In Rag Doll Kung Fu you act as a puppeteer in a martial arts world, but that doesn't really describe what this game is about. With most games we would use this space to describe what its like to play, but in this case we don't think it's possible -- you'll just have to watch the gameplay trailer to understand. In short, it's all about Chi power.

• Quakecon 2005 id Software Keynote Coverage: Carmack Talks.
• Shacknews - Stubbs the Zombie at QuakeCon.
• IGN's Quake 4 Preview and Serious Sam II Preview.
• Legit Reviews - Quakecon 2005 Day 1.
• Gamecloud - QuakeCon Doom Movie Panel Report.
• Head shaving and the Bass-O-Matic at QuakeCon.

• F.E.A.R. on GameSpot.
• L.A. Rush on IGN.
• Live for Speed S2 Alpha on SimHQ.
• The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II on GameSpot.
• Prey on IGN.
• Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War on GameSpot.
• The Suffering: Ties that Bind on GameSpot and IGN.

• Dreamlords on the Official Website. Thanks Frans.
• Hammer & Sickle on RPG Vault.
• rFactor on SimRacingWorld.

• The Hidden Boot Code of the Xbox.
• New Outrun Confirmed! Xbox 360 Offering Mooted!
• Possession Xbox 360 Screenshots and Details.
• Fresh Screens Resident Evil 4 on PlayStation 2 Shines.
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• NBA Live Set For Japan.
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• Name Gamepark's latest handheld.
• Did Microsoft Invent The iPod?

• AnandTech: Athlon 64 X2 New Memory Dividers and Multitasking Performance.
• Intel 'preps' Pentium 4 6xx price cuts.
• Intel to ship Xeon 5000 dual-cores this year?
• Eavesdropping on e-mail, phone calls.
• Microsoft the darling of US media coverage.
• Google pauses library project. Shhhhhhhh!
• Gaim version 1.50 is now available. Thanks Ant.
• The Rock Direct mobile LAN Bus.

• Lawyer vows to prove link between video games and murder. Thanks Mike Martinez. In the law, never let the facts interfere with a good argument...
• Steam News has word on some automatic updates now available for Half-Life for Linux. Thanks Frans...

Sydney, Australia, 12th of August, 2005; Perception Pty Ltd would like to rectify certain statements that have been made to the press by JoWooD Productions. To be clear, Perception is the official licensee of MGM on Stargate SG-1: The Alliance. Any suggestion that JoWooD has rights to Stargate SG-1: The Alliance upon termination of the contract is incorrect and not based on commercial or legal fact.

Development on the game will continue uninterrupted at Perception’s Sydney studio. Perception is committed to giving fans the best gaming experience possible.

Ben Lenzo, CEO of Perception said, “We view it as unfortunate that JoWooD would elect to make such misleading and libelous comments to the media and the marketplace. Over the last 9 months, JoWooD has openly acknowledged being in breach of contract in a number of areas including many legal and confidentiality breaches as well as several financial defaults for work performed by Perception and accepted by JoWooD.”

Perception has tried to work with JoWooD to resolve these issues for months but to no avail. This resulted in several breach notices being served on JoWooD, giving them ample time to remedy. As these newest issues had not been resolved by the August 5th 2005, Perception gave notice that all outstanding issues would need to be resolved by Monday August 8th 2005, or Perception would terminate its contract with JoWooD.

“It’s disappointing to hear of this so called termination via the press on the basis of a “get in first” tactic. This further suggests that JoWooD do not understand the terms of the contract. We are not surprised by their behavior or lack of appreciation for the goodwill Perception has afforded JoWooD on many occasions,” said Lenzo

Perception has begun personal prosecution proceedings against both the CEO, Albert Seidl and the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of JoWooD, Andreas Rudas, for the libelous comments made in their press release and will use all legal remedies available to it for the substantial monies owed to it by JoWooD.

“Perception will not allow its name to be tarnished in such a manner and view such matters extremely seriously and will always protect the reputation of our staff, our products, licensing partners and the company.”

Perception will not discuss any further the outstanding issues with JoWooD in public as legal action is underway. We look forward to the release of Stargate SG-1: The Alliance.

GFi company (www.gfi.su) is happy to announce that first results of the acquisition of MiST land South development studio - www.mistgames.ru. Today we’re announcing a new title by MiST – 4th Battalion.

The game blends together two most popular genres – action and role-playing. Story of 4th Battalion transfers us to the far future, when mankind has colonized the entire Solar system. But war is always there if humans are involved. Crisis of power between Earth’s colonies which were in good relations just yesterday leaded to a full-scale space war, and the main battlefield of this war becomes planet Mars.

Our hero - young and promising squad leader of a newly created Order of Crusaders – the new power, called in to stand firmly in a global chaos and give the System a chance to survive. He arrives on Mars by an order to join the Heavy Crusaders Battalion that is currently forming up – the 4th battalion – the one and only Heavy Assault Crusaders’ battalion of the System!

Game key features:

- Up-to-date graphical engine that uses all the benefits of modern video-cards;
- The most realistic physics and dynamics;
- Real life like lighting and spectacular special effects;
- Huge and fully interactive world;
- Complex and non-linear plot;
- Advanced dialogue system;
- Ability to drive more than 30 kinds of vehicles - from light sand-buggy to heavy assault walking-tank;
- Wide list of available weapons and equipment;
- Unlimited possibilities to improve your character;
- You will be able to fully modify and upgrade vehicles for any purpose;
- Massive dynamic battles with thousands of units;
- Ability to create your own army;
- Gameplay variety, including stealth-missions;
- Diplomacy and economic system.

4th Battalion is stated for release in Q2 2006. And now, please, stay tuned for a launch of an official web-site of the game – keep an eye on our announcements and news.

"Crash Dummy vs. the evil D-Troit" is a funny, non-violent action game full of special effects. Players take the role of the unique and exciting character called "Crash Dummy" who tries to save the future of his best friend and all the other Dummies.

Thanks to Virtools engine and the Havok Physic Pack (real world physical interaction) you can fight with many different styles in an interactive environment against evil D-Troit´s prototypes dummies. Move cases, throw barrels, climb walls, swim and use weapons like the Liquid-Bazooka to freeze, glue or burn the bad dummies. In other words just have fun, fun and more fun with the character and the gameplay!

Besides this three top category releases we started a project to develop a game which is not the usual RTS, one can expect from the Digital Reality. A small team is working hard to prove that we are capable to deliver top quality titles in other genres as well. Stay tuned because details are coming soon!

According to Wedgwood, the new technology will also let the development team assign different physical properties to different parts of the level, such as making certain surfaces made of asphalt (which will be noisier to walk upon but offer better traction for land vehicles) and others made of sand (which will be quieter to walk upon but will bog down those military jeeps). Apparently, since the game takes place on earth, prior the first invasion conflict that preceded the events in 1997's Quake II (in which players took on the role of a lone soldier to hunt down the invading Stroggs' leader), the game will take place in varied environments on the planet; not just the desert region shown in the E3 demo movie, but also possibly temperate and jungle zones.

• Auto Assault
  Auto Assault Hazard Mode & Skills Q&A on Boomtown transcribes an IRC session about the upcoming MMORPG with NetDevil's Ryan Seabury: "We wanted each archetype class to fulfill the same combat roles, but achieve them through mechanically different ways...for each race, the skills are flavored based on the culture of survival for that race to illustrate, using the healer classes. Human Engineers will employ beams and energy based repairing, since Human tech is highly based on light and shielding etc. Mutant Shaman will manipulate the Contamination to create phase-formed vegetation that replenishes nearby allies and Biomek Constructors deploy nanobot technology and automated mini-mechs and bots to help their friends. And of course, there are many other skills that each of those classes has beyond just repairs that are different from each other."
• Warhammer 40,000: Dawn Of War: Winter Assault
  Gamecloud's Warhammer 40,000: Dawn Of War: Winter Assault Q&A talks with Relic's Andrew Chambers about their upcoming RTS expansion: "The Imperial Guard are the brand new, fully playable race we are adding to the game in Winter Assault. They are really fun to play with because they present the player with a whole new gameplay experience that they can’t find in the existing Dawn of War races. They are a very defensive, very ranged focused race, which opens up a gamut of new and interesting strategies to explore and play with."
• Gridwerx Australia
  Bigluke.net's Gridwerx Australia Q&A talks with Peter Jarrett from this start-up developer about Gridwerx Genesis, their upcoming independent project: "We represent the underdog, the rebel. We embrace the future, to connect the real and the virtual - and exploring the challenges that humanity face in coming to terms with our evolving world. We've got a fantastic bunch of guys (check them out on our web site www.gridwerx.com.au) who are all working part time after hours when they aren't studying, or working on their day jobs to make this dream a reality. We all met for the first time on 30 January after I had interviewed 80+ people. We hit it off, and have come a long way in the last few short months."

• QuakeCon 2005 open for business.
• GameSpy's QuakeCon Coverage includes QuakeCon 2005 At A Glance, Quake 4 Multiplayer Hands-On, An In-Depth Look at Serious Sam II, and more.
• Bjorn3d's Quakecon 2005 Day 1 Report.
• GDHardware.com - QuakeCon 2005 Day 1 - By RedWood.
• Gamecloud's NVIDIA QuakeCon Event Report.
• Gamecloud's QuakeCon Serious Sam II Impressions.
• Computer companies unveil hardware and games at QuakeCon on CNN Money.
• QuakeCon 2005 Day 1 Pictures on GameCloud and More QuakeCon Day 1 Pictures on Gamecloud.

• 25 to Life on Gamebiz.
• Enemy Territory: Quake Wars on 1UP.

• Vivisector: Beast Inside on the Official Website.
• The Witcher on the Official Website. Thanks Frans.

• Nintendo Running Network Connection Tests.
• Nintendo's Little Voice.
• Namco Museum Finished in Gold.
• Shenmue II Differences On XBOX & Dreamcast.
• The Warriors gameplay clips.
• Litterbox a Little Smaller for Mad Catz.
• Camera Game Lacks Focus.
• Sega soccer sim to kick around Xbox 360.
• 2K Sports Courts Hip-Hop.

• Koreans not impressed by Apple's iPod.
• What's Up With The PSP?
• N-Space Developing For DS.
• Nintendo trying to 'Net help.
• DVD Pirating Ring Busted in Hong Kong.
• Portable Gaming is a Trend.
• Japanese Phoenix Wright DS to have full English option.
• MacFixIt - Apple releases PowerBook G4 Graphics Update 1.0.
• Namco Brings Hounds to the PSP.

• Intel to Shift Microprocessor Technology (registration required). Thanks Neutronbeam.
• Intel to unveil shift in design of its PC chips. AWAY from raw speed? Have they tried an AMD CPU lately?
• Logitech new gamers products Q&A on TechSpot.
• NVIDIA Posts Second Quarter 2006 Profit.
• Would You Pay $600 for a Graphics Card?
• Amazon ends patent dispute with $40m.
• Most Spam Sent From Zombies.
• Mac Hacks Allow OS X on PCs.
• E-mail wiretap case can proceed, court says.
• FCC Rule On Internet Calls Said To Encourage Hacking.
• CCTV video mixes maps and images.
• Traffic Hackers Hit Red Light.

• Be the first in the UK to see City of Villains on Eurogamer offers the chance to attend an unveiling of the upcoming MMORPG sequel in the U.K., though the winner will be forced to rub elbows at the showing with a horde of unwashed gaming journalists.
• Bet on Soldier AMD ARENA Level Design Competition.

• Registration is now underway for the second annual Games for Health Conference, slated for September 22-23, 2005 in Baltimore, Maryland.
• Gamasutra - Event Wrap Up - SIGGRAPH 2005.

• This Codename Panzers Downloads Page now offers a tutorial for the Codename Panzers: Phase Two editor in Flash format. Thanks Frans.
• Multithreaded Game Scripting with Stackless Python.
• IncrediBuild v2.40 with Xbox 360 Support Released.
• A new version of EaseWrapper has been released.

• Shroud of Anonymity on Ten Ton Hammer.

• Asheron's Call: Throne of Destiny on GameZone.
• BloodRayne 2 on Driverheaven.
• Dungeon Siege II on Next Level Gaming and (first impressions) on IGN.
• Knights of Honor on StrategyZone OnLine.
• Laser Squad Nemesis on Worthplaying.
• Silent Hunter III on GamersInfo.net.

• ABIT AN8 Ultra Passively Cooled Motherboard on TrustedReviews.
• Acer Aspire 5021WLMi Laptop on Elite Bastards.
• Altec Lansing inMotion iM3 iPod Speaker System on The Tech Zone.
• Blue Tango Classic on ViperLair.
• Coolermaster RF-5AD Musketeer 3 Cooler on ExtremeMhz.
• DiscHub on Futurelooks.
• Evercool H.D.D. Lander Cooler and Spider Filter Fan on Think Computers.
• Evercool PT03-9232CP Cooler on InsaneTek.
• FujiFilm FinePix F10 Digital Camera on Designtechnica.
• Gigabyte GA-8I945P Pro Intel 945P Motherboard on PCStats.
• Hiper Type-R 480W & 580W Modular PSU on OverClock Intelligence Agency.
• Logitech Cordless Desktop MX-3100 on Virtual-Hideout.Net.
• QuietPC AcoustiFan on Virtual-Hideout.Net.
• Sapphire X800 GT Hybrid 256MB PCIe Video Card on HEXUS.net.
• Sunbeamtech Pro Series Illuminated Keyboard on bigbruin.com.
• Thermaltake TWV500W 500W PSU on InsaneTek.
• TTIC NPH K8-2 Cooler on Overclocker Cafe.

• Various game retailers are now accepting pre-orders for City of Villains, each major distributor offering a different in-game item as an incentive to do so...
• Hackers slam 'Everquest II' economy...
• Video gamers' brains wired same as nongamers and No Strong Link Seen Between Violent Video Games And Aggression...
• Verdict exonerates video games?...
• Video game “Pay Per View” to launch in early October.
• Online museum catalogues bad voice acting. We could house them in the Wing Commander Wing...
• A Guild Wars Game Update (thanks Frans) has word on a couple of price-fixing updates to ArenaNet's MMORPG...
• Download plan for Coders...
• Ms. Pac-Man world record broken...