Today Lucasarts tossed up the first of a four part 'history of LucasArts'. This portion focuses on the company's origins, beginning in 1982 when video games were a new phenomenon. The information in this story is based on company documents, historical publications from other developers and publishers, and past and present employee recollections. (thanks TTG) "Coming next, Part Two: The Classics, 1990-1994"

Planet Duke has updated their Duke Nukem Forever FAQ with a load of new pieces of information including weapons, types of missions, multiplayer, and more. Head on over to the official DNF FAQ to read more!

BCM Gold was announced earlier today and is scheduled for a tentative Christmas release. BCM Gold is an update to Battlecruiser Millennium. In addition to numerous fixes, upgrades and new features, BCM Gold includes several unique enhancements. Read more for features!

Competition Evolved: Halo National Championship Registration Begins Today.. Microsoft Game Studios today announced the Halo National Championship in conjunction with iGames and Electronics Boutique. Halo players nationwide can stop trying to make Warthogs fly and start winning some serious prizes. Prizes at stake include an RCA 50-inch plasma flat screen television, Bose Lifestyle 35 surround sound audio systems, Xbox video game systems, controllers, and stacks of Xbox games.

The official American Conquest site is now online! There you can find all the information regarding this up and coming masterpiece by Ukrainian developers GSC Gameworld. The RTS masters who have brought us Cossacks and its offspring, are now working 24/7 on American Conquest. The website features a wallpaper as well as a pre-registration for the demo. In CDV tradition, the banner competition is not missing either. This time you have the chance to win one of 50 American Conquest copies!

The flood of WWII based games keeps on coming. Seems like all companies want to have their piece of the cake and some are more likely to get some than others. GI Combat is one of the promising games and we now have some more up to date screens ... Way To Go FreeDom Games!

There is an update patch available for Red Storm's recently released squad-based tactical shooter, 'The Sum of All Fears' . The patch brings the US edition of the game to v1.1.1.0. Read more for details and links where to get it ...

YES! A single-player demo of Battlefield 1942 is now available and ready for download ... lets GO! The demo to this highly anticipated vehicular 3D action game by Digital Illusions sports 1 mission set in Tobruk. Read more for links where to grab this puppy (we'll be updating as they become more available). Njoy! (Thanks Blues)

*UPDATE* Tried it on a P4 1.7/Geforce4MX/WinXP and can not get it to work .. jumps back to desktop as soon as the actual game starts ... Feel free to comment...

The ultimate off-road driving adventure is heading for the Nintendo Gamecube this summer. Smuggler’s Run: Warzones, the first Smuggler’s Run title to grace the Gamecube console offers the most dynamic smuggling challenge yet. As an elite international smuggler working in the most volatile warzones on earth, the player careens through large, expansive environments from the treacherous terrain of Vietnam to the extreme conditions of Eastern Europe.

Strategy First just let us know that they have released a new patch for their Turn Based Strategy game, Disciples II. The patch mainly addresses several game crashes and upgrades the game to v1.4. Read more for detailed fix list and links where to grab em ...

Raven just let us know that they have released an update to the single-player SDK for Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix. This version 1.01a has the single-player QERadiant executable with associated control files, the original v1.01 SDK is required download. Read more for details and links where to grab it ...

Peace appears to have broken out between aggressive graphics chip company Nvidia and belligerent graphics chip company Microsoft, if reports in today's Economic News of Taiwan are to be credited.

As Colin McRae, players drive through a grueling series of international rally locations and experience the feel of tarmac, gravel, dirt and rain-soaked road surfaces. In each season, players compete in six rallies, complete with six stages and Super Special stage. Before each rally, a Shakedown day allows racers to perfect the set up of their car. Read more for links where to grab it ...

Guillemot is on par with their latest graphical beast .. hot on the heels of ATI announcing their new 9700 chipline Guillemot/Hercules send us some features of their 3D Prophet line which will of course features the 9700 chip .. check it out ...

We just received 2 new screens showing off the "Ohio" map in Monolith/Sierr'as upcoming first person shooter No One Lives Forever 2 : A Spy In H.A.R.M.'s Way. Check them out ...

Lara Croft has long been pulling the heartstrings of video gamers across the world. Yesterday she was pulling other strings as she conducted the London Symphony Orchestra in the recording of the soundtrack for her new video game, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness, to be released in November this year. yum yum, photos included, read more below!

The space RTS game Starmageddon: Project Earth from Polish developer Lemon Interactive will now be released in the UK under the name Project Earth by publisher Mindscape. The change in name has materialised to avoid any confusion between Project Earth and SCI’s Carmageddon.

100 years in the future Red Rock, mankind's first colony on Mars, is besieged by a brutal alien force and military leaders on faraway Earth are stymied -- so they call on Radical Tactics Expert (RTX) Eugene Zeno "E.Z." Wheeler as their best hope in RTX Red Rock from LucasArts. RTX Red Rock is an epic third-person action-adventure expected to release spring 2003 on PlayStation 2 and Nintendo GameCube... Today we offer you two new screens to check out!

Entertainment software publisher NovaLogic Ltd. today announced plans to release an open multiplayer beta test for the eagerly awaited title Delta Force - Black Hawk Down. The beta test will be one multiplayer level and is scheduled for release at the beginning of August 2002.

Developed by Reakktor Media, Neocron is a MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) set in a post-apocalyptic metropolis. In it, players become a citizen of Neocron, choosing an avatar from one of four classes: Psi Monk, Tank, Private Eye or Spy.