LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC today announced the resumption of its relationship with Lawrence Holland and his company Totally Games to develop a World War II flight combat game for next generation consoles and PC. Previous associations between LucasArts and Totally Games produced the critically acclaimed and best selling X-wing and TIE fighter series of Star Wars games, as well as Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe and Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain. The latter two games will serve as inspiration for the upcoming World War II flight combat title.

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Today theplatoon.com tossed up an interesting article about that later this month Red Storm will be releasing a new game called The Sum of All Fears "no one even heard of this game until this morning", based on the Tom Clancy book by the same name. There is also a movie scheduled for release on May 31. Here is a clip from the game site at Red Storm "that seems to be closed - replaced with an old title":

"Lead a team of domestic counter-terrorism experts through 11 dangerous missions that span the globe. Formed from the elite of the F.B.I.’s HRT, you have been tapped to perform covert ops in the most dangerous circumstances imaginable. As the commander of this team, you’ll lead your unit into the heat of battle, performing missions ranging from eliminating terrorists to planting bugs, and destroying illegal weapons caches to rescuing hostages. You’ll give them orders in the field and take the point in leading them into combat.".. Head over to theplatoon.com for full article and check out the screen they did take from Red Storm's site before they closed it!

After winning the Best Massively Multiplayer Online Game award from PC Gamer magazine for its game, Anarchy Online, Funcom announces the release of a special retail edition shipping to stores on May 15, 2002. Customers can pre-order a copy of the game later today through Funcom's online store. Full pressrelease below!

Fast on the heels of one of the company’s most successful years featuring the Dragon Warrior series, Enix America Inc. today announced two new games for 2002. Available this Fall are Robot Alchemic Drive (RAD) and Grandia Xtreme, both for the PlayStation2 computer entertainment system.

Strategy First and Third Wire Productions are pleased to announce that they have signed a worldwide publishing agreement for their highly anticipated flight simulation game, Strike Fighters: Project 1, scheduled for release later this summer. Strike Fighters: Project 1 is a new jet combat game designed by the lead designer of European Air War (Best Simulation Game of 1998) and Jane’s Longbow 2 (Best Simulation Game of 1997).

The Deadly Dozen are back for another round of intense warfare. Infogrames, Inc. today announced Deadly Dozen: Pacific Theatre for the PC. In development by nFusion and available later this year, Deadly Dozen: Pacific Theatre puts 12 new soldiers into an action-packed war adventure in the Pacific.

Tiscali Games let us know that they got their hands on 15 new screenshots from Grand Prix 4. Just click here to see these new racing screens.

Slated for release this May on the PC, Soldier Of Fortune II: Double Helix portrays the gritty world a modern day gun-for-hire tasked with stopping a conspiracy bent on releasing a deadly new plague upon mankind.. This time we toss up a bunch of new screens from Activision. Enjoy!

Over the course of the Star Trek Elite Force II, players will be able to explore different options or tactics when dealing with a threat, as opposed to being forced to pursue a particular path. Additionally, the game boasts a larger number of environments and a significantly longer gaming experience than the first Elite Force... Today we recived some screens from Activision, check them out below!