Electronic Arts has now released the MOD Tool Kit for Battlefield 2, allowing prospective mod authors to create and modify content for Digital Illusions' popular multiplayer shooter. Details on the contents of this beta editor distribution are however not available, except that the single-player editor is not yet included.

The promised playable demo for F.E.A.R. is now online, offering the first opportunity to try out the spooky supernatural first-person shooter that's in the works at Monolith Productions. This is a single-player demo that contains an extensive cinematic introduction along with a sizable early mission from the full game, but note that you must be 17 years or older to download and play this demo.

This game looks better everytime we see it. Can you imagine how it will look like on final hardware? We can't.

TeamXbox

Activision has released a couple of new screenshots of Quake 4, the four chapter in the best-selling Quake series.

TeamXbox

Updates to Counter-Strike: Source and the Source Engine have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Months after release, Ubisoft Montreal finally introduce a patch that adds a Shader Model 2.0 path in to the game for ATI's current high-end video cards.

Bit-Tech

Fable is finally coming to PC, and it isn't just your straight port with bad graphics and poor controls. In fact, not only is the port job quite good but there are loads of new content to address the issues the game faced on ye olde Xbox.

FiringSquad

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?