GameSpy have thrown up their chat with id Software's Tim Willits, Todd Hollenshead and Marty Stratton as they talk about their highly anticipated return to Mars and what's next on the horizon.

GameSpy: When did you actually wrap up development?

The small-yet-epic Halo 2 theatrical trailer is now available to watch online.

Thanks to Mackey D for pointing me in the direction of this article posted over at Beta Connect!

Today Chris and I visited Valve's offices in Bellevue. We got some interesting pictures, and learned some new information.

This was posted over at HL2 World Forum by jb55 which tells us a bit about the status of Half-Life 2.

The super-intelligent over at hl2central are saying hl2 is being delayed once again. Please give me a quote of some kind so I can prove them wrong and get the news corrected.

Just give me a simple yes or no, is it delayed again? Thank you for your time.

HardOCP has a 5 page story about id releasing benchmarks for Doom 3 using the latest videocards from ATI and nVidia. The story also includes a introduction from John Carmack himself where he assures us that the results should be cheat-free since none of the videocard vendors were able to access the demo beforehand .

The folks at id Software have been kind enough to share with us benchmarks from the upcoming DOOM 3. We look at NVIDIA's and ATI's finest in a head to head comparison.

Ubi Soft Entertainment have released the eagerly anticipated new patch for Far Cry, bringing the tropical island first-person shooter by Crytek Studios to version 1.2. This release adds quicksave support, increases run speeds and sprint lengths, fixes some Punkbuster problems, addresses a large number of gameplay issues, applies various optimizations and weapon tweaks, and squashes more bugs.

Update: Here's the Changelog for Far Cry 1.2.

Doom3Center reports an enhanced version of the recent DooM³ movie is now available in a 320x240 resolution trailer and for those of you wondering about SDK? Click on the screenshot.

HomeLAN Fed posted 2 DOOM-related interviews today
The first interview is held with the creator of the upcoming Official DOOM Board Game. In the second interview HomeLAN Fed talks to the author of the "Making of DOOM3" book.

PlanetDoom reports cha0s dropped us a line and let us know that Tweaker's blog/music site, http://www.myspace.com/tweaker, has the full version of the DOOM 3 Theme song up on their site for your listening pleasure. There was a 20 second clip of it released on DOOM3.com last week but with this full 2 minute version, you can rock out all you want.

GGMania reports that id CEO Todd Hollenshead confirmed that RTCW2 is in the works by an "outside" studio. There was no mention of the engine it would be on, but i'm guessing the Doom 3 one will be most likely.

Update: Here's Todd Hollenshead interview with G4tech TV regards to RtCW 2 for those of you whom would like a listen to it.

Once again, we want to let you know that Far Cry patch 1.2 is close to being released. We were about to release this week as planned, when a hardware manufacturer code update forced us to modify the patch accordingly. It took a couple of days to make it work without breaking anything else. We think it is worth the extra wait, as it's all about making sure everyone enjoys the best experience possible, both in terms of gameplay and performance.

stuffTeam are proud to announce the release of Sex Drugs & Beer-Can (SDBC) Beta v3.0 If you have played previous Betas forget it , Beta 3 is a total system revamp we have scrapped the sloggish SP mode in favour for a whole new cooperative based game.

HomeLanFed have snagged themselves a new screenshot from the game that shows off the new flashlight effects.

NovaLogic have released a new patch for Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising, updating their 3D multiplayer shooter to version 1.2.0.10! What's new?

System performance optimizations including AGP and CPU. Fixed mouse movement when player is sighted.

The official Doom 3 website has been updated and is now offering screenshots, a streaming trailer, info and wallpapers! and GameSpy have had a chat with id programmer Robert Duffy discussing the game's multiplayer capabilities! Here's a snip.

GameSpy: Can you clarify what kind of multiplayer networking architecture DOOM 3 will use? Will it be peer-to-peer or traditional client-server (or something altogether different)?

3D Gamers reports DreamCatcher has released a new patch for Painkiller, upgrading the frantic first-person shooter by People Can Fly to version 1.3.1. This Hotfix patch only addresses the Load game issue from saves within a game level and is multiplayer compatible with the previous version 1.3

Just shown on TechTV!!! Shows new BFG gun, new monsters, A MUST SEE!!!

Update: I've added a list of Mirrors - Read More.

GameSpy just posted a short interview with Robert Duffy about different aspects of DOOM3's multiplayer part.

"The Win32 dedicated server works out of the box and the dedicated Linux version should be available around when the game hits store shelves. That does not mean it will be available but it should be"

Also, the official DOOM3 site has been updated and now features an awesome flash site. A must-see!

id Software's CEO Todd Hollenshead made the following announcement:

"Yes, this is the official word that DOOM 3 has been code released and has been approved for manufacturing! It won't be long now until the anticipation ends and the PH34R begins ;-) We literally just hung up with Activision and have confirmed that our latest release candidate has been mutually approved and is finally GOLD. Thanks to everyone for their patience (yeah right! =) and for everyone at id, Activision and our numerous partners for helping us create what I believe is absolutely the best game we have ever made."

Doom 3 Center is reporting more news from the PC Gamer review that has just been released. The recommended system specs have been posted online as well as a list of GFX cards that are supported. The list is nothing that wasn't expected. Read More to view the specs...