Online multiplayer middleware developer Quazal and THQ announced today that they have signed an agreement that will see the THQ studios add Quazal's Net-Z and Rendez-Vous technologies for use in their online efforts through 2007.

Test Drive Unlimited challenges players online to experience the most exotic and fastest vehicles on more than 1000 miles of diverse Hawaiian roads. Gamers win races, challenges, missions and tournaments to earn credits and purchase new cars, bikes, rare performance parts, clothes, apparel, homes and garages.

Teenage Goth-Metal girl designs extreme metal racing video game based in Hell…. Earache Extreme Metal Racing will feature ten evil Earache racing teams burning a lot more than rubber through hell and other wastelands.

After two years of development Climax's Warhammer Online was cancelled after which Games Workshop granted its license to Mythic Entertainment. Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is an MMO game for PC and console set in the fantasy world of Warhammer.

MMO developers MindArk have announced today it has signed an agreement with Massive Incorporated to incorporate streaming ads in latest title Project Entropia, making it even more real life than ever before.

Call of Juarez is situated in 19th-century Wild West America and requires a combination of both intelligent stealth and pure shooting. Fast-paced revolver duels using historically accurate firearms, horseback riding, and memorable locations combine with top-notch graphics and an enthralling soundtrack to immerse both casual and hardcore players.

Atari today announced that the world's first console massively open online racing game, Test Drive: Unlimited, will launch for the PC platform in Fall 2006, while the Xbox 360 edition is on schedule for a Summer 2006 release.

Either play the 20 mission campaign or choose to try the randomly generated missions. Emergency 4 will feature realistic physics (walls collapsing, fire spreading), simplified controls, as well as a multiplayer mode.

An ongoing discussion in the EA community forums regarding a stuttering issue in the PC version of Need For Speed Most Wanted concluded with the forum admin revealing there will be no more patches due to "time and resources." Although in early February the team was apparently doing some testing to investigate the issue, EA recently decided to drop all NFS Most Wanted support (thanks ve3d). On the bright side, EA promises to do better in future releases ... really ...