"We do view Google more and more as a competitor. We believe that we can provide consumers with a better product and a better user experience. That's something that we're actively looking at doing," Bob Visse, director of marketing for Microsoft's MSN Internet services division, said.

You can create your own character who is a student at the Jedi Academy training to become a Jedi Knight, so you're going to work with Kyle and Luke. As you saw in Episode 1, the Jedi train by going out in the field, with more experienced Jedi, and working various missions. That's the loose structure of what the player is going to be doing. All these missions form a larger story that will flow through the entire game.

We will be inviting 5000 new people by Friday (go easy on those F5 keys). The NDA is still in place. We’ll let you know when it has been lifted. We will be adding more people next week and the week after. We would like to ramp up to 50,000 by early May. The process is mostly random, but we will still hand pick people who we think would make good testers from these forums. We do not have an official release date yet, but will inform you as soon as we do. (We would like to get little bit into Beta 3 first so we can be confident of any date we give you).

Numerous additional accounts and CD keys were tied to the use of a hack or cheat program while playing Warcraft III or Diablo II on Battle.net. In keeping with our aggressive stance against hacks and cheats, we have permanently closed over 12,000 Warcraft III accounts and over 131,000 Diablo II accounts. We have also banned over 7,000 CD keys from ladder play for one month and banned over 1,000 Warcraft III CD keys from ladder play permanently. Please note that repeat offenders risk having their CD keys disabled, which results in permanent removal from Battle.net for their copies of Warcraft III or Diablo II.

Featuring an original storyline written exclusively for Activision by comics’ industry legend Larry Hama, and featuring the voices of Mark Hamill and Patrick Stewart, X-Men: Wolverine’s Revenge allows players to assume the role of Wolverine, everyone’s favorite X-Men tough guy. In the game, X-Men: Wolverine s Revenge For The PlayStation 2, Xbox and Nintendo GameCube Wolverine faces a race against time to find an antidote to the viral time bomb that’s just been discovered in his system. With only 48 hours to live, Wolverine returns to the clandestine Department H facility deep in the Canadian wilderness, to uncover the terrible secrets behind the Weapon X laboratory and the experiments that turned the mutant hero into a precision killing machine.

Must have a proven track record and really be innovative and imaginative.

The company has already developed innovative award winning and hugely successful titles in the past and is steadily becoming a very well respect company within its field.

No Kyle, you can choose between several of his students to play [among them a Twi'lek]

Non-linear levels - pick your own missions

bigger battles [several screenies where 6-7 jedi let it loose]

More emphasis on the saber

Screenshots, courtesy of JediKnightII.net

Fall 2003 Release, currently. Don't expect this game until Early spring looking at LA current track record ;)

• The Great Escape Game Trailer
• Airport Tycoon 2 Demo (heh, just the other day I was asking Term why noone had ever made an airport sim!)
• Fighter Ace 3.5 Demo.

"The Government has put forward amendments that would make it easier to prove ownership of software copyright, has provided for additional damages for flagrant copyright violation, and has increased the jurisdiction of the Federal Magistrates Service with regard to copyright matters."

Battlefield Command (BC) is a tactical real time strategy game form the Russian developer 1c and will launch worldwide in spring 2004. It will be available on PC format only.



It is an incredibly detailed game which covers the majority of key battles in Europe from the invasion of Poland and France in 1939-40 through to the war on the Eastern front and the D-Day landings to the fall of Germany in 1945. Players can choose to either play as Allied or Axis armies chosen from 10 nationalities including American, British, Russian, French and German.