PC.IGN has posted a new Soldier of Fortune 2 sound diary, written by Raven's Zack Quarles. He lists a few facts and features of the game's sound system, and explains how he creates the sounds.

MGON has conducted an interview with Raven's Kenn Hoekstra, asking him about the upcoming Soldier of Fortune 2. There are Q&As about the Ghoul2 system, the research done for locations in the game, why they decided to include multiplayer at a late stage in development, the random mission generator, the level of AI, weather effects and more.

German game site PC Pointer has posted what they say are three new Soldier of Fortune 2 screenshots, showing more from Raven's upcoming shooter game.

Can't wait to create your own new skins for Soldier of Fortune 2? You don't have to as Activision has just announced a skinning contest for the game. If your submitted skin is good enough, it will actually end up in Soldier of Fortune 2. Besides your skin being in the game, you will also get a free copy of the game signed by the people at Raven and you'll score a Playstation 2. If you're skin is just not good enough to get in the game but still kicks major butt you will get a signed copy of Soldier of Fortune 2 and a GameCube. And the creator of the 3rd best skin will receive a free copy of SoF 2 along with a Game Boy Advance. Not too bad. Hit the Activision site for more information.

Planet Soldier of Fortune has conducted an interview with Kenn Hoekstra, project administrator over at Raven. Kenn answers some questions about Soldier Fortune 2. Topics discussed include gameplay types, AI improvements in SoF2, the random mission generator, and a few other things.

Also on PC.IGN tonight is a new video from Soldier of Fortune 2, Raven's upcoming shooter. The 17mb MPG video runs for little over a minute. "You get a good look at the collision detection and animation, the foliage in outdoor levels, a bunch of different weapons, infrared vision, and more than a little bit of exploding and body parts flying around".

The first Soldier of Fortune designer diary is up at PC.IGN. Raven project admin Kenn Hoekstra gives us some more insight into the final stages of development of the game. This means tweaking, polishing, play testing and more.

Raven programmer Rick Johnson updated his .plan file talking about some features he implemented for the multiplayer mode in Soldier of Fortune 2. Some pretty cool stuff, check it

The first big one is that the Random Mission Generator will be included with MP. This includes both the dynamic terrain generation technology and the BSP instantiation (buildings, walls, other pre-fab stuff). MOD makers will be able to easily create their own generation parameters in the external files, add in unique instances, etc. There’re a few other surprises in this area that I’ll hold off announcing.

The next technology that we’ve added to MP is a flexible game-type creation system. You create a simple script which defines the entire parameters of the game type. Maps, with a few minor changes, can easily support new game types. For example, we have CTF implement via this system, as well as two other game types, all of which will ship with the game. One interesting feature that has been added is the ability to purchase weapons during each mission phase. [read more]

We received an email from the Belgian game site GamePower where they are reporting that Raven's Soldier of Fortune 2 has been delayed until the end of the year despite earlier reports the game would ship early this year. According to GamePower, this delay should be officially announced by Activision soon. Through some sources I can confirm that the game has not been delayed until the end of the year, but we'll have to wait and see what Activision has to say.

Gamespy has posted the latest and last installment of the Soldier of Fortune 2 sound diary. In this 9th diary, Raven's Zachary Quarles talks about the home stretch to release and what he been doing when it comes to multiplayer sound and music, and just the whole experience of working on the game.

Daz Meister has a brief interview with Kenn Hoekstra up. There's a few questions about Soldier of Fortune 2, a Jedi Knight 2 title question and a few personal questions. Saw that on HLF.

Games Fusion has posted a Q&A with Kenn Hoekstra about Soldier of Fortune 2, not really breaking much new ground but good to check out if you haven't really been keeping up.

The guys at Maximum Power Computing have posted more screenshots from Soldier of Fortune 2. These shots have a jungle theme to them.

There's an interview with Raven's Kenn Hoekstra on Maximum Power Computer, where he answers a few questions about Soldier of Fortune 2. Questions are about such things like the features that sets this game apart from the rest, if we're gonna see a demo, game modes in multiplayer, why they are using the Quake 3 engine, the improved AI, weapons in the game, system requirements and a few other things. 19 new screenshots from the game are included as well.

Gamespot has released some footage from Soldier of Fortune 2, Raven's upcoming Lieberman-friendly game. The 2.9mb mpg download runs for about 15 seconds.

CG Online has posted the second part of their "So You Want to be a Game Designer?" feature. In this installment, Raven's Kenn Hoekstra goes over the structure of a game company and where you could possibly fit in.

XGR has received a Soldier of Fortune 2 development update along with more tasty gore screenshots from the game, which is nearing completion at Raven. Here's a snip from the update

Soldier of Fortune II is progressing well. We're working on finishing up our beta build for QA to beat on after the New Year and then we'll enter the home stretch, driving towards Gold. At this point the game is pretty much feature- complete. We've entered (and passed) what we call the "feature freeze" stage of development where nothing new gets implemented. Everyone is focused on polishing and tweaking what's there and on making the game as solid as humanly possible ...

Over at Planet SoF you can see the boxshot for the UK version of Soldier of Fortune 2. This game is due early next year.

Raven's Kenn Hoekstra let us know that those Soldier of Fortune 2 screenshots on GamePen from yesterday, are now available in their original 1600x1200 size.

There are four new Soldier of Fortune 2 screenshots on GamePen, that show some of that good ultra violence. Thanks [|337 h4x0r].