Digital Extremes and Groove Games today announced their partnership on a new first-person action game based on an original intellectual property created and owned by Digital Extremes. The new game, ominously named Pariah, has been quietly in production for the past two years and is currently planned for the Xbox and PC. Hip Interactive's UK division lets us know that they have signed Pariah for European distribution. Read more for details and screens ...

Perimeter is a real-time strategy game built on the concept of territory seizure using detailed terraforming and on the subsequent encircling of these zones with a special protective perimeter. The game combines proven principles of controlling resources and unit groups with titles featuring a clear-cut seizure of living space. Read more for some new screens ...

Using characters designed by renowned Japanese artist Kosuke Fujishima, Tales of Symphonia unfolds with beautiful anime-style cel-shaded graphics that make the expansive 3D worlds feel like a 2D comic book. The storyline is an emotionally charged, epic adventure that redefines the role-playing genre. Tales of Symphonia will ship exclusively for the Nintendo GameCube in Summer of 2004. Read more to check out some new screens ...

Ubisoft and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications today announced an in-game product promotion for Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow, one of the most anticipated video games of 2004. The alliance puts the new P900 smart phone and the T637 camera phone in the hands of operative Sam Fisher, as he wages a one-man war against terrorism.

Following on from the success of Perfect Ace last summer, International Golf Pro is Oxygen Interactive's second sports title, founded on the same firm principles of ease-of-play and accessibility. From the power of the drive to the precision of the putt, International Golf Pro puts you in control. Expected in UK storers March 29th. Read more for some new screens ...

KnightBlade: Final Flight is a combat action game which follows the battle hardened crew of the GCV-KnightBlade, a Terran Military Megaron class carrier, into hostile territory. Commanded by April Gage, the KnightBlade is sent to a remote region of space to assist in the extraction of friendly forces caught behind enemy lines. Read more for details ...

Universal Combat: Edge To Edge is a combat action game based on various tried and proven technologies pioneered by 3000AD Inc across its Battlecruiser line of products. Taking place in a much smaller world (two space regions and four planets to be exact), the game allows players to engage in class based combat on seamlessly integrated space and planetary worlds. It features eight marine classes and two pilot classes with player access to a variety of weapons, vehicles, gunship, fighter and shuttle crafts as well as various naval vessels.

BAM! Entertainment today announced that it will be the exclusive North American distributor, under license from Empire Interactive and Sony Pictures Consumer Products, of Starsky & Hutch for GameCube and Game Boy Advance. Read more for details ...

Get in the swing of things with MVP Baseball 2004, an authentic and deep simulation of America's pastime from Electronic Arts which ships today to retailers nationwide under the EA SPORTS brand. With the MVP Baseball franchise's second outing, hailed a "landmark videogame baseball achievement" by Official Xbox Magazine, opening day has just moved to March.

Got Game Entertainment today announced that "A Quiet Weekend in Capri," a game of mystery and enchantment set on the mystical island of Capri, began shipping to retail this week. A first-person adventure for the PC, the game is uniquely packaged with a bonus travel feature on the real island of Capri as well as a separate CD soundtrack of original music. Already drawing excellent reviews and industry awards, the game, with its enveloping story, extended gameplay, mood-evoking soundtrack, and realistic puzzles, has been succinctly described as "'Myst', but in a real location."

Wargaming.net is now accepting applications for the upcoming Massive Assault Network's beta test. Beta testers can sign up right here (all countries are eligible). Candidates are accepted until March 16th, the beginning of the beta test. Massive Assault Network is the upcoming online strategy, which focuses on online turn-based warfare for hardcore strategy gamers.

Team17 Software has released a patch for European & Australian versions of their 3D turn-based strategy game Worms 3D. This upgrade brings your retail game to v1073 (aka service patch 2) and improves compatibility with hardware / software configurations and addresses game problems after release. Service patch 2 incorporates bug fixes, general game additions, network improvements and refinements. Read more for detailed fix list and download links ...

Judge Dredd vs. Judge Death features a unique new storyline, but one that fits in perfectly with the continuity of the comic with a full cast of characters from the Judge Dredd stories, including Judge Anderson and the Dark Judges, and many of the famous Mega-City One locations. We had a chance to play with a near final build, so read more to check out our full preview ...

Activision announced today that it's best-selling game, Call of Duty achieved the highest honor as it racked up three Interactive Achievement Awards at the Seventh Annual Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' D.I.C.E. Awards Show, held Thursday night at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas.

BiosFear, Tiscali Games' action-packed MMORPG, will get even more exciting today when a patch introduces new gameplay features. Amongst the new content is the valuable Platinum Class of weapons, an expansion to one of the existing dungeons as well as a new set of commands for the Pet Dragon players can use. For example, the pet can now perform long-distance attacks.

Set several hundred years before the timeline of the current EverQuest PC game, Champions of Norrath allows gamers to adventure as one of five playable characters who must journey from the city of Faydwer into the wilds of Norrath to save the land from a gathering army of evil orcs and goblins. The game offers more than 100 hours of gameplay per character and unlimited battles, deadly missions and unmatched character customization. Read more for the full review ...

While writing a series of articles about horrible murders in the Low Side District of New York, the young reporter Jimmy Palmer will soon become involved in a game of cat and mouse with an illusive and deadly character - Jack the Ripper. Along Palmer's dark journey he will foster a friendship with a young singer, Abigail, the "Irish Nightingale," and meet numerous other colorful characters of this poor district.

3000 AD has relased a new patch for their space sim Battlecruiser Millennium Gold. This brings your retail game to v1.01.04 and addresses a server crash when you exited the CC in fp mode and fixes an issue when the multiplayer executable was not starting at the server browser by default (it required /c parameter). Read more for download links...

GMX Media today announced that it has secured the Pan-European rights for Martin Mystere. “This is our first title based on a comic book and TV show, Martin Mystere is currently being aired across Europe in notable TV channels such as Canal Plus in France and is proving very popular with viewers. Read more for details & screens ...

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 :

• Caribbean Crisis - Trailer
• Galactic Conquest - Trailer
• Dark Horizons: Lore - Trailer
• Flat-Out - Trailer
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

EA has released a small hotfix for Digital Illusions' Battlefield 1942 Win32 dedicated server. This hotfix has a new BF1942_w32ded.exe executable and it is intended to correct an exploit which is currently in the Battlefield 1942 dedicated server. Read more for download links ...

Pterodon has released a new "final" version of their 'Riverdale' multiplayer map for their tactical shooter Vietcong. Unfortunatle no details as to what modes it supports are available. Read more for screens & download links ...

Black-haired and sullen-eyed, a thief, a reaver, a slayer. The legends that surround his name, speak of the world before history, where shadows of magic and dark alien gods shrouded the known world and the fate of whole empires were dependent on the strength and skills of a single sword. And this is one of those legends. Conan is a 3rd person action game, with few elements of RPG and adventure. The game is divided into chapters, each chapter with different environments and creatures. Each chapter contains several levels. Read more for some new screens ands a small development trailer...