The Ball is a first person action-adventure game featuring a full single-player experience built on Epic’s Unreal™ Engine 3 technology. As a swashbuckling archaeologist working on the slopes of a dormant volcano somewhere in Mexico, you get stuck in a cavern. It doesn’t take long before you realize this is more than just a cave.

Digital distribution outlet GamersGate announced its weekly specials, starting with 50% off Aquanox, Aquanox 2: Revelation, Deep Quest, Fishdom H20: Hidden Odyssey, Fishdom Spoky Splash, NG Explorer Ghost Fleet, Sub Command, 60% off BioShock, while BioShock 2 gets you a 30% discount. The Segmented Loyalty Offer for Silent Hunter 5/Silent Hunter 5 Collector’s Edition will get you 50-70% off, while Crusaders Thy Kingdom Come will cost 50 -80% less.

In R.U.S.E. players use their brain as the ultimate weapon, fighting a war of perception, where the ability to deceive and mislead the enemy determines success. A first in a strategy game, R.U.S.E. reinvigorates the genre by using deception to give new-found depth to the gameplay. This weekend (July 15 - July 19) fans will be able to play R.U.S.E. multiplayer for free on Steam, featuring 7 maps, and six factions, each with its own strategic profile.

Nexuiz is a 3D deathmatch game that is simply first person shooting reduced to the very basics with perfect weapon balancing.

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:

• DeathSpank (PSN/XBLA)
• Disciples III: Renaissance (PC)
• Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies (NDS)
• NCAA Football 11 (PS2/PS3/X360)
• Sorcerer's Apprentice (NDS)

We will update this throughout the day when new announcements become available. Read more for details ...

Inspired by real events, Medal of Honor is an all-new FPS game that will introduce the Tier 1 Operator, a relatively unknown entity directly under the National Command Authority who takes on missions no one else can handle.

The PES range has long been regarded as offering incredible realism and control, but PES 2011 will reinvigorate the series with the most advanced raft of gameplay additions, control options, and animations to meet the evolution of real-life football.

Dire Wolf Digital announced the formation of its new game development studio in Denver, Colorado, founded by Scott Martins, previously founder of Worlds Apart Productions, and studio head of Sony Online Entertainment Denver.

Wildlife Park 3 will again offer the popular combination of building strategy, management and realistic animal simulation.

Forza Motorsport 4 makes it possible for everyone to experience the thrill of the world's most exotic and exquisite cars. Live the most realistic racing experience ever.

Red Hot Shots, Dive Tackling, Wall Running, Dragon Punches, over-the-top mid-air volleys - all chainable tricks in HoopWorld. HoopWorld is a three-on-three multiplayer trick game that rewards gamers for playing competitively together.

In World of Tanks 30-player teams are fighting action-packed PvP battles. The game features more than 150 armored fighting vehicles from the pre-WW2 era up to the Korean War: light, medium, heavy and super heavy tanks, tank destroyers, self-propelled howitzers and rocket artillery. The game includes American, German and Soviet tanks.

Front Mission Evolved brings the classic Front Mission franchise into an action-packed third-person shooter that gives players full control of a massive humanoid war machine—the wanzer. Players will battle through intense combat situations as they explore an immersive world in both the single player campaign and online multiplayer.

Guardians of Graxia is a single/multiplayer strategy/board game that features dynamic strategic gameplay using cards, figurines, and map tiles in a fantasy-based environment, combining the best of both online and board game aspects in a highly replayable fantasy setting, and will contain more than 240 unique unit and spell cards at release.

Slam Bolt Scrappers is a genre twisting mash-up of brawling and building set in the bizarre and fantastic Slam Bolt City. One to four players clash in an all-out brawl while simultaneously creating weapon packed towers that fight alongside them.

All Points Bulletin (APB) is a massively multiplayer online freeform combat and driving-based game. Players must decide which side of the law to abide by, as Enforcers, who take on the challenge of supporting and safeguarding justice, or as Criminals, who operate against the law and any opposing groups by any means necessary.

Fans of the FIA World Rally Championship will soon be able to get closer to the action as Black Bean Game announced today that its internal development studio Milestone is working on a new official WRC video game.

Lucha Libre AAA: Heroes del Ring, using the Unreal Engine 3, features the most popular wrestlers from the quintessential & world famous Mexican sports event.

Blade Kitten, based on Steve Stamatiadis' comic book series, is an action adventure game that invites players into the world of Hollow Wish, where they take on the role of Kit Ballard, one of the best bounty hunters in the business.