Nevrax today announced that The Saga of Ryzom, its graphically stunning multi-genre massively multiplayer online role-playing game, would be launching in September of this year. Ryzom is a third-generation 3D game that features a highly original poetic universe designed for the general public. Read more for new screens ...

Jesper Kyd, the electronic and symphonic composer of the Hitman series, today announced he has partnered with Nile Rodgers’ Sumthing Else Musicworks record label and Sumthing Distribution to market and distribute the original soundtrack for Eidos’ No.1 selling Hitman: Contracts. The album is released today at music retailers including Amazon, Best Buy, CDNow, HMV, Musicland, Tower, and Virgin. The official soundtrack CD is also available to order from www.sumthing.com.

The main concept behind Unreal Annihilation is to bring the RTS style of Total Annihilation to Unreal Tournament 2003. To do this, we plan to employ two methods; The classic Overhead view, and the engine's favorite First Person view. Both of these views will aid the player in leading his units to victory. Read more for download links ...

Revealed by Gamers.nl several weeks ago, today details for Illusion Softworks' Hidden & Dangerous 2 expansion pack Sabre Squadron have emerged. Scheduled for release in September 2004, Sabre Squadron will feature 9 new singleplayer missions, 3 new mp missions, improved AI and various new weapons (thanks Bluesnews). Read more for details ...

Another day, another batch of game trailers were released. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are trailers for :

• Pathologic - Trailer
• Pacific Storm - Trailer

Set in 16th century Japan, the fall of the Ashikaga Shogunate caused a series of major wars between individual warlords vying for power. This era in Japanese history became known as the Sengoku or "warring states" period. 'Samurai Warriors' reveals the stories from this dramatic era and combines it with the Tactical Action excitement for which KOEI has become known. Read more for new screens...

Four King of Iron Fist Tournaments fought. Twenty-three million units sold worldwide. Ten years past since Tekken first made history. In 2005, the landmark series returns to revolutionize console fighting one more time. Not much official information available, so read more for some new screens...

The game will provide players with extremely dynamic gameplay of fast and tough combats, where players are to oppose dangerous and wise enemies, a large set of multifarious weaponry, possibility to control various machinery, incredible detailing and game world interactivity, story-driven single player with original team gameplay, a well-balanced multiplayer with numerous modes: DeathMatch, CTF, Cooperative, various team games and much more.

Gooka: Mystery of Janatris is a point and click style RPG adventure – take on the role of Judge Gooka, who, on arriving home after a long journey discovers his house has been razed to the ground, his wife in a critical condition and his son vanished. Travel through many exciting and varied locations to piece together the clues that will help you progress through the game, saving your wife and rescuing your son. Check the freshly launched website or read more for some new screens.

A demo for the remake of Papyrus' 1998 Grand Prix 1967 has been released. GPL 2004 is a community project, and while this demo contains the same Watkins Glen track as before, it has been upgraded with the official patches, modern graphics, car models and other modifications (thanks 3DGamers). Read more for download links ...