Xbox Live (Beta) is up and running. Destructo, one of the members of DS1 from the XBOX365 forums has been kind enough to upload images and give us his take on XBL...

This is the patch to fix the bugs found in 1.2.0, and updates your game to v1.2.1. What's new.

More team structure fixes

Monolith Productions has released a teaser demo for No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way, their upcoming swinging sixties first-person shooter sequel. The demo offers one level set in Akron, Ohio, where protagonist Cate Archer has to deal with a trailer park full of ninja assassins, and a tornado closing in

In the multiplayer-focused Battlefield 1942, players are given the power and tools to affect the outcomes of key battles of WWII.

With the ability to control over 35 authentic Axis and Allied vehicles from a first person perspective and select from five player classes, they are faced with incredible choices in their plan of action. Among a vast array of available options, players can choose to heroically storm or defend the beaches of Normandy, direct artillery or command a tank at Kursk, pilot a fighter or operate shore battery at Midway, command an aircraft carrier or jeep at Gaudalcanal, and take charge of a bomber or an APC in El Alemain - experiencing some of the most dramatic moments of WWII. The game will be available for the PC in fall 2002. Xbox will be available in early 2003

Gamespot.com reports In this extensive interview, id Software?s CEO talks about the development process behind Doom III, Quake IV and much more.

Yes it is here, AA-Airborne Patch, so grab your gear and go to war (once again). This is the patch that upgrades anyones Americas Army from 1.1.1 to 1.2.0

Ok this is for all the Peeps that can't wait anymore and need some sort of UT2003 Fix! Hit Read More and be quick!

Here's some screenshots from the yet to be released America's Army Airborne Training Mission!

Well, kinda. Chris S. sends along word of a legal version of the next incarnation of UnrealEd. See, those French folks working on the Unreal Warfare-powered XIII game are holding a map design contest, so they've released a version of the new editor for people to map with. Here's the English translation of the site for you to check out, along with a link to the editor itself (38MB).
While this version seems to have terrain, prefab, and Karma stuff, I'm not exactly an Unreal editing guru (and I'm dumb) so I'm not sure how old this version is or how the build shipping with UT2003 will differ from this one. Still, if you're a level design fiend with a GeForce2 or better, you may want to give this a try.

Thanks to Atul Fatpie for noticing that Ign.com have the latest Ghost Recon: Island Thunder Movie Trailer.

The next move in the Ghost Recon series titled Island Thunder sends these highly trained soldiers on a hopper over to Cuba. The undying Castro's secret death cheating embalmbing fluid has stopped working and the big bearded dictator has finally kicked the bucket. Hence the island needs a new leader and a new direction. Time for an election! But rebel groups and drug lords throw the first free elections in years and years and years into complete chaos.

Airborne training provides players entry to the U.S. Army?s elite Airborne School at Fort Benning, Georgia. There, players will experience practice drops from the school?s monstrous 250 foot Free-Fall Tower and learn how to execute a proper Parachute Landing Fall (PLF). With the exception of the jet blast as you exit the aircraft and the opening shock of your parachute, a drop from this tower is the next best thing to jumping with one the Army?s elite parachute units. While descending at virtually the same rate as an actual jump, the player must control his parachute and execute a correct PLF, just as he?ll have to do when he makes his qualifying jump.

Neocron is the world's first and only Massively Multiplayer game that brings you a dense Cyberpunk atmosphere. It is also the first MMORPG that looks, feels and is almost as easy to play as a 3D first person shooter. NOTE: The client is too big for a single CD, but we are working on a 2 CD set.

3dgamers.com reports that Crazy Taxi the recently released PC port of the console arcade racing game by Sega Entertainment. Our game section for this title is now online with the newly available demo, and while the installer and included Readme file are in Japanese, the demo itself is entirely in English, allowing you to sample a few parts of the full game.

Sudden Strike II is a RTS set during World War II and is the sequel to one of the most popular RTS games of the past few years. The demo clocks in at around 60MB and addresses a variety of issues including graphics card incompatibilities that plagued the original demo

Epic Games has issued small fixes for the Win32 and Linux servers of Unreal Tournament, their acclaimed multiplayer shooter. The fixes replace the IpDrv module with one that addresses a Denial of Service attack bug along with a server lag problem.

A playable demo of Hitman 2: Silent Assassin is now available, offering a renewed opportunity to step into the shoes of Codename 47 in this murderous third-person action game in the works at IO Interactive. This demo allows you to try out the first mission from the full game.

Watch some Splinter Cell action in this exclusive movie @ Fileplanet.com. The Splinter Cell has the "Fifth Right", and he enforces it when necessary.

Just a quick note to let you know that Blizzard has now issued the manual patch for WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos as well.

John Carmack confirms that the graphically impressive first-person shooter will come out for the Xbox and will match the visual fidelity of the PC version.

BFcentral.com reports well its time, the moment has finally arrived, a little earlier than expected though. For some strange reason, the MP Demo of Battlefield 1942 has been released on some sites in Australia which are currently making there way to North America. The Australian EA site is also showing a new counter with the actual days remaining of the Full Version Release. 26 Days!!! OMG!

Battlefield 1942 MP Demo
Date: August 16, 2002
Name: Battlefield 1942 Multiplayer Demo
Size: 130.2 MB (136,512,494 bytes)