Encore has just let us know that while the majority of the press corps was attending last week's E3, Surreal's action/horror "The Suffering" has quietly gone gold and is expected in stores May 28th. Merely announced a few weeks ago, you can already check our in-house The Suffering preview if you want to find out more about it ...

Today we have more screens for Novalogic's 2004 E3 lineup. Check the following new screens for :

• Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising (PC)
• 'Black Hawk Down' (Xbox)

Ubisoft is committed to offering the best Xbox LIVE experience as possible. Today, the next Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow Auto-Update has been released. A number of features have been improved and a few bugs have been fixed. This Auto-Update will give gamers an even greater pleasure in playing than it already has. Please note that the leaderboards will be cleared next week, once Microsoft's tournament is over. In the coming weeks, new downloadable content will be available that will extend and heighten the Splinter Cell experience. Read more for details on the new features...

Today we have more screens for Namco's 2004 E3 lineup. Check the following new screens for :

• Dead to Rights II (PS2/Xbox)
• Death by Degrees (PS2)
• Time Crisis: Crisis Zone (PS2)
• Tekken 5 (All)
• Tales of Symphonia (NGC)
• Baten Kaitos (NGC)
• Ace Combat 5 (PS2)
• Smash Court Tennis Pro Tournament 2 (PS2)
• I-Ninja (GBA)
• kill.switch (GBA)
• Ms Pac-Man Maze Madness (GBA)
• Pac-Man World (GBA)
• Xenosaga Episode II (PS2)

The game that introduced stealth gameplay is back. Ion Storm has implemented a new 3rd person cinematic action view as well as the classic 1st person perspective from the previous Thief chapters. Breaking and entering, stealing, sabotage, combat, assassination, and setting up ambushes - tasks master thief Garrett is well equipped to perform.

Gathering and TimeGate Studios are pleased to announce that they are accepting applications for a public beta test of their upcoming real-time fantasy strategy game Kohan II: Kings of War. The application process will begin on Tuesday, May 18, 2004 at 12:00 p.m. CST and will close at 12:00 a.m. CST on Monday, May 24th. At the same time, Atari's beta test page also offers you the chance to sign up for another TimeGate Studios title, Axis & Allies, which will start June 1.

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 :

• Playboy: The Mansion - E3 2004 Trailer
• Crash Twinsanity - E3 2004 Trailer
• Spyro: A Hero’s Tale – E3 2004 Trailer
• Men Of Valor - E3 2004 Trailer
• Call Of Duty: United Offensive - E3 2004 Trailer
• The Sims 2 - E3 2004 Trailer
• Bet On Soldier - E3 2004 Trailer
• MoH: Pacific Assault - E3 2004 Trailer
• Dungeon Lords - E3 2004 Trailer
• Chaos League - E3 2004 Trailer
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The story begins as an unidentified paramilitary force infiltrates a multi-billion dollar aerospace compound. The government responds by sending in Special Forces, but loses contact as an eerie signal interrupts radio communications. When the interference subsides moments later, the team has been literally torn apart. As part of a classified strike team created to deal with threats no one else can handle, your mission is simple: Eliminate the intruders at any cost. Determine the origin of the signal. And contain this crisis before it spirals out of control.

Today we have more screens for Midway's 2004 E3 lineup. Check the following new screens for :

• Mortal Kombat: Deception (PS2/Xbox)
• NARC (PS2/Xbox)
• Area 51 (PS2/Xbox)
• Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy (PS2/Xbox)
• Shadow Hearts: Covenant (PS2)
• Midway Arcade Treasures 2 (NGC/PS2/Xbox)

Today we have more screens for Majesco's 2004 E3 lineup. Check the following new screens for :

• BloodRayne 2 (PS2/Xbox/PC)
• Advent Rising (Xbox/PC)
• Ultra Bust-A-Move (Xbox)
• Mighty Beanz Pocket Puzzles (GBA)
• Cartoon Network Block Party (GBA)