Rockstar Games and Interscope Records, a part of Universal Music Group, proudly announce the details of the 8-CD box set soundtrack to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the latest installment in the best-selling Grand Theft Auto franchise. The box set is scheduled for release on December 7th, 2004 in North America and December 6th, 2004 throughout Europe.

GMX Media today announcing that they will be publishing the ground breaking military Real Time Strategy game Will of Steel for PC. The game is to be launched across the UK in the Q4 2004. Read more for details, screens ...

Oddworld Stranger's Wrath combines first and third-person gameplay with familiar Oddworld elements and an all-new engine to deliver a unique gameplay experience. Set to award-winning visuals, players will be moved by the complex and inspiring story as the Stranger comes to grips with his true nature in the hunt for the ultimate bounty.

Konami today announced that King Arthur for the PS2, Xbox and GameCube has shipped to retail stores nationwide. Developed by Krome Studios PTY, Ltd., and based on the true story behind the tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, players will relive the legendary action as they wield Excalibur and battle on horseback.

Cossacks - Napoleonic Wars returns one of the most successful strategy games of the past years to the real-time battlefield - with reinforcements: Meet Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France and probably the most ingenious strategist in European history! Enter the battle on the side of one of 10 great European nations and rewrite European history in six exciting campaigns.

Microsoft has issued a new patch for Gearbox/Bungie's first person shooter Halo: Combat Evolved. This upgrade brings your Halo retail to v1.06 and addresses a rare crash bug that could occur if a malicious individual (hacker) purposely imitates a game server and sends invalid data to clients who try to browse the server list (thanks Joe). Read more for details and download links ...

THQ today announced that it has acquired Blue Tongue Entertainment Limited. The Australia-based studio recently developed THQ's Polar Express for the PS2, PC and Gamecube, and is currently developing two cross-platform releases for late 2005.

id Software released an updated version of SDK for their sci-fi FPS DOOM 3, allowing the mod community out there to go to town and bring on the mods. This v1.1 SDK adds the promised vehicle support as well as a few bug fixes over the previous version (thanks 3DGamers). Read more for download links ...

Fire Department 2 (known in the US as Fire Captain: Bay Area Inferno) will feature a lot of improvements and new features such as multiplayer capabilities, better AI, control over a larger amount of units, improved graphics, five campaigns, and, of course, more realism. Pointsoft has released a demo featuring the 'Das Einkaufszentrum' mission from the first campaign (thanks Demonews.de). Read more for download links ...

Parkan II is a 3D space simulator combined with first person action planet side. In the game players will get an opportunity to explore a vast universe, visit different planets, their satellites, huge space stations and immense space destroyers.