Playnet and Strategy First announced today that they are extending the free play time for WWII Online through January 31st, 2002 for all former account holders.

Serving up now are some random screens from Jowood's upcoming business sim "Far West" (expected release date June) and their tactical action adventure Conseal (expected later this summer). Build ranches, raise catle or shoot people .. Though decision ;)

BioWare and Interplay have reached a settlement ending the dispute between the companies. Per the agreement, Neverwinter Nights, developed by BioWare, will be published by Infogrames worldwide subject to certain pre-existing Interplay licenses. In addition other matters have been resolved to both parties’ mutual satisfaction.

For all the CS fans out there its a known fact that cheaters are slowly but surely killing the most popular online game ever. Ever since "punkbuster" seized releasing their public tool it has only gotten worse. Gamespy has put up an interesting article with Valve's Erik Johnson that should be read by all CS players ... Check it OUT!

Sierra sends word that the new/official site for Papyrus' upcoming NASCAR Racing 2002 Season is now live. It has a link to the demo and a bunch of screenshots to keep you happy untill it arrives in stores (which ought to be SOON).

Patrician II from Strategy First (Developed by German Ascaron Software) sails the high seas! Claiming to be an innovative game in the RTS genre we decided to check if the ship stays afloat or sinks to the bottom of the ocean. Find out if we needed a life jacket or not.

A few months ago we brought you some early screens of Freedom Games's upcoming 3-D tactical-strategy wargame GI Combat. Today we bring you some more up to date screens showing you they have been hard at work developing the good and its looking good! Seems like WW II based games pop up all over the place .. and we sure do NOT mind!

Strategy First is pleased to announce that their highly anticipated Disciples II: Dark Prophecy has shipped and will be available in stores nationwide in the days to come.

Strategy First Inc. is pleased to announce that it will be participating in the 2002 Milia Expo, held February 5th-8th in Cannes, France.

Earlier today we announced that Infogrames is developing Terminator: Dawn of Fate and is expecting to release the Playstation2 and Xbox version somewhere this summer (Q3 2002). We previously had some PS2 screens and now we bring you a few Xbox shots ... Now all we need is Arnold and T3 ! He IS back!