Crave Entertainment today announced the release of Pinball Hall of Fame, featuring some of the best Gottlieb pinball tables of all time. With over seven tables from the 50's through the 90's to choose from, and a special un-lockable table, Pinball Hall of Fame will offers the largest selection of pinball tables ever released on any console.

Techland has released an additional set of editing tools for its mod-friendly racer Xpand Rally. Read more for details and download links ...

Matrix Games and Slitherine Strategies are pleased to announce that their new turn-based empire-building and ancient battles game, Gates of Troy has officially “Gone Gold.” and will be available for sale in December.

Ubisoft today announced that Prince of Persia: Warrior Within is now available on store shelves for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube and PC.

Developed by Ubisoft's award-winning Red Storm studio, Ghost Recon 2 launches on next-generation consoles and PC this Holiday season. The game is set in the chaotic battlefields of tomorrow, and will offer gamers an insider's view of the way large scale conflicts will be fought in the near future. Read more for a few new screens & ingame trailer...

Kicking off the start of the frenzied holiday shopping season, retailers welcomed hordes of Xbox consumers over Thanksgiving weekend. Gamers flocked to purchase the Xbox video game system, Xbox Live subscriptions and Xbox games, not the least of which was the blockbuster "Halo 2."

The Adventure Company has issued a demo, complete with walkthrough, for their title, Sentinel: Descendants in Time. The demo features two locations, Tomb 35 and Maru, with plenty of exploring and puzzles in between. Read more for download links ...

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 :

• Prince of Persia Warrior Within - Trailer
• WarDevil: Unleash the Beast Within [Xbox 2] - Trailer
• Haunting Grounds - Trailer (2)

Kuma Reality Games, the company that blends news coverage with game technology to allow players to experience interactive re-creations of real military events, has released its latest timely KumaWar mission from the military hotspot of Fallujah -- “Fallujah: Operation al-Fajr.”

Get behind the wheel and be ready to live numerous driving experiences in Los Angeles; choose your car to be fully customized: add loads of new tuning elements either on the body or in the mechanics of your car. Thus its behavior will change and evolve providing you with an always in-evolution sensation and appropriation feeling of your car. Once on the streets, drive freely wherever you want! Read more for a carload of screens ...

Cold Fear is the first action-horror title to be published under the Ubisoft brand and combines the popular elements of both action and horror releases, delivering an action-packed, tension-filled gaming experience.

'FIFA Street' is a combination of arcade action blended with the culture of freestyle street football. By removing the rules from the simulation football experience, 'FIFA Street' exposes the heart of the world's beautiful game, on-the-ball flare and individual style.

In Lineage II, NCSoft's MMORPG, players can use in game money, called "adena," to place wagers or purchase lottery tickets. With the winnings they can purchase upgraded weapons, armor, magic spells or any of the in-game items available in the game's markets.

Investment firm SBI-USA has initiated a lawsuit in the United States District Court, Central District of California, against Infinium Labs Inc. and its CEO, Timothy M. Roberts, stating claims for breach of contract and fraud arising from Infinium Labs Inc.'s default under an Investment Banker/Advisor Agreement entered into with SBI-USA, LLC in March 2004.

Konami of Europe has announced that the forthcoming PAL versions of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater will include an extensive array of gameplay features not seen in the Japanese and US versions. Read more for details ..

Kay's home, the island Yenching, has been invaded by Shun's evil gorilla army and masses of sleazy rats. When the new occupants meddle with his fight training, Kay is livid so he follows his friend Su Ling to offer some armed resistance. An action packed adventure drives Kay through all of Yenching to the heart of evil; the flaming fortress of Waa-Lo. New screens & trailer, coming right up!

Akella presents the long-awaited details on its internal project, the Hard to be a God RPG based on the novel of the same name by Strugatsky brothers. The Hard to be a God game will be a thoroughbred role-playing game affirming all the best traditions of the genre. The storyline is non-linear presenting several story branches with 4 endings depending on the main character’s in-game behavior. Read more for details ..

Earlier than was planned HD Interactive has released the first patch for Mithis Games' space combat/strategy Nexus: the Jupiter Incident. This update brings your retail game to v1.01 and adds support for non T&L based video cards, a slew of gameplay adjustments and the usual bug and crash fixes. Read more for detailed fix list and download links ...

Wish's highly-scalable server cluster infrastructure allows the game to support tens of thousands of simultaneous players in a single shared world. Wish is the first massively multi player online role playing game that truly tells a story, and lets player actions have lasting implications on the world. Yet more screens ...

Ubisoft launched an eBay auction for three unique video game packages with all proceeds to benefit the San Francisco Food Bank, the largest distributor of food to low-income people in San Francisco.

Monster Arenas lets players choose from a selection of 8 seriously hardcore, V12-powered Monster Trucks and burn their way around the 4 totally extreme race tracks inside massive grand stands that host the fiercest and most monstrous truck races known to man!

Dark Age of Camelot undergoes a major new evolution with this third retail expansion. Launched in the United States in early December by Mythic Entertainment, the developer of the game, ‘Dark Age of Camelot: Catacombs’ will be managed and published in Europe by GOA, France Telecom’s game department. The expansion will be available in the first quarter of 2005 in French, English and German versions, prior to the release in Spring of the whole game and it’s expansions in Spain and Italy.

DEALER - Chronic, Pills & Coke is a 3rd person action shooter designed for PS2, Xbox and PC set in a huge metropolis, with a lot of driving and shooting, run on a GTA-type game course, in which the player can take part in the - not everyday - bloody and amusing adventures of a drug dealer. Read more for details and some early screens ...

Use destructive weapons and innate mental powers to take on the most feared enemy in the galaxy - Mankind! Play as Crypto, an alien warrior sent to Earth to clear the way for the Furon invasion force. Your mission is to infiltrate humanity, control them, harvest their brain stems and ultimately destroy them. You choose the method - infiltration or disintigration!

Spyro must save the Dragon Realms from the Evil Red Dragon who has planted light-sapping Dark Gems all over the Dragon Realms in an attempt to capture and control the world. With the help of his allies, Spyro must seek out and destroy all of the Dark Gems to return the lands back to normal and to save the Dragon Realms from the evil dragon's tyrannical control.

Picking up right where the game’s story left off, Battle out of Hell includes an additional single-player chapter with 10 levels, as well as new multiplayer modes, maps and models. It will also offer an amplified arsenal of un-deadly weapons, bigger and badder bosses.