Only weeks after unveiling its European marketing and operations headquarters, VisionTek, a leading provider of advanced graphics and memory solutions for PCs, today announced that it is the first company in Europe to deliver GeForce4 Ti4600, NVIDIA Corporation’s flagship GeForce4 product, into the European retail channel. Working with retailers in the UK and Germany, VisionTek began shipping its Xtasy GeForce4 Ti 4600 AGP graphics accelerator board on March 1st.

NCsoft(TM) Corporation, the world's largest independent online game company, announced today that it will publish one of the most anticipated online game titles currently in development, Cryptic Studios' City of Heroes. The game will bring the concept of superhero role-playing to the massively multiplayer (MMP) genre and add yet another impressive title to NCsoft's growing list of online games.

Tecmo, Inc. announced today that it will be releasing a Booster Disc for the game Dead or Alive 3, available only on the Xbox video game system from Microsoft.

While we are all still enojying the freshly released Renegade, Westwood and EA are already hard at work to bring us the next episode .. mentioned a few days ago it has now become clearer that the former Red Alert2/Yuri's Revenge developers are working on C&C Generals .. Gamespot has got an article up on the "first hours of C&C Generals", basically .. how it all started .. quite a nice read!

If you are having trouble with the single player missions in Westwood's latest installment of the C&C franchise then you can find useful tips/hints/walkthrough for the first 2 missions at WestWood's page ... if you need help with the Opening Mission: The Scorpion Hunters or with Mission 1: Rescue & Retribution follow the links ... In need of some multiplayer help? Go HERE!! Frag away!

Ubi Soft has announced extensive promotional and marketing support for the imminent release of its Team 17-developed Worms Blast title for PC and PlayStation 2 - with the colourful puzzle game set to enjoy an extensive promotional campaign across Warner Village cinemas in the UK.

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.

Microsoft Corp. today announced an agreement with PGA golf star Jesper Parnevik to lend his expertise and digital self to "Links® 2003," the newest version of Microsoft’s best-selling PC golf franchise. Set to hit stores this holiday season, "Links 2003" is filled with new features including new courses from around the world, improved graphics, and faster and easier online play.

Just added a few more Cheat codes to our PC GAMES cheat section on the chat forum... head over there if you want cheat codes for "Starwars : Starfighter", "Return To Castle Wolfenstein" and "Medal of Honor : Allied Assault"... Cheat away ;)

Continuing its policy of strong licences, Thrustmaster reinforces its portfolio by signing the 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan license. Thrustmaster’s big kick-off will take place in April 2002, a few weeks before the beginning of the 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan, the world’s largest sports event of the year. A complete “team” of accessories for PS, PS2, GameCube and the Xbox, will be released.

Microsoft Corp. today announced that six world-class design studios plan to create exclusive games for the Xbox video game system, all of which will be published under the Microsoft label. The game companies, which join 18 other studios that are creating first-party games for Microsoft, are Blitz Games Ltd., Curly Monsters Ltd., Double Fine Productions Inc., Radical Entertainment Inc., Vision Scape Interactive Inc. and Yeti Interactive. These alliances further demonstrate the game community's confidence in Xbox and in Microsoft's commitment to becoming a leading video game publisher.

Yesterday we announced that UbiSoft's addon pack for "Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon" Desert Siege went gold .. today we bring you a few more new screens from this eagerly anticipated mission pack (at least i am panting for it) .. Njoy!

Forget the antics of Tom Cruise, this is what jet combat school is really like... guaranteed to take your breath away! There's never been a pilot in the air who could survive without training, and a huge number of the world's modern 'Top Gun' fighter pilots learned their skills in the same incredible machine.

As work ramps up on the latest incarnation of the 4.6 million selling Colin McRae Rally series, the eponymous hero paid a recent visit to the team at Codemasters to catch up on the latest developments. The most widely anticipated rally game this year gives players one simple instruction: You are Colin McRae... and the gameplay challenge has the player taking on the role of McRae as he's given a 3 year contract to win a series of championships for Ford Rallye Sport.

CENEGA released today a new 34 MB, MPG trailer from their RPG game Another War. Tiscali games let us know that they tossed up same trailer aswell, but they converted it to DivX format in two versions depending on resolution - 11 MB (640x480) or 4 MB (320x240).

Electronic Arts' James Bond in... Agent Under Fire has passed Nintendo's Q/A and is on schedule to ship March 12 for the Nintendo GameCube! The Xbox version is slated to hit shelves in late March.

Two years in the making and including an exclusive behind the cabin door documentary with British airline, Go, this is a life changing experience... well maybe not quite. But it is without doubt the most complex and realistic aircraft simulation yet seen running in the multi-million selling Microsoft Flight Simulator series.

An amazing expansion to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000/2002 or Combat Flight Simulator 2. Back in 1982, this remarkable aircraft was a decisive weapon in the defence of the Falklands in the war with Argentina.

Codemasters has executed a massive coup by signing computer and video game rights deals with 15 of the most successful football clubs across Europe. The licenses will be used to make a major impact in the valuable football action games market with what is set to be the biggest development and publishing project in Codemasters’ 16-year history.

On March 15th Mindscape will release it's first big PC CD game of the year, the quirky and irreverent management sim, Rock Manager. Former CTW reporter and rock musician, Stephen Daultrey, caught up with the game's scrip-writer and director, Erik Johansson of the Stockholm-based developer, Monsterland, to get the lowdown on the game that's not afraid to dish the dirt on the cut-throat world of the rock'n'roll music world. The following interview was to originally be published in the last edition of Computer Trade Weekly magazine on 1st March 2002, however, the final issue never made it to press. We did not want you people to miss out on this .. so here it is!

Finally, the eagerly awaited mission addon for Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon achieved the gold status. Thus nothing more in the way for its scheduled release March 28th. There are 2 reason to rejoice because at the same time as Desert Siege, the Ghost Recon Collector's pack will be available! Only three more weeks to go before you can indulge yourself into 10 fire-new missions. Click "read more" to get a detailed list of the weapon upgrades!

Have you ever dreamed of running your own casino? Here's your chance! Start with the bare building and build, design and manage you own casino. Invest in games and decor, hire & fire your employees, manage your clients' every need and sign the best entertainment in town to make YOUR casino the hottest spot of the strip, in this one-of-a-kind exciting sim game!

Earlier today we announced the UbiSoft's Upcoming "Rayman3 : Hoodlum Havoc". A few days ago we had a "mystery" Hoodlum trailer and today we have a new trailer in either Windows Media format or RealPlayer format .. both are 40 sec/1mb big! Njoy!

For gamers who are already part of the Flashpoint Elite and own the original game, Red Hammer is an entirely new 20-mission campaign that has the player fighting as part of the Soviet Force. Click here to download ($6.99) or a boxed version ($14.99) .