Continuing to build on its successful action sports brand, Activision, Inc. confirmed today that acclaimed developer Gearbox Software is currently in the final stages of production on the PC version of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater™ 3. The game will include several new platform specific features such as exclusive online modes, downloadable user-created maps and fully customizable mouse, game controller and keyboard configurations.

Get ready to wreak Havoc and raise Kane! Westwood Studios announced today that its first 3D action game, Command & Conquer Renegade has gone gold and will ship to stores in North America February 26, under the EA GAMES brand. Westwood is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Electronic Arts

North Wales: New publisher, Jester Interactive, has announced a new breed of racing game, with the officially-endorsed Super Trucks set to roll on to PlayStation 2 in April 2002.

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!

GB Rally 2 Advance is the sequel of one of the greatest rally game ever developed on GameBoy Color. But this new version has studied to run on the new Nintendo GameBoy Advance (GBA) hardware. The structure of the game is similar to the prequel, adding new features and making it more suitable as simulation and squeezing eyes to the rally title that run on more powerful hardware. Read more below for all facts and just one screenshot - but it's a good 'un.

Kemco is pleased to announce that we have won the well-known Australian developer Tantalus for our new Woody Woodpecker game, "Woody Woodpecker in Crazy Castle 5". This latest installment of the successful "Crazy Castle" series is the first to be developed exclusively for Game Boy Advance.

Rage, the UK-based computer games publisher and developer, is pleased to announce that its forthcoming officially licensed soccer game ‘David Beckham Soccer’ for the Sony PlayStation2 computer entertainment system and Xbox video game system from Microsoft is scheduled for release in time for the World Cup 2002.

Crystal Interactive, Inc., publisher of independent and commercial software announces today the release of the 3D bowling game, Strike!. We'll put on our bowling shoes soon and give you some more details/screens...

Microprose is bringing the wildly successful online game, Tactical Ops to retail stores in May 2002 for the PC. Powered by the award winning Unreal technology, Tac Ops: Assault on Terror features advanced graphics, new maps, skins and improved code and animations available only in the retail version of the game.

Fishtank Interactive have released their monthly newsletter. Here is the updates for Arx Fatalis:

The sales version of Arx Fatalis is multi-lingual and includes the complete English, French and German localisation. The originally planned multiplayer mode was already deleted some time ago. As it would have constituted a completely new game, it would have been very difficult to meet the schedule. A version with fewer features was out of the question for quality reasons. There are considerations however to offer the multiplayer version as a game of its own. In any case, we have been able to fully concentrate on the single player mode, which now offers between 80 and 100 hours of gaming fun. The trilingual Arx Fatalis homepage is now really online at www.arxfatalis-online.de.

PC.IGN let us know that Raven's Soldier of Fortune II, the visceral, and surely to be controversial first-person shooter sequel, will be seeing a spring release because of the extra time required by the game's developer, Raven, to enhance and perfect the title's random mission generator and multiplayer component. The newly improved AI, graphics, and play style built into SoF II should prove to be well worth the wait for both fans of the original as well as the genre as a whole, whenever the hell it ends up shipping.

We asked Erik Johansson, responsible for the controversial rock'n'roll sim management ROCK MANAGER) a few questions about the making of the Rock Manager game ... Rock'N Roll Baby! Yeah! Read and Enjoy!

Tiscali.cz just tossed up two nice videos from Counter-Strike 1.4 beta gameplay, which shows in 2x 3-minutes long movies and some of the new features and maps in the upcoming version of this Half-Life mod. Grab them here!

A few days ago we presented you a ton of screens taken from the first few levels of Starfighter, today we bring you the rest of the levels, bonus levels and to add extra game value you can replay all missions with any of the 3 different spaceships (and Darth Maul's Infiltrator as extra bonus). This game is truely fun to play...

Manic Miner for the Gameboy Advance is to be published by Jester Interactive. No specific release date is set yet and until they do, mine away on these 20-some screens.

Universal Studios Theme Park from Kemco (developed by Japanese NAI'A DIGITAL WORKS) for th GAMECUBE covers various game themes ranging from Jaws, Jurrasic Park to Backdraft and ET. Interested already? Check out these screens coz its looking good!

Earlier today we tossed up some PC screens and a lot of facts around this game. Now we bring you a Worms Blast gallery for PS2 with 44 screens.. Check them out below! If you don't like the game, you can always catch fish with it. Release date: PS2 - 29/3/2002.

Infogrames celebrates 30 years of Atari classic arcade fun with the release of Atari Anniversary Advance for Nintendo Game Boy Advance. This special 6 game compilation is being released to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Atari's founding in 1972, as the first company ever established solely for the purpose of creating and marketing video games.

Today GamingGroove have tossed up an interview with the Static development team, in a chat about their upcoming Fallout-style RPG that was a finalist for the Independent Games Festival Award. Here is a snip:

GamingGroove: What exactly is Static about?

Static Team: “STATIC” is an RPG that roots itself in a plot about mind-control and what happens when the process becomes futile... Read more.

Today tiscali.cz tossed up a new 3,5 MB, DivX movie from Electronic Arts and their upcoming title, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2. This new movie is a 40-seconds long and it's available to download here.

Global Operations is available for PRE-ORDER at your favorite online stores! Order it HERE. Make sure you reserve your copy today! In related news "Firing Squad" posted a new preview and 29 screens .. Check it, Click HERE!

Rage, the UK-based computer games publisher and developer, is pleased to announce that its forthcoming officially licensed boxing game 'Rocky' for the Sony PlayStation2 computer entertainment system and Xbox video game system from Microsoft is scheduled for release in time for Christmas 2002.

We haven't posted these screens before so you might have seen some of them already, but hey it's a screenshot gallery with some facts.. Based on the outstandingly popular sport of Grand Prix Motorcycle racing, MotoGP is an ultra-realistic bike racer for the Xbox and PC, which puts you, the player, behind the handle-bars of some of the meanest, fastest, most thrilling machines on two-wheels. With a variety of innovative gameplay elements, supported by revolutionary graphical and technical features, MotoGP brings the perfect gaming mix of speed, style, bravery and technology to your Xbox. Expected Release date : June-2002.

Today GameSpy presents Volume 3 of their Divine Divinity Developer Diary featuring Swen Vincke talking about the triumphs and travails of developing this roleplaying game post-delay- announcement. It's a good read if you've ever wondered how developers feel about delaying games... Read more!

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a third-person action/adventure game based on the international hit television series. Players take on the role of Buffy Summers, a typical high school student by day and a fierce destroyer of the undead by night. Buffy the Vampire Slayer combines fighting, action, drama, humor, exploration and puzzle solving in a complex interactive 3D environment. Eight new screenshots and no mi-"stake".