bluesnews.com To clear up a bit of confusion, what we released yesterday was the level editing tools and not the full SDK for Wolfenstein. Everything is there to create both single-player and multi-player maps. Also included is Escape ( from single-player ) and Beach ( from multi-player ) for reference.

The source code will be available soon.

Gray Matter Studios and Nerve Software have released the RtCW SDK for the mod community to use with their Quake3 engine powered FPS. Grab the 13.5meg file from one of these mirror's: id's FTP FilePlanet

ibelite.com This new year brings more innovation and more imagination to a community that thirsts for something different. Fountainhead Entertainment releases Sidrial, a Total Conversion for Quake III Arena. Sidrial was created from an artform known as Machinima where game meets cinema. Where once games were created and Machinima followed, with Sidrial, Machinima led the way to game.

In Sidrial, a bloodthirsty race bent on power and destruction have annihilated every inhabited planet in their wake. Sidrial is the last outpost between Earth and extinction. In the Total Conversion, the Sidrial story is the driving force behind the game where players find themselves in the middle of a seemingly hopeless war. A devastated planet forges new heroes and the ultimate fight is for survival. The two levels included in the release, one single player and one multiplayer level, reflects the basic storyline of a war torn planet. You need a full working version of Quake III Arena (with 1.30 patch) to install this game, a 500MHz CPU, a 3-D Hardware accelerator with full OpenGL support and 32MB of VRam.

So for the Sidrial Quake III MOD screenshots , Movie and the download Hit Read More!!!!

3dcenter have released a new beta version 1.27 of Demo Show Creator Light , offering Quake III Arena 1.31 support. This demo playback utility can now make use of the dm3, dm_48, dm_66, and dm_67 formats.

BluesNews reports, that the official Unreal website have some new Unreal II screenshots.
These screenshots are really amazing!
If you want, you can take a look at them over here

This update for Return to Castle Wolfenstein is primarily to resolve multiplayer server specific issues that have come up!!

There's a new v2.20 beta of the Tactical Ops mod for Unreal Tournament!!!!

Here's what Tactical Ops are saying

We're proud to announce that Beta 2.2.0 has finally been released! The package is available in 4 different flavors: A Windows patch from 2.1.x, a manual patch from 2.1.x, eaching weighing in at about 25mb. Also available are complete full installs, which are 115mb apiece.

A new version of Weapons Factory Arena v3.3 has been released!!!!!!!!

Download Quake III Arena mod Weapons Factory Arena v3.3

What's New in Weapons Factory Arena v3.3

Activision's Caryn Law just sent along the latest update on the 1.1 patch for Return to Castle Wolfenstein: The Return to Castle Wolfenstein 1.1 multiplayer patch that was originally scheduled to be released late this week will be available on Monday. We had a minor issue with the update installer which we have fixed and are now testing. This is a multiplayer only patch (does not affect single player at all), and will be compatible with the original 1.0 version of the game. So check back with the official page on Monday.

While your waiting for Medal of Honor to been released to the stores!! Here's a New Medal of Honor Movie.

Your Springfield '03 Sniper Rifle not doing the trick? No need to worry, grab a tank to mow down your enemies!

New Medal of Honor Movie

Well it seems like one of the most anticipated games of the year is finally coming to our favourite gaming boxes, the PC. GamesDomain now has a preview up to give you an update of what's in the pipeline: If you dig not very deep, you'll probably uncover Games Domain's five star review in our ever-growing Xbox section. But the question is, of course, will the title transfer successfully to the PC format, or will it fade away in the insipid horde of PC first-person shooters? Let's examine the evidence. Check the preview out

GamingGroove received an email today from Activision already stating the issues adressed in upcoming version 1.1: Zombie Clients issue resolved Lieutenant grenade spamming solved Issue with loading single-player maps fixed Various server stability issues implemented Link to easily find future updates Added Voice-Chat abuse fix [...] Activision have just sent us an e-mail informing us that the upcoming version 1.1 patch for Return to Castle Wolfenstein should be released soon, possibly even today.

bluesnews.com A German TV Show GIGA GAMES has aired an Unreal Special from which downloadable movies are now available online!! :D

There are seven videos in DivX AVI format showing the Infogrames press event where Unreal Tournament II was unveiled to the press, and the movies offer plenty of ShakyCam footage shot off computer monitors that illustrate various new features and aspects of the game's design along with gameplay action, as well as a few bits on Unreal II and Unreal Championship, and an interview with Digital Extremes' James Schmalz.

So hit Read more for your Unreal Tournament II Fix

AND THE WINNER IS...

Judging by the sales reports we're starting to get, it looks like everyone went nuts for games over the break. For those of you curious about the "winners" of the holiday season - if this were the Olympics, the PS2 would be at the top of the podium with Xbox at number two, and Gamecube bringing up the rear looking slightly pissed for being pipped at the post by a slim margin.

It was a pretty close battle, and towards the end of the year we even heard that the Xbox was actually starting to catch up with the PS2 in terms of day to day sales. Apparently Halo really is the killer app to end all killer apps. Let's face it - there still isn't an enormous list of must-buy games for the Xbox aside from it. Beyond Halo, DOA3 and Max Payne, there are a few "hmmm...OK" chin-strokers like NFL Fever. But look further and you're into the realm of Johnny-Sports-Star-No-one-Gives-A-Crap-About- Extreme-Moto-Cross-Boarder-Skater-Surf-Dude 2. Or Cel Damage.

Read more at : Scoutch Industries

Medal of Honor Bunker.com have a modification that allows the Medal of Honor: Allied Assault single-player demo to be played online in co-op mode!! :D

This map lets you play the single player demo in "co-op" mode online! Be sure to read the readme file!

A new version v3.1 of the Server Watch utility is now available!!

Here's what their saying

This new version is primarily a bug fix and plugin release. We've fixed a serious bug that could cause advertising errors to be thrown during game play. This was unintentional and is now fixed. We've also added plugins for Medal of Honor, Quake, and Tribes. This release puts Server Watch 3 on par with Server Watch 2's server support allowing us to finally retire Server Watch 2.

3dcenter have released a new beta version 1.25 of Demo Show Creator Light , offering Quake III Arena 1.31 support. This demo playback utility can now make use of the dm3, dm_48, dm_66, and dm_67 formats.

Download Demo Show Creator -v1.25 Beta English

Download Demo Show Creator -v1.25 Beta Germany

Maab over @ MaxReboot send me this words: Looks like Amazon slipped up by telling the whole World when Duke Nukem Forever will be Released! Here's the info from Amazon UK: Our Price: £ 27.99 Platform: Windows 95, Windows 98 Release Date: 8 March, 2002. Not Yet Available: You may still order this product. We will ship it to you when it is released by the manufacturer. Thanx Maab, I can´t wait to grab my copy!

Ibelite have found a new Max Payne Mod called Kung Fu!!!!

Here's what their saying

There's a new kung fu style mod out for Max Payne. The mod allows many new game elements to be introduced. The first of which is Kung Fu style fighting, as well as kung fu style defenses and shooting angles...Another added feature is the ability to run up walls and jump off of walls.

bluesnews.com After all the upheaval over the inadvertedly distributed cover-disk version and its subsequent withdrawal (on which topic Leaked game demo sparks online debate on CNNmoney offers a round-up of the events, including quotes from our very own Blue), it may come as a surprise that earlier than announced, Electronic Arts has now decided to release the official single-player demo of Medal of Honor:

This whopping 175.2 MB version features a regular installer that unfortunately includes DirectX 8, but that otherwise offers the same Nebelwerfer Hunt level in 2015's imminent WWII first-person shooter as before.

So hit read more for your copy!!!!!!! If u missed it the first time around.