JoWood has released the firtst patch for Nival Interactive's expansion pack Silent Storm: Sentinels. This update brings the UK edition of your retail game to v1.1 and addresses the usual game crashes, bug fixes, balance tweaks, interface improvements, and so forth. Read more for detailed fix list and download links ...

Sony Online Entertainment today announced that it has shipped PlanetSide: Aftershock, the definitive PlanetSide collection. Featuring PlanetSide (the original game that defined the massively-multiplayer online action genre), the PlanetSide: Core Combat expansion pack, and the new BattleFrame Robotics (BFRs) action pack, PlanetSide: Aftershock is the ultimate adrenaline rush for any online action enthusiast.

Boiling Point: Road to Hell, previously known as Xenus, will combine intense armed combat with exploration and interaction with a vast and seamless open-ended gaming world. Boiling Point: Road to Hell is in development by Ukrainian developer Deep Shadows and is scheduled for release in Spring 2005.

Capcom Fighting Evolution features a diverse cast of characters as well as additional hidden characters from each of the following titles: Street Fighter II, DarkStalkers, Street Fighter III, Red Earth and Street Fighter Alpha.

Using proprietary methodology, Nielsen Entertainment and Activision will conduct a PC-based test to measure in-game product placement among a representative sample of active video game households. The test will incorporate a watermark - an inaudible audio code - that will identify how long and how often players are exposed to various products.

Polished screen shots with an imminent release? No... far from it! Vulcan Software are talking rough textures, unfinished models, sparse worlds, no apparent game play or A.I. and a whole heap of physics and collision technology that needs thoroughly testing on loads of graphics cards and computer configurations

Electronic Arts today announced that it has launched a web portal dedicated to its upcoming games for the Sony PSP handheld videogame system. Starting today, players worldwide can learn about EA’s launch line-up, game features and gain insight from the development team by visiting www.psp.ea.com.

Namco announced today it has selected “Blurry” from Geffen recording artist Puddle of Mudd to serve as the title track for 'Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War', the company’s next iteration in its premier aerial combat series of games.

Another day, another batch of game trailers were released. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are trailers for :

• Auto Assault - Trailer
• Universal Combat: Hostile Intent - Trailer
• Miami Vice - Teaser Trailer
• Darkwatch - Gameplay Trailer
• Axis And Allies - "Making Of" Part 3 Trailer

Wish's highly-scalable server cluster infrastructure allows the game to support tens of thousands of simultaneous players in a single shared world. Wish is the first massively multi player online role playing game that truly tells a story, and lets player actions have lasting implications on the world. Yet more screens ...