Wield an enormous chopper against scantily clad Amazons in the PlayStation 2's first four-player beat-'em-up. Live by the sword and die by the sword. Or be crushed by a bloody great stone pillar this June in Barbarian on PlayStation 2.

The Siege Editor is the tool that was created by Gas Powered Games specifically for the development of Dungeon Siege. This tool will be made available as a free download soon after Dungeon Siege is available in stores. 'Read More' for details!

Playnet.com today announced details of a limited offer to international gamers who want to experience the virtual battlefield of World War II Online- Blitzkrieg, the award winning massively multiplayer online game. The program, which kicks of Monday March 10th, provides players from outside North America the ability to purchase an activation key online. The purchase of the key for $9.99USD is followed by a full, no-cost download of the Windows-based game and a 7-day FREE trial. Once the free trial expires, a monthly subscription for $9.99USD is needed to continue play.

Vivendi send us two new screenshots from their upcoming GBA title, Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, in which you can also feel the emanations from Frodo's ring.. Enjoy!

Microsoft Corp. today announced it will release "NFL Fever 2003," its exclusive football title for the Xbox™ video game system, this summer in time for the start of the 2002 NFL season.

Developed by Kuju Entertainment developers of Microsoft Railroad Sim, Halcyon Sun is a highly exciting and deeply involving episodic space combat game. It includes 12 episodes that will draw you into a compellingly rich and diverse universe, fascinating you with the colourful characters as well as thrilling and terrifying you in the interactive mission segments.

Fight for galactic domination in RIM - Battle Planets, a cosmic new real-time strategy game from JoWooD Productions due for release in March 2002.

Burn off the competition and take off in the fast lane with JoWooD's new PC title Car Tycoon, due for release in March 2002. In this top of the range new business simulation budding entrepreneurs must steer their company to success and compete to become the very best in engineering and design in the highly competitive world of the automobile industry, building and managing an entire manufacturing empire.

Return to Castle Wolfenstein has gotten even more recognition: the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences has awarded the game both Best Online Game of the Year and Best Computer Action/Adventure Game of the Year! So the next time you're going behind enemy lines on a server near you, give a shout out to Nerve and Gray Matter for creating the game that everyone is playing!

Capcom Eurosoft today confirmed its intention to release Resident Evil for Nintendo GameCube this summer. Shinji Mikami, mastermind of the blockbuster franchise Resident Evil and the creator of the survival horror genre, takes control again re-inventing his original masterpiece.

MPH is an arcade-racer that lets players experience incredible speeds while illustrating down-to-earth real world locations and vehicle designs. MPH features gameplay-friendly arcade physics, an effective damage model, and performs various tricks with the camera setup in order to simulate insane speeds without making the game uncontrollable. The game is expected to hit retail shelves Q3 2002.

Action Halflife has now officailly been released. Action Half Life is designed to simulate the experience of being in an Action movie. Movies like Hard Boiled, Face Off, and Die Hard are the inspiration for AHL. AHL aims for something called 'Movie Realism'. Find out more and download from Action Half-Life!

An entirely new type of music entertainment game – an action game based on music! Amidst the battle with the Gravillian family, the only thing standing between the people and certain doom is a young boy and his “Gitaroo”. Click 'read more' to check out the screens and game features..

THQ send over a bunch of new screens and some game information from their upcoming 3D action-adventure and air combat Xbox title, YAGER. Check it out below!

NVIDIA Corporation today introduced the Quadro4 family of professional graphics solutions. The Quadro4 family of professional graphics solutions includes the Quadro4 XGL series and the Quadro4 NVS series - all of which deliver industry-leading performance and innovative features, strengthening NVIDIA’s position as the technology leader in the professional graphics market.

Strategy First announced today that a 114 MB demo for their upcoming real-time strategy game, Diggles: The Myth of Fenris is now available for download from Gigex. This demo will take you on an adventure under the earth where you will lead the Diggles on a quest to defeat a dragon that is eating members of the VooDoo clan. This is just a taste of what Diggles has to offer. Grab it HERE.

Rage, the UK-based computer games publisher and developer, is pleased to reveal some brand new exclusive features that will be contained within its eagerly awaited driving game 'Crash' - due for release on the Xbox video game system from Microsoft shortly after the launch of the hardware across Europe.

3dactionplanet today tossed up 8 beauty shots of the Bridge Commander Federation Akira Class. There is also a note about today rumors and the ST: Bridge Commander Demo will be out tonight, they have it confirmed that it was just a rumor.

The latest version of Day of Defeat "the World War II Half-Life mod" is now available for download. The mod includes 10 new maps, a new machine gunner character class, and all-new weapon models. Grab it here!

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!

The third chance to be accepted into the WarCraft III Beta is being offered, over at EBWorld. They have 50 beta spots to give away. Enter HERE! There is also a chance to win one of 25 spots over at GameStop. Enter HERE!

The RtCW Battle on the Beachhead Tournament receives another sponsor! nVIDIA has decided to donate GeForce 3 video cards to the winning team! Most excellent, that l00t sure is getting interesting! Sign-ups are until January 28th, so if you've got a team of seven players then check the BoB Site for more information!

Robert Duffy from Id Software has updated his .plan to clear up a bit of confusion initially surrounding the Return to Castle Wolfenstein tools SDK that was released yesterday. Here is a snip:

To clear up a bit of confusion, what we released yesterday was the level editing tools and not the full SDK for Wolfenstein. Everything is there to create both single-player and multi-player maps. Also included is Escape ( from single-player ) and Beach ( from multi-player ) for reference.

The source code will be available soon.

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.

We missed this one a little bit earlier today and since we at WP all love RTCW we're bringing it .. late ;) Axis forces are primed for a Blitzkrieg into the console arena with the development of Return to Castle Wolfenstein™ for the PS2 computer entertainment system and the Xbox™ video game system from Microsoft.