Midway Games announced that Miguel Iribarren has been promoted to Senior Vice President – Publishing of Midway Games Inc., and that Martin Spiess has been promoted to the position of Executive Vice President, International of Midway Games Ltd., a subsidiary of Midway Games Inc.

Rock Band will be joining Mötley Crüe on tour for this year’s CRÜE FEST, a 40-city summer blockbuster that will see the Crüe headlining an all-star bill featuring Buckcherry, Papa Roach, Sixx: A.M. and Trapt. At each stop on tour, the fold-out Rock Band Second Stage Experience will give fans the on-site opportunity to become their very own rock star.

Digital Illusions' Battlefield: Bad Company drops gamers behind enemy lines with a squad of renegade soldiers who risk it all on a personal quest for gold and revenge.

Announced yesterday, No Time For Dragons is an RPG based on Russian sci-fi novels, where you, as young sorceress Telle, must learn and master the magic of the four elements, totem spells, cold steel and fire-arms and take a magical and personal journey of discovery testing your nerve and faith.

Prototype tells the story of Alex Mercer - a man haunted by his past, fighting a secret war in New York City. As the action spirals out of control, a conspiracy tied to his origins threatens the future of mankind itself. Sierra has teamed up with DC Comics to publish an all-new comic book series based on its open-world action game Prototype, set to debut this August via DC’s WildStorm imprint.

Check out the following new screens and trailers from Nintendo's Media Summit 2008 lineup:

• 'Boom Blox' (Wii) - 8 New Screens
• 'de Blob' (NDS/Wii) - 6 New Screens
• 'Rock Band' (Wii) - Facts, Features, Screens & Trailer
• 'Samba De Amigo' (Wii) - Facts, Features & Screens
• 'Star Wars: The Force Unleashed' (Wii) - Facts, Features & Screens
• 'Crossroad DS' (NDS) - Facts, Features & Screens
• 'Guitar Hero: On Tour' (NDS) - Features & Screens
• 'Kung Fu Panda' (NDS) - 5 New Screens
• 'Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood' (NDS) - Facts, Features & Screens
• 'Zenses Ocean/Rainforest' (NDS) - Facts, Features, Screens & Trailer
• 'My Weight Loss Coach' (NDS) - Screens
• 'Pokemon Mystery Dungeon' [NDS] - Screens & Trailer
• 'Space Invaders Extreme' (ALL) - Screens & Trailer

ET: QW pits the armies of Earth against the invading alien Strogg in this team-based online strategic shooter. Splash Damage revealed that Activision is no longer supporting the PC edition of ET:QW but that the v1.5 patch (a beta version was released earlier) is still in development internally and is scheduled for release later this month.

Beltion: Beyond Ritual is Rostok-Games' alternative fantasy RPG, in development since 2004. Beltion allows the player a freeform gameplay with a mix of fantasy and historical reality of medieval Europe.

Buckle up and prepare to unleash automotive anarchy in the ultimate burner’s paradise. Burnout 5 gives players license to wreak havoc in Paradise City, the ultimate seamless racing battleground, with a massive infrastructure of traffic-heavy roads to abuse. Criterion has 3 brand new FreeBurn game modes in the final phase of testing: Stunt Run, Road Rage and Marked Man.

Haze puts you in the boots of a new recruit in the privately run Mantel army. Your conflict begins in a war-torn country where you have been sent to fight a vicious rebel faction, the Promise Hand. Ubisoft announced the imminent release of a playable demo giving gamers a taste of not only the single-player campaign in Haze, but will also allow up to four-player, drop-in drop-out co-op play online.