For all the CS fans out there its a known fact that cheaters are slowly but surely killing the most popular online game ever. Ever since "punkbuster" seized releasing their public tool it has only gotten worse. Gamespy has put up an interesting article with Valve's Erik Johnson that should be read by all CS players ... Check it OUT!

Westwood Studios announced today that Academy Award Winner Doug Chiang, Design Director for Star Wars Episodes I and II has joined the Earth and Beyond Online team as a consultant and will be providing concept art for all of the player space ships in the game. Earth and Beyond Online is Westwood's first massively-multiplayer game and will be published under the EA GAMES brand this summer. Westwood is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Electronic Arts.

Electronic Arts announces that Black & White: Creature Isle for the PC will begin to ship this week. From legendary game designer Peter Molyneux of Lionhead Studios, Creature Isle is the highly anticipated expansion pack to the critically acclaimed Role Playing Strategy/God game, Black & White(. Fans of the original year to date top five selling game, per the November 2001 TRST PC DATA Report, can see their malevolent or benign influence continue to evolve, as their creations raise Creatures of their own.

Some Unreal II screenshots appeared in CGW magazine a while back and some people was confused regarding the shadow in these screens. Now Epic Games, Mark Rein explains what happend. Read more below for full story and the new "correct" screens..

Sierra Entertainment, Inc. and Papyrus Racing Games are proud to announce that NASCAR Racing 2002 Season, the latest edition to the award winning racing franchise, has gone gold. NASCAR Racing 2002 Season offers race fans more features to capture the heart-pounding intensity of actual NASCAR racing better than ever.

VideoLogic Systems - a division of Imagination Technologies - announces its ZXR-500 5.1 channel surround sound speaker system. The stylish silver ZXR-500 provides outstanding quality audio for surround sound games and movies for just £79.99 (inc. VAT UK).

Will there be an Empire Earth Expansion?? It seems that Amazon has an Empire Earth Expansion in its product listings, with a release date set for October 2, 2002. Check it out your self HERE. We have to wait and see if it's true or not!

Activision, Inc. and id Software have teamed up with the Online Gaming League to host the Return to Castle Wolfenstein "Battle on the Beachhead" tournament. Gamers from across North America will hit the front lines and battle for world domination and exciting prizes including the Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo Game Boy Advance and hundreds of popular games. The tournament will run from January 29 through March 12, 2002 at wolf.worldogl.com, on the Speakeasy Network, home of the largest broadband gaming community and the official ISP of the OGL.

Stockholm based games developer Paradox Entertainment, has finished work on the role-playing game Valhalla Chronicles and will be releasing it in signed territories starting in March.

Today Giga.de tossed up four UT2 movies on their site. The movies are zipped and come in divx format. Here is the links: UT2 Tech Special-Physics 5.78 Mb, UT2 Tech Special-Editor 10.4 Mb, UT2 Tech Special-Design 13.6 Mb and UT 2 Tech Special-Animation 10.9 Mb.

id Software sends word that the SDK for Return to Castle Wolfenstein is now available for download from their ftp server here or get it locally off our own server. The 13.5 MB download includes all the tools needed for creating maps and modifications.

SWAT: GST is a first-person tactical arcade game combining the strategic elements of SWAT 3 with the instantly accessible arcade action of the Virtua Cop series. Like the real-life SWAT organization itself, the SWAT Global Strike Team is a life-saving organization tasked with defending and saving the lives of the innocent. As a member of the SWAT Global Strike Team gamers will be called to duty at a moment’s notice, confronted with missions unlike any see before.

DreamCatcher, a fast-growing publisher of PC and console software entertainment, is pleased to announce their acquisition of the worldwide rights to GORE, an action-packed PC game developed by 4D Rulers.

A top notch team at Rebellion has started work on a 1st person shooter based on the crime-busting 2000 AD character Judge Dredd. Programming guru Kevin Lea is creating incredible effects with his 'Graphic Novel' game engine while Tim Jones, Drew Cope and John Nightingale are leading the art effort - building Mega-City One and populating it with a shocking assortment of 'perps' (villains). Njoy the screens!

GamingGroove reports that Wizards of the Coast announced the card redemption feature for their soon to be released Magic: The Gathering Online Game. This new pressrelease is available here! You can also check out the first screens from this online game that we tossed up a while back.

UK Cossacks fans eagerly awaiting the release of the forthcoming The Art of War expansion pack are in for an unexpected treat – as CDV Software Entertainment UK reveals a surprise inclusion. For the first time ever, players will be able to easily create their own Cossacks missions, as the UK version of The Art of War will feature an easy-to-use Cossacks Scenario Editor.

Bigben Interactive, one of Europe's leading independent distributors of interactive entertainment, today announces another exclusive distribution deal, this time with Global giant, Ubi Soft * Entertainment. The new deal grants Bigben Interactive exclusive distribution rights in Europe for 4 Ubi Soft Dreamcast titles.

Just Adventure has had confirmation from a reliable source at DreamCatcher, that they are in the process of completing the paperwork on the sequels for Riddle of the Sphinx and Crystal Key. The developers for both games have moved away from Quicktime and will be utilizing the user-friendly Phoenix VR engine. Bigger teams have been established to reduce the time spent in development, assuring state of the art graphics and game play. Read More >>

Do you want more information about Project Earth? DreamCatcher has answers to commonly asked questions about their upcoming release PROJECT EARTH.. Read on!

Last Week Westwood introduced us to the 'Space Propulsion' in their upcoming online Earth & Beyond game .. this week we get to do a 'Weapons Check' .. so go read all about if you are spaced out ...

The official site for Unreal 2 has today been updated with a new screenshot and there is also a update in their download section with a nasty new wallpaper.

The norwegian Battle Realms fansite Kings of Norway is inviting to a weekly screenshot competition. The weekly winners will compete for "Winner of The Month" and they have great prices (courtesy of Ubisoft Denmark): "-Unique Battle Realms Poster" "-Great dark green Tshirt (size large) with silver BR logo" "-Chinese metall meditation balls in Battle Realms pack". To participate you need to be a resident of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland or Denmark. The competition rules and registration (in norwegian language) is found here!

Team Factor is a stand-alone multi-player action game designed with team play in mind. The games mission, environment and objective is inspired by the "shadow" military operations - whether real or fiction style. Six new screens to check out ..

GameSpot sits down and talk to Digital Extremes lead designer Pancho Eekels about Unreal Tournament II, "the recently confirmed first-person shooter".

Pancho Eekels: Unreal II is a single-player-focused mission-based game and has lots of story and background, tasks, and events, as well as a bit more action than the original. Unreal Tournament 2 is a sequel to the original multiplayer-focused action-packed game for the PC. Unreal Championship for Xbox is similar to Unreal Tournament 2 in the multiplayer focus and action but incorporates the element of console play into an FPS that many have not been able to do yet.

Good evening or morning, whatever.. I'm back after the big holiday, X-Mas and New Year.. Hope you all had a good vacation.. Now back to the news shall we ;). Well i just scoured around for Unreal Tournament 2 news and found some interesting scanned screens from next issue of PC Gamer. I snagged them for your viewing pleasure and tossed them up with some other UT2 in-game screens. Check them out. Enjoy!