Microsoft has released the promised playable demo for Dungeon Siege II, offering the first opportunity to try out the imminent 3D role-playing sequel by Gas Powered Games. This monstrous download is a single-player demo that contains two lengthy introductory cutscenes along with a portion from the beginning of the Mercenary campaign, from the tutorial section up to the Elven Shrine area.

Rockstar have given us an exclusive video interview with the producer Jeronimo Barrera of The Warriors and includes never before seen game play footage.

Gamebiz

One of the world's largest demo and lan-parties were held last week here in Finland; Assembly '05. With over 5000 visitors from over 20 countries the success was guaranteed. Demos and gamers competed for the prizes totaling over 70.000 USD. We were there to cover the event so join us and see what it was like.

MetkuMods

G4 has interviewed Cliff Bleszinski, lead designer of Gears of War. In this new video, CliffyB explains the gameplay mechanics found in this "2nd person" tactical shooter while showing new, never-before-seen footage of the game.

Poor Electronic Arts. They?ve already had a little bit of a problem with their fantastically popular Battlefield 2 PC game. Now the modding community has screwed them, and if you can?t trust modders who can you trust?

Kotaku

The contest rules are as usual, one posted reply to this thread is allowed per day, multiple posts in one day will disqualify. You dont need any other forum posts and is open to contestants worldwide! This contest will run until August 13th, 2005 at 12:00am.

3DXtreme

We bring you the details of ABIT's second annual worldwide gaming competition, ACON5 - taking place in Xian, China. Check out tons of event photos and find out who won the $20,000 grand prize! The two games used for competition this year are Warcraft III and Counter Strike: Source.

FiringSquad

Black Widow Games, producer of the popular Half-Life mods "They Hunger", "Underworld Bloodline" and "USS Darkstar", is looking for new modelers, animators and/or skinners to join its development team. Previous modeling experience for HL2/Source is required. If you are interested, please send your information and samples of your work to Einar Saukas.

At the Xbox Summit 2005, Namco released a new trailer of Frame City Killer and we bring you both the widescreen and WMVHD 720p versions of the trailer.

TeamXbox

This November 1st will be a landmark day for fans to celebrate the saga with two major releases in Star Wars home entertainment: Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars Battlefront II.

TeamXbox

If you haven't seen the sequel to one of the most original games ever, you're missing out. Black & White is back with improved gameplay and improved graphics. We have some new screenshots inside, as well as some info on the new gameplay features.

Bit-Tech

Today we conclude our new interview with CDProjekt, developers of The Witcher, one of the better RPGs we saw this year at E3. We also have newer, fancier, snazzier screenshots for those looking just for eye candy.

FiringSquad

There's a review of the upcoming Earth 2160 on VolariGamers:

How many of you have looked at the stunning graphics of some of the latest first-person shooters and wondered ?hey, if games can look that good, why don't they use this technology in other types of games too??Well, it looks like Reality Pump had the same idea in mind when developing their latest real-time strategy game, EARTH 2160.
With its massive tech tree, rich story line, customizable armies and awesome 3D eye candy, Earth 2160 looks set to be one of the year's best RTS titles. Could it be that the new King of Real Time Strategy is finally arriving?

Free Monkey Interactive has released the new Beta 2 of UT: XMP. This game is based on the mutliplayer part from Unreal 2 (U2XMP) and needs Unreal Tournament 2004. The download is available as patch (86 MB) and full version (278 MB).

Thanks to http://www.utxmp.de

Since its launch, we've tried to give Battlefield 2 all the support it deserves by releasing patches with the fixes and improvements you've asked for. Unfortunately, we haven't lived up to the standards we've set for ourselves. So all of us at EA and DICE are working extra hard to make sure that your Battlefield 2 experience improves dramatically in the coming weeks. Towards the end of August, we will be releasing a new patch called 1.03.

An update to Counter-Strike: Source has been released. The update will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Wednesday the 20th of July, we will release Autoupdate 4. This is a small file that updates your version of Halo 2 to address various issues. It only takes a moment to download the file, but it is required for continued play on Xbox Live. If you do not wish to download the file, that is your choice, however, you will not be able to play Halo 2 on the Live service.So you've been warned. Read on for lots of specific info.

Nival Interactive's "Blitzkrieg" was a hard-core ass-kicking more realistic verson of Codename Panzers. More difficult, more real, more ugly, it has been re-worked, put together with a new 3D engine and ... well, read on for more.

FiringSquad

The hotfix for Battlefield 2 v1.01 is now available for download. This update replaces v1.01 and fixes the said memory leak. Along with this update, we?ve made available an updated unranked server file for Win32 and an updated unranked server file for Linux.

Just got word from Dwarden @PaleStar Inc. that the Free 14 day Demo of DarkSpace is now available! here's the Press release and a screenshot for DarkSpace.