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.

UK Development Company, Vulcan Software, are gearing up for the release of their second PC game via digital distribution. The simplistically complex puzzler, Timekeepers, will join the recently released Valhalla Classics Speech Adventures, as additions to Vulcan's growing range of episodic PC products. Only available for purchase and play through their digital distribution application, the Vulcan Portal.

Sega keep rolling out screens this morning. This time we got 8 more Japanese screenshots from their upcoming title, Beach Spikers. Njoy!

The official Raven Shield forum today tossed up the first installment of questions and answers that the fans have asked. To check them out, read more below. "Raven Shield is the newest Rainbow Six title, powered by the Unreal engine." Enjoy!

Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), the world's leading interactive entertainment software company, today announced the release of F1 2002 for the Nintendo GameCube. F1 2002 is the first Formula One game to feature the 2002 season. Officially licensed by Formula One Administration Limited, F1 2002 features real drivers, teams, cars, and tracks from the 2002 FIA Formula One World Championship season, allowing true Formula One aficionados the opportunity to play along as the real life drama unfolds.

Midway Sports announced today that MLB SlugFest 20-03, their over-the-top baseball game, has shipped to retail outlets across North America for PlayStation 2. Officially licensed by Major League Baseball Properties and MLBPA, MLB SlufFest 20-03 expands on the franchise with a faster batter/pitcher interface, over 1,500 player animations official stadiums and players, and a music video by Dry Kill Logic. MLB SlufFest 20-03 is set for release on Xbox and GameCube later this summer, with the Game Boy Advance version following in the fall. We had a bunch of screens a while ago, check them here.

Ubi Soft proudly announces that Splinter Cell has been named Best Action/Adventure Game in the exclusive Game Critics Awards: Best of E3 2002. One of the most prestigious awards offered at E3, the game industry’s premiere event, the Game Critics Awards are the only independent E3 awards, voted on by editors from nearly 40 leading outlets that cover games, including the top magazines, online sites, newspapers, and television programs.

Welcome to the TransWorld lifestyle. TransWorld Media is a major cultural force in the action sports industry with 15 consumer and trade magazines, six web sites and TransWorld alternative sports events. Infogrames' line of TransWorld games, TransWorld Snowboarding and TransWorld Surf, offer the most compelling gameplay, the best technology, real pros, real tricks, realistic world locations and the best real equipment and gear. Njoy the 6 new screens!

Radica UK Ltd have announced the UK launch of the most effective and innovative lighting system for the Game Boy Advance to date. Using a fully adjustable fluorescent lighting system, the Flo Light is the world's first light for Game Boy Advance that brightly illuminates the complete area of the screen, without glare.

Seeking well-deserved rest and relaxation, Mario and Princess Peach travel to a beautiful remote island. It is said the local citizens are friendly and the weather forecast suggests year-round sunshine. However, when they get to the island, they quickly find out that the peaceful paradise has been polluted by a mysterious stranger. Worse still, the individual bears a striking resemblance to Mario! Determined to clear his reputation and clean up the island, Mario sets off on his greatest adventure yet. 29 Mario screens to keep you happy!

Cenega has just announced that their horror adventure title Nefandus has had a change of name. The game is now called Shade: Wrath of Angels. This change of name has been forced due to copyright reasons.

Octagon Entertainment has signed a representation agreement with Synaptic Soup to find worldwide publishing for the arcade-style racing game Crazy Car Championship, currently in development for two next-gen consoles.

When a pack of cars tear from the starting line simultaneously and head into some of racings most aggressive exhibition of close-contact racing it can only mean one thing – the green light is on for Pro Race Driver. Codemasters’ game of speed, control and aggression, as seen recently at E3, is a stunning racing title that offers players an experience they’ll never forget. The heart of Pro Race Driver is the aggressive pack-racing gameplay style.

Today it was decided that the long awaited Swedish gaming exhibition "Gamex" is delayed to next year, but the conference and trade event "NIME:02" will continue as planned in October. The future for NIME looks bright, and over 40 people from the best game developers, publishers and mobile companies are already confirmed to speak in the conference. However, if you're not directly working in the games business, you can still buy a conference pass to access the conference and trade expo. But you have to be atleast 18 years old to enter the show.