Out of left field come new patches for Mafia, upgrading last year's third-person mobster action game by Illusion Softworks to version 1.1. There are patches for the English, German and French editions of the game, and this release addresses sound and video card issues, decreases the difficulty of the notorious racing mission, fixes force feedback compatibility, and enhances overall performance. Details under read more.

Star Wars® Jedi Knight®: Jedi Academy? allows players to immerse themselves in the classic Star Wars universe as they take on the role of a student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Master Luke Skywalker. Launch the galleries for a glimpse of the game in the first screenshots, concept art and models available!

Website Spong posted that we may have to face an unpleasant change in the way we know gaming. Right now we are all PC gamers. If it comes to what they outline there will soon be Nvidia and ATI gamers. Spong claims to have learned from insiders that Valve Software is currently investigating to make Half-Life 2 exclusive to Nvidia hardware. Half-Life was originally published in 1998 and brought innovations to the genre still referred to today. Spong also reports that both chipmakers have been in negotiations with game developers for such exclusivity deals for quite some time. More details are said to be revealed at this years E3. BTW this story was posted on April 2nd, 2003. Source: Spong.com

Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII, the second expansion pack to the highly acclaimed Battlefield 1942 title, significantly enhances the gaming experience by bringing the most bizarre and deadly weapons from the German and Allied laboratories to the Battlefield. From top secret, cutting edge weapons to secret forces and secret places, a new level of drama and excitement will be added to the Battlefield experience.

Matt Burris from 3DGpu today has some neat info on STALKER: Oblivion Lost currently in development at GSC Game World. After an editorial about the 'Nvidia - The way it's meant to be played' marketing campaign, he wrote to GSC because they initially stated that the game was developed on ATI R300 hardware. Read more...

Electronic Arts has released another patch for C&C Generals, bringing EA Pacific's 3D RTS to v1.05. The patch fixes various issues and introduces usual balance adjustments. Brazilian, Chinese, French, Italian, Korean, Polish, and Spanish can be found on this EA FTP directory. Click on Read More... to see what's new and a direct download link.

Just spotted this @ Ritualistic.com:

They've gotten hands on the May issue of Computer Gaming World, featuring a well written two page preview of Counter-Strike: Condition Zero. A handful of new screenshots is included along with many new details summarized below:

3dgamers.com reports that NovaLogic has released the first patch for Delta Force: Black Hawk Down, upgrading their new special forces tactical FPS to version 1.1.0. This release provides fixes for three single-player and three multi-player bugs, including some issues with claymore mines.

In a surprise release, 3D Realms sends along the source code for Duke Nukem 3D, allowing you to tinker with their 1996 first-person shooter. Compiling the source will require Open Watcom 1.0 or Watcom C v10.0 or later, and while the release is unsupported, it falls under the terms of the GPL! GNU Public License.

I surfed through RTCW.com and saw that Enemy Territory is still there. What does this mean? http://www.activision.com/games/wolfenstein/

Look for yourself.. Has ID forgotten to take it off, or are they planning a release afterall? Rancho*: Read some magazines... Enemy Territory will be released out of it's finished multiplayer components with ten playable maps. Probably free of charge it will be downloadable from community sites.

Battlefield Command: Europe at War 1939 - 1945 is the long-wielded title of the 3D real-time strategy game under construction at 1C and Codemasters.

Just got word the guy's at Jedi knight II.net have revealed some Jedi Knight III Info! Here's a snip.

You know those moments when a simple day is turned into pure excitement? That about sums up my feelings when I went to the mailbox today to grab my issue of Gamestar, Germany?s Number One gaming mag. So I take a look at the cover to see a female Twi?lek wielding two lightsabers! ?What the hell? was naturally my first thought before I see the words next to it: Jedi Knight III Revealed. World Exclusive.

Arush Entertainment and Digitalo have posted new information on the upcoming patch for their recently released first person shooter build on the latest Unreal engine. The patch will also work on the MP demo.

MR B at Rage3D has posted a Shadowbane fix for any of you that are having problems playing the game!

Verzaubert was kind enough to inform me of a solution to graphical problems in Shadowbane. Vosx of Ubisoft support has done a forum post stating the fix for those experiencing font corruption and missing text. Here's the temporary fix, while a new driver may be just around the corner:

Games Domain.com have posted their look at the Xbox version of the racing game of the year TOCA Pro Race Driver.

Right after 2D fighters, racing games currently seem to take the brunt of cracks about the shallowness of videogames. Even first-person shooters (which, God knows, can be bad enough) still seem to fare better overall in terms of play value. Racing games these days had best bring something new to the table. UK developer Codemasters has long been known for its nigh-unwavering, passionate attention to racing games of all kinds, but it's been argued that the human touch in racing games has been... lacking.

Craig Lafferty, associate producer at Legend Entertainment, has just announced on the Infogrames community forums that the highly anticipated patch for Unreal II: The Awakening is now available for download. To update select the autoupdater in the start menu. The file is about 4MByte in size. A manual download is being set up at the moment.

As everyone's busy hunting down the Nvidia Detonator 50.xx drivers we seem to have missed this UT2003 2218 Beta patch that was available to download @ Beyondunreal.com.

Arush Entertainment and Digitalo have made the first fix available for the Devastation MP demo that was released yesterday. It addresses the extreme frame rate loss and connection lags that people are experiencing. Digitalo's Vic DeLeon posted on the Bluesnews message boards that a complete patch fixing server browser issues, miscellaneous gameplay issues, physics, and other problems will be released soon.