Sony announced today its sponsorship of the eighth annual Ozzfest 2003 Tour. As sponsor for the third year in a row, SCE America will give consumers the opportunity to play the hottest new PS2 software titles at the show, the chance to win tickets to see Ozzfest live, plus the opportunity to share the stage with one of the bands at the ultimate destination for metal and rock fans. The tour kicks off on June 28 in San Antonio, Texas and travels to 28 markets, featuring a lineup of 21 bands including metal's top artists, Ozzy Osbourne, Korn, Marilyn Manson, Disturbed, Chevelle, The Datsuns, and more.

The competition is heating up with the final round of the World Cyber Games qualifiers, taking place this week at CompUSA locations across the nation. This weekend will feature Age of Mythology and FIFA Soccer 2003, both on Saturday June 28th. The tournament begins promptly at 11:00am and all participants should arrive by 10:00am. The semi-final rounds will kick off next weekend with Warcraft III. For more details and a list of CompUSA locations please visit the World Cyber Games website.

Battlefront has released a new update patch for their turn based strategy game, Strategic Command: European Theater. This upgrade brings your retail game to v1.07 and brings several bug fixes, gameplay additions, DirectX issues with new video cards etc. Battlefront also released an updated playable Demo which now includes the gameplay improvements of the v1.07 patch. Read more for detailed fix list and download links ...

Six years after the United States Postal Service (USPS) sued the makers of the notorious videogame POSTAL and its ultra-controversial sequel, POSTAL 2, game developer Running With Scissors has been informed by the Trademark Trial and Appeals Board of the U.S. Department of Commerce that the USPS's opposition case had been dismissed with prejudice.

Command an elite, multinational squad of special operatives against a hidden terrorist foe. In Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3, the third installment in the wildly popular Rainbow Six series, Team RAINBOW races against time to stop terror and unravel a mystery. In locations around the world, from London to the Cayman Islands to Rio de Janeiro, lead Team Rainbow in a desperate effort to battle a madman and foil his doomsday plot. Some new Xbox screens just rushed in. Check them out!

In No Man's Land, the player leads the colonisation of the American continent between 1600 and 1900. In three campaigns, divided into 30 diversified missions, the player sees the historical development of this era from the viewpoint of six different ethnic groups: Englishmen, settlers, American patriots, Spaniards, Forest- and Prairie Indians. An English fort is being attacked by the patriots on a cold winter's night. It takes a few minutes until the English become fully aware of the danger, and then they begin to build up their defense even though their main towers have already caught fire. Read more to check it out!

Xpand Rally races take place in different parts of the world, the player gets to race in different environments – from deserts to polar snows. This gives him opportunity to experience cars’ physics changing in different weather and on different surfaces (gravel, sand, snow, ice and asphalt). This enabled the XR team to create realistic and abundant in flora terrains of a few dozens of square kilometers. It will give the players a completely different feeling from driving in a narrow gutter known from most racing games... Read more for some new screens!

One of the best selling auto-racing games on the PC comes to Game Boy Advance with a variety of vehicles and tracks for the some stompin' good fun on the go. Get behind the steering wheel of the world's most powerful vehicles as they crush, splatter, jump, and roll their way to victory. Monster Truck Madness combines outrageous attitude, unrestrained racing and monster trucks to provide a fun and exhilarating off-road driving experience across rugged and challenging terrain. Read more to check out a batch of new screens ...

Tri Synergy sent out word that Buka Entertainment's futuristic tactical RPG Paradise Cracked has gone gold and will be released in North America in August. In Paradise Cracked you are a young hacker. Once, while in cyberspace you managed to break into a secured area and came across a series of strange data packets. You hurriedly copied these to disk, not even having the time to read their contents. Only a few minutes later you hear a police siren, followed by banging on the door and demands to open up...

Big City Games and Paradox Entertainment announced today that the adventure/role-playing title, Valhalla, has shipped to retail stores nationwide. Read more for details ...