Sierra sends word that the new/official site for Papyrus' upcoming NASCAR Racing 2002 Season is now live. It has a link to the demo and a bunch of screenshots to keep you happy untill it arrives in stores (which ought to be SOON).

Patrician II from Strategy First (Developed by German Ascaron Software) sails the high seas! Claiming to be an innovative game in the RTS genre we decided to check if the ship stays afloat or sinks to the bottom of the ocean. Find out if we needed a life jacket or not.

Westwood Studios announced today that Academy Award Winner Doug Chiang, Design Director for Star Wars Episodes I and II has joined the Earth and Beyond Online team as a consultant and will be providing concept art for all of the player space ships in the game. Earth and Beyond Online is Westwood's first massively-multiplayer game and will be published under the EA GAMES brand this summer. Westwood is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Electronic Arts.

Today the Russian site KDLAB updated the official site for the upcoming real-time strategy game, Perimeter, with some new screens.. Perimeter is built on the concept of territory seizure using detailed terraforming and on the subsequent encircling of these zones with a special protective perimeter. Check out gameinfo and new screens right here!

THQ Inc. today announced Hot Wheels (working title) is in development for PlayStation2. Created by car combat game developer Beyond Games, Hot Wheels is a unique mission-based racing adventure set in a dark, futuristic world that appeals to core gamers and racing enthusiasts alike. THQ's Hot Wheels for PlayStation 2 is scheduled for release in fall 2002.

Today Rick Johnson from Raven Software, updated his .plan file with a progress report on Soldier of Fortune 2 and the multiplayer support. Read more below for full story.

A few months ago we brought you some early screens of Freedom Games's upcoming 3-D tactical-strategy wargame GI Combat. Today we bring you some more up to date screens showing you they have been hard at work developing the good and its looking good! Seems like WW II based games pop up all over the place .. and we sure do NOT mind!

Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius coming to GameBoy Advance 15-March-2002.. Jimmy Neutron is a 10-year-old boy genius who stars in Nickelodeon and Paramount Pictures upcoming CGI animated motion picture, Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius.

Strategy First is pleased to announce that their highly anticipated Disciples II: Dark Prophecy has shipped and will be available in stores nationwide in the days to come.

Strategy First Inc. is pleased to announce that it will be participating in the 2002 Milia Expo, held February 5th-8th in Cannes, France.

BAM! Entertainment today confirmed the forging of a new licensing and publishing partnership with the Oscar winning Aardman. Coming shortly after similar deals with Spyglass, Franchise Pictures and Cartoon Network, the agreement is a major coup for the British-based publisher and will result in the release of a range of exciting video games across all-formats over the coming years. Wallace and Grommit games on the way at last. Well, in 2003, anyway.

Ubi Soft Entertainment, publisher of the highly acclaimed WWII combat flight simulation title IL-2 Sturmovik, today announced the launch of a dedicated site for its forthcoming title, Lock On: Modern Air Combat.

Do you want more blood in MoH ? MoH Center just released a new blood mod. Here is a small description about it:

Another mod released by Ceskins here - He did an 'enhanced' blood mod (the other blood mods just change the dust puff color from beige to red). When shot, blood actually squirts out of the bodies and leaves blood on surfaces as decals. The 'dust puff' is also changed to a blood color. It's pretty good.

Grab this 8 Kb mod here!

We got 12 new screens from THQ and their upcoming third-person action adventure game, Zanzarah: the Hidden Portal "Developed by Funatics Development". Enjoy!

GamingGroove just tossed up six new screenshots from Interplay and their upcoming X-Box title -- Hunter: The Reckoning.

There is an new Hitman 2: Silent Assassin trailer from EIDOS / IO Interactive available for download. This new trailer is 2 minutes long and takes only 4,3 Mb in DivX format to grab. You find it here.

Unleashing the passion of short-track stock car racing for the PC, Infogrames, Inc. announces the release of USAR Hooters ProCup Racing this spring. This action packed game features steeply banked half-mile ovals, 23 different tracks, and real life drivers.

Brad McQuaid and Jeff Butler, formerly of Sony Online Entertainment and key figures in the development of the popular "EverQuest" series, today announced the formation of Sigil Games Online, Inc. The new company is dedicated to the production of massively multiplayer online role-playing games.

There is a new Global Operations movie available from Barking Dog's upcoming team-based FPS, Global Operations. This new movie is 4.7 Mb to download and showing more from the team-based tactical shooter. Grab the file from FilePlanet.

Earlier today we announced that Infogrames is developing Terminator: Dawn of Fate and is expecting to release the Playstation2 and Xbox version somewhere this summer (Q3 2002). We previously had some PS2 screens and now we bring you a few Xbox shots ... Now all we need is Arnold and T3 ! He IS back!

Sparkle Technology has stolen a march on its competitors through achieving ‘best of breed’ review scores in the specialist games media. Two of the biggest names in the publishing industry have praised Sparkle’s top-end products with glowing reviews in both print and online.

Strategy First and Auran are pleased to announce that they have signed a licensing agreement with Discreet, a division of Autodesk, Inc. to create, publish and distribute a gmax game pack for their new model railroad simulation, Trainz.

Powered by an enhanced Half-Life engine, Counter-Strike: Condition Zero introduces new game technologies including highly-detailed models; atmospheric enhancements, such as snow and rain; and more dynamic special effects -- taking the #1 online action game into new territory. Read all facts on the just opened official site for Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.

Some Unreal II screenshots appeared in CGW magazine a while back and some people was confused regarding the shadow in these screens. Now Epic Games, Mark Rein explains what happend. Read more below for full story and the new "correct" screens..

LucasArts tossed over another couple of new shots from Star Wars Jedi Starfighter, this time real-time cut-scene screens. Enjoy!