GameSpot has snagged 12 new Xbox Doom 3 Screenshots!

First Xbox screens in nearly a year give a glimpse of the console version of the horror shooter.

BluesNews reports that the forums on Halflife2.Net have some details translated from an article on Half-Life 2 from German print PC Games magazine. The post offers hidden-text descriptions of the screenshots in the article, and word from Valve's Gabe Newell that they are planning to release the game in late summer, along with apologies for the September 30 fiasco, attributing the delay to bad scheduling, rather than the source code theft.

GGmania reports the German print-magazine GameStar had S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl as its cover-story with Interesting news and facts: just shortly before E3 2004.

The Half-Life mod Natural Selection v3.0 beta 4 is now publically available. Here's the complete changelog and you can grab the Download Here.

Encore have updated their beta demo of SÖLDNER - Secret Wars, the upcoming vehicular 3D action game by Wings Simulations. This v2 demo contains a large number of crash fixes, server browser enhancements, gameplay balance tweaks, bug fixes, and other improvements as detailed in the accompanying release notes.

A playable demo for Rise of Nations: Thrones & Patriots is now available, allowing you try out the imminent real-time strategy expansion pack by Big Huge Games. This demo contains four nations (including the new Persians), a tutorial, a sample of the Alexander the Great campaign, and three different random map types.

Thanks to Mertsch in our forum for the heads up! that Fragmaster has quit as site director of PlanetHalfLife.

Now that I'm leaving PlanetHalfLife and resigning as Site Director, I'd like to be a drama queen, burn a bridge or two, and possibly maybe explain a few things. I apologize in advance the incoherence of this babbling, but it's not like you're being forced to read this crap.

GamesIndustry.biz reports that the Xbox version of Doom III currently in development at Vicarious Visions will feature co-operative online play via Xbox Live, according to word coming out of an Activision press event in California today.

EA Games today released a new video clip for the upcoming release of The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth. The video is titled, "Inside the Battle: Unit Emotion" and the game producer goes in to detail about how emotions of creatures and humans help bring the game to life. For example, in traditional RTS's (Real-Time Strategy) if you direct your army to kill the enemy, they will do just that and nothing more. However, when you add "Emotion" to the army and creatures like in EA's Battle for Middle-Earth, your army will make a lot of noise and entice the enemy before attacking. After the enemy has been killed, your army will yell and scream and celebrate their victory. Read More...

GameSpy have fired off a few questions to Electronic Arts' Scott Evans, regarding their upcoming multiplayer shooter, Battlefield 2.

We've known for some time that Battlefield Vietnam wouldn't be the last game in EA and DICE's popular multiplayer franchise -- the only question has been when they'd get around to announcing what else they've been working on.

PC.IGN reports that Xbox users can take the game for a spin before spending cash at the local games retailer. LucasArts announced today they will bundle a demo and trailer of Star Wars: Battlefront with the Star Wars Trilogy DVD set, coming to stores September 21, 2004.

Activision has released the new patch for Call of Duty to bring the World War II first-person shooter by Infinity Ward to version 1.4. This release includes one new multiplayer map called Stalingrad (in addition to the two maps from v1.3), the long-awaited Punkbuster anti-cheat support, and a handful of multiplayer tweaks and bug fixes.

Battle Field 1942 Mod: The Galactic Conquest 0.3 patch is out! The 83MB patch adds GC_MonCal map and static object resources, E-Wing Fighter Craft, Imperial Wave Skimmer, Rebel Amphibian, Refitted Rebel Gunship, R2-D2 Ground Unit, Imperial Landing Craft, Mon Cal player model and fixes many bugs. ...Galactic Conquest places you on the ice planet Hoth in an epic battle of survival from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. Blaze over the snow in speeders, man the anti-personnel cannons, and ready those blasters for a long battle between the Empire and Rebel forces

The Euro 2004 demo is now available, allowing you to play Portugal, England or France in a friendly. The download is a 98 megabyte file.

VGPro reports that in an interview with gaming magazine Polygon, Gabe Newell of Valve indicated that Half Life 2 might not make its 2004 release date?

Here's a Far Cry tweak guide! That's well worth checking out? posted over at TweakGuides.

Far Cry is a game I'd heard little about until the Far Cry Demo was suddenly released in late January 2004. When I played the demo my first reaction was quite simply "Wow!". Here was a game which had crept up on me without any warning and gave me my first taste of the next generation of gaming. I spent hours cleaning the drool off my keyboard.

The beta version of the upcoming Warcraft III patch is now available. This patch will add many new features to Warcraft III, including an updated matching system, completely anonymous free-for-all play, clan ladders (The Frozen Throne only), improved player and clan profiles, and a new Neutral Hero ? the Goblin Tinker

Capcom have released the first ever footage of Resident Evil Outbreak: File 2 on their Japanese website.

Gamer's Hell reports that Gamestar.hu send us two movies showcasing their trip to Chernobyl and to GSC Game World's office, the developers of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow Of Chernobyl. The game will be released by THQ in Q2 2004.

ToCA Race Driver 2: the Ultimate Racing Simulator has now been released to offer another opportunity to take this modern racing simulation by Codemasters for a spin. This demo contains the Oulton Park Short track that's drivable on LAN and Internet in a vintage Formula Ford.