Nintendo of America announced this morning that they are dropping the price of their GameCube console system to $149.95, beginning May 21, 2002. Not to bad! Check out full pressrelease over at GameSpyDaily!

Codemasters, one of the leading video game developers and publishers, confirms its commitment to the Nintendo GameCube console with a blockbuster portfolio of titles planned for 2003.

Rage, one of the UK's leading publishers and developers of entertainment software, announces its lineup of new games due to be unveiled at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) taking place between the 22nd – 24th May, 2002 in Los Angeles, California.

"Update: Screens added" Crash, Lamborghini, Rocky, Rolling, Twin Caliber... oh the list goes on.

Experience life on the powder in the world of TransWorld Snowboarding. This great title is developed by Housemarque, the Finish development team who created Supreme Snowboarding PC. TransWorld Snowboarding offers go-anywhere, real world based snowboard levels, intense boarder animations and dynamic crash physics. Treacherous terrain and steep cliffs, modeled after actual slopes from around the world, add to the danger in TransWorld Snowboarding. 28 new screens below!

Fileplanet tossed up a small 296KB trailer from Eidos Interactives upcoming title TimeSplitters 2. In this first-ever trailer you get a glimpse into the world that IS TimeSplitters 2. Take a look at the frenetic action in areas that range from a freezing cold Siberian outpost, ultra-dark visions of a futuristic robot factory, to a gangster-ridden pool hall in old-school Chicago.

A new Lara Croft for a new generation. Eidos Interactive and Core Design a while back announced the return of the world’s most famous video game character in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness. Now the official site is online loaded with screens, wallpapers, gameinfo, a trailer and much more. The game will be released on PlayStation 2 and PC towards the end of 2002.

The Neverwinter Nights forum is today updated with unofficial FAQ for the Beta Toolset. The questions so far have been grafted together, and organized by "Whoop", and contributed by quite a few different people. "The BETA version of the Neverwinter Aurora Toolset (241MB) provides most of the functionality of the final toolset that will be included in the retail version of Neverwinter Nights".

PC.IGN.com has posted their a Q&A with Sierra's Jon Payne and Steve Beinner talking about 'Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest', Mad Doc Software just-announced 3D RTS expansion for Empire Earth. GamersClick has a short SWAT: Urban Justice Q&A talking with Sierra's Rod Fung about their squad-based tactical shooter currently still in development. GameSpot has a Q&A with Sony Online's Dave Georgeson, producer of 'PlanetSide', Sony's upcoming massively-multiplayer first-person science fiction game. EuroGamer has is next up in the list to offer an interview with Sergiy Grygorovych designer of 'S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Oblivion Lost', GSC Game World's upcoming first-person shooter. RPG Vault chats with Blizzard's Bill Roper on WarCraft III discussing the upcoming installment in the WarCraft series. (Thanks Blues)

Hundreds of thousands of gamers have been asking for months to test Project Entropia. Their calls have been answered. The Commercial Open Trial enables them to download the software worldwide. On the 20th of May everyone will be able to download the Project Entropia Game Client software!

Battlefront.com and developer Panther Games are proud to announce that "Airborne Assault - Red Devils over Arnhem", an operational level real-time wargame about the final leg of "Operation Market Garden", has now officially reached GOLD status. A new final demo can be downloaded free from www.battlefront.com.

Kenn Hoekstra from ravensoft reports in his last .plan file that their master servers for Elite Force and Jedi Outcast will be out today (Saturday) morning from 9am CST to approximately 1pm, depending on how their network maintenance goes. Originally it was slated for last week Saturday, but had to be delayed. For those of you that is unhappy with the increased saber blocking in CTF and FFA modes in the 1.03 patch for Jedi Outcast, you can read more below!

Project Three announce that the Public NEW WORD ORDER Multiplayer Beta Test will be released in the week after E3 (27th to 31st of May 2002). "New World Order is a single and multiplayer team-based game where teams battle it out in environments and situations that could be taken right out of an action-movie". Check out Game features HERE!

Paradox Entertainment will publish the massively multi-player on-line RPG version of its post-apocalyptic techno-fantasy property Mutant Chronicles in Spring 2003. It is a joint venture with Dubai-based Imaginations FZ-LLC which has been working on the project for some time.

Attendees of this years E3 will get a chance to peer inside the secret shroud of the Ninja, when Activision, Inc.’s unveils Tenchu 3: Wrath of Heaven™ for the PS2 at its booth #1224 in the South Hall on May 22 - 24.

Infogrames, Inc. is working with leading developer Black Ops Entertainment to create Fugitive Hunter, a realistic first-person action game for the PS2 . Fugitive Hunter will put players in the shoes of Jake Seaver, a bounty hunter whotracks down and captures the world's most dangerous fugitives alive.

Well its better than nothing ... The long promised demo isn't available yet or should we say STILL not, but at least we can now drool over a 2min divx "New World Order movie" with some in-game footage. For the few people out there who have no idea what NWO is about, its a first person shooter developed by Termite Games/Project3. It is commonly said to be the only game being a TRUE Counter Strike killer (thanks blues).

Activision, Inc. today announced that it has obtained the exclusive worldwide rights to develop and publish interactive entertainment games based on Revolution Studios’ upcoming feature film “XXX” starring Vin Diesel of “The Fast and the Furious.” The film reunites Diesel with Rob Cohen and Neal H. Moritz, respectively the director and producer of “The Fast and the Furious.”

Global video games publisher ARUSH Entertainment today announced Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project (DNMP) for the PC is shipping to North American retailers and will be on the shelves early next week at a MSRP of $24.99.

Black Isle Studios, the award-winning RPG (roleplaying game) division of Interplay, and leading console game developer Snowblind Studios announced today their plan to bring the Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance franchise to the Xbox.

Vivendi, Interscope Records and recording artist No Doubt announce today their collaboration on the upcoming release of Malice, a character-based, action-adventure game, developed by Argonaut and published by Sierra. This partnership will feature several of the band’s songs in the upcoming game, as well as introduce lead vocalist Gwen Stefani as the voice of unexpected, hammer-wielding heroine, Malice, and band members Tony Kanal, Tom Dumont and Adrian Young as voices of her cronies within the game. Malice is due to release worldwide this fall on both the Xboxand the PS2 .

iGames today announced the acquisition of leading gaming lifestyle site, Happy Puppy (http://www.happypuppy.com). Happy Puppy will serve as the editorial anchor of iGames' network of gaming websites, which include HappyPuppy.com, iGames.com, and s2Games.com. iGames family of companies focuses all three legs of the gaming experience: game file distribution, game design, content and community. The acquisition of Happy Puppy broadens iGames reach and achieves a critical mass of gamers for its network.

Ubi Soft Entertainment, one of the world's largest video game publishers, today announced that it has entered into a publishing agreement under which 1C: Maddox Games will develop new content for the multi-award winning WWII combat flight simulation title, IL-2 Sturmovik. IL2-Sturmovik: The Forgotten Battles will include two new maps for Finland and Hungary, expanding the battlefield for both single and multiplayer modes. It will also feature more than 20 new single player missions and ten cooperative multiplayer missions. IL2-Sturmovik: The Forgotten Battles is expected to ship to retail stores worldwide in Fall 2002.

Noticed on the German Ubi Soft site that the playable demo of Red Storm's imminent squad-based tactical shooter, "The Sum of All Fears" is now available for download. The demo is rather big at 82.1 MB and gives you the chance to play a full level (single and multiplayer) The mission objective is to rescue ATF agents held within bombed out prison that serves as a training ground for the FBI's most elite agents. read more for links where to grab this puppy.

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. is pleased to reveal its 2002 lineup at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles on May 22-24, 2002.