After the recent release of the adventure game “Zelenhgorm” in the German-speaking markets, Schanz Interactive GmbH strengthens its presence as Publisher with Empire of Magic, a turn-based strategy game by Mayhem Studios, Slovakia.

Empire of Magic is a captivating and unusual turn-based strategy presented by Mayhem Studios. It captures the adventures of the young mage Artemian, in the background of the fall of a mighty empire. The player becomes a witness of a tragedy, which develops from mysterious raids of the undead to a bloody civil war within the heart of the empire. The genre of the game approaches that of RPG’s. The atmosphere of a real adventure gives a new, yet unknown dimension to the game.

PlanetBattlefield has a mention of an upcoming playable demo for EA's Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII. No additional details and tp specifically when or what it will include are available at this point (thanks VE3D).

Originally slated for a summer release, with a pre-release order phase through mid-July, Shrapnel Games regretfully announces that the eagerly awaited next chapter in the Space Empires saga, Space Empires: Starfury, will be delayed until early autumn. Gold status is currently projected as September 1st , and the five-dollar pre-release discount will now extend until July 31st.

Jowood has just launched the official Silent Storm website offering some more information on Nival Interactive's upcoming 3D turn-based tactical combat & role-playing game set against the background of the WWII. The site offers extensive store background, features and a few familiar looking screenshots. Go check it out!

Since 1977 the public has been enamoured with the Star Wars film sagas, and now fans of the five films will thrill to learn the line-up of celebrities from these films who will be attending Gen Con Indy. Gen Con, LLC and C2 Ventures are pleased to announce the official line-up for the Star Wars saga celebrities who will be on hand at to meet and greet fans and sign autographs at Gen Con Indy, July 24 – 27, 2003.

This first-ever campaign disk for the Xbox will not require players to have a retail copy of the original game to enjoy a new Ghost campaign. Both new recruits and seasoned vets who earned their stripes playing the original Xbox game will enjoy the camaraderie of the shared battlefield. Xbox Live soldiers can experience the intensity of the front lines side-by-side with their battlefield brothers while covering each others' backs and calling out commands using the Xbox Live Communicator headset. Check these 10 new screens showing off multiplayer action ...

Kicking off the 2004 EA SPORTS videogame season, NCAA® Football 2004, the fastest growing football videogame franchise from Electronic Arts Inc., is available in stores today. Last year, NCAA Football 2003 was the number two selling football game behind Madden NFL 2003, but ahead of the pro football games from every other publisher.

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 :

• Half-Life 2 - 'Docks' Trailer
• Dungeon Siege 2 - Trailer
• Hunter The Reckoning Redeemer - Trailer
• Dungeon And Dragons Heroes - Trailer
• Endless Ages 'Battle Of Chaos' - Trailer
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

Vivendi and Interplay announced today Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader has gone gold. This original PC role-playing game from award-winning Black Isle Studios, and developed by Reflexive Entertainment, combines an intriguing story of alternate medieval history and fast paced real-time combat. It also features the SPECIAL system for character advancement previously found in the Fallout series of PC games. Hordes of monsters, hundreds of weapons and items and over 60 spells are found in the game to challenge your combat and spell-casting abilities. Get ready to enter a hauntingly familiar yet fantastically foreign world to our own.

Atari is bringing Unreal II: The Awakening to the Xbox this Holiday season. Unreal II: The Awakening is the follow-up to Epic Games’ 1998 smash PC hit, Unreal. The Xbox version of the game will include console specific enhancements and exclusive multiplayer modes playable on Xbox Live. Read more for details ...

Pterodon and Illusion Softworks have released a new patch for their squad-based tactical shooter Vietcong. This upgrade brings your retail game to v1.30 and adresses some game crashes and cheats, adds some gameplay improvement as well as beefing up network code thanks Tiscali. Read more for detailed fix list and download links ...

Ubi Soft today announced that Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six3, the next installment of the best-selling Rainbow Six series of games, is a console exclusive for the Xbox video game system from Microsoft in 2003. Rainbow Six 3 is a whole new game for Xbox, based on the universe Ubi Soft brought to gamers with Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six. The title - the first Rainbow Six game for a next-gen console - will release in time for the exciting Christmas 2003 market exclusively on Xbox. Read more for details and some new screens ...

The game will provide players with extremely dynamic gameplay of fast and tough combats, where players are to oppose dangerous and wise enemies, a large set of multifarious weaponry, possibility to control various machinery, incredible detailing and game world interactivity, story-driven single player with original team gameplay, a well-balanced multiplayer with numerous modes: DeathMatch, CTF, Cooperative, various team games and much more. A new batch of screens for your enjoyment!

Set in ancient Japan and steeped in real-life folklore and mysticism, "Otogi - Myth of Demons" is the story of Raiko, an undead warrior who must stop a ferocious demonic army that has been unleashed upon the Earth. As a long-forgotten doomsday myth materializes, Raiko must quickly master more than 30 weapons and 12 varieties of magic to dispatch endless hoards of demon warriors, massive boss characters and everything else that gets in his way. Read more for new screens ...

Soul Calibur 2 features 13 historic fighters return plus all new combatants including Necrid, specially designed by Todd McFarlane Productions, Inc. The Gamecube version will, exclusively, have Link from the infamous Legend of Zelda series as a playable character in the game, wielding his Master Sword with gruesome accuracy. With seven exciting modes of play including Arcade, Vs, Time Attack, Survival, Team Battle, Practice, and Weapon Master, Soul Calibur II is set to be another GAMECUBE must buy. Read more and find out if you should start saving your pennies or not...

Air Raid sets the player in the adrenaline-pumping, action-packed world of a World War II battleship under enemy fire. Players are in control of the awesome firepower of a 40mm Bofor Anti-Aircraft fixed deck gun on the bow of a battleship reminiscent of the famed U.S.S. Missouri. The player’s mission is to blast away at the endless bombardment of enemy attackers who are hell bent on sinking your battleship. Honor, glory and pride are on the line, but the ultimate goal is simply to survive. Drill or not, we manned our guns and took to the battlefield. Read more to find out whether or not we survived!

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 :

• S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Oblivion Lost - Trailer
• FirePower - Trailer
• Massive Assault - Trailer
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

As was announced a few weeks ago Blizzard has released a new patch for their 3D real-time strategy game WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos. This upgrade brings your retail game to v1.11, its main purpose is to make the game compatible with their recently released "The Frozen Throne add-on", as well as a few other fixes & tweaks (thanks 3DGamers). Read more for a detailed fix list and download links ...

C&C: Generals producer Harvard Bonin has put up a post on the official Generals forum board that they have submitted the new v1.6 update patch to the Q&A department, and it should be available somewhere this week. You can check the forum post right here...

EA is pleased to announced that Freedom Fighters (formerly known as Freedom: Soldiers of Liberty) will now ship on GameCube in addition to the PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Fall 2003). In a world where the Soviet Union won the Cold War, a fierce conflict is unfolding in the streets of America. Taking on the role of Christopher Stone, players evolve from an average New Yorker into a fearless patriot who recruits and leads an army of freedom fighters in the streets of New York City. Freedom Fighters combines the depth of a squad based game with the intensity of an action-packed war game that unfolds in the streets, subways, and buildings of the city. Read more for the first screens ...

The Bloody Magic is single and multiplayer, 3rd person RPG for PC where the weapon of choice is magic. The game is set in a richly detailed medieval-style world, allowing the player a wide variety of choices both in individual quests and character development. The Bloody Magic is different from most other popular RPG titles in that the player characters are all of one type: magician. There are over a dozen different fields of magic, allowing players many choices for specialization. Check a few new screens ...

Command the world's most elite, multinational squad of counter-terrorist operatives in their latest mission. In Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 Mission Pack 1, Team RAINBOW tracks the desperate remnants of a dangerous terrorist organization into exotic regions of the Mediterranean to prevent their agenda of international anarchy and devastation. Check these new screens and 2 new gameplay trailers (thanks Actiontrip).

Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II will feature more monsters, graphically stunning environments and five new and unique customizable player characters to choose from, hidden areas to explore, as well as a new item creation system that will allow players to create their own ultimate magical artifacts. Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II is scheduled to be available at retail for holiday 2003. Read more for some new screens, as well as a new in-game trailer, showing off the 'Ysuran' character in action. Ysuran is a potent spell-caster who can grow to become awesomely powerful. As a necromancer, a wizard specializing in the dark art of death magic, he is very skilled with spells that create, modify, or destroy life force.

Whiplash is set in a high-tech product testing facility where questionable experiments are conducted on animals. The game stars two animal fugitives, Spanx and Redmond, who find themselves chained together and on the run to escape the lab. As Spanx, the player uses Redmond as their weapon to not only escape, but also to free other enslaved animals and bankrupt the corporation by destroying the property. Check the new screens ...