Computer and Video Games have thrown up their 11 page Half-Life 2 preview. This is the online version of the print preview that appeared in the recent issue of PC Zone UK magazine.

This is it. This is the day you've been waiting for. For four and a half years you've wondered, you've speculated, you've guessed. You've talked about its existence endlessly with friends, family, strangers, your pet dog and even Rodney, your hamster. But today, all that will come to an end. Because today is the day you find out all about the game which every gamer has wanted to hear about more than any other PC title in history. No more speculation. No more hoping. It's time for your questions to be answered.

GamingNEXT has posted their interview with Valve Software's Managing Director and head of the Half Life 2 project Gabe Newell! It goes about the Source engine, via the Steam distribution system and more. Here's a snip:

GamingNEXT - After all of the movies, both engine/tech oriented and pure gameplay, that came from E3 it's safe to say that all of the gaming world is now clamoring for Half-Life 2. Can you tell us a bit about the technology used to power HL2?

Cameron Wilmot at TweakTown sends word that Koroush PersianImmortal Ghazi has updated his America's Army Tweak Guide to reflect the changes in the newest patch, version 1.7. Make sure you stop by and check it out!

Here's a roundup of the latest E3 2003 games movies for:

Neuro Xenus Chaser Multiplayer Video Broken Sword 3

3DGamers.com reports that a new patch for Metal Gear Solid 2 Substance is now available, upgrading the third-person stealthy action game by Konami to version 2.0. This release insures that "Captions are now displayed in the appropriate language for European users" along with the Radeon fixes of the previous patch, but if you already installed that version 1.01 you'll need to reinstall the whole game before applying v2.0.

The long-awaited playable demo for Breed, the upcoming sci-fi first-person shooter by Brat Designs and CDV, is now available after previously appearing on a magazine cover-disk. This single-player beta demo contains a tutorial and one mission called 'Contact'.

Here's a roundup of the latest games demo's to have hit the web!

Smash Up Derby Demo Humvee Assault Demo Medal Of Honor Allied Assault Deluxe Edition Multiplayer Demo AMP II v1.1 Demo Neighbours From Hell Demo Heaven & Hell Demo

Ggmania.com reports that Atari and Digital Extremes send along word that the Unreal Championship auto-update (i.e. Patch) will be available for download through Xbox Live today, May 22.

Gamers Hell have just uploaded the Robocop demo to their servers ready for download!

Titus Interactive has released a playable demo of Robocop, allowing you to try out this just released FPS by Titus Interactive Studio. With this demo, "you'll be able to plunge into one level of the universe of Robocop" - enjoy another Gamer's Hell premiere.

Here's a roundup of the latest E3 2003 games movies for:

Atlantica Resident Evil Outbreak Sega E3 2003 Trailers Ghosthunter

Planet Halflife.com has posted a news tidbit that Valve Software's Erik Johnson has sent word they will be releasing an SDK before the release of their upcoming first person shooter, Half-Life 2.

And Shacknews has had a chat with Gabe Newell and Yahn Bernier from Valve about the multiplayer physics in Half-Life 2.

Just spotted this at Planetunreal.com:

The The Unreal Technology Page has a new RAD Pixomatic-based software renderer for UT2003. It's designed for those of you with low resolutions and crappy PC's.

Tiscali.Games have posted the E3 2003 Unreal Tournament 2004 Trailer coming in at 7,5 MB! Please note their server is running slow.

This is just a rumour at the moment but I've had a few emails says that a technology demo for Half Life 2 has leaked to the web. I am off to do some investigation! Looks like another head will roll if this is true.

Update: Well I've found some links for a supposed Half Life 2 technology demo but as the links are being hit hard I've haven't been able to download the demo! So we can not confirm anything yet! But I did get an email from someone claiming to be from Valve! The short of it: don't post links or we'll sue your ass. Since HL2 is intellectual property of Valve Software we will not post any links to any source - regardless if this rumour is true or not. Any comments containing links or instructions will be deleted.

Here's a roundup of the latest E3 2003 games movies for:

Resident Evil Outbreak They Came From Hollywood Shade Counter Strike (Xbox)

Just got word that the Soldier of Fortune II: International Crime Syndicate's multiplayer mod is out! ...... I.C.S. is `the` must have `Balls-To-The-Walls` mod for Soldier Of Fortune II, with all new commercial quality content and improvements; not just a mod, I.C.S. is a better way to play and enjoy SOF2!

ICS enhances the familiar SOF II 'action' experience with a new theme, expanded scenarios, game-modes, commercial quality level and sound design, and all new feature content. Smoothing out SOF II's rough edges ICS offers a feature rich higher quality game.

Here's a roundup of the latest E3 2003 games movies for:

Doom 3 E3 2003 full trailer Terminator 3 Beyond Good and Evil Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

FilePlanet has posted a Half-Life 2 hi-res QuickTime video which runs for 25 minutes and requires a 500 MB download! It's also on Irc, If you find a link post the link in comments.

They also have a 60MB video of DOOM 3! I haven't downloaded this, so I don't know if it's an old Doom 3 movie or a new one.

Once again persuing the previous release, a new patch for Enter the Matrix is available to bring the 3D action game by Shiny Entertainment to version 1.52. This time details on the new release are available, and they include graphics improvements, a new options screen, EAX support, and the ability to Alt-Tab out of the game. Download

Gamers Hell reports that Rockstar Games has issued the first patch for the PC version of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, bringing it to version 1.1. There aren't much details about the changes it makes, but this patch is supposed to "fix graphic corruption problems".