After firmly solidifying its market position with sales exceeding 8.8 million units in North America, Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. today announced that it will offer users the option to play games online through PlayStation 2 beginning August 2002. Today's announcement represents the first step toward the company's overall vision of PlayStation 2 as a mass-market broadband platform in the home.

Tecmo, Inc. announced today that it will be releasing a Booster Disc for the game Dead or Alive 3, available only on the Xbox video game system from Microsoft.

Vivendi send us two new screenshots from their upcoming GBA title, Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, in which you can also feel the emanations from Frodo's ring.. Enjoy!

As work ramps up on the latest incarnation of the 4.6 million selling Colin McRae Rally series, the eponymous hero paid a recent visit to the team at Codemasters to catch up on the latest developments. The most widely anticipated rally game this year gives players one simple instruction: You are Colin McRae... and the gameplay challenge has the player taking on the role of McRae as he's given a 3 year contract to win a series of championships for Ford Rallye Sport.

CENEGA released today a new 34 MB, MPG trailer from their RPG game Another War. Tiscali games let us know that they tossed up same trailer aswell, but they converted it to DivX format in two versions depending on resolution - 11 MB (640x480) or 4 MB (320x240).

Electronic Arts' James Bond in... Agent Under Fire has passed Nintendo's Q/A and is on schedule to ship March 12 for the Nintendo GameCube! The Xbox version is slated to hit shelves in late March.

Midway Games Inc., a leading software industry publisher and developer, announced today that the Web site for Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance has launched. The new Mortal Kombat Web site contains a download section, featuring various Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance-themed items to choose from, such as wallpaper, screensavers and banners. Additional content such as FMV, gameplay video footage and bulletin boards are planned.

We just recived a bunch of screens from Lucas Arts and their massively multiplayer online game set in the Star Wars universe, Star Wars Galaxies.

Two years in the making and including an exclusive behind the cabin door documentary with British airline, Go, this is a life changing experience... well maybe not quite. But it is without doubt the most complex and realistic aircraft simulation yet seen running in the multi-million selling Microsoft Flight Simulator series.

An amazing expansion to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000/2002 or Combat Flight Simulator 2. Back in 1982, this remarkable aircraft was a decisive weapon in the defence of the Falklands in the war with Argentina.