GameAxis has thrown up their Doom III Exclusive Interview with id's Tim Willits and Todd Hollenshead on id Software's upcoming first person shooter Doom III, which includes a few details about Quake 4! Here's a snip.

We were lucky enough to be treated to the Doom 3 demo TWICE. After our first interview session of the day, we made our way to a small darkened room in the corner of the corridor. The wall-sized banner that spelt ?Doom III? greeted me as I was introduced to Tim Willits and Todd Hollenshead. Of course, when we found out that we were going to watch the demo on a 42? plasma screen, our adrenaline got the ol' heart pumping. We grabbed a couple of mints for fear of feeling majorly nauseated halfway into the demo.

Independently developed online racing simulator Live for Speed has a new patch out: v0.3B.

Hello Racers - A new patch B has been released! It's fully compatible with S1A and has several fixes and improvements..

Here's a few of the latest games Trailers! doing the rounds on the web.

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Gamers Hell are reporting that Gabe Newell (?) sent us a mail letting us supposedly know that the 'news' posted on Shacknews yesterday (story) is a fake and that Half-Life 2 has gone Gold and in production now. Here's the official word:

3dgamers.com reports that Rockstar Games has released no fewer than five movie trailers for Max Payne 2: the Fall of Max Payne, revealing more from the third-person shooter that is nearing completion at Remedy Entertainment. The five clips come in regular and very high resolutions, and four of them sport brief but explosive gameplay sequences while the fifth offers the first glimpse of the game's graphic novel, for a total running time of a bit over two minutes.

Fragmaster @ Planet Halflife.com on Half-Life 2 ! Here's the bad news from Valve's Doug Lombardi:

The previously announced September 30th release date for Half-Life 2 is being pushed back. We are currently targeting a holiday release, but do not have a specific "in-store" date to share at this time. We will release that information as soon as we have confirmed a new date.

Thanks to Mr a for the news that GamePlay are listing the release date as 28 November 2003.

PC Zone Magazine have snagged some exclusive Half - Life 2 footage! in the form of a preview disc from Valve Software.

we almost had a group cardiac arrest. Seeing the words "Half-Life 2" and "Preview" and a silhouette of one Gordon Freeman, we leaped up and down with excitement - "It's preview code!" one cried out in ecstasy, spraying spittle and waving arms around in anapoplectic manner. Then, like an odd moment of calm in a storming sea, a slightly more observant onlooker pointed out the word "Trailer" under "Preview". D'oh.

GaySpy have thrown up a new Preview with some new hi-res screens for DOOM III.

We go to Hell, or at least id's version of it. Click to snag a look at DOOM 3's single-player game: every gory detail on the levels, monsters, weapons and more, including hi-res screens. Be very afraid.

I don't know how real this is but if the rumours are true then spitcodfry could have it spot on! :D could we have announcement today or tomorrow?

I cannot believe I just now remembered this, but when I was on the tour, Gabe told me that Steam would begin to send Half-Life 2 the game to individual's hard drives a week before it released via Steam. I'm assuming this is for people that choose in advance to get it from there.

The demo of Lord of the Rings: Return of the King has been featured on the latest edition of PC Gamer in North America. The demo puts you into the role of Gandalf tasked with saving the Citizens of Minas Tirith.

A playable demo for Judge Dredd vs. Judge Death, previously available on PC Zone UK's cover disk, that offers the chance to be judge, jury and executioner in Rebellion's first-person action game. This is a pre-release demo that includes Story Chapter 3 and Arcade Modes "Zombie Headshot Apocalypse" and "Riot".

Rapid Eye Entertainment and Sony Online have released a playable demo for Lords of EverQuest, offering the opportunity to try out their upcoming fantasy 3D real-time strategy game. This massive Shadow Realm demo is the first in a series of three demos, containing some tutorials and allowing you to play online as the Shadow Realm faction.

Nvmax.com reports that EA is offering a free CnC game: Command And Conquer: Commanche, which is based on the graphics of the new CnC: Generals and the type of gameplay of Desert/Jungle/Urban Storm for the Genesis. You command a helicopter in a top down fashion and have objectives to destroy. Give it a try, registration required! Click on the screenshot for you're free copy.

Activision has released not one but two playable demos for Empires: Dawn of the Modern World, allowing you to try out this upcoming 3D RTS game by Stainless Steel Studios. The first demo is single-player only and offers two playable scenarios. The second is multiplayer and offers one single-player scenario (not the same as the two included in the SP demo) and a random multiplayer map playable online or against a computer opponent.

Hot on the heels of the German demo for Worms 3D, its English equivalent is now available, allowing you to try Team17's 3D turn-based strategy game in a language you may understand better. As before, the demo contains one map playable in turns between two players on the same computer, with a time limit of 8 minutes.

Raven Software have now released the dedicated Win32 and Linux servers for Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, allowing server admins to host online games for this sci-fi 3D action sequel. The downloads naturally require a copy of the retail game, and include the dedicated server executable as well as related config files and libaries.

EIDOS Interactive, the publisher for Tomb Raider:
Angel of Darkness issued a patch a couple of weeks ago for the game which happened to include a way to use the game as a DX9 benchmark. Since it shows NVIDIA hardware performing slower than ATI, EIDOS has pulled it down. Remember, this is a "Way it's meant to be played" game, which means NVIDIA has paid EIDOS marketing money. Keep in mind, that this patch improved performance on both ATI and NVIDIA hardware. Here's a bs statement from EIDOS Europe: And the statement is available at sources website Gamers Depot

Underworld Bloodline Version 2.0 has been released. This release contains 2 new maps and a very cool new Black Widow spider weapon and assorted minor improvements.

Eidos Interactive has now released the final playable demo for Commandos 3: Destination Berlin, offering a renewed opportunity to try out Pyro Studios' imminent squad-based tactical combat sequel. As before, the demo contains a Tutorial and the full Train mission from the Central Europe campaign, but it also demonstrates the more polished state of the game.

3dgamers.com reports that in preparation for the imminent release of Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, Raven Software has issued an archive of some of the models and skins in their sci-fi 3D action game. Included are an updated guide, a model viewer, skleton information, and plenty of unpainted skins for many of the models.