibility for newcomers. Players fly a variety of futuristic aircraft through a number of new missions set on a spectacular continent that takes seven hours of real-time flying to cross... Today we serve up ten gusty screenshots to keep you going till next month's release.

The Galactic Conquest team has released a patch for the Starwars based mod. In this patch they fixed the lag in the multiplayer mode and some other changes. The patch is 7,4MB to download and includes loads of fixes and changes.. More info and download here!

From Black Bag Operations comes a new update for their Remote BF 1942 Admin tool. This new update brings BFSM up to version BFSM 2.0 beta 3f. More about whats new in the latest update and download here!

LucasArts’ Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, a new role-playing game for the Xbox video game system from Microsoft, has flown off store shelves at light speed in its first two weeks of availability, selling more than 270,000 units. The game, which debuted July 16, set a new record for Xbox game sales, selling through its initial allocation in its first four days of release.

The official background story of Face of Mankind continues. Read about it in Heaven's End - Part 2 and find out what happened to Raif Sevrance and the young girl Alinea.

Face of Mankind is a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG) in a persistent world. Thousands of players throughout the world can compete in a realistic and futuristic world of the 24th century. It combines an epic story-driven mission system over years with a complex economic system which can also affect the story deeply.

Metropolis Team invites you to download GORKY ZERO trailer. The trailer is 48MB to download and can be found here!

The action of Gorky Zero takes place a few years before the times of Gorky 17 as we participate in one of Sullivan's first missions that is a secret operation in the Ukraine. The game belongs to a popular sneak-em-up genre, and its action takes place in a real time. Cole Sullivan prefers to stay in the shadow but in the face of a real threat, he can pull out a gun and get rid of all his enemies.

Targetware, LLC is pleased to announce the availability of the Targetware Online Flight Sim System for public download and testing.

Targetware is a massively-multiplayer, high-fidelity combat flight sim system that gives players total control over their flight sim environment. The first three flight simulators using the Targetware system, Target Rabaul (WWII), Target Korea (Korean War), and Target Flanders (WWI), can be easily downloaded from within the Targetware interface. Online play is free during the Open Beta period.

More info and download here!

Michael Rowland, Community Liaison Officer @ Codemasters posted up following information on our forum today.

Theres a new dev forum for Battlefield Command over at the codemasters website. In it are some new screen shots for the new RTS game.

The second dev update has now been posted on the forum with some nice in development screenies of the AT guns and an odd looking armoured car.

Click here to check it out!

Valve unleashed the sixth Half-Life 2 video via Valve's Steam distribution program. The new Bugbait trailer runs for about 3 minutes (the longest one so far) and showing off more gameplay footage from this upcoming FPS. Read more for download links ....

Earlier today we posted up information regarding Sony today finally released the first official details of the highly-touted PS2 shooter Killzone. Read more for the screenshots!

Buena Vista Games has released an updated demo for Tron 2.0 that is based on a more-polished version of the game than the demo released last month and includes a single-player level and several multiplayer options thanks gamespot. Read more for download links ...

Funcom's expansion pack Shadowlands for Anarchy Online has gone gold and will ship on August 26. The expansion pack will include the full version of Anarchy Online, Anarchy Online - Notum Wars and Anarchy Online – Shadowlands, as well as one month of included game-time for new accounts. (thanks GameSpyDaily). Read more for features!

NDL, a developer of 3D graphics technology for the computer and video game industry, announced today that it has issued a publishing license of its Gamebryo 3D graphics engine and toolkit to Vivendi Universal Games. The agreement, which covers all major game platforms, will allow Vivendi Universal Games' development teams to create unique and compelling interactive content for the PC and video game console systems.

Capitalizing on the latest in 3D animation and CGI technology, Sitting Ducks uses a ground breaking modeling and animation system that gives the show a warmer and more lifelike appearance. This innovative series follows the feathered citizens of "DuckTown," focusing on the unusual friendship of a duck named Bill and his best pal, an alligator named Aldo who share an unlikely friendship despite coming from opposite ends of the food chain... Earlier today we tossed up a bunch GBA screens and here are nine PlayStation 2 screenshots.

The game is developed on original high-tech engine The Firestarter Engine, which uses the possibilities of the latest accelerator generation GeForce3/4. Among the engine possibilities are work with outdoor and indoor areas, coloured dynamic lighting, dynamic shadows, vertex and pixel shaders, T&L, procedure textures, various classes of particle system-based effects, interactive and destructible level objects, realistic physics, high-polygonal character and monster models (up to 5000 of polygons), skeleton animation. The official site has once again been updated with 3 new screens, read more to check them out...

The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, has sent a goodwill message to London Games Week and has praised the creativity of the games industry in general. His message comes in a week when nearly every major company has confirmed their participation in the event, set to take place in Earls Court in four weeks time.

The Mayor says in his message: "Trade shows and conferences like London Games Week have a major role to play in developing industry, creating an environment where deals can be done and new ideas are generated.

Computer and video game publisher Gathering, a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc today unveiled information about the characters in Space Colony, a people sim-city builder PC game. Space Colony invites PC pioneers to establish and build cosmic settlements and manage a dysfunctional crew of 20 characters while fighting off alien attacks and attempting to make a profit. Space Colony is slated for release in September.