When you enter the world of street racing, it’s not for the trophies, it’s for the rush. Race through the highways of Tokyo, Los Angeles and London, at up to 200 miles an hour. Customize your car, challenge other drivers and battle to become the Emperor of the Highways.

Rockstar launches Beaterator, a groundbreaking new Flash-based music sequencer, sampler and mixer built to work right in your browser. Beaterator gives anyone with an internet connection and Macromedia Flash the ability to craft advanced, original beats… and walk away with them as mp3s.

'COPS 2170: The Power of Law' is a mix of turn-based RPG and tactical strategy game. The storyline is based on the future time cyberpunk culture and urban community. The main hero is a police lady Katrin and her squads of different agents, soldiers, policemen. The war against criminal world from the side of Law.

Adventure Gamers is reporting that Polish developer Detalion, known for The Mysterious Journey and Sentinels: Descendant in Time no more. "Detalion had quietly laid off a significant portion of its staff several months ago, but continued to seek ways to resume operations until this latest move became necessary. According to Maciej Miasik, game producer and co-owner of Detalion, the company still officially exists for the time being, and could yet restart activities if they're successful in their ongoing attempts to secure funding. However, there are no current plans for development of another project, and the outlook is not hopeful."

In Pirates! you take the leading role of a Pirate Captain in the 17th century Caribbean trying to become the most revered and feared pirate in history - exploring high seas and exotic ports, overtaking enemies in fierce naval battles, engaging in duels and attempting to seize valuable booty. In this designer diary, Sid Meier explains why he and his team at Firaxis decided to produce an Xbox version of "Sid Meier's Pirates!"

GameSpy is reporting that LotR: Battle for Middle-earth design director Dustin Browder will be leaving EA, effective March 9, to team up with Blizzard as senior designer. The former Westwood employee worked on titles like Red Alert 2 and C&C Generals, and while Dustin did not disclose what Blizzard project he would be working on, he did confirm his new position was with the Warcraft/WoW team, and with his strategy background it could be a new Warcraft of Starcraft product. The article also states that another ex-Westwood employee, nobody less than EA's VP and Executive Producer Mark Skaggs is taken a leave of absense for personal/family reason.

A 3D sci-fi shooter developed by Shin’en, Nanostray boasts a wide array of weapons, un-lockable features and game modes, as well as an online ranking system that tracks the game’s top players. Nanostray’s touch screen features will allow players to track enemy movement via interactive radar and manage the various weapons and other special pick ups.

Strategy First and ZOO Digital are happy to announce the signing of Gun Metal. This action-packed title, previously available solely on console (published by Majesco), is now coming to PC gamers in North America on April 26.

JoWooD's Stargate SG-1: The Alliance, developed by Perception using a greatly enhanced Unreal Engine 2.5 engine, is the spectacular interactive game expereince that puts players in the action packed universe of the Stargate SG-1 TV series, which is scheduled for release in late 2005 for all major platforms. Being BIG Stargate fans here over at Worthplaying, this trailer merits its own article. Read more and check it out, its looking good!!!

Another day, another batch of game trailers were released. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are trailers for :

• Brothers in Arms - Sountrack Trailer
• Cold Fear - Intro Movie
• Phantom Dust - Trailer #3

Today is the 4th March 2005, the launch day of Darwinia. From this moment onwards Darwinia will be available to the public to buy, and Introversion's fate will be decided. If you live in the UK and you do not wish to buy Darwinia direct from Introversion's website, you can instead purchase the game from most high-street games stores which will be stocking the game starting today (thanks Blues).

Star Heritage is an adventure game in which you play the role of Earth’s secret agent, helping human coalition in the struggle with alien invaders. As fate would have it, you have found yourself on an unknown planet, not registered in any space catalogue, a long way away from any space trade lines. Your main goal is to leave the planet and continue the struggle for Mankind’s freedom.

As we mentioned yesterday, Sports Interactive has a new patch for the North American edition of 'Worldwide Soccer Manager. This update brings your retail game to v5.0.3 and adds all changes in personnel that have occurred in the world of football since the game's initial release on Nov 4th 2004 and the closure of the recent transfer window on January 31st (a total of more than 160,000 changes of player, coaching and managerial staff.) Read more for download links ...

Forever pushing the boundaries of online gameplay, NovaLogic today confirmed that the forthcoming title Delta Force: Black Hawk Down, for the Xbox, will feature mammoth 50 Player battles over Xbox Live! Read more for details ...

Ubisoft and Gearbox Software announced that Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 is now available in retail stores for the Xbox at the manufacturer's suggested retail price of $49.99.

Cecropia today announced its first game, called "The Act," which allows players to control the characters' emotions while they experience an interactive comedy about relationships, deception, and the pursuit of romance.

Waywardxs Entertainment today announced Squad Manager 2005. The game represents the latest evolution of the Waywardxs's Football Manager Simulator and will feature, for the first time ever in the series, an additional new real-time 2D match viewer and the multiplayer mode.

Since the close of football's January transfer window, the LMA Manager 2005 team have compiled all the player moves and stats updates for the second half of the season. Now all the data can be accessed and implemented into LMA Manager 2005 thanks to a unique download now available over PS2 Net and Xbox Live.

This is a two-part interview with Mark Jacobs, CEO of Mythic Entertainment. The original interview was conducted at Mythic's offices last year just before the launch of Catacombs, EverQuest 2, and World of WarCraft. Since some things have changed since then, Mr. Jacobs was kind enough to answer some follow-up questions via e-mail.

KOEI today formally announced its pre-sell campaign plans for Dynasty Warriors 5. In cooperation with online retailers GameStop.com and EBGames.com, KOEI is offering the retro-inspired t-shirts in three styles- Wu, Shu and Wei- each representing one of the Three Kingdoms in the game. Starting immediately, with each online pre-order of Dynasty Warriors 5, consumers will receive a free t-shirt chosen at random, while supplies last.

The eighth and ninth installments of the wildly popular King of Fighters franchise makes their way to the PlayStation 2 in this ultimate double pack collection of 2D fighting. This collection features famous characters, all of the great fighting teams, and introduces the now-popular "Multi-Shift System."

Another day, another batch of game trailers were released. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are trailers for :

• Resident Evil: Outbreak File No.2 - Trailer #2
• Splinter Cell Chaos Theory - NSA Trailer #4
• Robots - Trailer
• MLB 2006 - Trailer (3)
• Empire Earth 2 - Dev Diary #5

Sports Interactive has released a new path for its football management simulation FM 2005. This update brings your retail game to v5.0.3 and adds all changes in personnel that have occurred in the world of football since the game's initial release on Nov 4th 2004 and the closure of the recent transfer window on January 31st (a total of more than 160,000 changes of player, coaching and managerial staff.) Get the WWSM 2005 right here. Read more for download links.

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory will offer a high adrenaline experience thanks to never seen before close range attacks, a totally open level design, a completely immersive and interactive environment, and challenging advanced AI. Check these 36 new screens ...

While there are no specific details available yet, Square Enix today revealed its newest title, Heavy Metal Thunder. Heavy Metal Thunder was unveiled during a concert in Japan, where rock band Sex Machineguns performed a live set promoting their new album, also titled "Heavy Metal Thunder." During the event, Square Enix showed a short trailer of the game filled with mechs and jets, but that was all there was to it. Square Enix is also sponsoring a new anime TV show, "Heavy-Meta san," which will air in Japan every Tuesday at midnight, beginning April 5.