Infogrames celebrates 30 years of Atari classic arcade fun with the release of Atari Anniversary Advance for Nintendo Game Boy Advance. This special 6 game compilation is being released to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Atari's founding in 1972, as the first company ever established solely for the purpose of creating and marketing video games.

Marking a first for the series, Worms Blast is the first game to appear using 3D characters, play in a real-time environment and see the series start to move into new genre's whist crossing them with the familiar genre that is Worms. There are so many things that make a big difference to how the game plays. Just looking at screen shots it is easy to make the comparison but on closer analysis Worms Blast offers the player much more. Release date: PC - 8/3/2002.

Today GamingGroove have tossed up an interview with the Static development team, in a chat about their upcoming Fallout-style RPG that was a finalist for the Independent Games Festival Award. Here is a snip:

GamingGroove: What exactly is Static about?

Static Team: “STATIC” is an RPG that roots itself in a plot about mind-control and what happens when the process becomes futile... Read more.

Today tiscali.cz tossed up a new 3,5 MB, DivX movie from Electronic Arts and their upcoming title, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2. This new movie is a 40-seconds long and it's available to download here.

Grandia II, the highly regarded RPG featuring one of the most critically acclaimed combat engines in history, is now shipping for the PlayStation2 computer entertainment system.

Rage, the UK-based computer games publisher and developer, is pleased to announce that its forthcoming officially licensed boxing game 'Rocky' for the Sony PlayStation2 computer entertainment system and Xbox video game system from Microsoft is scheduled for release in time for Christmas 2002.

Highly-respected German developer Westka Interactive has spread word they are working on a new exciting game (no working title known as of yet). The product is a first-person action/adventure PC game, which utilises the latest Unreal engine. It is scheduled for release in 2003. More info soon!

We haven't posted these screens before so you might have seen some of them already, but hey it's a screenshot gallery with some facts.. Based on the outstandingly popular sport of Grand Prix Motorcycle racing, MotoGP is an ultra-realistic bike racer for the Xbox and PC, which puts you, the player, behind the handle-bars of some of the meanest, fastest, most thrilling machines on two-wheels. With a variety of innovative gameplay elements, supported by revolutionary graphical and technical features, MotoGP brings the perfect gaming mix of speed, style, bravery and technology to your Xbox. Expected Release date : June-2002.

Today there are some new Shadowbane screens available on the official site for the game. "The final ten character creation screenshots taken at the Shadowbane private screening gathering earlier this month in Austin". Take a look.

There has been a lot of talk about recently launched website for Independence Lost, which was guessed by some people as brand new game following the success of Operation Flashpoint or name of upcoming Expansion Pack from Codemasters, which should be out later this year. Today tiscali.cz asked Bohemia Interactive Studio what's purpose of yesterday's revealed website. Find full story HERE!