Sony Online Entertainment's Seattle studio is developing The Agency, a PC/PS3 exclusive fast-paced online action shooter filled with espionage, intrigue and betrayal. When you visit the official The Agency website, you can sign up to be notified about the beta by clicking on the black bullet in the logo on the top right.

DK Project: The Last City of Heaven is an open ended sandbox game in the vein of GTA or MAFIA. You will be free to travel through the city, to take whatever vehicle you want, and although you do not belong to any particular faction, you can start or work for gangs, but the aim of the game is not to have the biggest gang.

Hot on the heels of the restructuring announcement, it seems Take Two will be closing its New York office and consolidating it with their California-based West Coast office. No details as to how many people will make the transition (or get laid off) were disclosed, or whether NY native Rockstar is making any sort of relocation as well.

Guitar Hero fans will channel their inner rock god using Gibson Guitar's Les Paul and Kramer models, experience new features and explosive content including a new multiplayer action-inspired battle mode, grueling boss battles, a bevy of exclusive unlockable content and authentic rock venues.

Project Sylpheed is a 3-D makeover of the classic, mid-'80s scrolling shooter franchise Silpheed launching players through an exhilarating space combat experience driven by a deep, multi-layered storyline. A 613 mb demo is now available on Xbox Live...

Taking full advantage of the Nintendo DS's unique characteristics, KOEI's action-combat series Dynasty Warriors will be unlike any other Tactical Action game previously released on the NDS.

FlatOut: Total Carnage is a re-imagining of FlatOut 2 rebuilt from the ground up and specifically developed to make use of the additional feature sets and improved processing ability of third generation technologies.

Featuring an all-new, revolutionary feature set, SimCity Societies allows players to construct not only the cities they desire, but create their cultures, societal behaviors and environments as well.

It's been quiet for a few months surrounding the Castlevania movie, but word has trickled out that Sylvain White, known for Ronin and most recently Stomp the Yard, has been set to direct a live-action adaptation of Konami's vampire videogame Castlevania. Originally scripted by AvP's Paul W.S. Anderson it will get a rewrite by White, and be produced by Crystal Sky's Steven Paul and Benedict Carver, with Anderson and Jeremy Bolt. Scheduled for late 2008, shooting will commence late fall in South Africa and Romania.

Already owing 70% of the company, venture capital firm Balderton Capital has acquired the remaining 30% stake held by the orignal founders of Codemasters, David and Richard Darling and their father Jim.

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.

All three console developers, Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo, have been sued for various patent infringements with their current-generation consoles. Most recently, Microsoft got served by Lucent over an MPEG-2 issue, and today, Texas-based Lonestar Inventions filed suit against Nintendo for a 1993 patent they own regarding "high capacitance structure in a semiconductor device," a space-saving method tripling the effectiveness of parallel plate capacitors by using layers of conducting strips.

While other FPS titles claim to feature action-packed, highly realistic gameplay, BlackSite: Area 51 takes next-gen gaming to an all-new level integrating cutting edge technology, game design and story writing to create the ultimate entertainment experience.

Electronic Arts announced that more than 200,000 players have signed up for the closed beta test for its upcoming MMORPG Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning.

Another day, another batch of game trailers was released. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are trailers for:

• Soul Calibur IV [PS3/X360] - Teaser Trailer
• Haze [PS3/X360/PC] - Developer Diary Trailer #1
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [ALL] - Trailer (2)
• Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 [NDS/Wii] - Gameplay Trailer
• SKATE [PS3/X360] - Flick It Gameplay Trailer
• Sega Present Touch Darts [NDS] - Trailer
• The Sims 2 H&M Fashion Stuff - Trailer
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Everlight: Fairies, Candles and a Wish is a 3D fantasy adventure under development at Silver Style Entertainment, known for The Fall. Not much else is known at this point, so check out some new screens...

Swords will be honed and weapons optimized as Namco Bandai Games America announced Soulcalibur IV. Delivering new gameplay modes, characters and enhanced features with unprecedented 3D modeling and animation, Soulcalibur IV will be the definitive fighting game experience.

AGEOD's American Civil War enjoys a very intuitive interface and is easy to learn. Compared to its predecessor, Birth of America, it features many additions such as new economic and political features, player control of troop recruitment, full chain of command from armies to brigades and much much more!

In City of Heroes/Villains Issue 10: Invasion the skies over Paragon City are filled with dark grey thunderheads. It is the same in the Rogue Isles, Europe, and across the globe. Small ships dart through the heavy weather … and there are so very many of them. The Rikti have returned.

In NCAA Football 08 players will look to be a leader and become a legend on the field with a new and deeper recruiting system and an all-new Campus Legend mode. At the NCAA Football Community Day EA revealed that an Xbox 360 and PS3 demo is being worked on, and planned for release in early July.