Revealed last week, Focus announces Sherlock Holmes vs Arsène Lupin, the fourth title in the adventure series from Frogwares. Sherlock Holmes, receives a strange letter signed by Arsène Lupin, aka the king of thieves, challenging Holmes to prevent him from various robberies in London, with the purpose of humiliating England itself.

Game advertising spending in the U.S. will grow from $370 million in 2006 to more than $2 billion in 2012, according to a new Parks Associates report. Over that time, game advertising will achieve a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 33%, much higher than that of other major advertising media, including TV, radio, print, and the Internet.

Black Sea Studios, known for Knights of Honor, announced WorldShift, a next-generation, cyber-fantasy RTS game set in a dark future of Earth, where today's civilization is only a fading mysterious legend.

Founded in April 2007, Barcelona based Gammick Entertainment announces its launch as a video game production company. Currently working on four projects, a PC RTS Shadows of War, and three NDS exclusive titles, one of which called Smasher Z.

JAZZ: Hired Guns is a classic turn-based tactical strategy with strong RPG elements, and fully destroyable environment, offering well known mechanics and atmosphere of the original games, as well as the pleasure of meeting good old friends - A.I.M. mercenaries.

THQ announced Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance, addon for Gas Powered Games' 3D RTS,following the epic story of the original game in the aftermath of the Infinite War.

GameFactory's Jagged Farm: Birth of a Hero is a new agricultural real-time strategy game Jagged Farm: Birth of a Hero, built using the Officers engine.

Blue Dragon is an epic role-playing game that centers on a young boy named Shu and several of his friends who create and develop their combat styles by utilizing different types of Shadow Change, including Sword, Assassin, and Power Magic. Blue Dragon will ship this coming August, in both Europe and North America.

Codemasters' Rise Of The Argonauts is an action/rpg developed by Liquid Entertainment, known for War of the Ring and Dragonshard. Set in ancient Greece you will embark on an epic quest, and encounter legendary figures such as Jason, Hercules and Atalanta.

The in-game soundtrack boasts 27 songs from some of the most influential artists in music today including: Ozzy Osbourne, MIMS, Queens of the Stone Age and Daddy Yankee as well as explosive debuts from Atreyu and Datarock.

Luckless John is in the best tradition of classic and fun graphic adventures, mixed with today’s 3D technology. The main character can be moved around in an almost open 3D environment, with a simple and intuitive user interface.

At the Hollywood and Games Summit, LucasArts head honcho Jim Ward confirmed earlier rumors that it is working on a lightsaber enabled game for the Wii, "internally we have already played a lightsaber game on the Wii. It’s a lot of fun, and we’ll get there." Whether this is in addition to the Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga was not clear, but the LucasArts will be having "some stuff out this Fall."

Playlogic Entertainment announced that it has signed a worldwide 3 year license with a 2 year extension, on all platforms, based on the popular franchise Dragon Hunters with French Futurikon. The animated television series is on air and there is also a full feature-length animated movie based on the series scheduled for release early next year.

SEGA's Universe at War: Earth Assault, developed by Petroglyph, is a combat-intensive RTS game enlisting players in an epic struggle to prevent total alien domination of planet Earth.

2K Games announced that it will publish Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution, the first next generation game designed by world famous game designer Sid Meier, developed by Firaxis Games, and handcrafted from scratch for next gen consoles and handhelds.

Midway announced that five new titles are in development exclusively for Nintendo systems. Only for Wii, experience the rebirth of action racing with Cruis'n and a collection of classic skill games with Game Party. Ultimate Mortal Kombat, The Bee Game and a title based on Cartoon Network's top-rated, kids animated series Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends are all in development exclusively for NDS.

Sporting various new features, and a new graphics engine, Arena Wars Reloaded is an action strategy game focusing once again on fast-paced RTS action and multiplayer mayhem. Although the installer is in German, the demo does include English.

Hellgate: London is an RPG set in the immersive first-person perspective. With a completely randomized world that offers a unique experience every time you play, Hellgate: London introduces a demon-ridden place where the last survivors of the human race must meld science and magic to survive.

Revealed last week, XIDER Games will be making its first venture into the NDS format with Luminator DS, a puzzle-strategy game with a modern soundtrack and updated Tetris-style play which will banish your Rubik’s Cube to the attic permanently.

Digital Leisure is bringing its classic adventure game to the Nintendo DS version with a plethora of unique features while still maintaining the original game play, quality and style of the arcade release.