FilePlanet have thrown up the multiplayer demo of Midnight Club II for FilePlanet and Founders' Club subscribers. The demo includes 3 vehicles, the popular L.A. level and 4 modes of play. Online play is available for up to 8 players.

Xbox-linux.sourceforge.net reports that the 007:AUF save game hack was released on March-29-03, to a lot of skepticism, mostly due to the proximity to April Fools day! It turned out that the hack was real, and now the full details of how it works are being revealed. The author of the hack never explained how it worked, and some effort was made to make reverse engineering it difficult. Nevertheless, after some quick analysis, it was figured out within a few days of being released.

Here's two new mods that where released for UT2003!

Conquest Marines 2003 Faceoff

Tenebrae is a modification of the quake source that adds stencil shadows and per pixel lights to quake. Stencil shadows allow for realistic shadow effects on every object in the game world. Per pixel lighting allows you to have fine surface details correctly lit. These are essentially the same algorithms as used by the new Doom game.

Gamershell.com reports that after almost half a year of closed beta testing the Steam Beta is entering its final phase, and is now open to the public (again). To enter this beta, simply download and run the 500K installer. Steam, a broadband platform for the delivery and management of digital content, currently features a variety of Valve games including Counter-Strike 1.6, which introduces the new riot shield, the official CS bot and more. Valve is also planning to deliver Half-Life 2 over the Steam technology this year.

Here's it is one of the best free movies I've seen in a while. Anachronox is back and doing the rounds! Grab it while you can.

Anachronox: The Movie is a tour-de-force. One of the finest Machinima films produced to date, and probably the most accomplished Machinima feature to date. Hell, it managed to hold two over-worked jury members in a room for two and a half hours before the MFF 2002 - what more can we say?

According to a story in today's Variety, Valve has been actively talking with Hollywood studios about a Half-Life feature movie project. The new movie talks are timed to follow up on all the attention Half-Life 2 received at E3 2003, and Valve's Doug Lombardi is quoted as saying that Valve is looking to for a project that would extend the elements of the game and broaden the franchise's audience. The talks are at an early stage and no details are available. The Unreal technology website now offers an updated DefOpenAL32.dll for UT2003 version 2225. The update fixes spatialization issues with the default software mixer.

Fusion Pack v11 incorporates many new visual features that were lacking in previous versions of the pack. With the addition of many 2D graphical changes, such as HUD improvements and a full set of revamped weapon sprites, Fusion Pack v11 builds upon previous versions to make it a truly top quality pack in every respect. In addition to updating the 2D graphics also some entirely new models to the weapons arsenal are included. Fusion Pack v11 is also the first version to fully support Counter-Strike MOD and Retail users.

The Jungle Warfare mod for Unreal Tournament 2003 is now out. Click on the link for more info and the whopping 294 MB download.

Electronic Arts sends along a new map for Battlefield 1942, expanding the multiplayer 3D action game by Digital Illusions with the Battle of Britain. As usual, the map comes in client and standalone server variants, it offers new Junkers Ju88 (on the German side) and Radar Tower (English side) weapons. This map requires version 1.4 of the full game.

Activision has released the map editing tools for Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, the free team-based multiplayer first-person shooter by Splash Damage. This GtkRadiant-ET package contains everything needed to create new maps and content for the game, but is not supported by Splash Damage, id Software or Activision.

I was just over at Doomvision when I noticed some new DOOM III screenshots and a scan from this months PCGamer where they chat with ID's Tim Willits about how DOOM III is developing. Willits also comfirms the 4 man mutli-player mode "Last Man Standing" and Deathmatch! Preliminary DOOM III system requirements have been posted by some think tanks and finally they say that the DOOM III demo might be out some time in August (Quakecon?).

The folks at Brat Designs have been very busy fine tuning BREED. Though they're still working on the game's multiplayer mode, most of the models have already been refurbished. But that's not all: BREED now features Nvidia's enhanced rendering technology with special CG-shaders that are being used for the new water shader in the game. There are a bunch of new screenshots of how this looks, so check out the official homepage for some fabulous eye candy! Oh my dear ATI, where art thou?

This 500 MB, 15-minute video is an amazing demonstration of Full Spectrum Warrior, Pandemic's upcoming squad-based tactical action game that was based on a training tool developed for the U.S. Army.

Majesco has released the first trailer for Advent Rising, showcasing the action/adventure title with CGI scenes and narration.

A cool player model rendered after Agent Smith from The Matrix movies is now available.

Gameguru Mania has a couple of good looking screenshots for you to drool at.

GGmania.com reports that Activision announced that a second extra multiplayer map for the recent Xbox first person shooter Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Tides of War can now be unlocked via signing onto Xbox Live.

In this new Battlefield 1942 map, German forces must disable four RAF radar towers as well as the heavily-protected Harwich Weapons Factory on the coast of England. If the British can defend these targets until the German tickets run out, they can wrest victory from the jaws of defeat. With one new vehicle and one new weapon entering the fray, the Battle of Britain is set to be Battlefield 1942's fiercest campaign yet.

BGMod.com reports that they're proud to give you all the 1.2 Windows release. The group worked hard for 3 months on this patch and hopes you enjoy it a lot. The exploiting problems of 1.1 are gone. New maps have arrived. More flexibility for the mappers, new textures, new map models, new scoring systems. The list goes on. This release marks the last major release using classes. The next major release will contain all new weapons and uniform selections.