EQVault have posted their preview of Lords of Everquest.

Zerging, anyone who has played an RTS online knows the tactic all to well. Throw masses of cheap quickly produced forces at your opponent and smothering them quickly. The ease with which it's possible in almost each and every RTS since the original Warcraft has long been a bone of contention amongst fans of the genre. The unit development system in LOE is designed as the latest attempt to counter the most loathed of online tactics.

Gamespot US have posted a preview of Gladiator: Sword of Vengeance based on seeing the game running on the Nvidia stand.

When we picked the game up, we found ourselves on some kind of island floating in the sky that appeared to act as a hub between levels. The island had areas of long grass that moved quite convincingly in the wind, but very little of else of interest, save for an open doorway into a level. The level we were transported to took place on a beach where the sea was lapping in and out and made for a quite tranquil scene in which to use our sword to break open the numerous barrels that were looking out of place and spoiling the view.

Fragland have posted a lot of new screenshot galleries, not all of which come from ECTS, but some of which do.

Gamer's Hell have also posted lots of screenshot galleriues taken from the show, as has LoadedInc, although they've just posted everything n company order.

Cauldron have now released the level editor for their recent FPS Chaser. You can grab the editor, plus an HTML help file from their website.

After yesterday's reaction, Activision have now released the Call of Duty
demo - and it's being mirrored everywhere. You can download the 174Mb demo from
any one of the following:

Gamespys' Fileplanet and the publishing behemoth Activision were subjected to the collected wrath from a number of game news sites last night after the Call of Duty demo became the straw that broke the proverbial desert dwelling mammalians dorsal support structure.

After non-Fileplanet subscribers were denied access to a demo of a game they wanted to buy for the umpteenth time a number of the webs major news site players finally had enough and got together and drafted an open letter to send a very clear message, continue with the exclusivity gig and your demos will find no room at the inn when the exclusivity ends.

Much to the delight of gamers around the world, who almost universally despise the practice, it now seems that Activision have seen sense (why deny the vast majority of customers access to your product?) and the demo will be available to all on Friday night (US time).

To see the open letter and blazing reaction that followed checkout Bluesnews.

News0r sat down with Oleg Yavorksy from GSC Game World and went for a trip through the world of STALKER.

Find out what the game has in store, why the developers glow in the dark and how they are able to fry eggs just by looking at them in our S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Oblivion Lost Preview.

(article by Media Create)

Total sales for the TOP 100 this week amounts to some 1.05 million units. And this represents 60.01% of the last week total, and 114.60% of the weekly average. Though the software market this week did not reach to the same level as the last week, which saw the release of "World Soccer Winning Eleven 7", the total software sales continue to stay over the million marks. This somehow shows the trend of the summer selling season at last.

There were only 2 new titles made it into the rankings this week. And its share is also quite low at 10.05% of the total sales. The software market was mainly composed by the older releases. There were no particular outstanding new releases except the 2nd ranking "Monster Rancher 4" this week. And the software market has continued to be driven by "World Soccer Winning Eleven 7", "Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles", etc, which were released last week.

To compliment todays preview of the forthcoming space trading epic X2: The Threat we've posted a screenshot gallery fresh from the latest build here.

If that isn't enough for you, true to their word Egosoft have released the rolling demo of the game, visit the games official website to grab the amazing demo which also handily serves as a benchmark utility.

News0r took a trip into the dark and forbidding void that is Basingstoke to get a first look at Egosofts' second outing into the X universe.

X2: The Threat is previewed here.