Indie Games producers, 'The Online Games Company' are announcing a new look and redesign for their massively popular 'Legends of Terris' client software. Due to be launched mid December, the new download boasts many new features.

Strategy First, Reality Pump and Zuxxez Entertainment are pleased to announce that Earth 2150: Lost Souls, the third chapter in the award-winning Earth 2150 trilogy, has shipped to stores nationwide.

Gamers who have the skills are challenged to step onto the hardwood and take it to the rack. "NBA Inside Drive 2003" dares each player to go up strong or don't go up at all. With thumpin' hip-hop beats, fluid gameplay, innovative commentary and incredibly realistic arena models of all the NBA franchises, "NBA Inside Drive 2003" delivers the ultimate NBA console experience.

Armobiles (Developed by Ganymede Technologies) is a combination of crazy car race and really hard shooter. High-speed cars moving across the map, on open, different environments in any direction with perfect graphic gives you amazing realistic entertaiment. Reaching a next checkpoint may be really tough, if you have behind you heavy-armored, well-armed, very quick opponents, who wants to eliminate you and reach this same target. Between stages you can buy better armors and better weapons. If it's not satisfactory for you, try to fight with real opponents (multiplayer (LAN) max. 6 opponents) in different game-play modes.

Monsters, Inc : Scream Arena, an action game for the GameCube based loosely on the award winning animated feature film from Disney/Pixar. Monsters, Inc : Scream Arena allows up to four players to assume the role of one of several movie characters and go head-to-head in a "dodge ball-style" competition. Look for Monsters, Inc - Scream Arena this fall. 8 new screens showing off the monsterly action .. Njoy!

Take 2 reports that the 8th November 2002 is the official UK release date for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City on PlayStation 2. Better start saving those pennies!

The only football title to carry the official approval of FIFPro (the organisation representing the interests of professional footballers), This Is Football 2002 was a huge critical success and one of the best-selling football titles on PS2. This Is Football 2003 takes it one step further, featuring a number of enhancements in gameplay, tactics and graphics to ensure it retains its position as the cutting edge of real-time football simulations, providing the most intense football experience on next generation consoles.

Mark Reign from Epic games Inc. today made a interesting post on the official UT2003 forum about the upcoming demo. Here it is:

Demo should be ready this week

Hi Folks,

The demo is nearly ready to go. It should be out sometime within the next few days. Keep watching this space (the stickies) for an announcement. When it's ready we'll just be releasing it randomly to a few major sites so that hopefully it will spread like wildfire and everyone will be able to get it from their favorite games site. There won't be any special exclusives or anything like that. We want everyone to be enjoying it the minute it goes live.

More details to follow, keep watching this space.

Update: The forum is now updated with following news from Mark Reign.. I'm expecting the demo to be out sooner than 5 days but things have a way of cropping up and biting us in the ass so you never know. It could be as early as tomorrow or as late as the weekend but I'm pretty confident that it's this week.

The people over at Unreal Admin Page tossed up an interview with Epic Games Joe "DrSin" Wilcox about some UT2003 Server only questions. Here is a clip:

Shaggy: Can we have an in game graphical interface to set admin/game options fitted as standard - I find the command line stuff too slow and easily screwed up so it would be nice if I didn't have to wait around for ages until some nice person wrote a mod for it.?

DrSin: Yes, but probably not until the first patch. Michel Comeau (DarkByte) is doing it once all the default in-game menus are done. He also wrote the new web admin system so I would expect it to follow the functionality fairly closely.

Welcome to America, 1492. The undiscovered continent has for centuries remained a beautiful and peaceful place, its indigenous people – but for the next 321 years it is the place of bloody conflict and almost continual warfare. Welcome to American Conquest, the most ambitious real-time strategy game to emerge from the stables of CDV Software Entertainment UK, the genre’s masters.

Xicat Interactive, a Ft. Lauderdale-based video game publisher is set to release its newest title in the hugely popular team play category, U.S. Special Forces: Team Factor. This first person shooter, available Sept. 24, takes you to the very limits of military endurance and drops you head first into the world of covert military operations.

Eastside Hockey Manager Franchise Edition to appear at London Arena Sports Interactive – developer of the recording breaking and best-selling football management game Championship Manager – has today announced the completion of yet another high-profile sponsorship deal to promote its forthcoming Eastside Hockey Manager Franchise Edition. The game, which is due for release during 2003, will receive a significant boost throughout the coming ice hockey season thanks to a year-long sponsorship agreement with the London Knights Ice Hockey Club.

PlayStation 2 gamers will soon be dancing to a new beat thanks to the revolutionary music mixing game ‘Ministry of Sound BPM: Build Play Mix’. A collaboration between Start! games, Intelligent Games and music masters Ministry of Sound, the game will offer music fans the chance to remix well known music, create their own tracks playback their mixes against a background of challenging graphic visualisations.

“Beach Spikers” - delivering intense beach volleyball action for up to four players, and showcasing beautiful female athletes as they battle it out under the fierce summer sun. Gamers will have to both cooperate and compete as they take control of bikini-clad beauties and go two-on-two at the net.

With the most comprehensive entry level TV card available on the market, HERCULES is thrilled to announce the launch of its Smart TV. The new TV card will be available from our distributors at the end of september 2002. Smart TV is a fully featured PCI TV Card with which you can watch TV on your PC. With Smart TV you will be able to record movies and football games in MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 formats onto your hard disk and directly Burn-to-disc recorded programs from Smart TV capture gallery.

Unrealik from gamezone.cz let us know that the German site pcgames.de tossed up a bunch of new Unreal Tournament 2003 screens and also a new exclusive video from the game. Take me there!

Co-published by Hip Interactive and Groove Games, Incoming Forces is the sequel to the hugely successful, multi-million unit selling game, Incoming. The fast paced, innovative arcade style action title has players defend their alien home planet against an invading human armada. Set 20 years after the original game, players pilot aircrafts, tanks and turrets, switching vehicles on the fly, in incredible action-packed battles. The story driven campaign is set across ten exciting levels within four different worlds, delivering powerful and intense gameplay. Already out in Europe it is finally "Incoming" to the North American market! Check the colorful/explosive screens!

"Side-scrolling platform style gameplay never seen before in a Rugrats PC title..." Features, game story and eight shots showing off that unique platform gameplay below.

GGMania got a chance to chat with Sniper: Path of Vengeance lead producer John Linn to find out more about this soon-to-be-released first person shooter that utilizes powerful Lithtech Jupiter Engine. He provided them with both pretty interesting information and 12 new screenshots. Read on!

BattleBots is based on the popular, adrenaline-pumping TV show of the same name pitting contestant-designed, radio-controlled robots against each other inside a high-tech arena equipped with hazardous obstacles such as kill saws and giant sledgehammers. The BattleBots show is currently in its fourth season and averages more than 3.5 million viewers per week. Expected for Gamecube and PS2. Njoy the screens!

The world's unluckiest cop - John McClane - is back again in an all-new action-packed original story for the GameCube - Die Hard: Vendetta! See if you have what it takes to step into the shoes (or bare feet) of John McClane with the debut of the Die Hard: Vendetta teaser site on September 5th at 10:00am PST. Die Hard: Vendetta delivers the most intense first person shooter for the Nintendo GameCube. Based on the ever-popular Die Hard film and games license, this non-stop action-packed game brings to the Nintendo GameCube advanced AI, "Hero Mode", an all-new original story, heavy weaponry, stealth gameplay, Dynamic Cinema Cam and more. Be sure to bookmark the teaser site and get a taste of Die Hard: Vendetta and coming very soon...an all new TRAILER!

NVIDIA Corporation, the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, today announced the availability of the NVIDIA Detonator 40 unified drivers for the Company's award-winning suite of desktop, mobile and workstation Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). Detonator 40 delivers a robust suite of software applications designed to extend and enhance the visual computing experience and gives users more control over their environment then ever before.

NASCAR superstar Dale Earnhardt Jr. of DEI Racing will become the official cover athlete for the EA SPORTS franchise NASCAR Thunder 2003. Dale Jr. also contributed to the development of the game and his likeness will appear on all NASCAR Thunder 2003 packaging and merchandising.

The official UT2003 forum over at Infogrames is today updated with some more information about the upcoming demo. Here is a clip:

• Level Designers are reviewing the AI in their maps to make sure that the bots know how to Shieldgun jump, Translocate, Double Jump, and Low Grav jump to EVERY available spot in their maps.
  
• The single player campaign is being tested and finalized.
  
• The Redeemer is in and fully functional and is very close to being bug free.
  
• All levels are being finalized for ragdoll (low poly) collision.
  
• Extras are being put in. Select a mesh for your player avatar and the voice is now hooked up to announce it. Kill someone with a redeemer and their body goes flying. Sound matches up with the redeemer explosion properly. Mutators are being tested in random combinations with each other. Instagib with zoom and translocator and QUAD jump is quite a kick!

Westwood Studios announced today that it has launched multiple servers for the Earth & Beyond public test, and will be accepting tens of thousands of additional testers in the coming weeks. Earth & Beyond is an online role-playing galaxy that will be published by Electronic Arts under the EA GAMES brand this fall. Previously limited to only one server, the public test for Earth & Beyond has grown to include tens of thousands of registered players over the past few months, and is opening multiple servers to accommodate the large volume of testers. Tens of thousands of additional testers will be selected in September through the official Earth & Beyond website. Also, beginning today, GameSpy will be offering the public test software as a free download.