Ritualistic.com has news that the Star Trek Elite Force II single player demo is here.

This 118MB download contains a small portion of gameplay from two of the missions in Star Trek Elite Force II. Within the demo, you will fight against several Exomorph creatures, which represent a small sampling of the wide variety of monsters and different humanoids you will encounter in the full version of the game.

And while were on the news of demo's Unreal II:The Awakening demo and the Vietcong single-player demo have been released.

Just got word that HAMMER786 has posted new Half-Life 2 Scans from PC Gamer at the Futuremark.com forums.

Day of Defeat (a.k.a. DoD) is the latest online action experience from Valve, makers of Half-Life and Counter-Strike. Stationed in the heart of WWII's European Theater of Operations, players join the ranks of an elite military squad entrenched in battle. Each team has several player classes, that give each squad member a unique role. These include scout, infantry, sergeant, machine gunner, and more, each with a unique arsenal of historical weaponry at their disposal. Day of Defeat includes an expansive collection of missions based on key historical battles. And a near infinite number of additional missions, created by the online development community, are available for download.

A new upgrade of America's Army: Operations is now available, bringing this team-based tactical shooter by the U.S. Army to version 1.7.0. Details on this release are sparse, but reportedly it contains a new map called Bridge_SE as well as updated sound code.

GameSpot's henchmen managed to kidnap ID's Software's lead designer Tim Willits and drilled him for info! Look at the screenshot to the left that Tim Willits handed over! Here's a byte.

GameSpot: There's so much anticipation for Doom III at this point that it seems larger than life. Will the final game be as revolutionary as many expect it to be?

Want to pre-order Unreal Tournament 2004? Then Click Here! Talk about jumping the gun.

Any of you guys remember the game One Must Fall 2097 (published by Epic Megagames)? Well, the developer Diversions Entertainment is planning to release its sequel, One Must Fall: Battlegrounds, and doing what no PC game has really done before : create the first online multiplayer 3D fighting game for the PC.

Gamespy have posted part 3 from David Kushner's upcoming book, as ID puts the finishing touches on what is one of the landmark games in the industry.

GameSpy takes a three-day journey through chapter nine -- The Coolest Game -- of David Kushner's forthcoming book. This chapter chronicles DOOM's development, from John Romero's wickedly evil demon designs to Carmack's late-night marathons testing multiplayer to the final moment id's Jay Wilbur uploaded the shareware version and released it upon the world. Along with the exclusive, we've managed to roundup an interview with author David Kushner; another with John Romero, Tom Hall, Jay Wilbur, Sandy Peterson, and Mike Wilson; and have assembled our own retrospective of id's games.

3DGamers reports that Ubi Soft has released two multiplayer maps for Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield, expanding their recent squad-based tactical shooter. The Close Quarter map is a larger close combat level that supports all gameplay modes, while the Zen map is a small symmetrical level that supports only Team survival mode.

Just saw this at the Burut website, the studio behind Kreed: Today we present in-game video from KREED. During 2 minutes and 37 seconds you can watch some gameplay moments of the game, some special effects and parts of cut-scenes. We have made two versions of the video - one is in high quality (640*480) and it's about 40 Mb, and another is low-quality - 13 Mb. We strongly recommend to download the high-quality version to know more about KREED.

3DGamers.com has news that Monolith has released a new multiplayer demo of No One Lives Forever 2 version 1.3!

The demo offers three maps from the full game that are playable in Co-Operative, Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch and Doomsday modes, and also includes a dedicated demo server.

Just got word that Ferrago.co.uk have posted a two page preview of Half-Life 2 for the Pc with images! Here's a byte.

Unfortunately I don?t have a team of lawyer?s working for me in the background, so I can?t let you see the nutty looking realism of the completely new graphics engine. There are sites out there with scans, which I recommend you track down rapido, but some of the pics in the Zone are new; the images of the emotional ranges on the faces of characters is stunning, looking damn close to those featured in Nvidia's Dawn demo.

Minions of Destruction: CyberSports brings enhanced InstaGib play to both Capture the Flag and Double Domination, although the games can be played as non-InstaGib games too! The enhanced InstaGib play sports a brand-new ASMD Mk2 Shock Rifle with two distinct modes for both rampaging offense and determined defense!

Gamers Hell reports that Dark Alliance Software has released the alpha demo of S.L.A.Y.

This demo offers: 5 weapons, 2 complex arenas (one suitable for 'One-on-One', the other for 'Slaughter'), 6 characters and a short Tech Demo level, all fully playable in both multiplayer (up to 6 players, over the modem or in LAN) or in BotMatch singleplayer.

Gaming Horizon.com have updated their list of games that are going to be at E3 2003 and added a Pre E3 page with all the latest news!

The Electronic Entertainment Expo is approaching rapidly and Gaming Horizon has a full list of what games we can expect to see at this upcoming event. SSX 2? Halo 2?

Like this news that the Xbox version of Counter-Strike have been slowly reaching the web lately and the latest batch comes in the form of screenshots. So without further ado, view the new 16 screenshots below.

Just got word that Xboxworld.nl have snagged some scans of Halo 2 from the next issue of the Official Xbox Magazine.

Clan Tools v1.6 has been released.

Clan Tools is a package with a bunch of programs designed to help online gamers. You'll get a IRC Scorebot which supports quite a few games, a Clan Manager to keep your business in a clan under control, NTP Alarm to synchronize your system with an exact time, and a customized mIRC.

A bunch of movies showing off the upcoming PC version of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City are now available at 3dgamers and Gamers Hell.

No fewer than seven, albeit brief, gameplay movies of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City are now available in one convenient download.

Just got word Geeknewz.com have posted a 3 page HalfLife 2 roundup that covers all the scans and screenshots from around the web!

Half Life 2 has come out of the closet and the hype has begun with images from several Mag's being uploaded onto the web.

3DGamers.com reports that following on from last week's US update, a European version 1.2b patch for Splinter Cell, the third-person stealthy action game by Ubi Soft Montreal, is now available as well. As before, this update includes a small diagnostic / benchmarking tool that was inadvertedly left out of the v1.2 patch, along with all the changes from all previous patches.