bluesnews.com Serious Sam: the Second Encounter Goes Gold is the press release announcing that the follow-up to the Croteam's original Serious Sam game has gone into duplication. According to the release, the sequel is due on store shelves February 5, 2002, and will feature: "Seven new fiends added to Mental's evil army, in addition to all your old enemies - Over 20 multiplayer levels - Three all new weapons: Flamethrower, Sniper Rifle with 8X zoom and the ultra-wicked Chainsaw - 12 new single player levels plus over 15 multiplayer levels for Scorematch and Deathmatch - a HUGE addition to the 'Serious Sam' Universe - Four power-ups: Serious Speed, Serious Damage, Invulnerability and Invisibility for a twist to the classic Doom-style gameplay 'Serious Sam' is famous for - Seriously Warped Deathmatch right out of the box, plus expanded Deathmatch straight from Croteam.

and those's great peeps at Blue News also have a whopping 30 new Second Encounter screenshots for you !!! so hit read more

bluesnews While Infogrames still refuses to comment on the ongoing series of revelations, Belgian site JIM.be has now taken the next step and posted the full press kit for Unreal Tournament II , the sequel to Epic Games' multiplayer shooter that's in development at Digital Extremes. There is a fact sheet listing the game's features, along with sizable collections of concept art and screenshots (complete with faint but huge watermarks).

The ultimate in first-person action returns! Developed by Digital Extremes, Unreal Tournament II is the sequel to the mind-blowing, award-winning action of Unreal Tournament.

planetunreal.com A French gaming magazine by the name of Joystick has featured Unreal Tournament 2 in the December issue of their magazine (available since Friday, I am told)! The article is a preview that contain many screenshots, and is written entirely in French (tough luck for many of us out there). The facts come from a hands on account of playing UT2, so you can be certain that this game is not a simple rumor (think something around the lines of Unreal Championship for the PC).

Hit read more for the screenshots

Papyrus has published the new demo of their great Nascar Racing 2002 game. This Direct3D based racing sim has built-in support for anisotropic texture filtering and a handy frame rate counter which can be used to fine tune your graphics settings.

Nascar Racing 2002 Demo

It looks like somehow the MoHAA single player demo leaked to the web which is for sale @ Amazon.com for $4.99. The ETA for the retail version is January 23, 2002. Mirror 1 | 175MB Mirror 2 | 150.5MB without DX 8. Simply select no when prompted to install DX. 3DGamers.com Mirror Bluesnews Mirror If this download is real I bet the servers are hit hard! :) Note: The multiplayer demo can be downloaded here.

Westwood has released the first official map pack for Yuri's Revenge, the expansion pack for C&C: Red Alert 2. The 143kb download contains two multiplayer maps, one titled "Transylvania Trouble" for 2-6 players, and the other called "Irvine, California" for 2-8 play.

Download Red Alert 2: Yuris Revenge Map Pack 1

OK peeps it's time for me to go to my new years eve party and find MR BONG! lol have fun ALL and happy new year

Using this brand new program from BWVillage you can carry out loads of Black and White related tasks with ease in a user-friendly wizard environment. It has loads of advanced features just waiting for you to get your hands on, so what are you waiting for?

Download Black & White Control Center

id Software have also released a new source code distribution of Quake II . updating last week's release to the final version 3.21 of the game and if you every played Quake II you will know that v3.21 was never released as a patch! :D

Ahhhh, SHOOT..!

Have you ever spent a lot of time running around in a first person shooter, only to think, ?Hey, this is fun and all, but I don?t think this marine is mobile enough. What I need is a vehicle...? I know I have, and lately, games such as Operation Flashpoint have granted this wish. Another game to add to the list is Comanche 4.0, the latest in NovaLogic?s long running ?light? flight sim series. The latest incarnation of Comanche is more of a first person shooter with a helicopter, rather than a flight simulation, and never in my two decades of flight sim fanaticism have I preferred to use a mouse over a joystick...until now, that is.

Read more at : scoutch.com

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Monolith have released the editing tools for their first person shooter, Aliens versus Predator 2! :D

A new Medal of Honor objective-based teamplay map for the Medal of Honor: Allied Assault multiplayer demo is now available for download .The map is called The Hunt

Download Medal of Honor The Hunt demo map

If there was ever an under appreciated classic, it was System Shock 2. You get to choose from 3 classes and develop your character however you see fit as you battle, sneak, or hack your way through a haunted spaceship full of biomechanical terrors.

System Shock 2 Demo

Rage3d NitroGL has done it again with another truform patch. This time for the popular id game Quake2!

Nitro says Please read the readme.txt file first.

ID Software's John Carmack has released the source code of an older engine.ID announces the availability of the Quake II source code as an early Christmas present.

Quake 2 source code is now available for download, licensed under the GPL

As with previous source code releases, the game data remains under the original copyright and license, and cannot be freely distributed. If you create a true total conversion, you can give (or sell) a complete package away, as long as you abide by the GPL source code license. If your projects use the original Quake 2 media, the media must come from a normal, purchased copy of the game.

Big Thx To bluesnews.com

id Software have released a new Point Release version 1.31 of Quake III Arena! :D

Windows Fixes:

fixed Doppler effect
changed protocol from 66 to 67
fixed simple developer 1 cvar cheat hack
changed a few warnings to developer warnings rcon commands no longer fragment, sent buffered to the rcon client
fixed connection issues / broken userinfo
only printing R_AddPolyToScene warnings with +set developer 1
various dedicated server issues fixed

Linux only:

fixed sound crash, going around memset bug in glibc i586/i686

patch 1.4 is out for op flash.

Saw it just over @ BluesNews
that Novalogic has a new patch for Comanche 4.
This release adds the promised Internet multiplayer through NovaWold, as well as a handful of gameplay and multiplayer fixes.
The patch is momentary only available via the auto-updater.

A new version of Q3 Mod Eternal Arena is out and it's v5.4! :D Hit Read More for the full list of changes

computerandvideogames.com The existence of Unreal Tournament 2 was unofficially unearthed recently, but its publisher came clean yesterday

Infogrames sent out a release schedule last night that confirmed what we've been telling you for weeks: Unreal Tournament 2 is alive and well and living in Digital Extremes' happy hidey-hole in deepest darkest Ontario. The Canadian developer's covert project ? the company is also openly working on Unreal Championship for Xbox - is secret no longer. Now all you can do is sit quietly and knot your little legs in anticipation.

For more info on UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2 warp to computerandvideogames.com

AlliedAssault.com has posted instructions on how to fix some problems you may be experiencing with the Medal of Honor, when using a Voodoo card.

Medal of Honor Voodoo Fix