With all the new games hitting the shelves lately, there has been little choice for those wanting the best in driving titles. Recently, EA Games released Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2, but with all the fancy graphics you might have a few problems bringing that new game to life. Come join TweakTown as they take you step by step through the processes necessary to get the most out of this new racing game!

Gamespy has posted their review of Tom Clancy's: Splinter Cell review. The game let's you assume the role of Sam Fisher an undercover special agent trained in stealth and assasination scenarios. Here is a snip: Splinter Cell is a third-person stealth-based game, much like the Metal Gear Solid series. What's important to note about Splinter Cell is that it's not a game trying to be like Metal Gear Solid 2, it's a game that has evolved past it. Once you pick up the controls and play the game, you'll realize just how incredible it is. The review

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Epic Games Inc CliffyB has been spreading the word about Epic's Unreal Tournament 2003 bonus pack on the official Forum and you can get a sneak peek @ one of the new maps from the UT2003 bonus pack by clicking Read More...

This will spawn hundreds of mindless zombies in UT for you to gun down. The mod uses â??TWT_Realcolision technologyâ??, which means it uses accurate hit detection.

The first patch for New World Order is now available to bring the European editions of this team-based first-person shooter by Termite Games to version 1.1. This release adds a variety of gameplay tweaks, multiplayer improvements, and bug fixes.

New patches for Command & Conquer Renegade are now available, taking Westwood's 3D action game to version 1.035. As usual, they come in English and several international editions along with the corresponding dedicated Win32 server, and this release brings the new flying multiplayer map Glacier, as well as several kick/ban changes and other improvements.

Just got word that Gamesdomain.co.uk have posted their Xbox Unreal Championship preview.

Unreal Championship is like some freak blend of the best parts of the PC's Unreal Tournament and Unreal Tournament 2003, with some unique personality of its own. In this game, you've got four races of players to choose from, each with different attributes allowing some to run faster, jump higher, or take more damage than others. There are many updated and some wholly new weapons, like the T.A.G. Rifle, which serves as the targeting mechanism for an orbital Ion Cannon.

PC.IGN have got their hands on a new trailer of Tron 2.0:

Check out Disney and Monolith's latest look at the awesome world of TRON.

Watch a movie that shows interviews with the senior producer and Art Director of EverQuest 2 as they talk about and show the world of EQ2.

In this 3D FPS shooter, you are a commando wiping out Al Qaeda in their cave hideouts, including Bin Laden himself. Story and comments moved in our forums as requested. Click here to visit the thread.

New patches for Tribes2 have been released, upgrading the multiplayer first person shooter by Dynamix to version 25034.

PlanetUnreal has details of the next yet to be released patch for DigitalExtreme's and EpicGames Unreal Tournament 2003. Among the long list of fixes are AI tweaks for the various gameplay modes, fixes in the engine stopping memory leaks as well as tons of HUD and gameplay fixes. The details were given in advance by Epic's Steven Polge.

First thoughts were that CS 1.6 would be released sometime this month. However new information revealed today at the Steam website states that Steam beta 2.0 and Counter-Strike beta 1.6 are slated to launch in mid-December. Steam is a digital content management system that provides content delivery, component revision control and data security to developers of such content. Steam is embedded within a Steam-enabled application giving it a virtual file system from which it can obtain "resources" (not files) from a local cache, CD or from the Internet.

Ensemble Studios has issued a new patch for Age of Mythology, updating their recently released 3D real-time strategy extravaganza to version 1.01. This release applies a couple of client fixes and numerous networking tweaks, but doesn't change game balance and scenario editor functionality. Using the game's auto-updater is recommended, but you can also download it manually.

Gamesdomain.co.uk have posted a four part look @ online gaming for your console be that a Xbox, PS2 or a Gamecube. Here's a byte:

PC gamers have been the guinea pigs where online gaming is concerned. A once notoriously frustrating, laggy and tiring experience, it's only relatively recently that things have smoothened out to the point that the more mainstream gamers can join in - you know, those not overly excited at the prospect of experimenting with ping times and setting up servers. Strategy games, racers, sims, first-person shooters, massively-multiplayer RPGs... they've all delved online. Who needs AI, or indeed, a live companion anymore?

For Xbox: