From the most successful toy-range in LEGO history comes an all-new BIONICLE adventure only on GameBoy Advance. Set around the elementally themed regions of the island of Mata Nui - a tropical paradise, with high mountains, great lakes and mighty volcanoes - players of this fun hand-held platform game, will guide Matoran and Turaga characters (the brave villagers & elders of Mata Nui) on an incredible adventure. Dozens of screenshots below, some new, some merely newish.

Please join EVE: The Second Genesis developers Reynir "Solaris" Harðarson and Keli "Clover" Óskarsson along with producer Mike "Campion" Wallis in the first EVE House of Commons chat on the Stratics IRC network. The topic will be "Roleplaying in Eve." The chat will be held Wednesday, July 24, at 5 pm PST / 8 pm EST in #eveonlinehoc. More info to be found HERE.

The solar system is heating up and the Earth and its colonies are engaged in a fratricidal war to conquer the galaxy. Yet when they encounter other extra-terrestrial races the humans join forces, and the formidable Legions of Iron are born. Read more below for some game details and new screens!

Developed for PC by Digital Reality, the makers of Imperium Galactica I and II, Hegemonia - Legions Of Iron lets you explore and conquer the galaxy. At the head of your fleet, you plan colonisations, terraform planets, manage your resources and decide on the appropriate technological research to lead mankind where you want it to go. Diplomacy combined with a top-notch spy network will enable you to survive in a stellar system that is much more dangerous than it would appear. Who says that space is empty? Black holes, asteroid fields, nebulas, cosmic clouds, wormholes and alien races make each fleet sortie a perilous affair. Check the new screens ...

Please note that the official spelling has been changed to "Hegemonia" instead of "Haegemonia." This title is developed by Digital Reality and Published by DreamCatcher. You can see more on this game right here.

SEGA Corporation today announced that "Sonic Adventure 2 Battle" for Nintendo GameCube and "Sonic Advance" for GameBoy Advance have each shipped one million units worldwide respectively since their initial retail debuts beginning December 2001 in Japan, February, 2002 in the U.S. and March 2002 in Europe. Building upon the global success of the Sonic The Hedgehog series, the company also announced three new Sonic The Hedgehog titles including "Sonic Mega Collection" and a new "Sonic Adventure" game for Nintendo GameCube and Sonic Advance 2" for GameBoy Advance.

Set in White Wolf's World of Darkness, Hunter: The Reckoning is a third-person action-shooter where players take the role of one of four unique hunters – Deuce, an ex-con biker, Father Cortez, a prison chaplain, Kassandra, a raver chick, and Samantha, a tough ex-cop. Armed with a variety of fearsome weaponry, players will battle it out with a plethora of supernatural enemies. Non-stop heart-pumping action, combined with outstanding graphics bring the true spirit of Hunter: The Reckoning to life, and give players a taste of the World of Darkness.

Interplay and Journeys, a leading teen footwear lifestyle retailer, announced today a national promotion showcasing Interplay's highly-acclaimed game Hunter: The Reckoning exclusively for the Xbox. The promotion will start July 1, 2002 in 560 Journeys stores nationwide and will feature a contest and special offers from Journeys footwear and other sponsors.

Paradox Entertainment invites you to enter the stunning new mythological role-playing game, VALHALLA CHRONICLES. Dohh! Whats this about? Find out more below!

SONICTEAM tossed up an article about that they missing 5 prototype character models of "PSO CARD BATTLE" during E-3 days at Nintendo booth. These are just pre-production samples, and they were using them for their game development of "PSO CARD BATTLE". Now this is causing them the serious trouble for their game development, so they would really appreciate if you can let them know any information about this. If so, mail them at mail@sonicteam.com.

The presses' have been running all night, the editor has drunk way too much coffee, and we can now finally release NeoCronicle #3. This edition features the much sought after results of the "Life on Mars" competition, making this our largest issue yet!! Read more for links where to grab it!

Lego has some nice titles lined up for the E3, especially Drone Racers for PS2/PC seem to be coming along quite nicely. Check em out!

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.

Microsoft Corp., along with its manufacturing partner Flextronics Corp., today announced plans to establish a manufacturing and assembly operation for the Xbox in China later this year. The companies also stated that the console manufacturing operation in Hungary would be relocated to Doumen, China. In addition to the Xbox operations at Flextronics' Guadalajara, Mexico, facility and the new operations in China, Microsoft will add another facility in Asia in the future.

The solar system is heating up and Earth and its colonies are engaged in a fracious war to conquer the galaxy. When they encounter other extra-terrestrial races the humans join forces, and the formidable Legions of Iron are born. Developed for PC CD-Rom by Digital Reality, the makers of Imperium Galactica I and II, Haegemonia - Legions Of Iron lets you explore and conquer the galaxy... Full article below!

Interplay Entertainment Corp. announced today that it's highly-anticipated game "Hunter: The Reckoning" has gone gold and will ship on May 21 in North America.

A new report just published by independent market analysts Datamonitor, reveals that the next 3 years will bring buoyant growth to the electronic games market globally, spearheaded by console games.

Working through the night, the network of underground journalists, designers and printers, worked feverishly to prepare Neocronicle issue no 2! Taking no prisoners, speaking its mind, and sharing its thoughts with the world, this group of dedicated followers risked their all to finish it and attempt to voice their opinions. To all that listen, here is the second issue. To all that don't, why not?! Get the .pdf here (300k) or grab it as a zip file here (250k). If you missed the first issue, go HERE.

Capcom Entertainment today announced an August 27 launch for Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny, the highly anticipated sequel to Onimusha: Warlords, for the PlayStation2 computer entertainment system. Based on this award winning, multi-million selling blockbuster, Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny takes the series to an entirely new level.

Digital Mayhem, a division of Interplay Entertainment Corp., announced that the highly anticipated upcoming action game Hunter: The Reckoning is scheduled to ship on June 2002 for the Xbox. Hunter: The Reckoning is a fast and furious action game based on the characters and fiction found in the popular role-playing game Hunter: The Reckoning and the immersive World of Darkness created by White Wolf Publishing, Inc. It will be distributed by Virgin Int. in Europe.

MadOnion.com™ today announced the immediate availability of its free and newly released PCMark™2002 Benchmarking tool, available for download from this link. PCMark2002 provides consumers and business users with a unified benchmarking tool that reliably measures and compares performance of laptops, desktop PCs and workstations, across multiple Win OS's. An integrated online result browser allows instant results comparison against the world's largest performance database. With PCMark2002's ease-of-use, professional calibre benchmarking software is now available to even novice PC users. Major corporations - including AMD, Intel, Microsoft and Nvidia - participated in the development and testing of the product and are impressed by its ease-of-use and its reliable and impartial benchmarking methodology.

Capcom Eurosoft today announced plans to release Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny for the PlayStation2 computer entertainment system this summer. This highly anticipated title is a sequel to last year's award-winning and multi-million unit selling blockbuster Onimusha: Warlords. Pressrelease with facts and screens below!

Sega of America today announced that its recently launched "Sonic Adventure 2 Battle" for the Nintendo GameCube was the #1 selling game for the system in its first week of sales according to independent retail data from NPD TRSTS (week ending 2/16/02). Selling five times more than the #2 title and as much as the next 12 titles combined, "Sonic Adventure 2 Battle" marks the debut of Sega's mascot, Sonic The Hedgehog, on a new next-generation video game system.

Sega send over 16 rather fuzzy screenshots from their upcoming Game Cube title, Sonic Adventure 2 Battle. Check them out below!