Microsoft Game Studios today announced that the official Rise of Nations Fan Site Kit (FSK) is now available. The Rise of Nations FSK file (6 MB) contains the following items to help webmasters achieve global supremacy with a Rise of Nations site of their own. Also JoWooD and Arkane Studios have not forgotten about the web community and made the Arx Fatalis FSK available today. Read more for details and links where to grab the files.

Creative Assembly has released a playable demo of Medieval: Total War, their upcoming 3D real-time and turn-based strategy game, for download from Games Domain. The demo was previously available on the cover-disk of PC Gamer UK, which may be a more convenient way of obtaining a copy of the massive 235.3 MB file, and this Battle Tutorial demo offers eight tutorials and a single-player mission (the Battle of Jaffa) from the full game. Read more for links where to grab it (as we'll be updating as more links become available, (Thanks Blues)).

Infogrames Europe today send us some cheat codes for their 3rd person view action shooting game, Men in Black 2: Alien Escape. Njoy!

Infogrames is delighted to announce that MicroMachines is back. They've dusted themselves off and escaped from their packaging to bring their unique style of miniaturised racing action to Playstation2 and the Xbox.

TDK Mediactive Europe, a division of TDK Recording Media Europe S.A., confirmed today the release dates of its highly anticipated Westlife Fan-O-Mania game for PlayStation and PC. 'Westlife Fan-O-Mania' will feature hundreds of revealing questions about the boys' music, videos, lives and loves along with plenty of exclusive, and never-before-seen video footage of the boys themselves. Hosted by Tara, your animated hostess, fans will be guided through five different sections of Westlife's virtual lives including The Tour Bus, The Recording Studio, On Location, Live and back at The Hotel.

Welcome to the TransWorld lifestyle. With rails and downed trees to jib and grind, natural snow kickers and ramps to launch off and multiple half-pipes and quarter-pipes to perform tons of tricks on, TransWorld Snowboarding is action sports gameplay at its pinnacle. Six new screens below!

FASA Studios released two new multiplayer maps for their 3D action game, MechWarrior 4: Vengeance. These Coliseum and Gagetown maps were included with the Inner Sphere 'Mech Pak expansion but can now be played online with just the original game and the recent version 3.0 patch.

Riverdeep, Inc. and BAM! Entertainment today announced they have entered into an exclusive agreement to extend the award-winning Carmen Sandiego brand to the video game market. The first Carmen Sandiego video games are scheduled to be in stores for the 2003 holiday season.

Today Shrapnel Games announced that their latest product, Austerlitz: Napoleon's Greatest Victory, has been delayed at the printers. This first game in The Greatest Battles Series will begin shipping on July 8th. , has been delayed at the printers. This first game in The Greatest Battles Series will begin shipping on July 8th.

Atlus U.S.A., Inc., announced today that SkyGunner, the anime, aerial combat videogame, has shipped for the PS2. SkyGunner follows the story of 3 ace pilots, Ciel, Copain and Femme, who are hired to protect the "Eternal Engine" an engine capable of perpetual motion without the need for an outside power source. Little do they know, that the criminal genius, Ventre is planning to use the town's celebration aboard the luxury airship, Merveilleux... as an opportunity to steal the Eternal Engine for his own evil ends...

Infogrames, Inc. has shipped "Stuntman," the latest game in its smash Atari line-up, to retail stores this week for the PS2 computer Entertainment system. Developed by Reflections Interactive Limited, the company behind the best-selling "Driver" series, "Stuntman" thrusts players into the middle of Hollywood-style action-packed films, completing death-defying stunts for a series of movies and building a career to become an A-list stunt driver.

Computer and video game publisher Gathering of Developers, a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., and developer Illusion Softworks in association with development team Pterodon, today announced "Vietcong" for the PC. Set during the Vietnam War, "Vietcong" is a first person shooter with tactical elements. The game is expected to hit store shelves this fall.

The much anticipated RPG Divine Divinity will be released in the UK on 13th September 2002. For those of you who can’t wait, the second chapter of the prequel story, “The Prophecy“, is now online HERE. The story has been split into six parts, with a new instalment being posted every Tuesday.

Strategy First is pleased to announce that "Pro Train II: Saxony: Leipzig – Riesa - Dresden", a complete add-on for Microsoft’s Train Simulator has shipped to retail stores nationwide.

Paradox Entertainment invites you to enter the stunning new mythological role-playing game, VALHALLA CHRONICLES. Dohh! Whats this about? Find out more below!

Encore offers thrills and spills in four-game racing compilation for kids. Children from all over the UK will soon be taking to the streets to experience high-speed spills and thrills with some of their favourite characters as Encore Software announces Racing Just For Kids, a four-game compilation of racing games designed for a youthful audience.

Experience the unpredictable weather conditions that plague real life rallies in an all-new 6.2MB Colin McRae Rally 3 video released today. Read more below to grab the video!

Sierra just tossed up the official site for their squad-based tactical shooter, SWAT: Urban Justice. Game-info, screens, trailers and much more is available on the site..

Entertainment, Inc., a studio of Vivendi Universal Publishing, today announced the launch of a new website dedicated to Malice, the upcoming action-adventure game, developed by UK-based Argonaut Games PLC. The site is live and can be accessed at malice.sierra.com, where fans can find out just what makes Malice this year's most unexpected title. Site Features Game Trailers, New Images and Behind the Scenes Moments with No Doubt.

THQ Inc. and Microsoft today announced an exclusive, worldwide Game Boy Advance publishing agreement. Under the agreement, THQ will publish several of Microsoft Game Studios’ top-selling Xbox and PC game properties on the popular Game Boy Advance system. In addition to Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee and Monster Truck Madness 2.0, THQ and Microsoft Game Studios will work together to identify additional properties for release under the agreement.

Operation Flashpoint: Resistance launches this Friday, June 28, and is the official expansion pack for the multiple Game of the Year award winner and world-wide number one best-selling PC war simulator. In addition to a new campaign, a new island, and improved network code, Resistance delivers its terrain visuals via an enhanced graphics engine with support for higher-resolution textures, more lighting effects and greatly increased draw distances, so now there’s even more scenery to take cover behind when you’re in combat.

Two years ago, Toby and Ben Simpson, the past producers of the Creatures series of games, set up Nicely Crafted Entertainment (NiCE) and began work on the world’s first fully 3D massively multiplayer real-time strategy title. Their goal was to feature the highest level of intelligence ever found in a game. Their solution was ingenious: it’s you.

MotoGP: Ultimate Racing Technology is the imminent motorbike racing simulation by Climax and THQ. Now 3DGamers got a 63.5MB playable demo for download that allows you to try out the game on the renowned TT Circuit in Assen, the Netherlands.

Reuters reports that Microsoft Corp. has been quietly working since last fall on a device combining its money-losing Xbox video game console and with its digital video recorder. Check out full scoop below!

Tension mounts as Codemasters prepares to release Prisoner Of War, the genre-busting stealth adventure title that has the critics praising its innovative gaming experience. Rewriting the gaming rulebook, in Prisoner of War the player’s only weapons are their bravery, stealth and cunning. Rather than accumulating an arsenal of weaponry, players use skills of persuasion and tactical planning as they interact with the artificial-life-based World War II characters in the game to foil a German weapons-development project.