Online retailers like GameStop and GameCrazy are listing the id Software’s Wolfenstein for an August 18th release. This is contradictory to what the game’s publisher, Activsion, announced as an August 4th release back in May.

BluesNews also points out that id Software is also using this year’s QuakeCon to promote the game, which will be held from August 13-16. Still, no official word from either the publisher or developer on the delay.

The sci-fi first-person-shooter will be released for the PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Linux platforms.

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Activision has finally given a date for the highly anticipated Wolfenstein. The science-fiction first person shooter will be hitting North American stores on August 4th, and Europe a bit earlier on June 26th.

If you’re impatient and need to kill some Nazis as soon as possible, the original Wolfenstein 3D will be making its way to both the Xbox LIVE and PlayStation Network early June.

Wolfenstein is set to ship for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC systems.

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Following on from word yesterday that id Software is going multiplatform, the Gamespot interview carries a teaser from company CEO Todd Hollenshead who noted that they plan on revealing some unannounced “new stuff” at E3 this June.

"I’ll leave that as a tease," said Hollenshead when pressed for more details. The studio is currently working on three projects – Wolfenstein, Rage and Doom 4. Additionally, they are working on improving the beta project that is Quake Live.

The CEO did tease that Doom 4 will “not [be] a sequel to Doom 3, but it’s not a reboot either.”

"It’s a little bit different than those, and if I told you why, I would get my ass kicked.”

However, it won’t abandon its gorey, action-ey roots anytime soon. "Everything I’ve seen on it is classic Doom, so I don’t really have worries that people aren’t going to like it and start talking about it.”

So while tooling around on Miniclip, I found a new game for you guys–Under Arms. And if you’re a fan of the first person shooter, this might be one to try.

In the grandest Wolfenstein tradition, you once again take on a legion of Generic Nazis in the midst of World War II, and you’re out to collect documents scattered throughout a Nazi base.  I know, it sounds pretty similar to a lot of other first person shooters out there.

The plot is flimsy at best, and really only a justification to have you roam around a Nazi base with a variety of weapons blasting anything that walks into frame.  And the controls are a bit twitchy, too–you use your mouse to aim and your keyboard to move around, and the mouse’s aiming can be pretty sensitive.  One slight twitch can send your gun barrel swinging around from one side of the screen to another.

So really, this is not the best of games. But if you’re really fond of first person shooters and you want one for free, then you could probably do a lot worse.