With Test Drive for PlayStation2 hitting the store shelves it's time to break out the cheat codes and experience some fun and exciting new cars. The game not only features SoundMAX SPX "animated audio" from Analog Devices, but three hidden SoundMAX cars that promise to tear up the tracks. The SoundMAX SPX audio rendering technology allows players to differentiate between the turbo charger on a V6 engine and the deep bass roar of a big block V8, thus bringing the game's engine sounds to life.

Wielding Anglo Saxon GBH on to 21st Century GBA, Barbarian looks set to become the undisputed heavyweight king of the handheld slash-‘em-ups when it is unleashed by Titus Software in October.

Ubi Soft Entertainment, one of the world's largest video game publishers, today announced that it has released a free upgrade for its multi-award winning WWII combat flight simulation title, IL-2 Sturmovik, in conjunction with game developer 1C Maddox Games. The free IL2-Sturmovik 1.1 Upgrade will include 10 new planes and a number of improvements to the already impressive simulation. The upgrade is now available for download at il2sturmovik.com. Read more below to check out what this new flyable aircraft added in the upgrade include.

THQ Inc. and JAKKS Pacific, Inc. today announced the release of their newest World Wrestling Entertainment licensed video game, "World Wrestling Entertainment WrestleMania X8" exclusively for Nintendo GameCube. "WWE WrestleMania X8" is backed by a multi-million dollar marketing campaign that includes national television, print support and point-of-purchase advertising. "WWE WrestleMania X8" features an original grapple-based engine that emphasizes simulation-style gameplay, accenting reversals and strong counter moves that Nintendo fans have grown to expect from past WWE videogames.

Well, it's looking like a quiet day, so here's a bunch of new James Bond 007 in... Agent Under Fire screens from the xbox and gamecube version "40 + 63 screens". Njoy!

RTX Red Rock follows in the tradition of classic award-winning original games from LucasArts such as Grim Fandango, The Dig, and Full Throttle. Today we bring you some new artwork to check out!

'Popular VeggieTales Characters Star in First Interactive PC Game' Big Idea Productions, creators of the best-selling direct-to-video VeggieTales children’s series, and ValuSoft, a leading global publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and productivity software, have teamed up to bring the trademark silliness and original stories of VeggieTales to children of all ages with the release of The Mystery of Veggie Island interactive PC game.

NWONation have compiled (from several sources, including Termite Games' Jim Malmros) a list of know bugs, problems and possible solutions for NWO Beta test. Problems like collision with walls, textures that don't show up etc. Get the full scoop here.

Coming soon "according to Reuters": a video game based on the botched 1993 raid in Somalia now known as "Black Hawk Down" and etched in American memory after two dead U.S. soldiers were dragged through the streets of Mogadishu. The company producing the game, Calabasas, California-based NovaLogic, said the game was patriotic, intended in part to educate the public about the U.S. mission in Somalia. But some critics question that aim and whether the game risks blurring the line between history and entertainment and altering perceptions about the bloodiest firefight in U.S. military history since Vietnam.

Planet Unreal today tossed up a new "15MB" medium-sized patch for Operation Na Pali. It fixes bugs throughout various maps and during Co-Op play. Find out more and download here!

The Hottest Ticket for Gamers Everywhere Gets Even Hotter with ATI's $60,000 Return to Castle Wolfenstein Team Tournament and $40,000 QUAKE III Arena Championships at QuakeCon.. QuakeCon 2002, the definitive fan-based gaming convention, will play host to more than just the ultimate LAN-fest and party this year as the Blitzkrieg hits the Mesquite Convention Center on Aug. 15-18, Mesquite, Texas. For the first time, QuakeCon 2002 will be home to both one-on-one and team-based tournaments boasting a combined $100,000 in cash, provided by ATI, QuakeCon 2002's title sponsor.

Defender brings an all-new 3-D remake of the original arcade classic to next-generation consoles, offering the only space-combat game that lets players rescue and defend humans from an alien onslaught with a combination of high-octane, space-combat action and strategic command.

Following a well established tradition, once again everybody (or almost everybody) from the games business met at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E³) in Los Angeles, to check the newest trends and present their forthcoming hot and innovative titles. And, of course to also take a glimpse at the booth babes… In Kentia Hall, CDV presented its biggest line-up of titles so far and impressed visitors and editors with its exciting array of games spanning over genres such as RTS, action shooter and role playing. Take me there!

One more highlight to impress visitors at CDV’s booth at E³ 2002 was the MMPORG Neocron by German developers Reakktor. Now’s your chance to prove that you have style and taste: get the sci-fi cyberpunk Screensaver of Neocron! Grab this 2.7MB screensaver here!

Today xaos.ru offer seven new screenshots from MADia's futuristic flight combat Echelon: Wind Warriors. Check out the screens right here.

The Darkfall Dev Team will be featuring in a Stratics sponsored House of Commons developer chat on June 13th at 6pm PST. Here is a cut and paste from the Darkfall site:

"Join us June 13th at 6pm PST (9pm EST) on Stratics IRC in #DarkfallHoC to ask the Darkfall developers all those questions you've just been dying to ask! The servers are: stratics.frws.com irc.stratics.dhp.com irc.truefear.net and coldfront.gamers-irc.org. Once again the channel will be #DarkfallHoC - Until then join us in #Darkfall for chat about the game and anything else!" (thanks Razorwax)

Mark Rein from Infogrames has updated their forum with following news:

We understand you are anxious for the demo but posting "where is the demo" threads here won't make it appear any sooner. When we think we're close to the demo (i.e. within 5-7 days) we'll let everyone know officially through this forum. We're not there yet, we're still more than a week away. We could be more than two weeks or even more than three weeks away. We're not holding out on people, we're just not done with the game yet and although a lot of the game is coming together very quickly we still have no 100% (or even 80%) accurate way to predict exactly when that will be. I promise the development team is working very, very hard to get an awesome, polished UT2003 in your hands. The demo will be released when we think we've got all the major functionality of the game complete so that the feedback from the demo can be focused 100% on things we weren't already aware needed to be addressed.

Bluesnews today tossed up 11 new O.R.B. screenshots from Strategy First and their upcoming space-based real-time strategy game. Check them out!

Alienware Corporation announced that their flagship system, the Area-51, is now available with Rambus 1066MHz RDRAM memory. Alienware's impressive lists of award-winning systems are aimed at providing gaming enthusiasts with the ultimate gaming experience. The Area-51 is the first system with 1066MHz RDRAM memory to hit the consumer desktop market. By pairing the newly released Pentium 4 Processor with 533MHz front side bus and 1066MHz RDRAM memory, the Area-51 delivers a seamless 4.2GB/s of memory bandwidth for optimal gaming performance.

Irrational Games announces the release of two new characters for the critically acclaimed tactical comic hero role-playing game Freedom Force. In a unique cross-over bonus, the mesh and skin for two supporting cast members of the horror adventure game The Lost are now available for play in Freedom Force.