A few months back we revealed Phenomic was working on another addon for Jowood's successful RPG Spellforce. Today the first details are starting to trickle in as 'Spellforce: Shadow of the Phoenix,' scheduled for a November release, will feature two new units and buildings, as well as allowing you to further upgrade your heros to level 50. An all new singleplayer campaign will be added, but also 25 new multiplayer maps, 15 of which are dedicated to coop play (a feature which was added in the previous Breath Of Winter expansion).

In Tribes: Vengeance's single-player campaign, gamers become immersed in a roiling galactic thriller. Throughout the game, the player catches glimpses of other, interrelated stories that are unfolding behind-the-scenes. In addition, gamers are given the opportunity to experience the full scope of the single-player story through multiple viewpoints and characters.

Epic Games has release the new dedicated server for the retail version of Unreal Tournament 2004, allowing people who do not have the retail game to host a multiplayer server. This new v3323 edition contains all the Editor's Choice content. You can get your required cd key right here. Read more for download links ...

Deep Silver is getting ready to release Meridian93's 3D RTS/RPG 'Alexander The Great' wich is scheduled for November 2004. The game, which has been in development since February 2004 which puts you in control of a squad of Alexander's elite Macedonian soldiers.

Vivendi Universal Games announced today that their upcoming PC first-person action game Tribes:Vengeance has shipped to retail stores in the United States.

Not out in stores yet, but Vivendi has already released the first patch for Irrational's Tribes Vengeance. This update patch brings your English retail game to version 1.01 and includes general updates and is required for online play. Read more for download links ..

3000AD Inc today announced the name of its latest product, 'Universal Combat: Hostile Intent.' Unlike our previous games which featured extensive gameplay but much complexity, Universal Combat – Hostile Intent (UCHI), is a pure combat focused action game based on the Universal Combat core engines.

Set in the 60s and using the Cold War as its inspiration, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater forces the player to adopt a number of new skills to survive in Snake's new jungle environment. Danger lurks everywhere as Snake explores the beautifully-realised forests, encampments and rivers, with guards patrolling key routes, dangerous animals to contend with, and the uneven terrain and noisy foliage making the silent approaches the Metal Gear hero is famed for virtually impossible.

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."