'LOS ANGELES - March 4, 2004 - Atari and Epic Games are pleased to announce that development is complete on Unreal® Tournament 2004, the highly anticipated follow-up to last year's smash Unreal Tournament 2003 and the third installment in the mega-selling Unreal Tournament franchise. The game is expected to be available at retail stores worldwide on March 15.

Lik-sang reports that Konami of Japan have released the two TVCM's for Metal Gear Solid today. Windows Media Player format.

Wargaming.net announces Massive Assault Network, which has been in development for the last 3 months. It is scheduled for release on April 5th 2004. The product is supposed for free distribution by download. It includes tutorial singleplayer mode for quick involvement into the game and some training before online play.

Here's a list of some of latest games patches , Screenshots , trailers and Demos that the doing the rounds on the web.

Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow Multiplayer Videos S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl Movie ToCA Race Driver 2 Movie

Die Welle der illegalen Leaks reißt nicht ab. Nun ist offenbar der Shooter Söldner - Secret Wars in einer Betaversion geleakt worden.
Der Singleplayerpart ist sehr umfangreich, da viele Dinge speziell für den Betatest integriert wurden.
Die Entwickler sagen zwar, dass man wenig mit der illegalen Beta anfangen kann, da man den CD-Key nicht besitzt, aber Gerüchten zur Folge funktioniert der Singleplayer sehr gut. Fragen bzw. Links bezüglich des Downloads werden kommentarlos gelöscht. Quelle: WinFuture

Microids has released the playable demo for Syberia II, allowing you to sample their upcoming 3D adventure game. The demo contains an early section from the full game that kicks off with a healthy walk in the snow.

Rockstar Games, the world-renowned publishing division of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., is pleased to announce Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the next iteration in the globally successful Grand Theft Auto franchise. Developed by world-class designers Rockstar North, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas will be available exclusively for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system and is expected to be in stores in North America on October 19, 2004 and in Europe on October 22, 2004.

"The release of the Colin McRae Rally 04 demo last week generated a fair bit of excitement - Not only is it a title that makes use of DirectX 9 effects, as well as actually being pretty good fun to play, it was also used as a showcase for ATi's forthcoming R420 GPU."

DriverHeaven have posted their latest article which takes a look at two of the most recent games which try to give a twist to bog standard single player action - Mario Kart: Double Dash and Sonic Heroes.

As technology advances gamers demand much more from their games. Gone are the times when you could publish a side scrolling platformer and be guaranteed a million seller. 3D platformers are the present and more than likely the future as well. As for racing games, well you can improve the graphics, real time physics etc but there is only so far you can go with them due to the limits of current technology. Genre?s other than the platformer or racing game have it much easier, MMORPG have the social interaction aspect mixed with storyline, an RPG or FPS can rely on the storyline as well so what do you do when you have taken your genre as far as you can, what do you do to make your game stand out and challenge the gamers with something new?

Once a thriving mining region, Hearthglen Hills is now overrun with vile creatures who scrounge for what little gold remains.

The first FarCry demo was a big hit. The new demo is now released and is available in two different forms.

Game Pro have scooped the first screenshot of DOOM 3 for the Xbox!

Gamer's Hell reports that Eidos has released a new patch for Deus Ex 2: Invisible War, bringing this first-person action RPG by Ion Storm to v1.2. This release improves performance on most systems, fixes some graphical errors for those using NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 cards, and fixes the fuzzy appearance of the bloom, sniper scope, vision biomod, and other full-screen effects.

Der Publisher JoWooD hat gestern in einer Pressemitteilung einen vorläufigen Termin für einen weiteren Teil der Gothic-Reihe genannt. 2005 soll Teil 3 der sehr erfolgreichen Serie veröffentlicht werden.
Weitere Informationen werden nicht gegeben. Pressemitteilung: Link (Download (.pdf))

The long-awaited playable demo for X² - The Threat is now available, offering a chance to don your space boots in this space combat exploration sequel by EgoSoft. This demo offers five tutorials (Basics, Trade, Fight, Build, Think) as well as a test universe to explore at will. Gamer's Hell - 3D Gamers

Nvnews have thrown up their review of X² - The Threat! Here's a snip.

I recently had the opportunity of playing X2 The Threat by EgoSoft. It's a large scale empire building game set in the far reaches of the universe. I believe that's a good thing. I think this game should be shipped there. As far as open-ended space trading games are concerned, this game is certainly part of the genre. However, as a space opera, it's long on game time, but comes up short on the story. I have a few words that I would use to describe this game: stunning, infinite, monotonous, tiresome, and laughable.

Digital Jesters has released Savage: the Battle for Newerth 2.00d Demo, the 3D online action strategy game by S2 Games. As before, this Win32 demo contains the maps Eden2 and Crossroads, playable as the human race, but it has been enhanced with all the improvements, fixes and other changes from the recent version 2.00 patches, at the expense of a 91 MB increase in download size.

Activision has released a new multiplayer beta patch for Call of Duty, bringing the tactical first-person shooter by Infinity Ward to version 1.3. This release addresses several server list problems, a couple of exploits, a sniper rifle animation bug, and some balancing issues. Note however that this is an unsupported beta patch for the English editions only, and it's not compatible with v1.2 servers.

Fido over at The Inquirer recently reported a Rumour that Nvidia had done a deal with id Software to supply a Doom 3 vouchers for the full game with their upcoming range of NV40 and NV45 video cards!

New bots for Soldier of Fortune2 - Double Helix. Try them for yourself and see the difference. grab it from X-Team Website - in the downloads section under mods. These bots are a bit smarter and are more like Unreal Tournament Bots