EuroGamer reports that the Half-Life 2 release date saga continued to rumble on this weekend, with an Autumn release date now mooted as the title's likely launch window despite development on the hugely-anticpated game reportedly being completed in a matter of a few weeks .

Reports emanating from Half Life Radio in the US state that Valve will deliver the game to publisher Vivendi in the next few weeks, in line with the Seattle-based developer's recent promises that work on the project would be finished this summer. In fact, Valve's marketing director Doug Lombardi restated last week that the game was still "on target" for the summer.

GamesRadar have snagged the first trailer for Far Cry Instincts the Xbox incarnation.

Here's some of the latest games patches that are doing the rounds!

Painkiller Patch v1.2 Perimeter Patch v1.01 SÖLDNER - Secret Wars Patch v28446

I pre-ordered Doom 3 from Game UK some time ago. This morning I received this email:

Your pre-order reference xxxxxxxx/x.

Multiplayer mayhem with Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising is here with a new demo by Novalogic. Take the "Dormant Volcano" as Joint Ops or Rebels in this First-person shooter from the makers of Delta Force.

Electronic Arts have released a new patch for Battlefield Vietnam. This should replace the last update v1.01 and only has two fixes to it: Crash to desktop and disconnect issues have been corrected.

Gamer's Hell - 3D Gamers

Acclaim Germany has released a playable demo of Juiced, allowing you to take this street racing simulation by Juiced Games for a spin. Details on the demo's contents or even its system requirements are however not available, so your mileage may vary.

There's no question that Grand Theft Auto is one of the most revered franchises in modern games history. Rockstar's premiere property has the power to make even the most anticipated firstparty titles squirm on their release schedule. And after many months of speculation, last month's E3 finally spilled the details on Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

Here's a bug that was found in Thief 3 Deadly Shadows by Steerpike over at Iom Storm's Forum.

The bug I just discovered tonight (which will effect everyone, including XBox players) will make me wait for a patch. Yes, its that bad.

UnWheel is a driving modification for Unreal Tournament 2004. The idea behind UnWheel is not to create the ultimate racing game, or the 4x4 simulation with the best physics, or to specialise in any one area as other modifications and games do, but to simply create an assortment of gametypes and vehicles with the focus on fun driving, whether it be racing, rallying, or simply freestyle driving around! Thanks to Unreal Tournament 2004's support for extremely detailed models, you'll be driving some of the highest quality cars and trucks available, created by SupermotoXL.

Tweak Guides have two new guides out! One for Thief: Deadly Shadows and the other for America's Army: Special Forces Downrange! Here's a snip.

I've just completed a handy Thief: Deadly Shadows Tweak Guide which covers all the major tweaks for this fantastic game. It contains detailed descriptions of the performance and visual quality impacts of all the in-game settings, links to important resources and all the advanced tweaking you need to make an outstanding Thief game even better!

VUGames are currently taking applications for the Tribes®: Vengeance beta testing program, which will begin June 14th and run for several months. The closed beta program will begin with a very limited group but expand weekly until later this Summer when the public will be invited to partake in the testing. Tribes: Vengeance will ship to retail stores worldwide in October 2004.

Massive Entertainment has released a new multiplayer demo of Ground Control II: Operation Exodus, renewing the opportunity to try out their imminent sci-fi 3D real-time strategy game. This demo supersedes the previous single-player demo as it contains the same two tutorials and "Smells Like Victory" campaign mission, but it has now been expanded with three online multiplayer maps that require creating an account on their MassGate network.

Slashdot reports that did you ever wonder what you could do with a cluster of 20 AMD XP 1800s? Some German students and videogame fans did, and their answer has been what they call 'ray-tracing egoshooters', an entirely raytraced game engine which 'runs about 20 fps@36 GHz in 512x512 with 4xFSAA'. The first game to get this treatment is Quake 3 Arena : the screenshots look slightly better than the original 3D engine but the video (56 Mb, 3'19) is quite dramatic.

Sierra has now released an unrestricted version of the free Starsiege: TRIBES retail game as a promotion for the upcoming Tribes Vengeance installment in the multiplayer first-person shooter series originally created by Dynamix. This distribution includes version 1.8 of the full game along with the retail patch to upgrade it to version 1.11.

Troopers: Dawn of Destiny, is a multiplayer Total Conversion for Unreal Tournament 2004 that bridges the boundary between Game and Experience to draw you into an atmospheric, involving, tactical first-person shooter set in the fictional Star Wars universe.

GameSpy reports that Raven's work on the game is shaping up but not ready for public viewing, according to id.

GamesRadar reports it's the first footage we've seen in ages of Killzone - PS2's supposed answer to Halo - and, at last, here is some hard evidence that the game could indeed live up to the hype.

Game Cam allows the recording of real-time in game movies with sound via hot keys or an easy to use in game interface. Game Cam was designed to work with most DirectX 7, 8, 9 and OpenGL games.

We just released Game Cam v1.1 Final. This release corrects every issue we were notified about through email and our forums. This will be the last major release for this version. Any other fixes will be released as minor patches. This release does include full ATI and nVidia support. Please see the downloads page for more information.

Unreal Racing is looking for a few beta testers, to run through the race simulator - just to ensure that it works properly.