CM3 will Cover up to 10 World Cup races including the Tour de France, Giro, Vuelta, three 7-day stage races & five semi classics. Manage your teams (finance, strategy, fitness.….. ) and race tactics. All new improved graphics will represent different locations of the individual races of Spain, Germany, Belgium, Italy etc, mountain backdrops in the Alps / Pyrenees or the Arc de Triomphe in fine detail. Focus Interactive and Cyanide Studio today announced that the latest installment of their popular cycling simulation, Cycling Manager 3, has gone gold and will be released around june 20th in France, Belgium, germany, Italy, Switzerland and Scandinavia. They have also released a playable demo, where you will be taking over the CSC Team as manager, and will ride one of the mountain stages of Tour de France. It will be 191 kms hard and long ride. Can you beat Armstrong, Beloki, Savilla and the other favorites? Read more for details, screens and download links ...

Bethesda Softworks, Disney Interactive, and Ubi Soft Entertainment today announced that Ubi Soft Entertainment will publish Pirates of the Caribbean for the Xbox and PC throughout Europe. Inspired by one of this summer’s most anticipated blockbusters, the game will bring swashbuckling adventures and rich worlds to Xbox and PC this June. Pirates of the Caribbean is being developed by Akella and Bethesda Softworks. Check the new screens!

Codemasters’ unbeatable motorsport gaming heritage evolves with the June 20th launch of IndyCar Series for PS2 and Xbox with a PC edition to follow in July. IndyCar Series is the official game of the intense US championship, which includes the world-famous Indianapolis 500 race. Delivering incredible high speeds, close-pack racing, skilful on-track manoeuvres and challenging drivers, the sport of IndyCar Series racing makes for an excitingly different open-wheel racing game and is set to be a hit in Europe following its successful launch in North America. Read more for download links ...

Viacom's digital entertainment unit, Simon & Schuster Interactive and Sumthing Else Musicworks announced today that the soundtrack for the highly anticipated Xbox game "Outlaw Volleyball" will be shipping in early July 2003. Executive Produced by music veteran Nile Rodgers (Madonna "Like A Virgin," Duran Duran "The Reflex," and many others), the soundtrack will feature fresh, new artists such as Diffuser, Off By One, and Warrior (Shipping: July 8).

Activision Value Publishing, a division of Activision announced today that the company has extended its successful partnership with world-renowned outdoors hunting outfitter, Cabela's, Inc. through an exclusive multi-year video game licensing agreement that expires in 2014.

Have you ever wanted to have YOUR own avatar in a game? Or thought that you didn't have enough options to make the avatar YOU really wanted and envisioned? NOW is your chance to make that thought a reality! Participate in the "Face of Mankind Skinning Contest" and you could have your very own avatar in the game! Then what are you waiting for? Get skinning! Visit their Contest pages.

Sonic The Hedgehog creator Yuji Naka and SONICTEAM return with their first all-new platform game since the SEGA Saturn era! Darkness has fallen upon a once-magical land. An evil King who seeks to rule with an everlasting night has captured the creatures that inhabit this realm. Now, a young boy must use the powers of a legendary suit to control special eggs in order to restore light to the land. Read more to check a few new eggelicious screens or a nifty trailer...

They're cute. They're crazy. And they are out to dominate the world. They are the zany monkeys of Ape Escape 2 bursting with flavor exclusively on the PS2 this summer. Once again you have your hands full, trying to find and capture a horde of rampaging, playful primates across a wide range of fantastically varied levels. They have a whole new range of tricks up their sleeves - and you have some new gadgets to help you, and a new hero to control: instead of Spike, the hero from the first game you'll control Hikaru. Or at least, you will to start with...

Summer Heat Beach Volleyball is the only beach volleyball game available on the PlayStation 2. Gamers will take a trip to the world’s wildest summer locations for addictive 2 on 2 Beach Volleyball action and party with the hottest people on Earth! Check the new batch of screens!

Last week Cat Daddy Games releaved their latest cruise fleet strategy/sim game, Cruise Ship Tycoon, and today they reveal another 3 Tycoon titles currently in development. School Tycoon is an all-new life simulation strategy game that presents kids with the ultimate fantasy—the opportunity to rule their own school. Skateboard Park Tycoon III - will be the U.S. leg of the Skateboard Park Tycoon Tour. Snowboard Park II is another one of their upcoming titles, but no additional info available yet. Read more for details on the other titles ...

Publisher Strategy First and developers Paradox Entertainment and Slitherine Strategies announced today that Chariots of War, their new strategy title, has shipped to retail stores nation wide.

Hot on the heels of the freshly released Battlefield v1.4 patch/servers comes a beta version of the level editor for Battlefield 1942 appropriatly name Battlecraft 1942. The map editor comeswith a file including examples. Read more for details and download links ...

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time takes place within an exotic, mysterious world representing Persian architecture, animals and attire. After his father invades the palace of the Maharajah, the Prince, tricked by a treacherous vizier, uses a magic dagger to release the dangerous Sands of Time from an ornate hourglass. With the aid of a beautiful, mysterious, and potentially untrustworthy ally, players embody the Prince to recapture the Sands of Time and restore peace to the land. Check out the new screens ...

Following in the tradition of previous Blizzard expansion sets, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne provides gamers with a vast new chapter in the epic Warcraft saga. In the single-player campaign, players revisit the war-torn world of Azeroth. Several months have passed since Archimonde and the Burning Legion were defeated at the battle of Mount Hyjal, yet a new threat has arisen throughout the land.

After we had a leaked version, EA has now finally released the official v1.4 update patch for BattleField 1942. This upgrade includes two new rifles replacing earlier versions, some gameplay tweaks, graphical enhancements, networking improvements, bug fixes etc. The update comes in two flavors, one from the last v1.31 update or the full (and much larger) version. Read more for details and download links ...

NCsoft Corp, is pleased to announce that its massively multiplayer game, "City of Heroes" from Cryptic Studios, has been awarded Best Online Multiplayer game for E3 2003, by the highly regarded Game Critics Awards group

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

• The Sims 2 - E3 Trailer
• Need For Speed: UnderGround - E3 Trailer
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers became available. Read more for download links ...

Command an elite, multinational squad of special operatives against a hidden terrorist foe. In Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3, the third installment in the wildly popular Rainbow Six series, Team RAINBOW races against time to stop terror and unravel a mystery. In locations around the world, from London to the Cayman Islands to Rio de Janeiro, lead Team Rainbow in a desperate effort to battle a madman and foil his doomsday plot. Some new Xbox screens just rushed in. Check them out!