Prepare to bring umbrellas and get ready to dive behind splash-protectors. Be the first to get a soaking when Colin McRae Rally 3 is unleashed for the first time, complete with its incredible weather effects.. Colin McRae Rally 3 will launch this September for PlayStation 2 and Xbox and is set to be an unbelievably personal experience, a PC edition will follow in 2003.. Check out some tasty "22" new screens below from E3!

THQ Inc. today unveiled the next game in its "Evil Dead" franchise at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles. "Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick" is based on the "Evil Dead" movie trilogy that earned a cult following among millions of horror fans. "Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick" is developed by VIS Interactive and will be available for the PlayStation2 computer entertainment system and the Xbox video game system from Microsoft in early 2003.

Rockstar Games, the world-renowned publishing division of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. proudly announces Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, the follow-up to the global blockbuster title Grand Theft Auto 3.

THQ Inc. and Nickelodeon today announced that they will unveil the original character-based action-adventure videogame Tak and The Power of JuJu (working title) at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles. Beginning tomorrow, a Tak and the Power of Juju game trailer will be showcased in THQ’s booth in Petree Hall of the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Dualstar Interactive, the video game division of Mary-Kate and Ashley's Dualstar Entertainment Group, and Club Acclaim, a division of Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. today announced the release of mary-kateandashley Sweet 16 for the next-generation gaming systems. The eleventh title from the #1 selling celebrity-based property for the girls' software market, Sweet 16 combines the excitement of classic party-style games with turning sweet sixteen, and underscores the companies' focus of creating "Real Games for Real Girls" which reinforces the message "It's How You Play."

Total Immersion Racing is a brand new game experience that combines the highest quality driving technology, real-world racecars & tracks and immersive gameplay. The player can choose a career path that leads from being the lowest ranked driver of a GT sportscar all the way to becoming a world champion driving a massively powerful 8 litre prototype racecar. On the way, team engineers and managers will give advice and input to guide the player.

Dirt Track Racing 2 captures the excitement and close, frantic action of stock car racing. The sequel to Dirt Track Racing, DTR2 features new tracks, a new car class - the Modified - mud splattering the players view, spectacular crashes and collisions. Race on dirt Ovals, Tri-Ovals and Figure 8 tracks and challenge yourself to a fender-to-fender rush. Only the hardcore will survive.

Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and E3. It's that time of year again - time for the All-American ritual of big, sweaty industry types gathering in the steamy confines of the LA Convention Center for a full 72 hours (give or take) of straight-up computer and video game playing. As always, Gathering of Developers is there to show 'em how it's done - lean and mean. To celebrate their E3 showing, they got brand new downloadable desktop wallpapers for your snagging pleasure. Five - count 'em, five desktops for each of the interactive masterpieces they have lined up for the near future, every one carrying the official Gathering of Developers seal of quality. Have a look at their upcoming game lineup, then grab the wallpaper of your choice for each!

If you still haven't gotten your groove on, you've now got an extra 2 weeks to win a Visiontek Xtasy GeForce 4 Ti 4600 before it's lights out on the dance floor. The Serious Sam Disco Inferno contest deadline has been extended until June 1 - all the better for you to add that extra bit of funk to your temples of kitsch. Click here for official rules and guidelines, and get those submissions in right about now.

Microsoft highlighted its next wave of highly anticipated titles for the Xbox today to a packed house of journalists and retailers from around the world, as well as cheering game fans, who rattled the rafters in the historic Orpheum Theater. With blockbuster games such as "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic " (LucasArts Entertainment Company), "Brute Force" (Microsoft Game Studios), "NFL Fever 2003" (Microsoft Game Studios), "Unreal Championship" (Infogrames) and "Panzer Dragoon ORTA" (SEGA of America, Inc.), Microsoft previewed its top Xbox games that will be shown at this week’s E3 and available to game fans this holiday season. We added some screens from Kung Fu Chaos, MechAssault and Blinx: The Time Sweeper. Njoy!

UPDATE: More screens added, check them out!