Fans of the beautiful game need wait no longer! The latest installment of the best-selling football management simulation Championship Manager is to appear exclusively on the Xbox video game system from Microsoft. Championship Manager: Season 02/03 is being developed by Sports Interactive and will be released in November.

Ubi Soft Entertainment today announced that Battle Realms: Winter of the Wolf, developed by Thousand Oaks, CA based Liquid Entertainment, has gone gold. The add-on for Battle Realms features extra missions, weapons, characters, and an all-new epic storyline that takes place seven years prior to the events in the original Battle Realms. Winter of the Wolf is co-published by Ubi Soft Entertainment and Crave Entertainment for the PC and is scheduled to release November 5.

The Official Shadowbane Web site just updated its new series detailing the stories and legends inside the worlds of Aerynth. This new series is called the Aerynthian Codex: A Bard's Travel Guide which concentrates on the landmarks, villages, and cities inside the newest world fragment of the Shadowbane beta test. The Codex contains close to 30 screenshots of the newbie continent of Tyrranth Minor, including stories and legends about the founding of Silverlance, one of the starting cities for players.

GMX Media has today released the movies for its upcoming PC RPG game – Heath. Heath is a massive RPG game with loads of innovative features including;

• Unpredictable ending of the game
• 35 unique filled playing locations
• over 150 different kinds of NPC
• over 50 kinds of enemies
• about 30 quests, that can be solved in a different ways
• over 500 useful items
  
  Video clip now available, if you're wondering what GMX's RPG looks like on the move, read more for download links!

Electronic Arts and Def Jam Records just unveiled their new fighting game, 'Def Jam Vendetta'. Read more for some screens, features and some in game footage movie ...

Another reality awaits those who dare to enter the world of Chemicus. Shrouded in secrecy and intrigue, the mysterious city of Chemicus is the repository of chemical knowledge from the beginning of time. It begins with a young scientist’s discovery of an ancient amulet with the power to unlock the portal to the forgotten land. Soon, strange, cloaked men kidnap him, claiming that he has disrupted the delicate balance between our world and theirs. Players find themselves in a virtual mission to unlock the secrets of Chemicus, to restore harmony, and rescue the abducted scientist.

Publisher Strategy First and Developers Paradox Entertainment, the same team behind the award-winning Europa Universalis II, are proud to announce that Hearts of Iron¸ the first World War II game of true grand strategic scope, has gone gold. Read more for details and 10 new screens ...

Simon & Schuster Interactive announced today its arcade shooter title "SeaBlade" for the Xbox has gone gold and will be shipping in two weeks to retail. In SEABLADE (Rated: "T" by the ESRB), gamers take control of a futuristic spacecraft that can fly as well as dive below water with the goal being to combat insidious warlords who have overrun the northern hemisphere in the year 2350.

Blues reports that Medal of Honor Allied Assault Spearhead has gone GOLD and will be in stores November 12. "Spearhead is EALA's expansion to the highly successful Medal of Honor: Allied Assault".

G3 Studios, a premier developer and publisher of video games for handheld devices, Pocket PC and other platforms, today released the Windows version of "Video Poker Pro." Only 3 weeks after the release of the Pocket PC version, the Windows version of the game features remastered graphics to accommodate the higher screen resolution and screen layout of desktop computers.

Today Ubisoft send out screens for several of their upcoming Tom Clancy titles. We have new screens for "Rainbow Six : RavenShield", "Sum Of All Fears" (NGC/GBA) and "Splinter Cell" (Xbox). Nnjoy!

Epic has just released a new patch for their recently released FPS, Unreal Tournament 2003. The upgrades brings your retail copy to v2136 and has a massive slew of fixes, tweaks and upgrades. Read more for a detailed fix list links where to grab it...

Take part in the greatest chariot races ever as Microids bring all the raw excitement of chariot racing to PS2 in Ben Hur, due for release Qtr 4 2002. Internally developed by Microids France, Ben Hur faithfully recreates the excitement of racing for your life within the majestic coliseums and savage arenas of Ancient Rome. Using stunning visuals, Ben Hur is a race through a universe that mixes legends and historical elements, from Pompeii and Olympus to the Pantheon and Guizeh. Each location is uniquely designed to offer different challenges, while the non-linear action throws up all manner of hazards. Features and new shots below!

The development team behind Strike Fighters is led by Tsuyoshi "TK" Kawahito, a flight Sim industry veteran with five years experience of award winning titles. His past titles include European Air War (Best Simulation Game, 1998 – CGW), Jane's Longbow 2 (Best Simulation Game, 1997), Jane's Flash Point Korea and Jane's AH-64D Longbow (Best Simulation Game of 1996). Today we have ten very exciting looking shots (If you like flight sims) and also latest features / gameinfo!

Tony Hawk, the legend of skateboarding, brings you into his world yet again with even more cement shredding action than ever before! Skate as the legendary Tony Hawk or one of 12 other pro skaters on 8 massive living levels that are amazingly realistic with intelligent traffic that can be avoided or skated. Now with more tricks than ever, including the revert and flatland tricks like the handstand manual, you can show off using the enhanced Create-A-Skater feature, and Skatepark Editor. You may not be able to live like the legend, but now you can skate like him!

Crucial Entertainment Limited today announced that the highly anticipated Massive Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) "Eve Online: The Second Genesis" will ship simultaneously to North America and Europe in March 2003.

CDV Software Entertainment UK has today revised the release dates for two of its hotly-tipped PC CD-ROM titles in order to add some crucial features and ensure the finished titles devastate the competition. Hungarian developer Mithis Games has joined CDV and Philos Labs to work on space strategy title Imperium Galactica III. Originally planned for release at the end of 2002, the extra development time will allow the team to add a new multiplayer mode - extending the shelf life of this already colossal game.

Korean-based Heksplex Entertainment unveiled their new real-time strategy game today that centers on warring mob families, The Boss: La Cosa Nostra. The Boss lets players take control of a boss who must go head-to-head against other bosses in a street war that has the potential to turn the streets a gory red. Read more for details and some screens ...

Ubi Soft Entertainment today announced that it shipped its fast-paced, brutal team combat game, Deathrow, to U.S. retail stores. Deathrow is an exclusive title for the Xbox, combining the lightning-fast gameplay of third-person action games, adrenaline rush of fighting games and the cooperative team play and gritty roughness of rugby to offer a unique gameplay experience. Deathrow is rated "M" for mature and has an MSRP of $49.99.

Waiting for another World War II Wednesday? Well here it is. Strategy First send us some brand new screenshots from G.I. Combat and Hearts of Iron, their upcoming World War II titles that will have PC gamers everywhere battling it out over the holidays. Njoy!

REAL WAR: ROGUE STATES is the next game in the best-selling "Real War" series. In this modern military RTS the United States has learned that the Independent Liberation Army (ILA) is being backed by a rogue state. It was thought the ILA was destroyed, but this new sponsor has re-energized the ILA and equipped it with even more lethal technology. The gamer's task is to destroy this alliance and punish the offending country. Today fileplanet is hosting a 117MB demo from Rival Interactive and Simon & Schuster. (thanks Blues)

Midway announced today that Rodney Matthews, a world-renowned fantasy and science fiction illustrator, has created artwork and concepts for Midway's groundbreaking action and fantasy console videogame, Haven: Call Of The King, which is scheduled to ship Nov. 18 for the PS2. Haven: Call Of The King is also scheduled to ship for the Xbox and GameCube in 2003. Haven: Call Of The King is being developed by acclaimed U.K.-based developer, Traveller's Tales.

SEGA of America, Inc. today announced the release of "The House of the Dead III" exclusively for the Xbox video game system from Microsoft. "The House of the Dead III" delivers a monster movie inspired storyline and tons of non-stop over-the-top zombie blasting action.

Xicat Interactive, Inc is set to release "Blackstone: Magic & Steel" and "Metal Dungeon" for the Xbox in North America in late November 2002.

Sports Interactive can finally reveal the news that all football fans have been waiting for: Championship Manager 4, the latest in the record-breaking series of football management computer games, will be released during February 2003.