Fate of the Dragon is a real-time strategy game based on the 14th century historical Chinese novel entitled Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Known to be one of the most famous and turbulent periods in Chinese history, the story has been passed down the generations throughout Asia through books, plays, puppetry, and storytellers. Now, in the Chinese Year of the Dragon, Eidos Interactive brings the story of The Three Kingdoms to a worldwide audience with the release of Fate of the Dragon on the PC, which is expected to ship March, 2001.

14 Degrees East, a division of Interplay Entertainment has announce the development of Off-Road Redneck Racing for the PC. The latest addition to Interplay's popular millions-selling Redneck franchise, Off-Road Redneck Racing is designed as a high quality off-road racing game, with a special mix of Redneck color added for a dose of good ol' southern charm. Constructed with a wealth of racing options, vehicles, and racetracks available, this is a game that any hardcore racing fan will be proud to own and that no Redneck fan can afford to miss. Wild settings, vicious opponent AI, and the ability to bump and crash into other racers puts you right in the drivers seat for some intense off-road action ... so hold on to 'yer pork rinds, cause its time for Redneck Racing! Redneck Racing is a handful of Southern Pride, giving gamers the chance for some good clean fun in the mud.

Players will drive the hottest off-road vehicles on the market today against unscrupulous racers around the wildest tracks ever made using a seriously powerful simulation engine, providing dynamic racing and physics. Players can choose from a collection of 16 different types of off-road vehicles including Jeeps, pick-up trucks, off-road beetles, and other Dixie staples, and race around 24 different tracks in six unique locales. Players will race in arcade challenges, attempt to beat the clock in time trials, or race professionally in Championship mode. LAN support also allows you to race fender-to-fender against up to six other good ol' boys!

Other aspects of the game include: destructible track objects ranging from oil drums and advertising banners to the infamous "crate-o-chickens." Weather conditions from rain and thunderstorms to snowstorms and ice patches, offer many different types of challenge, changing pleasant racing courses into mud-slicked nightmares! Different lighting conditions range from broad sunlight to hazy sunset, and pitch black -- where course changes are revealed only in your headlights glare! Race well and receive the ability to upgrade your vehicle with better acceleration and handling, allowing you to race in the big league where professional teams might just show an interest in your skills.
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Chances are there's one weapon still missing from your gaming arsenal - your voice. Here's a look at a number of different programs that let you talk to team mates in game and even issue commands to your computer vocally, including Game Voice, Game Commander 2, Roger Wilco and more. Check our our latest feature - Voice Control Round-up!

"The best things in life are free, and fittingly enough Team Sound is both free and quite possibly the best overall voice communication program in the roundup. Clocking in at a reasonable 1.75 megs and costing absolutely nothing, Team Sound proves particularly easy to install and set up, and includes a rather impressive list of features. The all-important voice communication aspect of it works rather well, and the sound quality is very good considering the amount of bandwidth it uses. Remember using a walkie-talkie as a kid or hearing one in an old war film? With Team Sound (and indeed most of the other programs), the sound quality is as good as you'd get talking over a walkie-talkie, or potentially better depending on your bandwidth. "
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Ubi Soft Entertainment has announced solid earnings for the third quarter of the fiscal year. The Ubi Soft group reports consolidated sales of EUR 114.4 million (100.7 million American dollars) up 49% from the third quarter of last year. For the first nine months of the period, growth exceeded 34%. Excluding the impact of the acquisitions of 3D Planet (Italy) and Red Storm (USA), consolidated as of October 1, 2000, growth would be 22%.
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TDK Mediactive has recently announced the company's first game for the Xbox video game console, which will be based on DreamWorks Pictures computer animated comedy, Shrek, which opens nationwide on May 18. The game is one of the official first-wave Xbox titles scheduled for a fall 2001 launch.

Once upon a time, in a far away swamp, there lived an ornery ogre named Shrek, whose precious solitude is suddenly shattered by an invasion of annoying fairy tale creatures. There are blind mice in his food; a big, bad wolf in his bed; three little homeless pigs and more, all banished from their kingdom by the evil Lord Farquaad.Determined to save their home -- not to mention his own -- Shrek cuts a deal with Farquaad and sets out to rescue the beautiful Princess Fiona to be Farquaad's bride. Accompanying him on his mission is a wisecracking Donkey, who will do anything for Shrek ... except shut up. Rescuing the Princess from a fire-breathing dragon may prove the least of their problems when the deep, dark secret she has been keeping is revealed. "Shrek" is based on a children's book by William Steig.
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Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) Inc. announced today that the newest member of its highly-touted hockey videogame series, NHL FaceOff 2001, is now available for the PlayStation2 computer entertainment system. Modeled after true-to-life hockey physics, NHL FaceOff 2001 utilizes the power of the PlayStation 2 to provide consumers with blazing gameplay and responsive player controls. Gamers can also play as or against a team of hockey legends comprised of 13 NHL greats including "Mr. Hockey" Gordie Howe, Bobby Hull, Phil Esposito and Marcel Dionne, a feature exclusive to NHL FaceOff 2001 for PlayStation 2.
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