LucasArts and SOE announced the Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game as part of Star Wars Galaxies' fifth anniversary celebration, providing SWG subscribers an entirely new gameplay experience by combining the challenge of a trading card game with the adventures and community of the massively multiplayer game.

Empire Interactive announced it is restructuring in order to maximize efficiencies within the company and expects to reduce its active headcount by 30%. This will be achieved primarily through the sale or disposition of its internal development studio, Razorworks, which it acquired in 2000, although no IPs or projects will be canceled.

Pure takes quad racing to a new level, featuring massive jumps and spectacular airborne tricks in memorable, photo-realistic settings all over the globe. Featuring never-before-seen, vertigo-inducing massive aerial jumps in real-world quad locations, Pure delivers heart-pounding off-road racing unique to the genre.

Making History: The Calm & the Storm puts players in control of global conflict, combining a highly sophisticated AI with rich historical detail.

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:

• Guitar Hero: Aerosmith (PS2/Wii/PS3/X360)
• Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2 (NDS)
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Halo Wars is a strategy game based on the Halo universe where players will command armies of familiar and new UNSC units in its initial encounters against the Covenant, an alien coalition threatening to obliterate mankind.

Massive has released update #9 for its 3D RTS World in Conflict, which is nothing more than a hotfix addressing a a bug where the Special Abilities buttons stopped responding to mouse clicks, and fixed a bug that increased the loading times before map cycles.

Rainbow Six Vegas 2 adds new gameplay features and more stunning visuals. Players will encounter a solo campaign that uses new tactical possibilities in various locations around Sin City, co-op and adversarial modes, while providing unprecedented interaction between the solo and multiplayer experience.

Developed by Glyphic Entertainment, this unique game based on drawing and physics challenges players to maneuver the charming stick figure, Marker Man, through 150 scrolling world puzzles in his attempt to find his best friend, Doodle Dog.

Blizzard has released new update patches for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos as well as The Frozen Throne. This v1.22a upgrade balances the various classes, adds 4 new maps, and the usual tweaks, bug & crash fixes.

While the Fire Emblem DS has been revealed a little while ago, there have yet to be any official details released. Currently only scheduled for release in Japan on Aug. 8,. 2008, we're quite confident that Nintendo's fantasy turn-based strategy game will make its way to the west shortly thereafter.

Revealed earlier today, now official. With artwork by famed manga artist Akira Toriyama and an unprecedented and inspiring musical score created by Yasunori Mitsuda, Chrono Trigger represents the best-in-class of the video game world. Remastered for the NDS, this marks the first time that the groundbreaking RPG will be available on a handheld console.

Totem Games' Ironclads: American Civil War is a naval simulator mixing historical wargame elements with turned based tactics.

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, SC IV will be the definitive fighting game experience. Ubisoft is reporting that Play.com is offering an exclusive faceplate, while GAME is adding a bonus DVD and a steel encased art booklet.

With over 250 additions and enhancements to core gameplay, FIFA 09 has been designed and customized to deliver a unique gameplay experience that takes advantage of the hardware specifications of each available platform.

A MMO-cross genre game combining RPG aspects with an RTS combat mode, Dreamlords: The Reawakening continues the story where the original game left off, the world ended in a cosmic disaster and the Cynos had to put the world to sleep to heal itself. Everything went black but after eons of silence, the Dreamlords reawakens and begins to put the world back together.

Chocobos are probably one of the most recognizable characters of the Final Fantasy universe, and that is why Square Enix decided to give the yellow featherlings their own RPG. In Chocobo's Dungeon some dark power has stolen your friends' memories and you need to retrieve their identities.

SCEA has released the v2.40 PS3 system software update, adding XMB access in-game which enables PS3 users to connect and communicate with other gamers seamlessly while playing games, as well as giving PS3 users the ability to earn Trophies and tout their accomplishments & skills via profiles, and compare them to other members of the community. Super Stardust HD is the first game to add trophies with its v4.00 update, also released today.

The latest issue of Japanese gaming magazine Jump has got the Chrono Trigger fans all excited showing off a screenshot of the old 2D game, listing it as coming to the NDS, scheduled for release in Japan this coming winter. Speculations are further fueled by a teaser page on Square Enix's website showing off the series' iconic clock image accompanied by an NDS logo. Chrono Trigger made its debut on the SNES mid 90's, with a PSOne port in 1999, and a year later the Chrono Cross sequel.

TF2 is a class-based, multiplayer team warfare game, delivering new game types, a signature art style powered by Valve’s next-gen animation technology, persistent player statistics, etc... Valve's next update will revolve around the Heavy class, with unlockable weapons and achievements. While details are slim, TF2 director Robin Walker said the aim was to improve the Heavy without encroaching on another class's role, especially the Heavy/Medic combo.