Fans of the hugely successful Cossacks: European Wars will be glad to hear that a unique “World Ranking” league system will be included in the much anticipated add-on, “The Art of War”. Never in videogame history, has a game provided you with a ranking system this detailed.

Learn about Frost Armor, Death & Decay both abilities of the Lich, an Undead Hero in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos.

3DO Europe has set its sights on World Cup glory with the hottest endorsement of the year, signing up Anco Software’s Sven Goran Eriksson’s and Sven Goran Eriksson’s World Cup Challenge for PlayStation and PlayStation2, coinciding with the build up to World Cup 2002 in Japan and South Korea.

Prepare to race the world like never before as Codemasters confirms that TOCA Race Driver will feature 42 real cars, 13 championships and an incredible 38 real-life, internationally renowned race circuits. All facts below!

Developed by Kalisto Entertainment, Nightmare Creatures 3, Angel of Darkness (working title) is the sequel to the 1998 hit game Nightmare Creatures 1 and the 2000 game Nightmare Creatures 2, which sold in excess of 2 million units worldwide combined on Sony PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Sega Dreamcast and PC platforms. Nightmare Creatures 3 for the new generation of home consoles will hit store shelves in the second quarter of 2003. Full pressrelease and screens below!

Serving up on this fine Monday are 6 brand new Seadogs II screen shots showing us WHY this Pirate game will leave all the competition in its wake ... Ships Ahoy! Raise them Sails or walk the plank! ... Give us the game NOW!

Infogrames, through an agreement with renowned game developer BioWare Corp., has secured the global publishing rights for the hotly anticipated role-playing game (RPG), Neverwinter Nights, excluding certain pre-existing licenses help by Interplay Entertainment. The PC game, based on the wildly popular Dungeons & Dragons game published by Wizards of the Coast, is scheduled to be launched worldwide in the Summer of 2002.

Today the Postal 2 developers "Running With Scissors" released a pressrelease that you can check out below! Postal 2 is using Epic’s Unreal Warfare engine.

There is some new Unreal 2 screens available to check out on BousWeb. Unreal 2 is Legend Entertainment's upcoming first person shooter. Bring them on.

Update: There are more Unreal II shots posted today on Tiscali "taken from E3 beta and other sources" Check them out.

INFOGRAMES is proud to announce that it has signed an agreement with Namco, one of Japan’s leading videogames players to release a Game Boy Advance line-up across Europe and Australia. This includes Namco Museum™ and Pac-Man Collection™ (two classic compilations released for Christmas), Tekken Advance™ (based on the hugely popular fighting franchise), Klonoa™ -Empire of Dreams- (high potential platform game) and Mr.Driller™2 (addictive puzzle gaming).

Today UbiSoft released a 80 MB big demo of the turn-based strategy game by Team17 Software, Worms Blast. Grab it here!

Funlabs announces today the official release of Shadow Force: Razor Unit an action-tactical first person shooter which takes the realism to a new level. Experience adrenaline-filled missions in a captivating story which will take you in the middle of today's main events. Mutiplayer support on LAN and Internet for up to 32 players. There is also a Shadow Force: Razor Unit Demo Available. You can grab this demo HERE or HERE. The Demo contains:

- 1 single player level
- 2 multiplayer level (for deathmatch, team deathmatch and capture the flag game modes)
- more than 10 weapons to choose from including: Rotational Grenade Launcher, M4 carbine, Mp-5 submachine gun and many more.

Blizzard gives us a few fresh screenshots, today from the Night Elf Ancients .. They also give us a bit more insight information about one of the characters, Death Knight. This game is looking more and more impressive with each screenshots we see ;)

Unreal Engine build 829 was recently released to licensees. This was a major update that included a lot of performance and feature improvements. Head over to the official site for full article with all facts.

Highly-respected German developer Westka Interactive has spread word they are working on a new exciting game (no working title known as of yet). The product is a first-person action/adventure PC game, which utilises the latest Unreal engine. It is scheduled for release in 2003. More info soon!

Midway Games Inc., a leading software industry publisher and developer announced today that the official title for the all-new, next-generation version of the popular fighting game franchise will be Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance. Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance is currently in development and scheduled to ship fall 2002 for the Xbox video game system from Microsoft, Nintendo GameCube, Game Boy Advance and other next-generation gaming systems.

In search of dancers for her upcoming tour, Britney wants you to audition. Earn your place on stage by rhythmically pressing buttons to the beat of Britney’s hit songs, showing off your hottest moves. The best part is, as you beat songs, you unlock exclusive Britney videos and interviews. With a two-player mode, compete against your friends to see who’s best at getting their groove on. Do you have the right moves? Britney's Dance Beat is coming to PS2 April 2002.

The official site for Sea Dogs II has today been updated with some new screens that you can check out here.. They also let us know that a demo of Sea Dogs II is expected to be available within the nearest month.

Nintendo, the world's leading games company, proudly announces 3rd May 2002 as the European launch date for the only dedicated games console of the new era, the Nintendo GameCube, with more than 20 titles available on day one.. Today's official pressrelease below!

Serving up now are some random screens from Jowood's upcoming business sim "Far West" (expected release date June) and their tactical action adventure Conseal (expected later this summer). Build ranches, raise catle or shoot people .. Though decision ;)

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.