Strategy First and Auran announced today that they have released a demo of their upcoming virtual railroading game, Trainz.

In Global Ops, players will get a dose of reality as the multiplayer-focused tactical first person perspective game will feature over 10 real world locations and hot spots as well as more than 30 real life weapons. The game will be available on the PC in 2002. Some more goodie screens to drool over while we wait...

Welcome to Dinosaur Planet, once a primordial paradise, now a world torn apart by an evil dinosaur named General Scales. Sections of the planet have been ripped from the surface and flung into low orbit. The General and his legions of mutated dinosaurs are running wild.

Strategy First kicks off the holidays with the launch of its new corporate web site, www.strategyfirst.com Today!

Sismoplay opens beta test subscriptions for DuelField Expert Edition today (GMT +1:00). We invite gamers to register on www.duelfield.net. This version features added functionalities. The beta allows players to get a free taste of the subscription-based game.

Digital Mayhem, a division of Interplay Entertainment Corp., announced today that the highly anticipated game Giants: Citizen Kabuto has shipped to retail for the PS2 computer Entertainment system. Originally developed for the PC by Planet Moon Studios, the multi-award winning Giants: Citizen Kabuto takes full advantage of the PS2 cutting-edge technology.

Forget the sun block next summer - it looks like being a mud-spattered June for PlayStation 2 gamers. Leading interactive games publisher, Infogrames, has announced that it's driving the hugely successful V-Rally brand out of the garage and onto PlayStation 2 in June 2002; and with 4 million units already sold in the series, it's a welcome return for one of the most realistic rally games yet seen.

Having established itself as one of the fastest growing publishers, CDV Software is proud to confirm that Sudden Strike 2 has been signed and will be with us by Quarter 2 of 2002.

Ubisoft announced today the fist mission package for Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon. The new mission pack is estimated to be released in March 2002.

Majesco has released some screenshot from the upcoming multiplatform adventure game, BloodRayne. This new "horror" game is scheduled to ship for the GameCube, Xbox, PC, and PlayStation 2 late next year.

FilePlanet has tossed up a new 87 Mb Medal of Honor gameplay movie. You can find it here!

Electronic Arts has just announced that Medal of Honor: Allied Assault has gone gold.. The game will be available in stores on January 22, 2002.

Crave Entertainment announced today its new extreme sports racing game, "X-Bladez: In-Line Skater" for Nintendo's Game Boy(R) Advance. Based on in-line skating, one of the fastest growing sports in the United States, "X-Bladez: In-Line Skater" takes players on international in-line skating adventures, rolling through some of the hottest tourist spots in the world. The game is scheduled to ship in Q1 2002.

Paradox Entertainment and Strategy First released the three latest patches (v.1.00 - 1.02) for Europa Universalis II today.

Strategy First gave Disciples fans an early Christmas gift today by announcing the launch of the official Disciples II website. (The site opens up tomorrow December 20)

We recieved a very intresting Press mail from Fishtank Interactive and either if You allready have bought the game or if You consider to buy it, READ THIS!

Today Grayson Edge from Legends updated his .plan file with some news about the progress for the upcoming game, Unreal 2. There is also a screen posted up from the Unreal 2 editor "UnrealED". Check it out!

The Warcraft III development team recently announced two new features to the game: Hero inventory has been increased from 4 to 6 slots to allow a hero to carry two additional persistent, consumable, or charged items. Also new to the world of Azeroth is Upkeep. Find out more here!

Blizzard will once again bring its legendary characters to life with the third collection of Epic Action Figures. Based on heroes from Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, this collection will include three highly-detailed 6" action figures and will be available when the game releases. Click on this link for a sneak peak of the unpainted master sculpture for Thrall, the Orcish Warchief.

Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord takes you from Normandy 1944 to Germany 1945 on World War Two's Western Front. Play as Allied or Axis, ranging from US Airborne to German Volkssturm. Battle across the blockage, tackle a village or two, drive through the plains, push into the woods, and slog it out in cities. We have four new screnshots from the Front Line.

Global Star Software has announced has it has gone gold with their most recent project, King Sol Solitaire. This collection of over 400 solitaire games for Windows will be shipping to stores across North America during the first week of January 2002, and will hit stores later that same month.

Forget Sonic, Mario, Donkey Kong, Pikachu and Harry Potter, it’s that ghost munching yellow ball that’s still the favourite, as Pac Man tops the Gameplay poll to find the greatest video game character of all time.

Mobile Forces offers all you'd expect from a 1st person shooter and more, the player takes a control of a wide range of vehicles, armed to the teeth with special weapons across a range of contemporary, military styled city locations. Crafty tactics need to be combined with a quick trigger finger if you're going to survive. Find out if you do… Njoy the screens!

One of AlliedAssault site's readers has figured out how to unlock the other gameplay modes in the recent multiplayer demo. The article at AlliedAssault includes detailed instructions on how to accomplish this trick. Check out full story here!

Infogrames has announced today its partnership with the Australian surfwear brand, Billabong, to support the forthcoming European launch of the long awaited "Transworld Surf" video game - one title of Infogrames' Atari-branded range of extreme sports video games carrying the official Transworld* licence.