Legendary industrial/metalmusic guru Al Jorgensen of Ministry creates the headlining soundtrack to Activision's highly anticipated PC game Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines. Read more for the complete lineup ...

Matrix Games and Koios Works are pleased to announce that the innovative new wargame, Tin Soldiers: Alexander the Great, has Gone Gold and is due to release in Early October, 2004.

Five years ago Carl Johnson escaped from the pressures of life in Los Santos, San Andreas...a city tearing itself apart with gang trouble, drugs and corruption. On his return to the neighborhood, a couple of corrupt cops frame him for homicide. CJ is forced on a journey that takes him across the entire state of San Andreas, to save his family and to take control of the streets.

Ubisoft today announced that Secret of the Silver Earring has shipped for the PC. Secret of the Silver Earring is available in North America for a suggested retail price of $19.99 with a “Teen” rating.

Developer Intelligent Systems, who brought us the original Paper Mario on the N64, is back to make the sequel Paper Mario 2 for GameCube. Mario and the other characters are 2D, but they move in a fully 3D world. The result is a game like no other, a full-bodied adventure with a whimsical look and feel and all those great touches you've come to expect.

GMX has released a new demo for Object Software's RPG Seal of Evil. The game uses a newly-developed GFX3D graphics engine and combines 2D and 3D technology. In the demo, players will control Lan Wei and Liang Hu to take a fascinating journey in several locations such as Rosy-Cloud Village, dense forests, mysterious caves and so on. Read more for download links ...

A day later than expected, due to some last minute problems, Vivendi has released the multiplayer demo for Irrational's 'Tribes Vengeance.' The multi-player demo contains four maps (Cavern, Emerald, Isle, and Winterlake) and offers five different gameplay types. Read more for download links ...

Fan site Half-Life Fallout has received word from Valve's Gabe Newell the various purchase choices Half-Life 2 fans will have once the game is officially released. Apart from that the rumor has it that whether Vivendi holds back HL2 or not, Steam users will have access to Counter-Strike: Source. Read more for the puchase details ...

In Godzilla: Save the Earth, players will have nine game modes to choose from, including Action, the mission-based single-player game; Challenges, a series of single-player challenges to complete; Custom, where players can set the parameters of a fight; Versus, the classic one-on-one melee battle; and many more. The game also includes mini games, including rail-type arcade sequences.

A brief hiccup on the official Microsoft jobs website revealed an interesting glimpse of what might be a future Xbox 2 online feature. A job posting on its website, looking for a software dev. engineer, unveiled a Xenon Title Server discribe as "a spectator mode for many Xenon games, Xbox TV - with tickers at the bottom of the screen featuring recent high scores and game highlights, a tournament system, and tradable trophies." In the meantime this of course has been removed, only giving extra speculations as to what the accidental leakage of the online feature might mean.

Developed by Mad Doc Software and due for release in the first half of 2005, Empire Earth 2 will build upon the award-winning formula of its predecessor by adding features requested both by casual game players interested in a brief spin through history and by more hard core gamers who demand a real-time strategy game that will challenge them for dozens, if not hundreds, of hours.

KumaWar has launched its newest operation “Korea: The Enemy Within.” The timely release provides perspective on this week’s warning, printed in North Korea’s foremost newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, and its official Korean Central News Agency, that the North could “turn Japan into a nuclear sea of fire.”

Featuring such classic acts as Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash and The Doors, as well as Metallica, Ramones, Sugarhill Gang and Jimmy Eat World, Activision's Tony Hawk's Underground 2 is rocking gamers with an eclectic in-game soundtrack that includes 53 tracks. Read more for a complete soundtrack listing ...

Digital Jesters has released a new patch for Cyanide's 3D sports/action game Chaos League. This patch brings your retail game to v1.04 and addresses the ladder system as well as various fixes and tweaks, etc. Read more for download links ...

Codemasters announced today that its internationally acclaimed rally game, Colin McRae Rally 2005, has shipped to North American retail outlets for the Xbox. A PC version of the title will be available in October.

"An incorrect version of the Tribes:Vengeance demo was seeded to several file hosts on the Internet. While attempts have been made to contact everyone who received the file, we are concerned that the demo will be made available anyway. Thus we are taking the added step of sending out a consumer alert to make sure that nobody downloads the Tribes:Vengeance demo on Tuesday, September 28th. The team at Irrational Games and Vivendi Universal Games are working diligently to prepare a new version of the demo and anticipate it being ready very shortly."

Hearts of Iron 2 presents tons of new features including a redesigned map and interface, updated battle mechanics, re-worked technology tree, fine-tuned diplomacy and trade system as well as gameplay details like co-operative multiplayer. The game will also include, apart from the four major campaigns, battle scenarios optimized for one or two evenings of gaming, as well as different multiplayer settings.

Vivendi Universal Games announced today that the company has forged a technology, marketing, and promotional relationship with ATI Technologies, the leading graphics card supplier, in support of the PC videogame Tribes:Vengeance, due to be released in the United States on October 5th.

Believe it or not, there is actually some legit, non-speculative DNF news today. Meqon is glad to announce that 3DRealms have decided to buy our Meqon Game Dynamics SDK for their upcoming title Duke Nukem Forever.

Midway today announced that Shadow Hearts: Covenant, sequel to the critically acclaimed role-playing game released in 2001, has shipped to retail outlets nationwide exclusively for the PlayStation2.

Electronic Arts today announced that, based on internal data, The Sims 2 sold more than one million copies at retail stores worldwide within the first ten days -- the biggest PC launch in EA's 22-year history.

Midway today announced the launch of the official Midway Arcade Treasures Web site, http://www.midwayarcade.com. Gamers can now visit online to get the latest in Midway Arcade Treasures and Midway Arcade Treasures 2 gameplay demos, screenshots, news updates and more all in one place.

Although the game was officially announced yesterday, Paramount Pictures has reached an agreement to acquire the worldwide film rights to Midway Games' "Fear & Respect," a state-of-the-art videogame based in the intense urban environment of South Central Los Angeles.

Polish game developer Techland has today announced that from September 18th 2004 Strategy First is no longer entitled to take any part in the distribution of any Techland`s products. From the same day, Strategy First has lost any title to represent Techland`s interests in any way. Read more for details ...