With World Series of Poker 2008: Battle for the Bracelets you will enter the largest sporting event in the world – the World Series of Poker, with the challenge to Beat The Brat – Phil Hellmuth!

Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks will offer next-generation DVDs in the HD DVD format and drop support for Blu-ray, further complicating the race between the competing technologies. Previously, all of its movies were released in both formats, but manufacturing the HD-DVD discs and players is much cheaper, which prompted Paramount's decision.

Virtua Fighter 5 raises the bar for console fighting games including all the features fans know and love plus enhanced gameplay mechanics, additional characters and new fighting styles, as well as newly redesigned 3D environments.

Another day, another batch of games shipped to stores. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are announcements for:

• Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day (NDS)
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Myst is an immersive experience that draws you in and won't let you go. You enter a unique setting, venturing alone to varied times and places, the worlds that compose Myst. There are no instructions, and you encounter no living beings but soon realize your actions may help individuals who are somehow trapped in a parallel dimension.

Epic Games announced that it has acquired a majority interest in Warsaw, Poland-based game developer People Can Fly, best known for Painkiller, but most recently has been collaborating with Epic on the PC version of Gears of War. The two companies are collaborating on a new IP which Epic will be previewing privately at Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany this week.

SpongeBob's Atlantis SquarePantis follows SpongeBob and the rest of the Bikini Gang as they leave Bikini Bottom and journey to the legendary city of Atlantis. Players will discover the treasures of Atlantis, while experiencing new game mechanics and multiplayer features.

Midway Games announced its product portfolio to be shown at the annual Games Convention, August 23-27 in Leipzig, Germany, featuring titles such as Stranglehold, BlackSite Area 51, Unreal Tournament 3, Ultimate Mortal Kombat, and kid's games like Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.

FUZZYEYES announced its new third-person action/adventure title Edge of Twilight, a dark, steampunk fantasy in a world where night and day have torn apart.

SEGA Rally Revo will set a new benchmark in its genre with a high-tempo driving experience that will challenge the racing skills both on and off-road, with revolutionary dynamically deformable terrain, proprietary next-generation graphics, bone-jarringly realistic physics, and competitive bumper-to-bumper racing.

Unlike previously announced, Sierra will release a public demo for Massive Entertainment's action-strategy game World in Conflict on Aug. 24, containing both single player (tutorial + 1 mission) and multiplayer modes (2maps).

Space Giraffe is a psychedelic shooter featuring mesmerizing graphics and 100 levels of out-of-this-world gameplay. Street Trace: NYC is an all-in-one hoverboard racing and arena battle game featuring multiplayer over Xbox LIVE with up to eight players and an up to a four-way split-screen.

A heroic task awaits you. Just beyond your galaxy, an ancient malevolence has embarked upon a covetous rampage. This demonic juggernaut seeks nothing less than the total enslavement of every world it encounters. The Limited Edition includes exclusive in-game items, dog tags, briefing General British, one month free, Making of DVD, classified maps and plenty more...

XLGames, founded by former NCSoft founder & Lineage creator Jake Song, announced that they have entered into an agreement with Crytek to license the award winning CryENGINE 2 for use in their newest MMORPG.

Medal of Honor Airborne, next-gen debut of the series, is set to redefine the series by introducing players to an entirely new way of experiencing a WWII FPS – namely the fully interactive Airborne experience.

Kicks Online is a free-to-play football MMO, adopting street football modes and rules. Only through different tactics (such as various ways of passing ball and adjusting football surface harness) and strong teamwork players can win the match.

2K Games and 2K Sports announced its lineup for Games Convention 2007 in Leipzig, Germany, featuring title such as Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution, Gearbox Software's Borderlands, 2K Sports' NBA 2K8 and Top Spin 3, as well as 2 yet un-announced titles.

The journey in The Sims 2 Castaway begins when your Sims are washed ashore on an uncharted tropical island, and must overcome the forces of nature, craft tools for survival, and explore their surroundings to unravel the island's mysteries.

Blizzard revealed today that the second expansion for World of Warcraft, Wrath of the Lich King, and StarCraft II, Blizzard’s highly-anticipated real-time strategy game, will be playable at the 2007 Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany.

Today Nintendo added yet another 3 classic games to the Wii's Shop Channel. Wii owners with a high-speed Internet access can redeem Wii Points to download the following titles: Neutopia, Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master, and Super Metroid.