Since it's still early in the new year a lot of new games are awaiting the finishing touches to be released out of the pipe. I have put together some assorted news for the hottest releases to come. :: SoF 2 Delayed
:: Condition Zero Website Live
:: Tactical Ops Goes Retail
:: Renegade Gone Gold
:: Dungeon Siege Preorder deals
Read on for the hottest news on action gaming...

AutoQuake 2000 is a mod launching utility for any Quake, Quake2, Quake3 or Half-Life games engine. This program can help you start mods easily and AutoQuake 2000 automaticly finds the mods for all supported games. And if AutoQuake does not find any of the mods or games. you can add them manually.

Just had an email from ASELabs.com that they have just done a Serious Sam: Second Encounter Review.

Here's a byte from their review

The game rocks if you love the shoot ?em all genre. One of the best graphics available in today?s games combined with great sound and a lot of humor make this game a worthy sequel. If the game?s price will stay at 20$ which the first Sam retailed for there no valid reason not to buy this game.

Woo, Croteams latest game based on the self developed Serious engine is already for sale in Europe. To get you an impression on what the game has to offer and if it is worth your money we have taken a closer look at the latest FPS released. Check out our review here.
Update: For our german readers a translation of this review is now available
@ Planet-XP.de

A new version of the Eternal Arena mod for Quake III Arena has now been released v5.6.2!

According to THQ, Red Faction 2 will be officially tested and released by Winter 2002. It will also be a 4 players gaming.

Read more at : Scoutch Industries

bluesnews.com Electronic Arts has released the eagerly-anticipated first patch for Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, updating the North American edition of 2015's first-person shooter to version 1.10 15.0 MB .

Hit Read More for your download!!

ibelite.com Thanks To My Buddy `-FISKER_Qzzz ! on IRC I got a nice personal message showing: " in Counter-Strike 1.4, The counter-strike team will introduce a speed reduciness when jumping , you can sign this petition if you don?t like the speed reduciness when jumping"

Please use your real name first name and surname, when signing the petition.
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Microsoft have released a new patch for Midtown Madness 2 upgrading it to version 1.1. This release addresses launching issues with Windows XP and problems with the GeForce family of graphics cards, along with the previous fixes for Intel 810 based cards.

After the original Counter-Strike became the most famous multiplayer online action game in autumn 2000, Valve Software now is said to publish Counter Strike: Condition Zero soon. Read on for an overview of the games features and check out 3 hot screenshots!

VoodooExtreme has reviewed EA's MoH:AA. Here's a snip to make your mouth water: How important is a good story to a video game, and is it as essential to great gameplay as many people would believe nowadays? Given the relatively high production value of today's games, is it justifiable to expect thirty or forty hours of playing time, knowing full well that games have become such a high-profile business? These are just some of the questions that lingered in my head after finishing the single-player chapter of Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. If I had to encompass MoH in a single sentence, I'd say this is the kind of game that made me believe in the bright future of gaming, and at the same time, strengthened my belief that we're still far off from the level of professionalism needed to boost this form of entertainment to a more prominent cultural level. Read the review

A new version of the Eternal Arena mod for Quake III Arena has now been released v5.6!

3DRealms in cooperation with developer Remedy today released the latest patch for Max Payne. Issues fixed: Game exits with the error message "Out of memory vertex buffer". Game exits when loading a new level. Download

A new version of the all seeing eye has been released v1.7 20 Jan 2002.

Whats new

support for BG2: Throne of Bhaal, Codename: Outbreak, Counter-Strike retail, Gunman Chronicles, Serious Sam 2 demo and Cheating-Death

fixed Paladin ICQ away msg problem

lots of general tweaks

bluesnews.com To clear up a bit of confusion, what we released yesterday was the level editing tools and not the full SDK for Wolfenstein. Everything is there to create both single-player and multi-player maps. Also included is Escape ( from single-player ) and Beach ( from multi-player ) for reference.

The source code will be available soon.

Gray Matter Studios and Nerve Software have released the RtCW SDK for the mod community to use with their Quake3 engine powered FPS. Grab the 13.5meg file from one of these mirror's: id's FTP FilePlanet

ibelite.com This new year brings more innovation and more imagination to a community that thirsts for something different. Fountainhead Entertainment releases Sidrial, a Total Conversion for Quake III Arena. Sidrial was created from an artform known as Machinima where game meets cinema. Where once games were created and Machinima followed, with Sidrial, Machinima led the way to game.

In Sidrial, a bloodthirsty race bent on power and destruction have annihilated every inhabited planet in their wake. Sidrial is the last outpost between Earth and extinction. In the Total Conversion, the Sidrial story is the driving force behind the game where players find themselves in the middle of a seemingly hopeless war. A devastated planet forges new heroes and the ultimate fight is for survival. The two levels included in the release, one single player and one multiplayer level, reflects the basic storyline of a war torn planet. You need a full working version of Quake III Arena (with 1.30 patch) to install this game, a 500MHz CPU, a 3-D Hardware accelerator with full OpenGL support and 32MB of VRam.

So for the Sidrial Quake III MOD screenshots , Movie and the download Hit Read More!!!!

3dcenter have released a new beta version 1.27 of Demo Show Creator Light , offering Quake III Arena 1.31 support. This demo playback utility can now make use of the dm3, dm_48, dm_66, and dm_67 formats.

BluesNews reports, that the official Unreal website have some new Unreal II screenshots.
These screenshots are really amazing!
If you want, you can take a look at them over here

This update for Return to Castle Wolfenstein is primarily to resolve multiplayer server specific issues that have come up!!