THQ confirmed today that their highly anticipated survival first-person shooter 'S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl' for PC will ship in Fiscal Q4 - 2005. Click 'Read More' to read details on the announcement.

Martin Hollis, director and producer of the multi-award-winning GoldenEye 007 for Nintendo 64, is to present publicly for the first time ever at the forthcoming European Developers' Forum. Read more for details...

If you think you've got what it takes to be or beat the likes of Ferguson, Wenger, Robson and Mourinho, prepare to put your tactics to the test as Codemasters confirms that the nation's favourite console football management series will return this October with LMA Manager 2005 for PS2 & Xbox. Read more for details & screens...

THQ, publisher of such upcoming titles as 'S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl' and 'The Punisher', today announced operating results for its fiscal 2005 first quarter and moved earnings per share guidance to $1.10, the high end of its previous range, for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2005. It sounds like things are looking good for the long-time publisher, read more for details...

"Dungeon Lords" blends the depth of an epic Fantasy RPG with the flexibility of an FPS-style control system. Gamers journey through a land of ancient castles and dungeon lairs to engage in real-time tactical combat with a variety of deadly foes. It's not just about the battles though, as magic spells and hundreds of powerful weapons and artifacts play a huge role in the game.

In the Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban videogame, releasing in conjunction with the next movie, Harry Potter and his friends Ron Weasley? and Hermione Granger return to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As teenagers back for their third year of study, they are engaged in the mystery surrounding Sirius Black, who has recently escaped from the infamous wizard prison Azkaban.

Like its predecessor, "Rolling Thunder" also offers a campaign with 18 missions (approximately eight single missions). This time, Blitzkrieg fans can look forward to a campaign with the famous American General Patton. His crusade through seven countries, including Operation: Husky, is but one of many historical highlights. Read more for the first four screens...

Experience the first console RPG set in The Lord of the Rings universe in The Lord of the Rings, The Third Age from EA GAMES. Travel in the wake of the Fellowship in a unique structure that allows players to explore their own path while periodically intersecting the major events of New Line Cinema’s film trilogy. Check these 20 new screens ...

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, built using Valve's Half-Life 2 Source Technology, allows players to become a dangerous creature of the night as they assume the role of a recently embraced fledgling vampire in the service of the city's dark prince. Vampire: The Masquerade- Bloodlines is being developed by Troika Games, based on White Wolf's renowned pen-and-paper Vampire: The Masquerade RPG series.

Gamers can enlist for a second tour of duty on the intense front lines of WWII with Call of Duty: United Offensive. Delivering a compelling, all-new single player campaign filled with new weapons, character abilities and other expanded features, Call of Duty: United Offensive also offers a robust multiplayer experience introducing new maps and modes of play. Read more for new screens ...

BBC UK is reporting on a case where Rockstar's "Manhunt" is being blamed for a 17 year old going berserk on his friend. The parents of a boy who was murdered with a claw hammer by a friend have blamed a violent video game which the teenage killer was "obsessed" with. Warren Leblanc, 17, repeatedly stabbed 14-year-old Stefan Pakeerah after luring him to a Leicester park to steal from him on 27 February. Read the full story over at BBC UK.

Netamin today announced the world's first virtual reality, massive multi-player online sports game, Ultimate Baseball Online (UBO), is in the final stages of testing and will be ready for a worldwide launch in Fall 2004. Read more for details...

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 :

• Xpand Rally - Trailers (3)
• Lord Of The Rings: Third Age - Trailers (3)

The furious battle of Pearl Harbor became the first in the sequence of gory sea combats. Now you can take part in all major Pacific battles of the World War II in the Pacific Storm game that is a mixture of RTS, war-game and simulator. All major and important sea battles of World War II, which took place in the Pacific Ocean, are included and you can play either for the USA or Japan. Mine the resources (money, iron and nickel ore, bauxites and oil), train various units and retaliate! Sink’em all!

1C Company and Pointsoft Interactive have signed a Pan-European distribution deal for Vivisector: Beast Inside. Vivisector: Beast Inside developed by Action Forms (creators of Chasm and Carnivores series) is a unique mixture of 3D Action/Horror. The game blends a thrilling interactive story with intense, high-adrenaline action and immerses players in a rich and fascinating storyline. Read more for some new screens

WWII's Pacific theater was the backdrop for some of the most famous aerial battles in history. In places like Midway, Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima, allied fighters and bombers went head-to-head against the air power of the Japanese empire. Pacific Fighters provides the opportunity for players to experience the realistic action, intense flight combat and immersive gameplay of WWII's Pacific air war.

Midway today announced a multi-year, multi-product agreement with Epic Games to publish three new videogames based on the popular Unreal franchise. The agreement marks Midway's entrance into the premium PC games sector with a property that has sold more than seven million units worldwide and generated nearly $200 million in revenue at retail since the introduction of Unreal Tournament in 1999.

EA has released a new patch for DICE's multiplayer shooter Battlefield Vietnam. This update patch brings your retail game to v1.1 (client & server) and adds a new "Defense of Con Thien" map, including 3 new vehicles (OH-6 Loach and Ka-25 'Hormone' helicopters, and M60 emplacements), improves server browsing and the usual game balace tweaks and bug/crash fixes. Read more for download links...

Eidos today announced the hard hitting in-game soundtrack for Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes The Neighborhood. The sequel to the genre-bending phenomenon Backyard Wrestling: Don’t Try This At Home, Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes The Neighborhood offers a soundtrack featuring contributions from legendary artists, today’s hottest acts, and tomorrow’s industry leaders. The in-game soundtrack delivers a direction that further refines and voices the sound of Backyard Wrestling and today’s youth.

Digital Jesters has released a patch for their recently released D-Day demo. This brings the demo to v2.14 and addresses issues regarding: framerate, GameSpy crossmatching, memory leaks, and more. Players of 2.12 will not be able to play users with the patch. Read more for details and download links ...

UbiSoft has released yet another patch for Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow. This update brings your retail game to v1.3.1 and fixes an issue that surfaced in the v1.3 patch where punkbuster disappeared if the pb directory was not accessible in read/write, and the spy teleportation problem has been corrected. Read more for download links...

Atari has forged links with Microsoft to publish the Windows PC version of Top Spin, the critically renowned tennis simulation releasing this September. Atari and Microsoft are confident of repeating the success of last year's Xbox version in 2004. Developed by French games studio Power and Magic Development (PAM) - the creators of the original Xbox version - Top Spin is the complete virtual tennis experience. Here are some fresh screens ...

Empire Interactive are celebrating the spirit of 50 years of Rock n' Roll by encouraging new rock and indie bands to look to the interactive entertainment industry as a springboard to a career in music. Empire have teamed up with Overplay.com, the up and coming music site dedicated to the development and exposure of unsigned bands, to put together a killer rock soundtrack for their upcoming free-roaming, smash-fest racer FlatOut which releases on PS2, Xbox and PC in Fall 2004

Electronic Arts today announced an agreement to acquire Criterion Software Group Ltd. from Canon Europe. With the acquisition, EA assumes Criterion's studio in Guildford, UK; two globally recognized intellectual properties, Burnout and Black; and the RenderWare middleware technology.