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.

3DO send us six new ingame screens from High Heat Major League Baseball 2003. Release date PC March 28.. Check them out below!

Update: We just recived six extra screens, this time from the PS2 version. Njoy!

Capcom Eurosoft today confirmed its intention to release Resident Evil for Nintendo GameCube this summer. Shinji Mikami, mastermind of the blockbuster franchise Resident Evil and the creator of the survival horror genre, takes control again re-inventing his original masterpiece.

Team 17's forthcoming OnlineWorms game is already being hailed a phenomenal success in Korea, with over one million registered members having signed up at www.onlineworms.com for beta testing duties. A pre-release version of the game has been available in Korea since Mid-December and with up to 25,000 new members signing up daily! Team 17 is now predicting 1,200,000 members by the end of February.

Ultima Online: Lord Blackthorn's Revenge offer both the new and current player a host of new and exciting features significantly expanding the depth of the experience offered in the game world. We have five new screens for you to check out.

Capcom send us 17 new Japanese shots, showing the inventory screens, Barry Burton and some frightening worms. Check them out!

MPH is an arcade-racer that lets players experience incredible speeds while illustrating down-to-earth real world locations and vehicle designs. MPH features gameplay-friendly arcade physics, an effective damage model, and performs various tricks with the camera setup in order to simulate insane speeds without making the game uncontrollable. We have four more shots of this Swedish racing action, this time showing the damage model.

Chris Beatrice, designer of Pharaoh and many other worldwide bestselling titles, has parted from Impressions Games after many years to establish his own studio, Tilted Mill Ent. Inc.

Today reviews, previews links.. GameSpot tossed up a Destroyer Command review, a Command & Conquer: Renegade review is available over at ActionTrip, LoadedInc smacked up a review from Medal of Honor: A A and GameSpy today made a preview of Links 2003.

The official site for the 3D real-time strategy game by Edgies, Dark Planet: Battle for Natrolis is now available. The site offers features, screens, some movies and FAQ.

GamersPulse tossed up the announcement and screens from Boston Animations upcoming RPG, Shaman. There is also an interview with the studio's president and founder, Dale Desharone, and Andy Wolfendon, VP and Lead Designer, to find out more about this Native American-themed RPG. Bring me there.

A new movie from Global Operations is now available for download from Shacknews. This time you can check out some gameplay footage in Windows Media Player format from the Columbia mission.

Blues have tossed up the first screenshot from Flying Labs and their upcoming horror action adventure game, Delta Green.

The official website for Mobile Forces is now online. Mobile Forces is an offline/online multiplayer-only action shooter that offers an explosive combination of traditional FPS combat with realistically modelled player vehicles. You can decide to play offline against highly skilled AI bots, or go online and take on the Mobile Forces community. Take me there!

BYTE Software, that is an Slovakian developer, today unveiled SPECNAZ: Project Wolf. This new game is an outdoor tactical first-person shooter based on the Russian special forces. Find out more over at the official site.

We got some new screens from following Game Cube games: StarFox Adventures: Dinosaur Planet "4 screens", Metroid Prime "10 screens" and Mario Sunshine "2 screens". Njoy!

There has been a lot of speculation around the stanby page Ubi Soft tossed up a few days back, and finally today they confirms a new title, Rainbow Six: Raven Shield.. Head over to this standby "Raven Shield" site to check out some new video clip!

The developers of Fate of the Dragon are back with their latest real-time strategy game, Dragon Throne: Battle of Red Cliffs and together with Strategy First and Gigex, this is your chance to check it out! This demo will take you through a training scenario, 2 missions and the first mission from Liu Bei’s campaign. Get a taste for leadership as you build your kingdom and develop new technologies, establish strategic alliances and create a mighty army in an attempt to unify the nation.

Shiver me timbers! Computer and video game publisher Gathering of Developers, a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. along with developer Frog City Software, today announced "Tropico 2: Pirate Cove," the sequel to the publisher's top-selling Caribbean simulation, "Tropico." Set on a hidden pirate island and starring some of history's scurviest sea dogs, the game is scheduled to ship this fall.