Microsoft today announced that people in the UK will have to wait a few extra days as the highly-anticipated Halo 2 will hit UK retail shelves on Thursday, November 11, 2004. Halo 2 is getting released in North America on November 9, 2004.

You're in the cab and have to deliver passengers all around New York City, using all kinds of daring driving maneuvers and assorted power-ups. You compete against an AI driver or a buddy. So you may be racing to reach Little Italy or Wall Street and other cool areas in NYC. Read more for details and screens ...

The Bard's Tale combines the development team's collective knowledge of compelling RPG gameplay with brilliant graphics and major motion picture quality story and dialogue. The Bard's Tale eschews genre cliches in favor of intelligent humor for an original and truly entertaining experience.

Phantom Brave improves upon the tactical gameplay found in Disgaea and La Pucelle in every way. Its redone, open-ended battle system is limited only by the user’s imagination. If you fell in love with Disgaea, you definitely won’t want to miss out on what’s sure to be this year’s best Strategy RPG. Read more for the 90+ latest screens, this time from the English version ...

Ubisoft has released a small patch for the original version of their stealth/action game, Splinter Cell. This patch is only meant for the US version of Splinter Cell that came bundled with Creative Labs cards in the US, but unfortunately, no details as to what it really fixes are available. Read more for download links ...

The Prince has to embark upon a path of both carnage and mystery to defy his preordained death. His journey leads to the infernal core of a cursed island stronghold harboring mankind’s greatest fears. Only through grim resolve, bitter defiance and the mastery of deadly new combat arts can the Prince rise to a new level of warriorship – and emerge from this ultimate trial with his life. Read more for some new screens ...

Microsoft Game Studios today announced the arrival of new downloadable content – Long Beach Booster Pack – for the popular Xbox racing title, Project Gotham Racing 2. Check out the batch of spiffy screens ...

Another day, another batch of game trailers were released. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far, there are trailers for:

• Xpand Rally - Trailer #4
• Catwoman - Trailer #3
• Driv3r - 'Making Of' Trailer
• Juiced - Trailer (3)

Beginning with the attack on Pearl Harbor, this flight combat game puts players in the middle of some of the most intense naval conflict in WWII’s Pacific Theater. Check out the first set of Xbox screens ...