There's a new World of Warcraft gameplay movie on World of Warcraft OGaming Forum showing off the Night Elf Priest Elusia. Also, the Captain Blood E3 movie is now available, demonstrating Akella's upcoming seafaring strategy game. The movie is available on 3D Gamers. Finally, There's a listing of Richard Burns Rally movies on Black Hole Motorsports.

The Warlords Battlecry III Website now offers downloads of a new version 1.02 update for various language editions of the fantasy-themed RTS game, though word is the French and German editions of the patch are still undergoing testing. Thanks Frans.

A new Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising patch is now available on the NovaLogic Website. No details are available on this update for NovaLogic's multiplayer first-person shooter, and in a further mystery, the update retains the same version number is its predecessor, though it is a couple of MB larger than the original version 1.1.1.5 patch. The update is mirrored on 3D Gamers.

• Star Wars: KOTOR II - The Sith Lords on the Official Website. Thanks Frans.

Thanks Mike Martinez.

• Solar-Cell Rollout.
• Internet Filters Are [Good] [Bad] [Both] (registration required).
• No trophy for cell phone at Wimbledon. Thanks Ant.
• Does Kazaa matter?
• From a High-Tech System, Low-Fi Music (registration required).
• D.I.Y. Meets N.R.L. (No Record Label) (registration required).
• HEXUS.net's Q&A with ATI's Richard Huddy about Get In The Game.

In conjunction with the Fourth of July, the debut alpha release of the Insurrection 1776 modification for Battlefield Vietnam is now available. Here's the deal: "It features unique 18th-century style warfare, and because there are no full-auto weapons, servers can run with larger amounts of people than standard Battlefield Vietnam servers can normally handle well. The main weapon in this game is the musket, and the variants thereof. They are one-shot muzzle loaders, so you need to make your shots count, or be prepared for melee combat either with your knife or with your bayonet. Melee is far from a rarely-used last resort in Insurrection 1776."

Doomsday HQ now offers a new version 1.8.0 of the Doomsday version of the DOOM engine is now available (thanks Frans). Word is: "As far as I'm concerned, the 1.8.x series will see no new major features. I intend to keep fixing the remaining issues and generally maintaining the codebase, but I want to shift my attention to other projects, such as Doomsday 2.0 (a.k.a. Hawthorn)."

The debut release of the FritzBot for Return to Castle Wolfenstein is now available. Word is: "Fritz bot plays the game mode Capture Point. Design at this stage is still pretty early, but I have released a preview demo demonstrating the work I have done so far. The only map supported in this demo is MP_DESTRUCTION, with more being supported in the future as the mod matures."

• City of Heroes on Worthplaying.
• Perimeter on GameSpy.
• SÖLDNER - Secret Wars on IGN.
• TrackMania on IGN.

• Danger Den TDX Water Block on SystemCooling.

• "Celebrate July 4th with a free wargame! SP CAMO group and Shrapnel Games unite to offer download of SP:WW2 v7!"...
• PureSim Baseball 2004 version 1.2 is now available...
• Battlefield 1942 mods for Macintosh. Thanks Ant...

Happy Independence Day to all you independent types out there. True to the plan, we had our commemoration for the event yesterday, as we went to a cookout. The area we were visiting is as quiet as our own, so not much in the way of explosions was going on, but we remedied that with some fireworks a couple of our mutant crew had acquired. The plan was to keep things quiet, and they picked out things that were more about lights and color than kabooms, as much for the sanity of the assembled pets as anything. Unfortunately some of them turned out to be quite loud nonetheless, causing Hudson the wonder dog in particular to freak out. We decided to try one more for a finale, but the firework that was labeled as producing "flashes of colored light" also turned out to cause the most noise of all, provoking my freaked out dog to wet their floor. All-in-all Huddy had just as good a time as we did, but this certainly ended the evening on a sour note for her. Luckily, as I mentioned, it's quite quiet around here, so we haven't heard any explosions so far, and don't expect much to come.

Anyway, happy fourth, and please be careful with those fireworks... it's all fun until someone loses an eye (or pees on the floor).

Story of the Day:	Lonely women pester Malaysia firemen. Thanks Siew Lyn.
Science!:	Another Mth Bites the Dust.
Media of the Day:	Recliner of Rage. Thanks TangledThorns.
Follow-ups:	Photos of a Saturn Moon Both Tantalize and Confuse (registration required).
	Thanks Mike Martinez