On Thursday last week it was posted on the official Unreal II forums that Legend Enterteinment is currently working with Creative to resolve a notorious crash issue with Unreal II related to the UALAudioSubsystem. Mark Poesch, QA Director at Legend said: "Turning off EAX may help avoid this problem. Alternatively, you may see an improvement by updating your sound drivers. I've been in contact with both Epic and Creative Labs about this problem." Source: INA-Forums

Infogrames has released a playable demo of World of Outlaws: Sprint Cars, allowing you to try out this imminent racing sim by Ratbag. The demo lets you play Knoxville and Lernerville tracks in arcade and multiplayer modes with a choice of two different cars.

Sabotage is an upcoming futuristic first-person shooter in the works at Insane Logics! the newly released playable alpha demo, features level 1 at 80% of completion and level 5 at 50% of completion.

Blizzard Writes: "Following in the tradition of previous Blizzard expansion sets, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne provides gamers with a vast new chapter in the epic Warcraft saga. In the single-player campaign, players revisit the war-torn world of Azeroth. Several months have passed since Archimonde and the Burning Legion were defeated at the battle of Mount Hyjal, yet a new threat has arisen throughout the land...Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne Screenshots

Unreal's console is somewhat of a riddle for all players out there that play multiplayer games such as CounterStrike, Quake (1-3) or even SOF2.

Microsoft Game Studios today announced that Freelancer has gone gold and is scheduled to ship to stores on March 4 in North America. Would-be naval heroes and bounty hunters alike will soon get the chance to plunge into the intricate Freelancer universe, where players will face an unknown menace and the mysteries of the Sirius System. Read more...

If you're having issues with Unreal II, be sure to check out the Official Unreal II Support Page.

Not in the making, but already here. The new 'Battlefield 1942: The Road to Rome' add-on is out and ready to be played.

We have a review and also some links to some screenshots down below. If you like to battle all over the net and like to get down and dirty maybe in front of your friends. Show off your skills with Battlefield 1942: The Road to Rome.

Electronic Arts sends along the SDK for Medal of Honor: Allied Assault Spearhead, the World War II first-person shooter expansion by EA Los Angeles. Details on the contents of this development kit are scarce, but it includes a quick tutorial and all the tools needed to build new modifications. Thanks to 3DGamers.

EA and Maxis have prepared the first patch for the recently released SimCity 4. The patch is applied by a rather unique Active X plug-in installer. Haven't seen such a 'patch routine' before. Most importantly this patch adds (enhanced) support for ATI R300 based graphics cards. If you click here you will be taken to the SimCity 4 patch setup page or click on read more for the changelog first.

Currently in development at Blue Tongue, "Jurassic Park | OPERATION GENESIS" allows players to design and manage the most amazing dinosaur theme park the world has ever seen, or battle their way through 12 intense missions that will test their mettle against the awesome powers of nature and its most dominant creatures. Download

Just got word from Matt @ 3DGPU.com that he had a surprise drop on his doormat the other day and no it wasn't the dog. The lucky sod got his copy of Unreal 2: The Awakening and he's already posted his review! Here's a snip.

Unreal 2 is a first-person shooter just like it's predecessor, and highly touted by many to have the best 3D graphics engine available on the PC, and we can certainly agree with that after having played through the game. So how does the game fare, and is it worth the wait and cash of your wallet? Read on to find out.

If your video card does not support hardware transform and lighting, it will make the system CPU work harder to do the transforms and lighting in software. Video cards that support hardware transform and lighting include the Nvidia GeForce series, and the ATI Radeon 7200+ cards.

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Just at the moment the doorbell was ringing and the postman gave me a small package from Amazon. There was a copy of Unreal II: The Awakening included. ;-)

If you hear a scratchy sound in the game which sounds like your loudspeakers are broken, simple activate EAX (if you have it or not, doesn't matters) or reduce the sound channels.

Happy gaming.
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Explosive action in the all new ?Strike? movie. Showcasing how integral the game?s accurately modelled real-world weapons are if you?re to succeed in the covert missions.

The guy's over @ 3DStation.com have been lucky enough to have a chat with Jeffrey Unay modeller/artist on the Quake 4 team. The interview includes some cool looking pic's like the one to your left! Here's a byte.

Q: Can you tell me more about your current job (Raven Software, Quake 4 project)?

A: I'm a high res modeler/artist on the Quake 4 team with the focus on modeling characters/creatures. I also model anything else needed for the project (e.g. player weapons, map objects, etc.). And as a modeler and artist, I get the opportunity to add to the overall design of the characters that I work on.