Computer game 'Hooligans', developed by Dutch company Darxabre has launched in the UK today, aimed towards the huge adult market for computer games. Less than 1% of such games are rated as 18 by the ELSPA or BBFC rating systems. Clearly, computer games are not just for kids. There is now a massive market for games, which appeal to adults on the basis of their levels of difficulty and challenge, not because the graphic content is of an adult nature. Personally .. i think the ELSPA and BBFC are a bunch of whinebags .. but hey .. thats just me .. Now lets knock the s**t out of the other team ..

1503 A.D. send us a note about that they updated their community section today with Part XII: Farewell and Departure. Here is a snippet from it:

Early in the morning, my entire family accompanies me to the harbor of our home town. "Will you bring back beautiful and wondrous things from strange places for us?" My sisters are still waiting for my reply when I am rendered speechless by the sight of the three ships anchoring in the harbor. Read more here.

Imperium Galactica 3: Genesis is a story-based single player strategy game. Starting in 2040, you are in control of the fleet of a multinational cooperation fighting a rivalling cooperation. The discovery of foreign technology leads to expeditions into space. When you return to Earth you find it occupied by Aliens. Only one colonizing spaceship with humans escaped. Your task is to find this ship, use it to build colonies and to finally gather enough strength to take back Earth.

Westward Ho! In No Man's Land, the player leads the colonization of the American continent between 1600 und 1900. In three campaigns, divided into 30 diversified missions, the player sees the historical development of this era from the viewpoint of six different ethnic groups: Englishmen, settlers, American patriots, Spaniards and forest- and prairie Indians. This game is in an early stage, thus we bring you EARLY screens!

Set in World War II, Sudden Strike is a tactical war game with authentic historical background and compelling gameplay. We have three new screens that you can check out below.

Grandia II takes players into a world where the legends of good and evil must once again face each other in a timeless battle. Long ago, Granus gave the Light of Hope upon the people and humans gained great prosperity. However, Valmur, the Evil of Darkness attempted to deprive the Light from the people. Granus valiantly fought to protect the humans and the fight was never-ending. It has been over 10,000 years since the battle of Light and Darkness has taken place, as the ground begins to tremble with the anticipation of the impending battle.

Strategy First and Auran are pleased to announce that they have signed a licensing agreement with Discreet, a division of Autodesk, Inc. to create, publish and distribute a gmax game pack for their new model railroad simulation, Trainz.

THQ Inc. today announced it will publish Disney/Pixar’s Monsters, Inc. (working title) for Nintendo GameCube. Scheduled for fall 2002 release, the game will be based on the Academy Award-nominated animated film, Disney/Pixar’s Monsters, Inc.

Capcom Eurosoft today announced plans to release Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny for the PlayStation2 computer entertainment system this summer. This highly anticipated title is a sequel to last year's award-winning and multi-million unit selling blockbuster Onimusha: Warlords. Pressrelease with facts and screens below!

Capcom Eurosoft today confirmed it will be publishing Everblue for the PlayStation 2 entertainment system this Spring. Developed by Arika, the creators of the incredibly successful Streetfighter franchise, Everblue is an adventure game with a unique twist.

New Maps! The second official map pack for Yuri's Revenge has arrived. In this download players will find two never before seen official maps created by the Yuri's Revenge team. Find out more here.

Return to Castle Wolfenstein has gotten even more recognition: the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences has awarded the game both Best Online Game of the Year and Best Computer Action/Adventure Game of the Year! So the next time you're going behind enemy lines on a server near you, give a shout out to Nerve and Gray Matter for creating the game that everyone is playing!

Midway Games Inc., a leading software industry publisher and developer, announced today that Gauntlet Dark Legacy for the Nintendo GameCube will ship tomorrow and is scheduled to ship for the Xbox video game system from Microsoft in April. Gauntlet Dark Legacy is available now for the PlayStation2 computer entertainment system.

Shrapnel Games is proud to announce that the latest game from Malfador Machinations, Space Empires: IV Gold, has shipped. Pressrelease, details on this game and information on how to order can be found below.

We snapped and tossed up 3 new screens from blizzards upcoming RTS, Warcraft 3. Njoy!

Update: Blizzard today posted up some news about the upcoming Warcraft Beta Patch 1.10. Find out more here about this patch!

Ubi Soft Entertainment, one of the world's largest videogame publishers, today announced plans to develop and publish the next installment of the best-selling Rainbow Six series of games with Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Raven Shield. Ubi Soft will release Rainbow Six: Raven Shield on the PC in the fall of 2002, with the Xbox version of the game soon to follow. Read more below for full announcement and first screens.

This is the game they could not ban. Developed and wholly funded by Dutch fledgling Darxabre, Hooligans - Storm over Europe is essentially a PC CD Rom. Semi spoof on football hooliganism. It is a real-time strategy (RTS) game set now (not in some distant surreal stupid past world) dealing with the real problems of modern day society.

Rage, the computer games publisher and developer, today announces that it has launched a new dedicated web site for its forthcoming PC title, Mobile Forces.

In an exciting awards ceremony, The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) awarded top honors to three products from the Vivendi Universal Games Partner Publishing Group. Dark Age of Camelot, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance and Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal received awards at the fifth annual AIAS ceremony held at The Joint in the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on the first evening of the D.I.C. E. Summit.

Octagon Entertainment has signed People Can Fly as its newest client and is seeking worldwide publishing for the team’s debut title, Painkiller. Former Lemon Interactive designer Adrian Chmielarz, who directed the development of Starmageddon (otherwise known as Project Earth in the US) and Odium (a.k.a. Gorky 17) for Metropolis Software, recently founded the Polish development team.