Diamond Multimedia today announced its return to the consumer graphics market with plans to launch next-generation graphics accelerators under its legendary Stealth and Viper brands, two of the most well-known and respected retail names in graphics history. Continuing the tradition of these brands, the Stealth product line will offer a full series of value-based cards while Viper will target high-end gamers. True to its heritage, Diamond will continue to remain chip vendor neutral, offering consumers products from multiple vendors to provide maximum performance and value at each price point.

Yes, you're reading correctly, the day has finally come for the Diablo II 1.10 patch! This patch is Blizzard's largest to date in terms of game changes and offers many new things for Diablo II players worldwide, including seasonal ladder characters, more-challenging gameplay, enhanced skills, new items, new anti-cheat measures, a new game-world event, and much much more! Simply connect to Battle.net to download the patch or read more for download links ...

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 :

• Call Of Duty - Trailer
• Beyond Good & Evil - Trailer
• The Hobbit - TrailerPack
• Metal Arms: Glitch In The System - Trailer
• Dead Man's Hand - Trailer
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

After 5 months of working on this great pack, the CBP team is proud to announce the arrival of CBP2003 map-pack (with approval from Epic Games ). A few of the Unreal community's best level designers got together to release a small pack of their best work to the community. As the time went on, the project grew into something far more significant, with more and more of the best Unreal talent out there joining the team. The map count went from a small handful to a fully-fledged professional-level bonus pack. Read more for download links ...

Activision, Inc. is ushering in a new era in console gaming with the announcement that Tony Hawk's Underground, the most customizable video game ever, has shipped to North American retail outlets. The revolutionary skateboarding game redefines the #1 action sports franchise with groundbreaking options that put players front and center as a skateboarder working their way to the top, in a plot-driven story that's true-to-life and gives them the power to explore their environments and achieve goals both on and off the board.

The Adventure Company today announced that it has shipped Traitors Gate 2 on PC in North America. The game’s story focuses on a potential global disaster - the impending release of a powerful and lethal computer virus possessed by a group of ruthless extremists.

Namco Hometek Inc. announced today its highly anticipated, internally developed tactical military shooter kill.switch has shipped to retail outlets nationwide. Developed for the PlayStation2 and the Xbox, kill.switch is rated T for Teen.

The most popular fighting game of 2002 enters a new arena as Atari today shipped Dragon Ball Z: Budokai for Nintendo GameCube. Developed by DIMPS, the Nintendo GameCube version brings exclusive, highly-detailed 3D character models that vividly reflect the visual style of the hit animated series while maintaining the authentic fighting action sought by DBZ fans. The Dragon Ball Z video game franchise has been one of the industry's most successful over the last 18 months, and Dragon Ball Z: Budokai for the PlayStation2 has shipped more than 1.4 million units in North America since its December 2002 release.

Ubisoft announced today that Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time for the PlayStation2 has reached gold master status and is expected to hit store shelves in the coming weeks. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time boasts fluid animations, ingenious and challenging level design, a gripping story, an inimitable hero and the ability to manipulate time - all woven into a unique and immersive gaming experience.

Ubisoft, one of the world's largest video game publishers, announced today that Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 for the XboxÔ video game system from Microsoft is available this week at retail outlets across the U.S. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 was developed by Ubisoft Montreal and is eagerly anticipated as the must-have Xbox and Xbox Live(tm) game for the holiday season. Momentum has been building since the game's enthusiastic industry reception at E3, culminating in a hugely successful pre-sell program.