Check out the following new screens from Square Enix's 2004 E3 lineup:

• Final Fantasy XII (PS2)
• Final Fantasy XI: Chains of Promathia (PS2/PC)
• Front Mission 4 (PS2)
• Fullmetal Alchemist and the Broken Angel (PS2)
• Musashi Samurai Legend (PS2)

Check out the following new screens from Bandai's 2004 E3 lineup:

• Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex (PS2)
• Inuyasha: The Secret Of The Cursed Mask (PS2)
• Galactic Wrestling: Featuring Ultimate Muscle (PS2)
• Digimon Rumble Arena 2 (NGC/Xbox)
• SD Gundam Force (GBA/PS2)
• Digimon World 4 (NGC/PS2/Xbox)
• Gundam Seed: Battle Assault (GBA)
• Ribbit King (NGC/PS2)
• Cowboy Bebop (PS2)

SNK announced today that the company will publish the first home version of the hit arcade title, 'SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos', exclusively for the Xbox. 'SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos' fully supports Xbox Live, so consumers can take on opponents around the neighborhood or across the country in the ultimate online battle for survival. Read more for details and some new screens ...

Atari and Stormfront Studios have announced plans to develop Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone, an action adventure game set in the popular Dungeons & Dragons world created by Wizards of the Coast. Designed by Stormfront Studios, creators of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and originally in development for the PS2, Demon Stone will now be available for the Xbox this fall.

Ubi Soft has released the first patch for 1C Maddox' Sturmovik: the Forgotten Battles addon IL-2 Forgotten Battles: Ace Expansion Pack. This update brings your retail game to v2.01 and adds a number of new planes, a variety of mission, and the usual game tweaks and bug fixes (thanks 3DGamers). Read more for details and download links ...

Check out the following new screens from Atlus' 2004 E3 lineup:

• Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne (PS2)
• Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner (PS2)
• Pro Fishing Challenge (Xbox)

Enlight announced today the genre blending RTS/RPG title Warlords Battlecry III is now available in retail stores across North America. The third installment in the Battlecry series, Warlords Battlecry III allows players to go head to head in RTS combat with one of 16 fantasy races and over a hundred hero combinations.

Activision, Inc. announced today that the company will develop and publish interactive entertainment games based on Columbia Pictures/Marvel Enterprises, Inc.'s upcoming feature film "Spider-Man 3," which is set for release in May 2007. Activision is currently developing console and PC games based on the highly anticipated movie "Spider-Man 2" that are scheduled for release in North America timed to the film's launch on June 30.

TimeGate Studios delivers a breathtaking world of magical splendour, heroic deeds, and fearsome enemies with Kohan II: Kings of War, a fantasy-based real-time strategy game. Presented in beautifully rendered 3D, Kohan II: Kings of War allows gamers to lay siege to enemy cities, explore fantastic realms, fight strange creatures, and build a world-spanning empire.

"MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf" continues the massive destructible environments, intense combat and addictive online multiplayer gameplay that gamers have been praising since "MechAssault" first hit Xbox. Continuing in the 31st century, "MechAssault 2" allows gamers to encounter entirely new experiences in the epic BattleTech world. This third-person action/shooter game defines immense destruction taken to another level, as each environment in the game's five worlds is fully destructible.

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 :

• Mortal Kombat: Deception - E3 2004 Trailer
• Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 - E3 2004 Trailer
• Doom III - E3 2004 Trailer
• Call Of Duty: Finest Hour - E3 2004 Trailer
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Ground Control 2 : Operation Exodus takes place during the year 2741 AD, roughly 300 years after the events in the original game. The democratic and freedom caring Northern Star Alliance (NSA) is being hard pressed by the warmongering Terran Empire. The war has recently entered a new stage; a brutal and deadly ground war, as the Empire has managed to land their first troopships on the last NSA controlled planet – Morningstar Prime.

Check out the following new screens from THQ's 2004 E3 lineup:

• Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius: Attack of the Twonkies (GBA/PS2)
• Destroy All Humans! (PS2/Xbox)
• Fairly Odd Parents Shadow Showdown (GBA/NGC/PS2/PC)
• Full Spectrum Warrior (Xbox)
• Hot Wheels Stunt Track Challenge (PS2/Xbox)
• The Incredibles (NGC/PS2/Xbox)
• LEGO Knights' Kingdom (GBA)
• Nicktoons EyeToy (PS2)
• Power Rangers Dino Thunder (NGC/PS2)
• The Punisher (PS2/Xbox)
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl (PC)
• Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War (PC)
• WWE Day of Reckoning (NGC)

Check out the following new screens from Tecmo's 2004 E3 lineup:

• Dead or Alive Ultimate (Xbox)
• Fatal Frame 2 (Xbox)
• GunGriffon (Xbox)

Today we have more screens for SNK's 2004 E3 lineup. Check the following new screens for :

• The King of Fighters 02/03 (PS2/Xbox)
• KOF: Maximum Impact (PS2)
• Metal Slug Advance (GBA)
• Metal Slug 4 / 5 (PS2/Xbox)
• SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos (Xbox)

Today we have more screens for Sega's 2004 E3 lineup. Check the following new screens for :

• Altered Beast (PS2)
• Amazing Island (NGC)
• Astro Boy (PS2)
• Blood Will Tell (PS2)
• ESPN NBA 2005 (PS2/Xbox)
• ESPN NFL 2005 (PS2/Xbox)
• ESPN NHL 2005 (PS2/Xbox)
• Football Manager 2005 (PC)
• Headhunter: Redemption (PS2/Xbox)
• NHL Eastside Hockey Manager (PC)
• Otogi 2 (Xbox)
• OutRun2 (Xbox)
• Samurai Jack: The Shadow of Aku (NGC/PS2/Xbox)
• SEGA SuperStars (PS2)
• Spikeout: Battle Street (Xbox)
• Warhammer Online (PC)
• Worms Forts Under Siege (PC/PS2/Xbox)

Today we have more screens for SCi's 2004 E3 lineup. Check the following new screens for :

• Conflict: Vietnam (PS2/Xbox/PC)
• Midway (PS2/Xbox/PC)
• Galleon (Xbox)
• Richard Burns Rally (PS2/Xbox/PC)

Today we have more screens for Sammy Studios' 2004 E3 lineup. Check the following new screens for :

• The Shield (PS2/Xbox)
• Darkwatch (PS2/Xbox)
• Guilty Gear Isuka (PS2)
• Iron Phoenix (Xbox)
• Spy Fiction (PS2)

Buka has released a new patch for G5 Software's action/helicopter sim, Fair Strike. This update brings your retail game to v1.04 (only for North American version) and adresses some multiplayer issues, the usual fixes & tweaks but also adds camera options, better joystick control, logging, etc. Read more for details & download links ..

Encore has just let us know that while the majority of the press corps was attending last week's E3, Surreal's action/horror "The Suffering" has quietly gone gold and is expected in stores May 28th. Merely announced a few weeks ago, you can already check our in-house The Suffering preview if you want to find out more about it ...

Today we have more screens for Novalogic's 2004 E3 lineup. Check the following new screens for :

• Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising (PC)
• 'Black Hawk Down' (Xbox)

Ubisoft is committed to offering the best Xbox LIVE experience as possible. Today, the next Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow Auto-Update has been released. A number of features have been improved and a few bugs have been fixed. This Auto-Update will give gamers an even greater pleasure in playing than it already has. Please note that the leaderboards will be cleared next week, once Microsoft's tournament is over. In the coming weeks, new downloadable content will be available that will extend and heighten the Splinter Cell experience. Read more for details on the new features...

Today we have more screens for Namco's 2004 E3 lineup. Check the following new screens for :

• Dead to Rights II (PS2/Xbox)
• Death by Degrees (PS2)
• Time Crisis: Crisis Zone (PS2)
• Tekken 5 (All)
• Tales of Symphonia (NGC)
• Baten Kaitos (NGC)
• Ace Combat 5 (PS2)
• Smash Court Tennis Pro Tournament 2 (PS2)
• I-Ninja (GBA)
• kill.switch (GBA)
• Ms Pac-Man Maze Madness (GBA)
• Pac-Man World (GBA)
• Xenosaga Episode II (PS2)

The game that introduced stealth gameplay is back. Ion Storm has implemented a new 3rd person cinematic action view as well as the classic 1st person perspective from the previous Thief chapters. Breaking and entering, stealing, sabotage, combat, assassination, and setting up ambushes - tasks master thief Garrett is well equipped to perform.