Activision announced today that it's best-selling game, Call of Duty achieved the highest honor as it racked up three Interactive Achievement Awards at the Seventh Annual Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' D.I.C.E. Awards Show, held Thursday night at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas.

BiosFear, Tiscali Games' action-packed MMORPG, will get even more exciting today when a patch introduces new gameplay features. Amongst the new content is the valuable Platinum Class of weapons, an expansion to one of the existing dungeons as well as a new set of commands for the Pet Dragon players can use. For example, the pet can now perform long-distance attacks.

3000 AD has relased a new patch for their space sim Battlecruiser Millennium Gold. This brings your retail game to v1.01.04 and addresses a server crash when you exited the CC in fp mode and fixes an issue when the multiplayer executable was not starting at the server browser by default (it required /c parameter). Read more for download links...

GMX Media today announced that it has secured the Pan-European rights for Martin Mystere. “This is our first title based on a comic book and TV show, Martin Mystere is currently being aired across Europe in notable TV channels such as Canal Plus in France and is proving very popular with viewers. Read more for details & screens ...

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 :

• Caribbean Crisis - Trailer
• Galactic Conquest - Trailer
• Dark Horizons: Lore - Trailer
• Flat-Out - Trailer
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

EA has released a small hotfix for Digital Illusions' Battlefield 1942 Win32 dedicated server. This hotfix has a new BF1942_w32ded.exe executable and it is intended to correct an exploit which is currently in the Battlefield 1942 dedicated server. Read more for download links ...

Pterodon has released a new "final" version of their 'Riverdale' multiplayer map for their tactical shooter Vietcong. Unfortunatle no details as to what modes it supports are available. Read more for screens & download links ...

Black-haired and sullen-eyed, a thief, a reaver, a slayer. The legends that surround his name, speak of the world before history, where shadows of magic and dark alien gods shrouded the known world and the fate of whole empires were dependent on the strength and skills of a single sword. And this is one of those legends. Conan is a 3rd person action game, with few elements of RPG and adventure. The game is divided into chapters, each chapter with different environments and creatures. Each chapter contains several levels. Read more for some new screens ands a small development trailer...

Whiptail Interactive announced today that a content patch for their recently released action game Gangland is now available online. The patch addresses minor stability issues with certain system configurations and enhances some gameplay features. Read more for download links..

The official ANNO 1503 website has word that Sunflowers has cancelled the Anno 1503 multiplayer patch (already in development since August 2003). After more than 20 attempts they could not get the multiplayer patch/addon to work for more than 2 hours gameplay time and thus decided to call it quits (thanks Gamestar.de). You can read more about it on the German Anno 1503 website.
UPDATE :Sunflowers just sent us the English translation, read more to check it out ...

Ubisoft CBS Consumer Products and Alliance Atlantis today announced an exclusive licensing agreement for Ubisoft to publish games based on the popular television series CSI: Miami for the PC. This new CSI game is slated to launch worldwide on PC for Winter 2004-05. Read more for details ...

Digital Summoners announces the Getica project, a series of two single player RPGs placed in ancient Europe. Getica is a project that includes two 3D, third person, single player RPGs. The foundation of the games is formed by the classic concepts of the RPG: assuming a role in a story, developing the playing character, becoming part of a class, solving quests, acquiring items and special abilities. The first part is called Cult of the Elders, and will act as an introduction into the atmosphere, accomodating the player with the Getae and their culture.

The Ghosts are ready for dispatch as Ubisoft announced today that Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Jungle Storm for the PlayStation2 has Gone Gold! Marking a new era in the Ghost Recon franchise, Jungle Storm is the first Ghost Recon game to feature online multiplayer gameplay for the PlayStation 2.

Midway Games Inc. announced today that The Suffering, the all-new, action horror game today has shipped for the PlayStation2 and the Xbox.

The Unreal II XMP Community Bonus Pack has been released featuring ten of the best maps and seven of the best mutators from the Unreal II XMP community (thanks BeyondUnreal). Read more for download links ...

Cenega Publishing's Shade: Wrath of Angles is a third person horror / action adventure, which has been in development for a while now! Since last year’s E3 the development studio, Black Element Software, have re-worked the graphic’s engine and storyline to produce a greater gaming experience in every possible way. The new engine supports all the latest technology, including full compatibility with DirectX 9. Read more for details & screens ...

The official add-on Blitzkrieg: Burning Horizon, throws you in even more dramatic battles of WWII. Burning Horizon offers a huge 18-missions-campaign around General Rommel, giving you the opportunity to play famous battles like Ardennes, Tripolis, Tobruk, El Alamein, Sicily and, of course, Normandy. Furthermore, the add-on contains 8 single missions, with an entire new nation at war: Japan. Read more for some new screens.

In Colin McRae Rally 04 it's the player in control - choose from over 20 rally cars and which championships to compete in. Game modes include 4-wheel drive and 2-wheel drive Championships (both with normal or advanced skill levels), Rallies, Stages, a Group B Championship featuring classic powerful rally cars and, for the professional, an Expert Championship, which demands the best performance from the most die-hard rally fan. Check out these awesome new screens ...