With preparations for World Cup 2002 well underway, Konami of Europe (KOE) is preparing a virtual football treat for all those who can't get enough of the beautiful game. It's a formidable line up and the new instalment of the ISS series will be available for PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube during the second quarter.

Service Pack 1 is undergoing final testing and will be ready for downloading from the Download Station on Wednesday 16 January. In Service Pack 1 there have been a number of features added, improved functionality in many areas, and of course numerous bug-fixes.

MILIA 2002, the World's Interactive Content Marketplace, today confirmed that Sony Computer Entertainment will have an expanded presence at this year's event including the attendance of key European management.

Just Adventure has had confirmation from a reliable source at DreamCatcher, that they are in the process of completing the paperwork on the sequels for Riddle of the Sphinx and Crystal Key. The developers for both games have moved away from Quicktime and will be utilizing the user-friendly Phoenix VR engine. Bigger teams have been established to reduce the time spent in development, assuring state of the art graphics and game play. Read More >>

Do you want more information about Project Earth? DreamCatcher has answers to commonly asked questions about their upcoming release PROJECT EARTH.. Read on!

Try to win an XBox!! WRECKLESS Sweepstakes starts on January 7, 2002 and ends May 3, 2002. Fill out an electronic entry form found at the Go WRECKLESS web site: www.GOWRECKLESS.com. Entries must be received by 12:00 am Pacific Time on May 3, 2002. Maximum of one entry per person. All entries become the property of Activision and, as such, can be used in any manner deemed fit by Activision and will not be returned.

Last Week Westwood introduced us to the 'Space Propulsion' in their upcoming online Earth & Beyond game .. this week we get to do a 'Weapons Check' .. so go read all about if you are spaced out ...

Tonight XGR will be net-casting another one of their audio developer interviews and this time with Greg Street and David Rippy from Ensemble Studios, who are currently working on Age of Mythology, its upcoming real-time strategy game published by Micrsoft and set to be released this fall. The interview will be broadcast at 9:30pm EST tonight.

The official site for the upcoming RPG, Bard's Legacy: Devil Whiskey, now states that the game is in BETA! Here is the latest news from the gamedevs..

The Devil Whiskey game has about 100+ hours of game play and 24 levels set for the game. There are 5 more levels to put in, but that is not going to be time intensive. The new levels will add to the game play time and give you a few more treats. We have had some time away from the holidays and a bunch business and HR concerns to work out. Now that it seems to be clearing, the game goes on. Check out latest ARTWORK from the game below!

As expected and mentioned last friday ... the 1.1 Update patch for Return to Castle Wolfenstein has arrived ... fairly small (1.5 mb) the patch mainly fixes multiplayer issues and server stability. Go grab it HERE and we'll meat you on the battlefield .. Read "more" if you want the readme.txt explaining what this 1.1 patch does. Yawohl !

Zuxxez Entertainment AG, Worms, Germany, today announced the release of their groundbreaking new EyeSave technology which allows for the ultimate PC-Gaming experience. Full pressrelease below with 4 new screens. Enjoy!

To end all speculation Project 3 today announced that its upcoming blockbuster New World Order will come with an easy to handle MOD-editor. So, start practicing your programming skills and draw up some concept levels and skins...

Marvel's Daredevil, one of the most popular comic book superheroes of all time, will soon come to life on next-generation console systems. Encore, Inc. announced today that the company has signed an exclusive, five-year, worldwide agreement with Marvel Enterprises, Inc., one of the world's most prominent character-based entertainment companies, to publish exciting action-adventure games starring Daredevil.

Hey what's this? Oh! Another 9 Mb movie in the DOWNLOADS section on the official site for Global Operations! This one features the Quebec map, the second map contained in the beta test. If you thought the Mexico movie was cool, you'll love this one! Give it to me!

The Warlords Battlecry II Website is updated with a bunch of new information about this upcoming isometric RPG-RTS game. There is new information on the Lightning Hawk and the Scorpion armies, new Fey Titan and race information and a Fey wallpaper.

Buka Entertainment, a leading Russian entertainment software publisher, today announced an excellent line-up of titles to be published in the coming 2002. Check out full pressrelease below.

The mission pack, set for release in March 2002, will see the elite members of the Ghosts undertaking military operations in the war-torn lands of North Africa, where overt conflict has broken out between Ethiopia and Eritrea.

The Screenshot Gorilla just tossed up 32 new screens from Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault "Final Build". Here is a spot from the posting.

These screenshots are taken from the final build of the game so, if you have not already played it, some of these screenshots could be spoilers. If you don't want to see what happens in the game, don't look at them. What the heck! I wanna se them!

The norwegian Battle Realms fansite Kings of Norway is inviting to a weekly screenshot competition. The weekly winners will compete for "Winner of The Month" and they have great prices (courtesy of Ubisoft Denmark): "-Unique Battle Realms Poster" "-Great dark green Tshirt (size large) with silver BR logo" "-Chinese metall meditation balls in Battle Realms pack". To participate you need to be a resident of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland or Denmark. The competition rules and registration (in norwegian language) is found here!

A new version of Tactical Ops "the mod for Unreal Tournament" is said to be released today. Head over to the official website or jump into their irc channel #tacticalops on irc.gamesnet.net to find out more.

Update: This new mod is now finally out. It comes in patch versions as well as full install. Njoy!

Trade Wars: Dark Millennium is the first persistent Massive Multiplayer Online Game (MMPOG) set in a science-fiction universe that allows players to explore both the vastness of space and distant worlds. Players can pilot ships to navigate through hundreds of space sectors and explore planets with mysterious uncharted lands.

Netamin have announced, Ultimate Baseball Online. The game is said to be the first massively-multiplayer online sports title. The beta test starts in the middle of 2002: the first round of testing will most likely start in April and then another round will be in June. UBO is more than a PC game; more than a TCP/IP game; UBO is a client server baseball game. You will need Internet access to play. Sign up here.

Shifters is a revolutionary third-person adventure title featuring shape-shifting, due to be published on PS2 in January 2002. We now have the Shifters Character Morph 3 AVI's available for download in one 8.5 Mb file. Grab this babe here! Recent screens are available here.

3DO send over some new wallpapers the PS2 games, Dragon Rage and Shifters. Read more below to check them out and download.

Gaming Intelligence Agency have tossed up 34 new PlayStation 2 high-resolution screens of Squaresoft's upcoming MMORPG, Final Fantasy XI. Squaresoft might bring this one for PC aswell.. Take me to the screens!