• Microsoft Links Expansion Pack shipped today.

• World War II Online has gone gold and is due to ship June 5th.

• This year ComputerGamers.com was not able to attend E3: Electronic Entertainment Expo. I am very hopeful that next year we will have a representative at the show to report on all the latest games. There are too many new announcements for me to go over, so I recommend you go to Blues News for all the up to date E3 news.
• Steel Beasts shipped today. Previously only available from their web site, the game will now be available in stores. I bought the game, and if your a tank fan then this game is a must.
• A cable outage, and the email virus have kept me down for a bit. Fortunately, my cable modem is back in action. Hopefully, you didn't get the hamster virus from me, but if you did here is the page to go to fix it. My apologies if I gave you the virus. Just remember never open attachments from someone unless your absolutely sure their sending you something. It is completely gone now, and will not be a further problem.

by Jared 

• I got hit by the Hamster email virus. That's why I haven't been doing updates. If you emailed me, it may take me some time to get back to you. I have a pile of email I need to switch to my new email client. The Hamster virus attaches itself to your mail client and when you get incoming mail it then mails the virus out to them. Just make sure you NEVER open any attachments you get in your email. I never open any attachments but I thought I could trust the person I got it from. Since it automatically attaches itself on sent mail you have to be very careful about attachments even from people you trust. The best way I found for fixing it was just to switch to a new email program. I am using Incredimail now which is actually nicer than Outlook Express. You can download it from Cnet.com if you need it. Also be warned my virus protection software did not see this virus.

• Echelon, and Golf Resort Tycoon both shipped a few days ago.

by Jared 

• The expansion pack for Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force shipped today.
• I would like to welcome Edric to the web site staff. Edric is a long time friend and gamer. He is a Guardians of Light member, and he will be taking care of our patch section. Drop him a line if you have any patch requests or you just want to say hi. We are always looking for gamers to help out and volunteer for the site. Just send me an email if you want to help with the site and get involved in the computer game industry.
• The King of computer gaming, Sid Meier, announced this week that he is working on a new game, SimGolf. Gamespot has a preview with screenshots.
• After years of dedicated of service, Origin has fired all of their dedicated volunteers from all of the European and North America shards of Ultima Online. Some Counselors and Seers that were on duty at the time had their characters jailed and disrobed. This move comes apparently in the wake of a lawsuit by some 'volunteers' who were suing the company for not being paid. This entire incident defies common sense. On one hand you have 'volunteers' suing for not being paid. On the other you have a very rich company running scared at the first signs of a ridiculous lawsuit. As a former counselor and loyal Ultima Online customer I am personally disgusted by Origin's actions in this case. They have decided to keep all the volunteers on the Asia shards, citing the differences in labor law practices there. From lawsuit happy players, to money hungry game companies this entire case defies sanity. Who in the end really gets hurt though? The hundreds of volunteers who gave thousands of hours of their own time to help fellow players in the game, and the players who will now have to struggle through a game with little to no customer service. This is one of many reasons I no longer play Ultima Online. A company like Origin just does not deserve my money. On behalf of myself and ComputerGamers.com I want to extend our appreciation for all of the volunteers of Ultima Online over the years for all their dedicated service. Click here to sign a petition on this matter.

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by Jared 

• We have opened up a new forum for the Guardians of Light Online Gaming Organization. This will provide them with a public forum. The Guardians of Light are a very large gaming guild based on honor. We are open to hosting message boards, and even web sits for other honorable gaming groups, clans, and guilds. Groups wanting to have a forum or web space would be considered on a very high standard! Just drop us an email if you are interested. Visit the new Guardians of Light public forum here.
• Myst III: Exile shipped today.
• We're making numerous site changes. I hope you like the new color schemes and changes were making. Your feedback is always welcome.

by Jared 

• I am very proud to say that we had over 104,000 hits in the month of April our best month yet by far. A small amount compared to the bigger game sites, but a big step for us. Thank you all for continuing to help this site grow. At the end of this month we will hit our one year anniversary.

• For those of you who liked to use the AltaVista search engine here on this site I first want to thank you. I also am sorry to say that we have removed it. AltaVista originally paid us 4 cents per search, and later dropped our commission to 2 cents. They have now completely closed their entire affiliate program. So that was our main source of income for the site. Since this is the second search engine to do this to us since starting the site I don't think I will be adding a new search engine. Sorry. 

For those of you who like and want to support our site I just wanted to remind you that we get a commission from any items purchased after following a link from our site. A friend recently ordered some games from EBworld, and didn't know ComputerGamers.com got a commission if he had followed the link from our site. If my friends don't know that, than I am sure most visitors don't know. So if you do plan to order anything online please consider using one of our links to order and help support this site.  Amazon.com, Buy.com, and EBWorld.com are all sites where you can order just about anything online at good prices, and we are affiliated with them and other companies. Thank you everyone for your support.

• Any Canadian gamer's out there? I started a discussion on our message board tonight about how Computer Gaming World has been having fun in their magazine making fun of Canadians. Is this just joking around, or is unacceptable? I would love to hear some opinions from Canadians, and everyone else. I also started a discussion there about the latest lawsuit against game companies by families of the Columbine shooting victims.

Click here to go to the discussion board

by Jared 

• Sad to say that DailyRadar.com closed down today, and all of it's employees were layed off. DailyRadar was a very large and popular gaming web site. Despite the loss hopefully some of it's visitors will take interest in our much smaller site as their new computer gaming source. We at ComputerGamers.com wish the best to all the employees, and hope they are able to find new employment as fast as possible.
• Political Tycoon, and Merchant Prince 2 both shipped on Monday.
• I had mentioned previously on the site that maybe myself or some of the staff would be attending the E3 expo later this month. I am sorry to say that we will not be represented this year at E3. However, I promise that next year ComputerGamers.com will be reporting all the greatest news from E3 next year.
• We are currently working on three new reviews for you. Simcoach.com, Black & White, and Tropico. Stay tuned for those reviews in the next few weeks.

by Jared