Sony Online let us know that sign-ups are open for their upcoming massively multiplayer online shooter, Planetside. Just fill out the beta application, and you could be part of the PlanetSide open beta. The beta application will only be available for one week, so be sure to apply by Friday, November 8.

3DGamers today hosting a playable demo of Mafia. "Mafia brings the 1930's underworld to live in this 3rd person 3D action game." The demo is 230MB to grab and let you try out a single mission taken from the full game. Find out more and download it here!

The last days/weeks we have tossed up diffrent sorta shots from Empire Interactive's upcoming title Big Mutha Truckers, now today we bring you photos of silliness and general debauchery at last night's BMT launch party... Read more for party screens!

3DGamers today tossed up new patches for Arx Fatalis, bringing the English, German and French editions of the first-person role-playing game to version 1.14. Find out more and download here!

We earlier posted up the news that NWO has gone gold and today Project Three Interactive send out following press announcement:

Dutch publisher Project Three Interactive today announced its upcoming tactical first person shooter New World Order has gone gold last weekend. The highly anticipated counter terrorist combat game developed by Swedish development studio Termite Games will show up on European shelves by mid November with other territories to follow shortly after.

Go inside the ropes of the PGA TOUR with the most realistic PC golf game ever published, Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 2003 from Electronic Arts available today. Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 2003 brings golf to life on the computer in a completely 3-D world with a brand new course and PGA TOUR golfer lineup. Enhanced True Swing mouse swing delivers the most realistic feeling of swinging a golf club on the computer.

Fans of the beautiful game need wait no longer! The latest installment of the best-selling football management simulation Championship Manager is to appear exclusively on the Xbox video game system from Microsoft. Championship Manager: Season 02/03 is being developed by Sports Interactive and will be released in November.

To celebrate tody's release of Project Nomads in the UK, and the forthcoming release in the US, CDV Software have released a new video featuring the latest gameplay footage to whet your appetites. Project Nomads, winner of the ECTS 2001 Game of the Show award, is one of the most original games of recent years, and to see for yourself, you can follow the links to both the high res and low res versions.

Real-time-strategy fans rejoice! Age of Mythology has started hitting stores across North America. Combat Flight Simulator 3 has hit store shelves! Also Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 for console is now out in North America and Canada. The official site for 3DO's Four Horsemean went alive today, loaded with screens and gameinfo (flash required).

Arxel Tribe just updated their Mistmare site with three short movies from the game.. "Mistmare is a fantasy role playing adventure game"

• Combat Schools: Isador is showing different combat school poses.
  
  
• Defensive Spell: In this movie one of the enhancement spells is being used. They are used to improve spiritual or corporeal abilities of a living creature. In combat, they are cast as defensive, fortification or restoration spells.
  
  
• Offensive Spell: The shrieks are offensive spells. They are used to corrupt spiritual or corporeal abilities of a living creature. In combat, they may be cast as aggressive spells. The shrieks are more efficiently vocalized by chaotically aligned characters.