At the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), Blizzard Entertainment will unveil design enhancements for World of Warcraft, its massively multiplayer online role-playing game set in the rich fiction of the Warcraft universe.

LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC today announced its intent to develop versions of the company's highly anticipated first game of its Star Wars Galaxies online series for Xbox Live and PlayStation 2. Specific release dates for the Star Wars Galaxies-branded massively multiplayer games for the two next generation console platforms will be announced at a later time. This December LucasArts will release a Windows PC version of the game, developed by Sony Online Entertainment, titled Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided.

EA announces development has begun on Freedom: The Battle for Liberty Island (working title), an third-person action-adventure game set in the grim reality of an alternate history. As the hero, the player takes the role of a mild mannered, blue-collar worker who finds himself hurled into the position of a fearless freedom fighter as he battles an invading Soviet Red Army on the besieged streets of New York City. The game is currently in development for the PlayStation2 computer entertainment system and Xbox video game system from Microsoft, from Io Interactive and is slated for a worldwide release fall 2002. A first-person version of the game is also in development for the PC and is scheduled for a winter release.

We got our hands on some screens and boxshots from Ubi Soft's upcoming Playstation One title, Rainbow Six: Lone Wolf. Release date listed over at amazon.com is set to June 2002! Read more below for the screens!

ARUSH Entertainment, in conjunction with Groove Games and Digitalo, today announced Devastation, a new team-based first-person shooter (FPS) built on a heavily modified next-generation Unreal engine. Set on a post-apocalyptic Earth, Devastation pits teams of rebelling gang leaders, street fighters, mercenaries, and ex-military operatives together against armies of corrupt, high-tech corporate police in a battle to win control of a devastated world.

THQ send us a bunch of screens from their upcoming GameCube title Dark Summit "release date May 24". Read more below for 26 screens and game features.. Njoy!

THQ Inc. is set to debut its 2002 product line up, its strongest and most diverse to date, at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles May 22-24, 2002. The company will unveil games in all genres across multiple platforms for every type of videogame fan. From original content like Red FactionII, Alter Echo, and Tak and The Power of JuJu, to the most expansive mass-market kids product portfolio in the industry, featuring favorite television, music and motion picture characters like SpongeBob SquarePants, Scooby-Doo!, World Wrestling Entertainment and Britney Spears, THQ has something for everyone. All viable game platforms will be represented in the THQ booth (Petree Hall #4001), including the PlayStation2 computer entertainment system, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube and Game Boy Advance, and PC/Mac. In addition, THQ Wireless will demonstrate several new games on the latest mobile devices.

Davilex Games is delighted to announce a licensing agreement with Universal Studios Licensing, Inc., negotiated through Universal Studios Consumer Products Group, to produce a brand new Knight Rider based game for the PC and next-generation platforms. The Knight Rider game incorporates elements from racing, action and adventure genres and is slated for release on the PS2, PC, XBox, Gamecube and GBA in Q4 of 2002.

Battle Realms is a fantasy real-time strategy innovation inspired by kung-fu movies and Japanese mythology. Players assume the role of the hero Kenji as they develop a village of peasants into a clan of highly specialized warriors. They must defend their village against barbarians, evil magicians and deadly ninja. Battle Realms puts the focus of gameplay on the battlefield and features detailed 3D environments, realistic weather effects and a unique battle gear system to advance the abilities of your warriors. It was a long battle, but our review is finally here ;) Njoy!

TDK Mediactive announced today that it has added the TONKA brand from Hasbro Inc. to its strong stable of licensed properties. The company has gained exclusive rights to develop and publish interactive games using the TONKA MONSTER TRUCKS and TONKA SEARCH AND RESCUE license for Nintendo GameCube, Game Boy Advance and Game Boy Color video game and handheld systems. TDK Mediactive will produce these titles under a sub-licensing agreement with Infogrames, Inc. the master licensor and publisher of CD-ROM games based upon Hasbro's intellectual property.

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.