Action games aplenty await the eager gamer at stores right now, and more hot titles are just around the corner.

Duke Nukem is back and ready to blow away more baddies in GT Interactive's Time to Kill, a PlayStation game that shipped on October 14. The 14th also saw the arrival of Klingon Honor Guard, a first-person shooter from MicroProse set in the Star Trek universe and powered by the Unreal engine. Monolith's Shogo, an animé-style action game that's been generating a lot of buzz, shipped on October 15, earlier than expected.

There's a grab bag of gaming genres featured in next week's releases, but the spotlight is definitely on strategy games. On October 20 Ripcord is releasing an add-on for Spec Ops, while SouthPeak is sending out Dominant Species. NovaLogic is shipping Delta Force on October 21, and the official Age of Empires expansion pack, The Rise of Rome, is coming on October 22 from Microsoft. (Meanwhile, you can download the trial version of The Rise of Rome now from Gamecenter's Top Downloads.)

A classic game gets a spiffy-looking 3D sequel when WizardWorks releases the arcade game Montezuma's Return on October 21. SegaSoft is throwing its hat into the action game ring with Vigilance, also releasing on October 21. Finally, Access Software continues to pump out the golf sims with both the full version and the upgrade of the latest addition to its popular Links series, Links LS 1999.

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