It is becoming an annual rite of passage. Each year at this time, boys in their early teens, still cleareyed and smooth-faced but awkwardly approaching manhood, develop the toughness of card sharks as they negotiate with their parents over buying this season's generation of expensive electronic gadgets. " read more below, pretty funny story ;) "

PS®2 owners will soon be able to hang ten on the same gnarly curls that until now, only Xbox® owners have enjoyed. Infogrames, Inc., a global publisher of interactive entertainment software, announced today that the genre-defining action sports game, TransWorld Surf™, will make its PS 2 debut in Spring 2002. Falling under the newly reinvented Atari brand, TransWorld Surf for PS 2 will include an exclusive new location and multiplayer mode as well as updated surfer licenses.

Croteam just released a small fix for the recent released demo, The Second Encounter. This 'fix' is for people that run a dedicated server. Here is a spot from the article:

So, we are releasing the FIX for the scripts needed to run dedicated servers for the SSam:SE Demo. This fix is ONLY for those who are running dedicated servers. IF YOU DON'T PLAN TO RUN A DEDICATED SERVER, YOU DON'T NEED THIS FIX. Head over to Croteam for full story and download!

The Xbox (TM) video game system from Microsoft Corp. had the best-selling video game console launch on record after two weeks of sales, according to The NPD Group Inc., the definitive source for sales and market data on the video game industry. Attach Rate for Xbox Launch Is Highest Ever; Weekly Shipments of Xbox Systems Ensures Strong Sales Through Holiday Season

The World Cyber Games is the biggest international game event, where the gamers selected through national preliminaries pit their skills against others for their countries. Similar to the Olympics, the World Cyber Games is a competition for the honor of countries, and citizenship of the pertinent country is required to participate in it. The 1st World Cyber Games will be held in Korea as was the World Cyber Game Challenge last year. Approximately 430 players from 37 countries will be there. Event Period starts: December 5, 2001. Take me there!

The official site for Serious Sam: The Second Encounter is now up. The site tell us all features, news of a demo, aswell as some screens. Also they tell us a release date for the game, January 15th 2002. Take me there!

Conflict Zone (CZ) is a realistic simulation of modern day warfare and is based on developer MASA’s revolutionary Artificial Intelligence technology - DirectIA SDK . Developed entirely in real-time 3D, this real time strategy game lets players take the role of an international intervention force the International Corps for Peace (ICP) or a shadow organisation GHOST.

No roller coaster ride here! RollerCoaster Tycoon® from Infogrames, Inc. shot to the top of the PC software sales charts when it debuted in the spring of 1999 and stayed in the top 10 until the week of October 28 ­ when it moved down to the number 11 position to make room for the regular and limited editions of Infogrames’ new Sid Meier’s Civilization® III, which debuted in the number one and number two positions in their first week of sales, according to NPD INTELECT.

A few days back Take 2 sended over 69 screens from Serious Sam: The Second Encounter. These images is avaliable on some other sites aswell but we updated our archive with them today.. Some people allready seen them and some not. Anyway here they are!

Take 2 sended us factsheet for the sequel to the surprisingly enjoyable, Serious Sam: The Second Encounter, um, original. With, interestingly, PC split-screen support. Check out facts and screens here!

Eidos let us know that the official site for Deus Ex: The Conspiracy has launched. You can find it right here.. The site includes information about the upcoming PlayStation 2 version and some older info on the PC title.

CCP is now accepting applications for the upcoming beta test of EVE: The Second Genesis. Read more about this game here and you also find all needed information about this beta test there..

Part of Conflict Zone's TRUE innovation is the use of its "Commanders"... Who are they, what do they do and why are they so important?