Men's magazine Playboy is to launch its first ever video game in which players will get to experience life in a virtual Playboy mansion, and play the role of flamboyant company founder Hugh Heffner.

The game, which is not due out until 2004, will feature nudity and be aimed at an adult audience, according to representatives from Playboy and Arush Entertainment, the video game company that will produce the game.

GD: Were you disappointed to see the E3 demo leaked, or secretly pleased, since the overwhelming response has been positive?

TH: That was very disappointing. As a developer, as a creator of a work, you never like to see you work released in a format that wasn't under your control. It's kind of like someone coming up behind you and dropping your pants in front of everybody - it may impress the crowd, but it's not a particularly good feeling.

Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided is the upcoming sci-fi MMORPG set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away that's being developed at Sony Online Entertainment! 3dgamers.com game section for this title is now online, offering a vast collection of officially released screenshots and a one-minute movie trailer for download.

Official Site Writes: We've posted a new BF 1942 video just in time for the Holidays.

The guys from UT2003.co.uk have released the Clone Trooper to wile over the time while they finsih up the demo, the model looks fantastic.

NTFS.org reports that For the past five years, Microsoft Excel has hidden the best Easter egg entertainment of any PC app, with a different 3D game in each major revision of the product ,a race car game called Dev Hunter is in Excel 2000.

3dgamers.com reports that there is a new map pack for Tactical Ops: Assault on Terror, expanding the team-based tactical shooter by Kamehan Studios. The pack, created in collaboration with the AIM-IT team, offers no fewer than 20 new maps, along with the mutators "TO Monster Attack v1.0" mutator and "TO Single Player Campaign.

This review takes a look at Hitman 2: Silent Assassin. It's storyline and unique playing style combine to provide a great game that brings a well needed change in the gaming industry.

Just got word that Mydrivers.com has snagged a new screenshot of Doom III

XXXPak has released a new Xpak with 36 mutators in One file! Here's some of the mutators available........

Infinite Adrenaline: Adrenaline always maxed out Double Damage Combo: Gives UDamage on the Combo Burning Man Combo: Light yourself on fire with this combo Instant Weapon: Add another default weapon to the inventory Assault Rifle Magnum: Assault Rifle does more damage Shield Gun Magnum: Increase damage and range of the Shield Gun Rocket Launcher Magnum: Rocket Launcher fires quicker and in clusters

English Quake clan Clan [D]efiance have just released their new sequal to the popular [D]efiance movie. If you liked the original

Zereshk @TC reports that Konami has released more screenshots from the eagerly awaited survival horror, Silent Hill 3!You can expect to return to "Silent Hill" by spring 2003.

We're planning to have a more understandable plot with 'Silent Hill 3," answers Nakazawa. "However, if we are to explain what 'Silent Hill' truly is, I'm afraid that will diminish the scare-factors of the series. We'd like to keep many points complex. And much of the fear the game generates come the unknown and unexplained," adds Nakazawa.

Did Santa leave you a copy of Battlefield 1942 under the Christmas tree this year? If he was kind enough to do so, rip the plastic covers off and get down to business with TweakTown's in-depth tweaking game to this WWII combat simulation.