Atari has opened the the beta list sign-ups sheet for Shadow Ops: Red Mercury. There are system requirements for signup:

Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP
Pentium III or AMD Athlon 1 GHz (Pentium or AMD 1.5 GHz or higher recommended)
256MB of RAM (512MB recomm... [ There's more ]

Some interesting news out of Computer Games Online today in regards to the HL2 sorce code theft.

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Big Huge Games , developer of GameSpot's 2003 PC Game of the Year, "Rise of Nations", published by Microsoft, is looking for a creative, talented, and motivated cinematics artist to join the team. The artist will be responsible for planning and executing the cutscenes which take place within our real-time 3D engine. Interested parties should check out the

NovaLogic is supposed to release a new multiplayer demo for Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising. This mp shooter will be able to handle up to 100 players in a game.

The demo will feature a brand new multiplayer 1km sq map tailored for 100 players and includes the following features taken from the retail version of game... [ There's more ]

The University of Central Florida and Electronic Arts team up to open The Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy in the fall of 2005. The Orlando Institution is expected to produce 100 graduates a year, each completing 16 months of schooling. You will be required to have an undergraduate degree in a related field before applying.

Slashdot is reporting that those who are able to attend this year's QuakeCon maybe able to check out a running version of Quake IV.

"the Raven-developed Quake IV m... [ There's more ]

The Spider-man 2 demo has hit the scene. You might be interested in checking out this 3rd person action game from Activision. It'll only cost you about 164mb and you can find it at 3D Gamers.