On June 27, 2008, Bill Gates transitions from his day-to-day role at Microsoft to focus more time on his work with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates will remain Microsoft’s chairman and will be involved in select projects based on direction from Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer and the leadership team.

Swords will be honed and weapons optimized in Namco Bandai's Soulcalibur IV. Delivering new gameplay modes, characters and enhanced features with unprecedented 3D modeling and animation, Soulcalibur IV will be the definitive fighting game experience.

Reshape the battlefield - and the fate - of a broken nation in Fracture, Pacifica and the Atlantic Alliance, boast soldiers with powers beyond those of ordinary men. The differing states of superhumanity result in balanced yet stylistically different combat tactics that have never been seen before.

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning will bring Games Workshop's fantasy world to life in a way that will allow players to create characters destined for great deeds and glory on the field of battle.

MTV and Harmonix announced that the next addition to the Rock Band Music Store will bev a Crüefest trackpack featuring Mötley Crüe's Down At The Whisky, Papa Roach's Time Is Running Out and Trapt's Who’s Going Home With You Tonight. Also available for download is Promised Land from fictitious hair metal band Vesuvius, featured in the upcoming Fox comedy The Rocker, featuring Rainn Wilson.

Armed with cinematic quality HD graphics, a next-gen battle system, interactive multi-dimensional battle grounds and a seamlessly explorable world of Naruto, Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm will capture the heart of any Naruto fan! On July 17 a demo will be available on PlayStation Network featuring single player and head-to-head multiplayer modes, playable as Naruto or Kakashi with special ninja support characters.

Advances in gameplay and the addition of new elements will make Disciples III richer and more interesting, while the visual design follows the original ominous and gloomy style of the Disciples world, but now with all units and environments in full 3D.

SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation focuses on online play and the global community and clans that support it, with support for Tournaments, Clan Ladders, and Leader Boards. Reminiscent of Warhawk, SCEA confirmed that SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation will come bundled with a bluetooth headset.

Archeology student Markus Forchtenstein is confronted with the last will of his late granduncle, who left behind a fortune − but only if Markus succeeds in delivering the ultimate proof for his strange theories, claiming that the "Vimanas" described in ancient India were actually spaceships from a superior, perhaps even alien society.

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:

• Pro Cycling Manager: Tour De France 2008 (PC) - Europe
• The SimCity Box (PC)
• Garfield: Lasagna World Tour (PS2)
• The Continuum (PC)
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