Hooligans : Storm Over Europe is a fun little Real Time Strategy game from a rather unknown Dutch developer, The Thirteenth Production. Banned, slammed and kicked around like a soccer ball by various official government institutions we could not resist to see what the fuzz was all about ...

Farseers are ancient Orcs who represent the pinnacle of Shamanistic power. These powerful Shamans are counted amongst Thrall's closest advisers and are constantly in tune with the workings and maneuverings of the Horde. Farseers are not only tied to the elements of the earth and sky, but are also adept at foretelling the future. The Earthquake ability makes the ground tremble and break, causing heavy damage to buildings and slowing units within the area of effect.

Serving up on this fine Monday are 6 brand new Seadogs II screen shots showing us WHY this Pirate game will leave all the competition in its wake ... Ships Ahoy! Raise them Sails or walk the plank! ... Give us the game NOW!

CDV Software have joined forces with the Virtual Gaming Alliance (www.vga.org.uk) to bring their 40+ LAN gaming centres around the country a week of exclusive pre-play of its upcoming and highly anticipated expansion pack “Cossacks: The Art of War”. UK gamers will now get a chance to sample the new huge maps, nations, and units, and indulge in the host of new multiplayer features. Cossacks: The Art of War has already shipped and will be in UK stores on Friday 8th February. Read more below to check out the list of UK venues..

Ubi Soft Entertainment, a world leader in interactive entertainment, and the International Tennis Federation (ITF), today announced a worldwide licensing agreement allowing Ubi Soft to develop and publish games based on the Davis Cup, the premier team competition in tennis. Under the license, Ubi Soft will create titles for multiple platforms including PCs and new generation consoles, the first of which is expected to launch in May 2002.

Black Isle Studios, the role-playing game division of Interplay Entertainment Corp., announced today that a sequel to the award-winning computer role-playing game Icewind Dale is currently in development and will be distributed by Vivendi Universal Games in North America. Icewind Dale II is scheduled to ship to retail on May 28, 2002.

London-based entertainment software developer Asylum Entertainment announces the launch of a new web site for its first home grown IP Curse: The Eye of Isis. Curse is a gripping, mysterious, action adventure that takes players from the grime of Victorian London’s streets to the pyramids of ancient Egypt in a suspense filled action adventure. It will be published on PS2 by Wanadoo Edition in the autumn of 2002.

Infogrames, through an agreement with renowned game developer BioWare Corp., has secured the global publishing rights for the hotly anticipated role-playing game (RPG), Neverwinter Nights, excluding certain pre-existing licenses help by Interplay Entertainment. The PC game, based on the wildly popular Dungeons & Dragons game published by Wizards of the Coast, is scheduled to be launched worldwide in the Summer of 2002.

Codemaster tossed over some new screenshots and a bit of gun art not yet seen anywhere in the press from IGI2: Covert Strike. Enjoy!

We got 27 new shots, including the first two-player ones. With the inevitable textual harrassment. Check them out below!

Today the Postal 2 developers "Running With Scissors" released a pressrelease that you can check out below! Postal 2 is using Epic’s Unreal Warfare engine.

Blizzard releases their daily screen shots ... here are another 3 in anticipation of it arriving on the shelves ...

Shawdowforce "Razor Unit" is a new First Person Shooter (FPS) from Activision Value. Usually the Value brand brings what it stands for ... budget games. A few days ago the demo got released and, being a big CS fan, I decided to give it a whirl. For a budget title it is pretty well done and has a promising multiplayer aspect with deathmatch, CTF and team deathmatch .. the demo only has 1 single player map and 2 multiplayer maps so limited playability, but what i saw simply kicks ass .. nice range of weapons, smooth play ... ill be getting this one as soon as i see it!

Microsoft Dungeon Siege website has a new "fan site kit" available for people who want to set up their own fan site .. it has several items such as a disclaimer, screenshots, factsheet, wallpaper and plenty more ... check it out HERE.

Paradox Entertainment has announced that it will publish Legion, the upcoming strategy game being developed at Slitherine Software. The game is set in Roman times, and players will command huge armies in their quest to build an empire out of the city-states that occupy ancient Italy and France. Legion is scheduled for release this summer.

Ubi Soft Entertainment has launched a new official Web site for Rayman Arena, its upcoming multiplayer action game set in the Rayman universe. It´s loaded with screens, wallpapers and a video footage of the game. Rayman Arena is scheduled for release in March.

Here are some new screens of Namco's upcoming arcade fighting game Soul Calibur II. Check out the new images of Asterisk and Cassandra over at The Magic Box. Release: Summer 2002.

Opps, seems we missed to post this one up before.. Well here it is anyway! Trecision S.p.A., Italy’s most important videogames developer, has entered a publishing deal with Got Game Entertainment (GGE), a division of US company Sales In Action, which will publish and distribute the adventure game The Watchmaker in the USA, Canada and South America.

Lets bring up some interview links.. EuroGamer has posted up a Y-Project interview, HomeLAN snapped up a Shadow Force interview, GameSpot posted up interviews from Age of Wonders 2 and Heroes of Might & Magic IV and as final Homelan also whipped up an PlanetSide interview.. Enjoy!

Blizzard today let us know that they have posted yet another screenshot from Warcraft 3. The new screenshot shows the Night Elves storming a Human outpost. Follow this link.

Shacknews reports that Grand Theft Auto fans won't go long without another fix of wanton violence and pillaging. GTA3 Xbox is a given (with online play?), but we'll also soon hear the details on GTA4. Rockstar's stayin' silent on the subject, but I could name a few hundred thousand fans ready to part with $50 a piece for it. The current talk indicates that DMA will take the GTA3 framework and turn it into a massively multiplayer online game for the four installment, where you're free to create your own mobs and anyone in the city could be a "real" person. Word is it'll also be set in a real U.S. city this time.

It's a slow weekend, but there is atleast some nice reviews to check out.. GameGenie tossed up a review of Kohan: Ahriman's Gift and World War III: Black Gold, GameZone smacked up one from Star Wars Starfighter and as final SportPlanet has a XBox review from NFL 2K2.. Enjoy!

BonusWeb today tossed up a new Worms Blast movie (low resolution 7.39 MB and high resolution 20.2 MB), developed under Team 17 and expected release in March. Here it is!

GameSpot have tossed up some new Star Trek: Bridge Commander movies. These ones shows more from the capital ship space combat sim. Take me there.

INFOGRAMES is proud to announce that it has signed an agreement with Namco, one of Japan’s leading videogames players to release a Game Boy Advance line-up across Europe and Australia. This includes Namco Museum™ and Pac-Man Collection™ (two classic compilations released for Christmas), Tekken Advance™ (based on the hugely popular fighting franchise), Klonoa™ -Empire of Dreams- (high potential platform game) and Mr.Driller™2 (addictive puzzle gaming).