The norwegian Battle Realms fansite Kings of Norway is inviting to a weekly screenshot competition. The weekly winners will compete for "Winner of The Month" and they have great prices (courtesy of Ubisoft Denmark): "-Unique Battle Realms Poster" "-Great dark green Tshirt (size large) with silver BR logo" "-Chinese metall meditation balls in Battle Realms pack". To participate you need to be a resident of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland or Denmark. The competition rules and registration (in norwegian language) is found here!

A new version of Tactical Ops "the mod for Unreal Tournament" is said to be released today. Head over to the official website or jump into their irc channel #tacticalops on irc.gamesnet.net to find out more.

Update: This new mod is now finally out. It comes in patch versions as well as full install. Njoy!

Trade Wars: Dark Millennium is the first persistent Massive Multiplayer Online Game (MMPOG) set in a science-fiction universe that allows players to explore both the vastness of space and distant worlds. Players can pilot ships to navigate through hundreds of space sectors and explore planets with mysterious uncharted lands.

Netamin have announced, Ultimate Baseball Online. The game is said to be the first massively-multiplayer online sports title. The beta test starts in the middle of 2002: the first round of testing will most likely start in April and then another round will be in June. UBO is more than a PC game; more than a TCP/IP game; UBO is a client server baseball game. You will need Internet access to play. Sign up here.

Shifters is a revolutionary third-person adventure title featuring shape-shifting, due to be published on PS2 in January 2002. We now have the Shifters Character Morph 3 AVI's available for download in one 8.5 Mb file. Grab this babe here! Recent screens are available here.

3DO send over some new wallpapers the PS2 games, Dragon Rage and Shifters. Read more below to check them out and download.

Gaming Intelligence Agency have tossed up 34 new PlayStation 2 high-resolution screens of Squaresoft's upcoming MMORPG, Final Fantasy XI. Squaresoft might bring this one for PC aswell.. Take me to the screens!

Blizzard update.. Again as normal Blizzard updated their site again with following news:

New Warcraft III Unit, The Huntress, a Night Elf Unit in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, is now featured on the Warcraft III Races Page. The Sentinel has been renamed to the Huntress and now rides a Nightsabre panthers. The Huntress still has an Owl pet.

Warcraft III Spell Update, Learn about Raise Dead, an ability of the Necromancer, an Undead Unit in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. Raise the Dead now raises multiple Skeleton Warriors instead of either Skeletons or Skeleton Archers.

Ensemble Studios' latest real-time strategy game will be available in September of 2002. To celebrate, they recently unveiled a movie that showcases the ancient Norse civilization. You can grab this 15 meg video here or here.

Ghost Recon expansion will contain eight new solo missions based in Africa and centered on a future struggle between Ethiopia and Eritrea. The expansion will also feature a new environment - the Eritrean desert - new enemies, and new desert uniforms for the Ghosts. Release is set to March 2002.

Team Factor is a stand-alone multi-player action game designed with team play in mind. The games mission, environment and objective is inspired by the "shadow" military operations - whether real or fiction style. Six new screens to check out ..

On January 24th, LucasArts.com will host an Exclusive Chat Event featuring Dale Geist, Producer for Star Wars Racer Revenge. You can meanwhile take a look at more Podracers in action -- 10 spectacular new screenshots have just been added!

Zoo Tycoon - Magnet, a polar bear from The Baltimore Zoo, was given the top honor in the nationwide Zoo Tycoon Beast in Show Contest! And now, you can add Magnet to your Zoo Tycoon game! Just visit the Zoo Tycoon site for details about this special download.

GameSpot sits down and talk to Digital Extremes lead designer Pancho Eekels about Unreal Tournament II, "the recently confirmed first-person shooter".

Pancho Eekels: Unreal II is a single-player-focused mission-based game and has lots of story and background, tasks, and events, as well as a bit more action than the original. Unreal Tournament 2 is a sequel to the original multiplayer-focused action-packed game for the PC. Unreal Championship for Xbox is similar to Unreal Tournament 2 in the multiplayer focus and action but incorporates the element of console play into an FPS that many have not been able to do yet.

The turn-based strategy game Disciples II: Dark Prophecy from Strategy First returns you to the magical realm of the Sacred Lands where four races - the Empire, the Mountain Clans, the Legions of the Damned and the Undead Hordes - continue the battle for the destiny of their Gods.

Six new preview movies of Kreed is now available on Giga.de. Each of the six movies requires the DivX codec, and range from 12 to 46 Mb in size. Kreed is a upcoming shooter being developed by Burut. Here they are.

Once again the Medal of Honor site is hosting a new preview movie, this time showing off some footage of the tank in action. The movie is in .mov format, and available in both 1.4 and 4.2Mb download. Grab this one here.

Leisure announced today that seven of the company's hit arcade titles for DVD Video including Dragon's Lair, Space Ace and Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp are now Mac compatible. The latest Mac Operating System, version 10.1, enables fans of these much-loved titles to enjoy these classics for the first time at home.

Activision gave us an update on the 1.1 patch for Castle Wolfenstein. It looks like the patch will be released on Monday and not today as some sites hinted. Here is a snap..

The Return to Castle Wolfenstein 1.1 multiplayer patch that was originally scheduled to be released late this week will be available on Monday. We had a minor issue with the update installer which we have fixed and are now testing. This is a multiplayer only patch (does not affect single player at all), and will be compatible with the original 1.0 version of the game.

Good evening or morning, whatever.. I'm back after the big holiday, X-Mas and New Year.. Hope you all had a good vacation.. Now back to the news shall we ;). Well i just scoured around for Unreal Tournament 2 news and found some interesting scanned screens from next issue of PC Gamer. I snagged them for your viewing pleasure and tossed them up with some other UT2 in-game screens. Check them out. Enjoy!