SEGA's Universe at War: Earth Assault, developed by Petroglyph, is a combat-intensive RTS game enlisting players in an epic struggle to prevent total alien domination of planet Earth.

At its annual Gamefest Technology Conference, Microsoft announced the winners of its XNA Game Studio Dream-Build-Play contest, where in a surprise announcement not one, but four winners were invited to publish their games on Xbox LIVE Arcade.

With a Prince of Persia movie in the works, an Assassin's Creed short story bring made, it is no surprise that Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot confirmed at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival that it plans to expand into film production and book publishing. "We will start making movies not because we want to, but because this is what we have to do," Guillemot said "If we don't, we will not be able to take advantage of the next generation."

Nostradamus: The Last Prophecy is a classic point & click adventure game. Nostradamus sends his daughter Madeleine to help Catherine de Medici, who thinks she has been cursed. As practicing medicine is a male occupation, the game allows you to disguise as Madeleine's brother Cesar to interact with other NPCs.

Namco Bandai America announced that development has been completed on Digimon World Data Squad (PS2) and Digimon World Dawn / Dusk for the NDS, featuring engrossing role-playing gameplay with hundreds of unique Digimon for players to collect, trade and evolve,

Hexic 2 offers new special pieces, challenges, additional formations and an innovative head-to-head battle mode! Gamers can also travel through time with SEGA's Ecco the Dolphin, a fun, whimsical update of the classic undersea exploration game featuring an online leaderboard that tracks “Best Time,” and includes enhanced graphics and sound.

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:

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TLotR: Shadows of Angmar will allow players to forge heroic legacies in the War for Middle-Earth, experience an evolving persistent recreation of Tolkien's fantasy realm where you can establish their unique reputations, and discover and wield legendary weapons in strategic battles. Book 10: The City of the Kings adds over 100 new quests, implements significant enhancements to monster play and introduces the Reputation and Bartering systems.

Nickelodeon shifts the power of Tak from the video game console to TV sets everywhere this fall as the Nick/THQ video game becomes a brand new CG-animated series, Tak and the Power of Juju, premiering with two back-to-back half-hour episodes on Friday, August 31 from 8:00 - 9:00 p.m. (ET/PT).

GRAW 2 will feature changing climate, improved AI, an advanced Cross-Com system, air strikes from jet fighters, new weapons and a new soldier class, the Medic. Ubisoft has released a new patch, fixing various bugs, crashes, multiplayer issues, and enables all Map Editor functions.