True Crime 2: New York City is scheduled to be released during the first half of 2006. This game follows on the heels of a “good guy” Grand Theft Auto style third person action game. True Crime 2 will be distributed by German game publisher DTP.

Gamespot has posted an interview with the creative director of Heroes of Might an Magic V. After the fallout of 3DO, a new team created Heroes V. We have been promised that Heroes V will still keep the fundamental gameplay of its predecessors.

Unbelievable, it doesn’t seem that long ago that I was paging through a preview of Ultima Online in PC Gamer magazine almost unable to believe what I was reading. Launching in 1997, Ultima Online is over 8 years old now. With that comes a new edition of the game, Ultima Online: The 8th Age.

When you purchase The 8th Age your recieve an advanced character, 6th character slot, blue soulstone, all six expansion packs, one of eight special items, and 45 days of play free.

A new update to Star Wars Galaxies makes it much easier to become a Jedi. Before it took months of long, hard play to unlock the class. Now its available when you create a new character. Star Wars Galaxies is changing amid fierce competition from other MMORPGs. Perhaps Sony is getting the drift that new players want a game that is fun, not a job. Of course, this is bad news for hardcore Star Wars gamers.

If you want to be Neo and play all the great scenes from the Matrix trilogy, then you might want to check out The Matrix Path of Neo. Don’t want to play a game that you know how it ends? The Path of Neo doesn’t end how you think. According to an exec at Atari the game features “never-before-seen story responses and a completely new Matrix ending written and directed by the Wachowski brothers.”

Voodoo Extreme just posted a list of the top 20 games on GameSpy

1. Half Life
2. Half Life 2
3. Battlefield 2
4. Call of Duty
5. Unreal Tournament 2004

Half Life has been regining champ and im sure CounterStrike has had a direct impact on its success. Its predecessor, Half Life 2, follows next in second place. At over 50,000 servers, Valve is dominating the FPS online game industry and taking no prisoners.

If this wasn’t true I’d still be laughing. But it is. Perhaps this will prove once and for all its the anti-gamers that are the ones that don’t have their heads screwed on straight.

GameIndustry.biz is reporting that the company representing Rockstar has filed a motion to have flagrant self-promoter and game basher lawyer Jack Thompson removed from the case and be disbarred due to threats through press releases.

Anti-videogame campaigner Jack Thompson has appeared in court to defend his right to practice law in Alabama, following accusations that he violated legal ethics ahead of a civil case against companies involved in creating and selling Grand Theft Auto.

Update: Thompson has voluntarily withdrawn himself from the case.

The new NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS was released today just in time for the holiday season. At a price tag of only $249 USD, this new video card pushes out high-end performance at midrange cost.

Ujesh Desai stated, “Graphics cards based on GeForce 6800 GS GPUs deliver the 3D eye-candy with the necessary performance for total gaming immersion, but do so at a new, lower price point.” Which means yes, you’ll be able to play Quake 4.

Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War is a tactical real time strategy game that looks a lot like Rome: Total War, but has a unique twist — you can control an individual hero. IGN has posted a video preview of this amazing looking war game. One of the coolest, and perhaps most unique elements of Rise & Fall is naval battles. Catapults, ramming, man to man combat, and sinking ships — its all here. I can’t wait for this game to be released.

Valve has released an impressive new screenshot from the upcoming de_nuke map with a guerilla and GIGN player models. Source will also be seeing HDR - High Dynamic Range lighting - which is used in Lost Coast and Day of Defeat Source. Valve says that the new map should out in a few weeks shortly followed by a release of the new player models. What I have to say about all of this: its about time!