3dgamers reports that a new patch for Star Trek Elite Force II is now available, upgrading the sci-fi first-person shooter sequel by Ritual Entertainment to version 1.10. This release applies a handful of general and a large number of multiplayer improvements, fixes, and other changes as detailed in the Readme, and also includes four new fan-created multiplayer maps.

Recently Bioware's James Ohlen (Lead Designer), and Casey Hudson (Producer/Project Director) sat down with PC Gameworld to discuss KotOR PC. Have a look at what they had to say about the game. According to the interview PC innovations will include an overhauled user interface, different texture packs, scaleable graphic resolutions and extra skins for NPC's. KotOR PC is scheduled for a fall release (28th of November).

A new version 1.02 of Halo: Combat Evolved is now available. The update to Gearbox's port of Bungie's shooter is available as a 3.9 MB patch, mirrored on 3D Gamers and Worthplaying. The Halo Update v1.02 adds support for multiple instances to the Bungie dedicated server, enabling them and the community to roll out many more servers for gamers. Also introduced are client support for RCon (Remote Console), allowing dedicated server operators to have control over their servers running in data centers as well as minor bug fixes.

S2 Games has released the promised demo for Savage: the Battle for Newerth, allowing you to try out their recent 3D online action strategy game. The demo is available for Windows and Linux, and contains the maps Eden and Crossroads, playable as the human race.

The theft of part of its source code has delayed until April 2004 the launch of Half Life II, the hotly anticipated alien-hunting game of Vivendi Universal Games. "A third of the source code was stolen. It's serious because it forces us to delay the launch of the game by at least four months, that is to April 2004. Just the time to rewrite parts of the game." GamersHell has more...

Planet Half life.com reports that there were a ton of rumors the past couple days about the existence of a leaked, playable Half-Life 2 beta, but thankfully those stories have been confirmed to be completely false.

Gabe Newell may or may not be on Half-Life Radio tonight, but they say they'll be heading to Valve today to, "talk with Gabe Newell in person to help clear up all the gossip and speculations.

Gamers Hell reports that Rockstar Games announced today that Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne for PC has officially gone gold and is currently in manufacturing. Developed by Remedy Entertainment, the sequel to the original film-noir action thriller, Max Payne, will be in stores in North America on October 15, 2003 and in Europe on October 24, 2003. PS2 and Xbox versions will be in stores on December 3, 2003.

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A Steam update will be released tonight at about 7:00 PDT. The update will take effect automatically when you exit and restart Steam. About 5 minutes before the update goes out, we'll send a message to everyone via Friends. Here's what's new:

Planet HalfLife reports that will the Half-Life 2 benchmark program be released today? The answer is? we're not sure. We'll let you know as soon as we hear something, if we hear something.

The ATIHL2 Alcatraz event is happening today, and GameSpy will have coverage of that later. I was going to attend myself, but new footage of HL2 isn't expected and I'd probably end up getting murdered by Ed Harris. Besides, last time I was in a prison? uhh?

3DGamers reports that the first patch for Halo: Combat Evolved is now available, bringing the newly released 3D action game by Gearbox Software and Bungie Software to version 1.01. Using the auto-updater is recommended but a manual download is available as well; there are however no details on the changes in this release.

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..

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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.