Ninja Captains is a party game that not only offers 20 unique games that are both fun and challenging, but the Wii version also lets up to 4 players join the action and compete for high score supremacy.

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:

• Fossil Fighters (NDS)
• Hearts of Iron III (PC)
• Killing Floor (PC) - Europe Only
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  We will update this throughout the day when new announcements become available. Read more for details ...

Steam Slug is an action shooter set in a truly steam punk world in alternative history setting. There is no place to go, the machines are everywhere and the only way of survival for you and mankind is to fight rogue engines and find the ultimate evil behind their creation.

Fans of Star Wars will want to keep an eye on their Wii Shop Channel for the next month. Nintendo will be releasing multiple LucasArts favorites for Virtual Console, starting today with Super Star Wars, followed by Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back and Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, at 800 Wii Points each.

Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West catapults the player straight into the dramatic crescendo of the Western myth. Allowing players to relive the thrills of a gunfight in classic western settings such as main street of a frontier town or the claustrophobic depths of a gold mine.

Nintendo added a VC, one NDSi, and two WiiWare titles to the Shop Channels. Nintendo owners with online access can redeem Points to download: NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits, Rock N’ Roll Climber (Wiiware), Brain Age Express: Arts & Letters (NDSiWare), and Super Star Wars (VC).

Drakensang: The Dark Eye, developed by Radon Labs, brings back epic party-based RPG gameplay in a breathtakingly detailed world, based on one of the world's biggest pen & paper franchises.

Gladiator Begins is a sequel to 2005's Colosseum: the Road to Freedom, tracing the life of a Roman gladiator from his first few bouts as a lowly slave to his final days of glory in the Roman Colosseum.

Announced earlier this year and already revealed in 1C's GamesCom lineup, Red Orchestra 2 is a sequel to Tripwire's realism-based multiplayer WWII shooter. The game will focus on one of the most brutal battles in all of human history, the Battle of Stalingrad and the surrounding operations, both German and Russian, from July 1942 to Feb. 1943.

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers provides a fresh take on the Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles series as it combines the storytelling depth, expansive world and graphical quality of Final Fantasy with motion-driven, real-time action gameplay.

3D game engine provider Emergent has teamed up with Illuminate Labs to integrate its lighting solution Beast into its Gamebryo development suite, allowing it to create high-quality global illumination lightmaps

Namco Bandai Partners announced its line-up of titles it will be showing off at GamesCom 2009 (August 19th – 23rd), such as Champions Online, Tekken 6, Dragon Ball titles, Katamari Forever, and more ...

Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 is the ultimate Ninja Gaiden, featuring characters from the previous installments that have defined the franchise. Combining both melee and long-range battles against enemies, the game requires skillful and strategic playing to successfully journey through the missions.

Independent Welsh PC adventure game developer Arberth Studios has taken back all North American rights to its title ‘Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches ’.

Italian games developers Impressionware and Idoru are combining their know-how and creating a new venture called Double Jungle, allowing them to share technology, work together on the development of more SKUs simultaneously, publish games and do work for hire.

Angle of Attack is an aerial combat spin-off from All Aspect Warefare where the Terrans have been at war with the Gammulan race for years. In an attempt to change the tide of war and take the battle to the enemy, Galactic Command, the Terran military body, launched an all out attack on the Gammulan homeworlds.

Modern Warfare 2 continues the gripping and heart-racing saga with an unprecedented level of action as players face off against a new threat dedicated to bringing the world to the brink of collapse. While Activision initially revealed that Modern Warfare 2, coming out Nov. 10 on PS3/X360 and PC, would only get two additional DLCs post-launch, it now has somewhat changed its statement saying there will be AT LEAST two packs, leaving the door open for more.

Men of War developer Digitalmindsoft revealed that it will introduce a new project at the 1C Company booth during GamesCom. "For all Men of War fans, this is going to be something you really will looking forward to, guaranteed. What it's about and what the game will feature will be answered by the press previewing our latest build."

Signature Devices announced that its subsidiary Graffiti Entertainment, known for NDS titles Black Sigil: Blade of the Exiled and C.O.R.E., has opened a European office in London, England with the help of industry veteran Terry Malham.

When Warner Bros. bought up most of the Midway studios/assets, it did not include its San Diego locations, which as it turns out has now been poached by THQ, but oddly enough the deal does not include Midway's TNA Wrestling title. Midway has also sold the shares of its subsidiaries in Germany, France and England to the current execs, who will leave their positions when the deals close.