Liquid Entertainment has recently released a new movie trailer of Battle Realms (Flash required), showing off their upcoming 3D real-time strategy game set in medieval Asia. To download the 8.9 MB movie you first need to select the Dragon Clan entry from the snazzy scroll bar in the Explore section, and this movie features over two minutes of in-game and concept footage in AVI format illustrating, naturally, the Dragon Clan in the game.

There's a Dark Age of Camelot Interview on Voodoo Extreme talking with Mark Jacobs and Matt Firor of Mythic Entertainment about Dark Age of Camelot, their upcoming MMORPG. The conversation is illustrated by a batch of screenshots, and offers both introductory information and more elaborate detail for those already familiar with some of what's planned for DAoC.

There's a Galactic Civilizations First Look and Interview on Gamers Pulse with a brief preview of the upcoming 4X space game based on a bygone OS/2 game of the same name, along with a conversation with designer Brad Wardell, who discusses the reasons for the remake, along with some of the details of what the game will include and how game play will be handled. Also included are some Galactic Civilizations screenshots.

AvPNews.com provides some welcome news on this quiet Sunday by posting a another batch of 21 new Aliens Versus Predator 2 screenshots, starting with the center image on this page, as well as a gallery of 21 concept images. As before, some of the screenshots have appeared in print magazines (and some of the concept art online too), but all offer more illustration of the second game, currently developed by Monolith, in the three-class first-person shooter series from Fox Interactive.

The first installment in the Dungeon Siege Developer Diary on PlanetGameSpy.Com is online, penned by Gas Powered Games founder Chris Taylor himself. In a departure from many recent diary entries we've seen that don't actually describe development of their related games, this article offers details on what they've been up to lately as progress continues on Dungeon Siege, their upcoming RPG. Included are descriptions of the work currently being done to add content to the game for its retail release, while they simultaneously polish up the build that they are bringing along to show off at E3.

• Battlecruiser Millennium
  There are a bunch of new Battlecruiser Millennium screenshots on the Galcom site showing off more of the game's upcoming space-based action in 1024x768 resolution, in 32-bit color.
• Fallen Age
  There are some Fallen Age screenshots on Beta Bites taken from the beta testing of this upcoming project they describe as a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game as well as a Real Time Strategy and Turn Based Simulation Game (MMORTSSRPG).
• Neocron
  Neocron.net has three new screenshots up from Neocron, their namesake game, while Neocron Stratics has likewise posted a new shot of their own from this upcoming MMORPG from Reakktor Media.
• HoMM4
  There's a large batch of Heroes of Might and Magic IV images on FREELANCER including lots of renderings, as well as some in-game screenshots.

3DActionPlanet previews Aliens versus Predator 2 in a hands-off look at the upcoming sequel to Fox Interactive's three-class first-person shooter currently under construction at Monolith. There are no new screenshots included, nor any significant new details to report for that matter, but the article does summarize a good deal of what's currently known about the project.

• New Raid On Tweaker
  Humus' Radeon page has a new version 5.1 of the Raid On tweaker utility for Radeon-based accelerators. Thanks Savage News.
• New Motherboard Monitor
  A new version 5.06 of the Motherboard Monitor utility is now available.
• P4 CPU Throttling?
  Hardware-Unlimited's AMD Athlon 1.33Ghz DDR Review offers some interesting speculation that some slowdowns they've seen in Quake III Arena benchmarking on Pentium 4 systems may be due to software and/or hardware CPU throttling.
• Hot CPU Tester
  The OpusWare website has a new version 2.0 of the Hot CPU Tester utility.

The FAKK2 Multiplayer Beta website has a new version 0.3 of this modification, which, as its fairly self-explanatory name suggests, adds multiplayer play to Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.2, Ritual Entertainment's third-person Quake III-engine game that only offers single-player play out of the box. The new release offers new scoreboards, a re-worked menu system, two new player models, and more.

Tweak3D's TRIBES 2 Tweak Guide is online, offering detailed information on configuring the game to help you find your best balance between performance and appearance.

3DActionPlanet's Opera Interview thankfully has nothing to do with Luciano Pavarotti, but rather catches up on the latest from the team behind The Opera, a Half-Life modification. The conversation discusses plans to release the mod, which has been in production for a few years now, in various stages.

A report on Planet Command & Conquer has news that Westwood Studios is preparing to release a beta version of Final Alert 2, a map and mission editor for Red Alert 2 as a free download sometime in the middle of this month.

• Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns on The Mushroom and MoreGaming.
• Original War on Games Domain.
• Star Trek: Away Team on Strategy Gaming Online.
• Tropico on Game Revolution and Future Games Network.

• Abit KT7E motherboard on Overclockers Online.
• Coolerguys Windtunnel Plus case on Cole3D.
• Everglide Mouse Skatez on Hardware Masters.
• Global Win CAK38 CPU cooler on Overclocker Cafe.
• GlobalWin Fop32 CPU cooler on Yoink3D.com.
• Plantronics DSP-500 digital USB headphones on 3d Retreat.
• Visiontek GeForce 3 video card on Amdmb.com.
• Waterblock cooler roundup on TweakTown.

• There's a No "Cheating" Drivers Petition online looking to convince ASUS to do everything in their power to rid the world of their drivers that allow cheating in games (story)...
• The pay as you play servers are up at FraGisM, currently offering Unreal Tournament, with other games planned to follow (presuming the service is used)...
• The Taldren website has been updated with an amusing and startling recap of a recent episode where company CEO Erik Bethke followed up on a promise to "eat dirt" (literally) if their patch for Starfleet Command Volume II missed its planned release date, which it did. Pictures are included (don't try this at home kids). Thanks Bradley W. Schenck...
• The E3 scavenger hunt page on rasta bbq network is funny, but probably quite playable too... if you are attending the show, print out a copy and see how you score...

You wake up. The room is spinning gently around your head. Or at least it would be if you could see it, which you can't.

It is pitch black.

I'm sure I'm not alone in still feeling shocked over the death of Douglas Adams. A reader by the evil nickname of Satan thought to pass along a link to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy game, which is the complete text-based Infocom game in online form (Java required), which, in a bit of coincidence, I just referenced the other day. Just remember... don't panic.

Link of the Day: Roshambot. In case playing the Guide game is too frustrating, here's a simple online version of rock, paper, scissors. Thanks SecretAgentMan.
Bonus Link: Geek Test. Something you're even more likely to succeed at if you got housed at rock, paper, scissors. Thanks Ant. Even includes a Douglas Adams-related question.
Story of the Day: FedEx driver arrested for dumping packages (King5.com). Thanks Lawrence Lin. When it positively, absolutely, has to get there overnight (unless we have trouble finding the destination).
Weird Science: Scientists Claim to Revive Alien Bacteria (Discovery Channel). Thanks [MP] Wolverine [MP].