The excitement escalated today after members of the Strategy First Disciples II development team announced that they have officially released the new demo for this year's most highly anticipated turn-based fantasy strategy game, Disciples II: Dark Prophecy.

Keep your head down and your morale high as you storm the beaches of Normandy to defeat the dreaded Nazi scourge. Electronic Arts today announced that Medal of Honor Allied Assault has shipped for the PC.

Russobit-M company is happy to announce their participation in Milia 2002. This year they present the wide range of the games from several developer companies, which are their permanent partners.

GSC Game World: historical RTS American Conquest , tactical team 3D action Oblivion Lost , arcade first-person shooter FireStarter , futuristic arcade races HoveRace.

Burut: 3d FPS Kreed , the turn-based RPG GoldenLand.

Revolt Games: space simulator HomePlanet , 3d shooter Neuro.

The ultimate evolution of motorcycle racing comes to Game Boy Advance! Forget the future – this is the here and now. Forget 4 wheels – 2 are faster. Get your knee down in the corner and hold tight on the straights as you hit over 300 KPH on 16 of the World’s most famous and challenging circuits, including Le Mans, Donington Park, Motegi and more. The best riders from 21 countries compete over 9 exciting and gruelling months to take the championship in the purest combination of man, machine, adrenaline and speed. Screens and facts below!

Interactive Ideas, one of the UK's leading distributors are publishing their first ever PC game Atrox. The strategy game has seen success in many countries including Korea and Germany and will be released in the UK market in April.

VideoLogic Systems - a division of Imagination Technologies - announces its ZXR-500 5.1 channel surround sound speaker system. The stylish silver ZXR-500 provides outstanding quality audio for surround sound games and movies for just £79.99 (inc. VAT UK).

Original, provoking and rich in storyline, Yager captures your imagination as you battle for your life in tomorrow’s hostile skies. But is all what it seems…? Keep your wits about you, and use what you learn, as your struggle evolves to become the fight against constitutional power, conspiracy and control.

Ubi Soft will be at multi-media exhibition, Milia on 5-8 February, in Cannes, to unveil a number of its leading titles for 2002. The group will present a selection of its products for PCs, Game Boy Advance, Xbox video game system from Microsoft, PlayStation 2 and NINTENDO GAMECUBE.

Jester Interactive will release the first of its motorsport titles, with Super Trucks - the official game of the truck racing championship. Release date: PS2 - April 2002. Screens below.

The Age of Mythology site has today been updated with some new shots from this upcoming 3D RTS game. Find out more here.

Strategyplanet today released four new screenshots straigth from the Heroes of Might and Magic preview build which was sent to gaming publications recently. Please note that these screens is quite large (between 500 and 800 KB each) so that you can enjoy every little pixel. Check them out below!

GamingGroove let us know that Amazon "again" posted up a new TRIBES title "Tribes Fast Attack" that will be released on November 30, 2002. Remember though, it's still unconfirmed. We have to wait and see!

Will there be an Empire Earth Expansion?? It seems that Amazon has an Empire Earth Expansion in its product listings, with a release date set for October 2, 2002. Check it out your self HERE. We have to wait and see if it's true or not!

3D Realms have just released two new patches for Max Payne, one for the demo and one for the retail version. Grab the Demo patch HERE and grab the Retail patch HERE. These patches fix the following problems:

* Game exits with the error message "Out of memory vertex buffer".
* Game exits when loading a new level.

The official EVE Web site has been updated with as follow: A nine minute movie trailer, a bunch of new screenshots, some new mp3s, new concept art and a new background piece on drugs in the EVE universe. Check it out!

The official Imperium Galactica III site offers a new 42.9 Mb movie for download of Philos Entertainment space combat strategy game. The movie is available here.

Activision, Inc. and id Software have teamed up with the Online Gaming League to host the Return to Castle Wolfenstein "Battle on the Beachhead" tournament. Gamers from across North America will hit the front lines and battle for world domination and exciting prizes including the Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo Game Boy Advance and hundreds of popular games. The tournament will run from January 29 through March 12, 2002 at wolf.worldogl.com, on the Speakeasy Network, home of the largest broadband gaming community and the official ISP of the OGL.

Stockholm based games developer Paradox Entertainment, has finished work on the role-playing game Valhalla Chronicles and will be releasing it in signed territories starting in March.

Strategic Studies Group has updated the official site for Warlords Battlecry 2 with some new features and new screens. There is also new information about the three armies, The Summoner, Hellbore and Spider.

EA send us some nice fishing screens from the upcoming game, Matt Hayes' Fishing. The releasedate for this new title is March 15 2002.