SCi announce the signing of a North American distribution agreement for its highly acclaimed game The Italian Job with Take Two Interactive (“Take Two”).

Phoenix Entertainment today released a batch of twelve new development screenshots from its upcoming 3D game, The Underworld: Crime Does Pay. The new screenshots show intense combat involving multiple underbosses and feature views from both the RTS-like overview perspective and the FPS-like ground level perspective. The shots also show a preliminary user interface which includes a RTS-style mini map with terrain details in the lower left corner.

Tiscali Games posted up an interview with Viktor Bocan (chief designer of expansion pack) from Bohemia Interactive and they talked about difference between Red Hammer and Resistance, major improvements, the future of Flashpoint and more. They also got one new screenshot. More..

We have posted up some warrior artwork from THQ and their upcoming action-strategy Playstation 2 game, Kessen II. Our recent posted facts and screens is available HERE! Click read more below to check out artwork.

The official site for Walker Boys Studios upcoming RTS game, Civil War: War Between the States, is updated today with one new screenshot, an article on game comparison and game play in the Developers Journal, a 'This week in History' page, and several new departments.

Pharaoh productions has updated the official site for their upcoming PC and XBox title, DOMINION, with a new Q&A session. Check it out!

We tossed up some PC packshots from following titles: Global Ops, Megarace 3, Might and Magic IX, High Heat Major League Baseball 2003, Sven Goran Eriksson's World Cup Challenge and the Manager title

Activision let us know that they tossed up news of a new Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix skinning contest.. Here is a snip:

Can't wait for Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix to be released before you make your own skins? No problem -- you don't have to. Raven Software is giving you the chance to skin a Soldier of Fortune 2 model right now and win a chance to get the skin included in the multiplayer game! Read more and contest sign up is HERE!

LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC is pleased to announce that STAR WARS Jedi Starfighter (PlayStation2) has Gone Gold and is now approved for manufacturing. Jedi Starfighter will hit shelves the week of March 11th!

Realm Interactive today opened their signup site for the beta test of Trade Wars: Dark Millennium. Trade Wars: Dark Millennium is their multiplayer online role-playing strategy game in development. Sign up HERE. Also a bunch of new screens is available here. (Thanks Blues)

Tiscali today tossed up a 85 MB demo of Incoming Forces. The demo includes two tutorials along with one full mission from this imminent 3D action-strategy game by Rage Software. Grab it here!

Action Halflife has now officailly been released. Action Half Life is designed to simulate the experience of being in an Action movie. Movies like Hard Boiled, Face Off, and Die Hard are the inspiration for AHL. AHL aims for something called 'Movie Realism'. Find out more and download from Action Half-Life!

Now you can finally get you hands on State of Emergency for PS2 and help Spanky and his fellow freedom fighters overcome the tyranny of the evil corporation. Viva la Rockstar! State of Emergency is an urban riot game set in the near future, where an oppressive organisation has declared a State of Emergency. State authorities are clamping down on organized resistance and restricting movement across the City to counter the spread of revolt. It is up to you to smash up everything and everyone in order to destabilize the threat.

The official 1503 A.D. site is updated with following words today..

New entries will be added to "A King’s Tale"! The old king has resigned, but his descendants prove to be as adventurous as he himself used to be. From now on, you can again look forward to weekly, exciting diary entries and new screenshots. Read more about it here!

The City of Heroes forum is today updated with latest question and answer. They chat about PVP, city architecture, the use of stamina as a stat, and much more. Read on..

The upcoming 3D role-playing strategy game Lethal Dreams: the Circle of Fate now got an official site up. This new game has been in development for a year and the site offers some screens, a movie, artworks and some FAQ. Check it out!

The Simpsons Road Rage from Electronic Arts is due in stores in a few months (xbox version in about a month) so here we are again to show you about 60 screens of the single/2player mode as you race through the streets wreaking havoc .. Njoy!

Bohemia Int. has opened the official site for Operation Flashpoint: Resistance. The site includes fresh screens, features and general information about the expansion. Take me there.

Three of Namco’s most popular characters from the golden age of the arcades are on sale now. The three games, entitled MS. PAC-MAN Quest for the Golden Maze, DIG DUG Deeper and COMBAT have been developed for Infogrames by Creature Labs, Ltd. in the UK and will be the first games starring this dynamic team made exclusively for Win95/8/ME-based PCs. COMBAT has been developed for Win98/ME.

Ubi Soft Entertainment today announced that it has signed an exclusive deal with Anco Software to publish Sven Goran Eriksson games on the PC-CD ROM.

Renowned for its high speed and aggressive race action, Codemasters’ multi million-selling TOCA Touring Car series has always provided some of motorsport gaming’s most spectacular real-car collisions on world famous circuits. Read more below for facts and screens.

Three months after a triumphant North American launch, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates is taking the Xbox video game system into new territory, launching the future-generation console in Japan today.

Crystal Interactive today announces the upcoming Gameboy Color and Advanced compatible title, Crouching Tiger - Hidden Dragon, based on the award-winning martial arts film. The game, just like the movie, is filled with dramatic action and adventure surrounding Li Mu Bai, Yu Shu Lien, Jen and the legendary Green Destiny sword. Players will enter a land of ancient beauty and take part as the adventure unfolds in their hands. Combining the compelling story and high-flying martial arts action that made the movie so exciting, Crouching Tiger - Hidden Dragon is sure to be great addition to anyone's Gameboy Color/Advanced library.

Finally it has arrived! My long awaited Conquest : Frontier Wars review is here ... i wanted to get it up during our current free games contest .. so in case you have not entered the drawing for a free copy (and strategy guide) check out the review and then give it a go, you sure have better chances than winning the lottery ;)