Ubi Soft Entertainment, one of the world’s largest video game publishers, and CBS Consumer Products, CBS Enterprises, a division of CBS Broadcasting Inc. and Alliance Atlantis, today announced an exclusive licensing agreement for Ubi Soft to develop and publish games based on the popular television series CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATIONTM for all platforms. The PC version of the game will be the first to ship worldwide in the latter half of 2003.

Today at the Microsoft PC Games International Games Festival, Microsoft Game Studios announced that the newest version of its best-selling PC golf franchise, "Links 2003," is scheduled to hit store shelves this holiday season. PGA superstar Sergio Garcia returns to headline an all-star lineup of well-known professional golfers featured in "Links 2003."

Dungeon keepers, Cyclopes and golf pros headlined Las Vegas today as Microsoft PC Games unveiled its 2002--2003 games portfolio at the Microsoft PC Games International Games Festival. The two-day Las Vegas event celebrates innovation in gaming and spotlights some of the industry's greatest talents -- including Chris Taylor, Bruce Shelley and Brian Reynolds -- and the most anticipated PC games, from game-of-the-year contender "Age of Mythology " to "Dungeon Siege."

Grandia II takes the player to a world, in which good and evil are putting themselves in an endless fight. Before long time Granus gave humans the light to hope and it attained satisfaction. But Valmur, the prince of the darkness, tries to steal this light from the humans . Granus fights courageously, in order to protect mankind, but the fight lasts eternally. It is now over 10,000 years ago that this fight took place, but the earth trembles already again under the influence of the forthcoming fight. UbiSoft is releasing Grandia II for PS2 and PC .. Check the 2 mins long NEW trailer (17mb)!

Ubi Soft send us notice about a new trailer they just prepared on a new upcoming game ... not much info is known nor available .. but its called Hoodlum's .. Grab the Real Player Media File here (2mb) or get our converted mpeg file HERE (7mb)...

Sega of America today announced that its recently launched "Sonic Adventure 2 Battle" for the Nintendo GameCube was the #1 selling game for the system in its first week of sales according to independent retail data from NPD TRSTS (week ending 2/16/02). Selling five times more than the #2 title and as much as the next 12 titles combined, "Sonic Adventure 2 Battle" marks the debut of Sega's mascot, Sonic The Hedgehog, on a new next-generation video game system.

Konami is coming up with a weird sounding title for the Gameboy Advance, Zone of Enders: Fist of Mars. From the looks of it some sort of top down view shooter ... Check the Screens!

Microsoft today announced that Xbox, the future-generation video game system, will launch on 14th March 2002 with 20 titles on day one, and a total of 60 titles throughout the launch window (up until the end of June). The portfolio includes US best-sellers Halo, Project Gotham Racing and Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee (all from Microsoft Games Studios) as well as 3rd-party titles such as Max Payne (Take-Two Interactive), Dead or Alive 3 (Tecmo), FIFA World Cup 2002 (Electronic Arts) and Wreckless: The Yakuza Missions (Activision)

Heavy Metal Geomatrix is a 4-player, 'death match-style' fighting game that combines Capcom's legacy of great fighting games with the sexy characters and over-the-top fantasy worlds made famous in the Heavy Metal comic books and movies. Characters and their environments have been designed by world renowned and lead designer of the Heavy Metal franchises', Simon Bisley.

With the newly released State of Emergency going straight in at NUMBER ONE, Chart Track today confirmed that Take 2 Interactive is the FIRST EVER software publisher to hold the TOP THREE POSITIONS in the Playstation 2 chart.

Cannon Spike is a 3-D isometric shooter that challenges players to strategically avoid enemies' projectile attacks while simultaneously attacking them. Players choose from seven different beloved Capcom characters as they travel around the world on high-powered motor boots to destroy evil terrorist robots. The smooth, easy controls and rich depths of gameplay will satisfy the action genre's most discernible fans.

UbiSoft's "Batman : Vengeance" got reviewed a few days ago and we have some "left over" screens .. so we did not want you to feel left out .. so here they are ;)

Strategy First announced today that the exciting new real-time strategy game, Diggles has gone gold, but will be shipped later next month.

Activision Value Publishing, a division of Activision Publishing, Inc. has launched an assault on gamers everywhere with Shadow Force: Razor Unit, a newly released first person action game for the PC.

Black Cactus' let us know that their first RTS PC Title "Warrior Kings" is just about to be released "February 28th" ! Find out more news around this game below!

Anita Rodic, PR Manager with CDV Software in Germany, publisher of Brat Designs' BREED let us know that they have a new 2.8 MB trailer posted. This new BREED trailer displays the actual development stage of the game (the trailer can only be viewed with Divx4-code, freeware available at Divx.com). You find the trailer HERE!

Get ready for some action-packed fun - Stuart-style! Infogrames, Inc. a leading publisher of computer and video games, and Sony Pictures Consumer Products announced today that the Stuart Little 2 PC CD-ROM game will ship just in time for the July 2002 debut of the Stuart Little 2 motion picture.

THQ International Ltd, a subsidiary of THQ Inc. today announced its critically acclaimed Red Faction for PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system, is to be republished as part of the launch line-up of the PS2 ‘Platinum’ collection across Europe.

Gamers will be immersed into a world of terror that comes vividly to life in JowooD Productions latest PC title AquaNox, which utilizes NVIDIA's innovative new technology GeForce3. Aquanox, which is due for release in March 2002 is set in the ocean after Earth's surface has been shattered by nuclear warfare. This underwater, action shooter is one of the first to demonstrate GeForce3's enhanced graphics with photo-realistic environments, creating a visually stunning world submerged under the sea.