Barbican Gallery today announced the launch of its microsite dedicated to "Game On", the first major and most comprehensive UK exhibition to explore the 40-year history of computer gaming (1962-2002). The general public will now be able to book advance tickets by accessing the new microsite.

Midway Games Inc., a leading software industry publisher and developer, announced today that SpyHunter, the all-new remake of Midway's popular 1980's action-racing game, will ship tomorrow for the Nintendo GameCube and the Xbox video game system from Microsoft. SpyHunter is scheduled to ship for the Game Boy Advance in June and is available now for the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system.

Rage, the UK-based computer games publisher and developer, is pleased to announce Twin Caliber, a state-of-the-art third person action-shooter equipped a unique method of game control, due for release on the Sony PlayStation2 computer entertainment system in late 2002. Some quality shots for you to enjoy!

According to Irrational Games's Jonathan Chey (project manager) the eagerly awaited Freedom Force has gone gold! He had the following to say on their message board :

"Good news everyone, Freedom Force has "gone gold", i.e. been approved for manufacturing! This means that it will be in stores soon. I don't have the final on-shelf date but I believe it will still be around the last in week of March. It's been a long road but the results are worth it. The game is cool and I think you will all have a lot of fun with it. We are working on a demo which should be available before the game hits the shelves, i.e. real soon now. Stay tuned for further info."

PlayStation gamers get a dose of all-out action to prove that pure, addictive gameplay doesn’t come at a price. If there's one reason the PlayStation 2 is backwards compatible, this is it. This May will see the release of Metal Slug X and the resurrection of classic arcade action on the PSone that will blow away the competition.

Ubi Soft Entertainment announces a must-buy for fans of Alfred Hitchcock, with a deal to bring the PC game, Alfred Hitchcock The Final Cut to the U.S. and Canada. The adventure game, based on some of Hitchcock's best movies, will be released this month at an MSRP of $29.99. This title was already released in Europe some 4 months ago.

Only weeks after unveiling its European marketing and operations headquarters, VisionTek, a leading provider of advanced graphics and memory solutions for PCs, today announced that it is the first company in Europe to deliver GeForce4 Ti4600, NVIDIA Corporation’s flagship GeForce4 product, into the European retail channel. Working with retailers in the UK and Germany, VisionTek began shipping its Xtasy GeForce4 Ti 4600 AGP graphics accelerator board on March 1st.

A few days ago we announced Empire was coming up with a new spiffy looking tennis game, today we have 24 new screens to prove to you they means business ... been a while since i saw a game from Empire looking THIS good!! Njoy

There is an a new trailer from Ubi Soft's Grandia II game to grab over at BonusWeb and a Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones trailer is available to grab over at EvilAvatar.

ARUSH Entertainment today tossed up the official Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project Site. Take a closer look at this third-person platform action game HERE.

Tiscali got the first Grand Prix 4 promo video from Infogrames, which is 1 minute long and takes 6 MB to download in DivX codec: It's available from 2 mirrors here.

NCsoft(TM) Corporation, the world's largest independent online game company, announced today that it will publish one of the most anticipated online game titles currently in development, Cryptic Studios' City of Heroes. The game will bring the concept of superhero role-playing to the massively multiplayer (MMP) genre and add yet another impressive title to NCsoft's growing list of online games.

We just recived six new PC screens and four new PS2 screens from 3DO and their upcoming title, High Heat Major League Baseball 2003. Read more below to check them out!

The official site for the RTS, Sudden Strike II, is now available. The site offers FAQ, some screens, game overview and much more. Check it out.

After firmly solidifying its market position with sales exceeding 8.8 million units in North America, Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. today announced that it will offer users the option to play games online through PlayStation 2 beginning August 2002. Today's announcement represents the first step toward the company's overall vision of PlayStation 2 as a mass-market broadband platform in the home.

Tecmo, Inc. announced today that it will be releasing a Booster Disc for the game Dead or Alive 3, available only on the Xbox video game system from Microsoft.

Vivendi send us two new screenshots from their upcoming GBA title, Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, in which you can also feel the emanations from Frodo's ring.. Enjoy!

"Warrior Kings Demo" available at 3DGamers or BonusWeb, offering the opportunity to try out this imminent 3D real-time strategy game by Black Cactus and Microids (which is already out in Europe). Talk about a Whopper, 249.3 MB download size, which brings you a tutorial and a single-player level from the full game.

While we are all still enojying the freshly released Renegade, Westwood and EA are already hard at work to bring us the next episode .. mentioned a few days ago it has now become clearer that the former Red Alert2/Yuri's Revenge developers are working on C&C Generals .. Gamespot has got an article up on the "first hours of C&C Generals", basically .. how it all started .. quite a nice read!

If you are having trouble with the single player missions in Westwood's latest installment of the C&C franchise then you can find useful tips/hints/walkthrough for the first 2 missions at WestWood's page ... if you need help with the Opening Mission: The Scorpion Hunters or with Mission 1: Rescue & Retribution follow the links ... In need of some multiplayer help? Go HERE!! Frag away!