SCRAPLAND is an action game. In third-person, the player controls D-Tritus when he goes on foot and his gunship when he pilots on Chimera streets. The player, by hacking into the GDB, can transform himself into 15 different characters, acquiring then the special ability of every one of them. The player can also drive any gunship he finds and can create his own collection of unique gunships, freely combining pieces he finds aboard the ship.

Vivendi has released a beta version of the development kit for Irrational Games' sci-fi FPS Tribes: Vengeance. Included in this kit is source code that can be used to compile of all of the scripts used in Tribes: Vengeance. You can modify, extend and reference these scripts in order to create customizations, mutators and modifications (thanks 3DGamers). Read more for download links ...

Trauma Studios might no longer be on the project since they got bought by DICE, but that does not mean the end of the BF1942 'Desert Combat' mod. A new Desert Combat Final client and win32/Linux server files are now available offering tons of game balacing, bug fixes, new/updated sound/texture, and several new vehicles. Read more for download links and get those servers ready!

Star Wolves is a 3D space RPG with strategy elements. The game thrusts players into a world of freelance space hunters in the XXI-XXII Century A.D. during a time of political crisis for the all-powerful Empire and the three mega-corporations that control all the known worlds.

Space Rangers 2 is a mix of intense space RPG laced with 3D RTS action planetside. 200 years after the first chapter of Space Rangers, a new, even more dangerous threat arises in the galaxy. A key planet in producing war androids has become self-aware with their own intellect and force of will, bent on conquering the galaxy one planet at a time.

Zuzzexx has put up the product page for FOC Development Group/Reality Pump Studios' RTS World War II: Panzer Claws II revealing info & screens from. 'Panzer Claws II' depicts the struggles of armoured and mechanized units in a World War II scenario. All missions take place in Europe between 1941 and 1944. The game spans the German attack on the Soviet Union through to other important battles on the Eastern Front, operations in France and Italy to the German offensive in the Ardennes.

The Adventure Company has released the first patch for Revistronic's adventure game WANTED: A Wild Western Adventure. This update brings your English retail game to v1.1 and addresses a few bugs and video card incompatibilites (thanks 3DGamers). Read more for details fix list and download links ...

After UbiSoft's last Far Cry v1.2 patch snafu, UbiSoft's Kurtis Buckmaster has posted a message in the official UbiSoft forums about the upcoming v1.3 patch. I guess that means they won't bother with the previous version anymore and just move on to the next. No specific release date has been mentioned, but it is lead to believe it will be available in the next 2 weeks. Read more for a detailed fix list.

Set in the not too distant future, Roll Call follows a year in the life of Nick Mason, returning from military service to find his home city ravaged by gang warfare. He is quickly enlisted into the ranks of the newly formed G18 Counter Gang Division; an elite enforcement unit granted special emergency powers over all other public services and tasked with securing the city and its citizens at any cost.

Blizzard has released yet another new Warcraft III map, this time called "Echo Isles"... Map info: "Though these islands are surrounded by deep and treacherous waters, they have seen little peace. Many of the creatures dwelling here are refugees from the war. They have nothing left to lose. Don't expect a warm welcome." This is a Small map and the suggested no. of players is 1v1. It is based on the "Lordaeron Summer" tileset. Go download it here!