In Resistance: Fall of Man, the U.S. and Britain band together in a last-ditch effort to save Europe and Asia from a horrific scourge. Humanity’s hope for survival is slim, and the tide of the battle rests on the shoulders of U.S. Army Ranger, Sgt. Nathan Hale.

Microsoft and Rare today announced that the 11 winning entries from the Kameo: Elements of Power Design Your Skin Contest are available today as free, fully playable downloadable content in the new Design-A-Skin pack through Xbox Live Marketplace.

Thrillville queue-jumps previous theme-park games with its access-all-areas pass to adventure and enjoyment, placing a fully interactive and customisable amusement park at your fingertips, allowing you to experience the joys of creating and playing within their very own theme park.

Blizzard has released a small update for its MMORPG World of Warcraft. This v1.12.1 update balances various character classes, adds user interface fixes, as well as various other tweaks.

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:

• The Fast and the Furious (PS2)
• Naruto: Clash of Ninja 2 (NGC)
• NBA Live 2007 (PSP/X360/Xbox/PC)
• NBA 2K7 (PS2/X360/Xbox)
• Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria (PS2)
• Caesar IV (PC)
• Mage Knight Destiny's Soldier (NDS)
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Empire has released the first patch for BugBear's recently released racing game FlatOut 2. This v1.2 patch is for all European editions, including Germany, not US, and adds voice chat, improves multiplayer, updates gfx and fixes a bunch of crashes and bugs.

JoWooD Productions, Deep Silver and Piranha Bytes attach great importance to on a very good quality which suits the expectations of the fans. Due to this reason the version has been optimized till the last second. Now it’s done: Gothic 3 is ready, in production, and will be released on the 13th of October.

Vanguard: Saga of Heroes is an MMORPG with a vast, seamless, immersive virtual world filled with elements of familiar High Fantasy, including traditional themes and more, all depicted using cutting-edge graphics technology. Sigil’s expertise and experience in the field will bring groundbreaking static and dynamic content to the genre.

NetDevil announced that today its MMORPG Jumpgate has reached its 5th anniversary of operation in the U.S, and to celebrate it is releasing a set of brand new features over the next few updates.

The furious battle of Pearl Harbor became the first in the sequence of gory sea combats. Now you can take part in all major Pacific battles of the World War II in the Pacific Storm game that is a mixture of RTS, war-game and simulator.

Codemasters released the 2nd free content expansion for its sci-fi/fantasy MMORPG RF Online, the epic sci-fi and fantasy MMORPG, giving players access to the new and previously uncharted player area, the Elan Plateau, as well as the Circle Zone Scramble, RF Online’s very own unique Guild versus Guild combat system.

Freeze Interactive's Field Ops, developed by Digital Reality and previously known as Ghost Wars, brings together, in a unique presentation, the two favorite genres of PC gamers; Real-Time-Strategy and First-Person Shooter.

DEFCON, inspired by the 1983 cult-classic Wargames, is an online, competitive, multiplayer strategy game based around the theme of global thermonuclear war. After a staggering Five Months worth of beta testing, Defcon has finally gone gold.

Check out the following new screens from SEGA's TGS 2006 lineup:

• Armored Core 4 (PS3/X360) - 51 New Screens
• Yakuza 2 (PS2) - 18 New Screens
• Bleach (Wii) - 6 New Screens & Trailer
• Sonic the Hedgehog (PS3/X360) - 13 New Screens
• Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz (Wii) - 36 New Screens
• Virtua Fighter 5 (PS3) - 11 New Screens
• Virtua Tennis 3 (PSP/PS3/X360/PC) - 8 New Screens
• Sonic and The Secret Rings (Wii) - 18 New Screens
• Appleseed Ex (PS2) - 9 New Screens
• Shining Force EXA (PS2) - 4 New Screens
• Black Jack: The Phoenix (NDS) - 8 New Screens
• Puyo Pop Fever: 15th Anniversary (NDS) - 5 New Screens
• Sangokushi Taisen (NDS) - 5 New Screens
• SEGA Golf Club' (PS3) - 3 New Screens
• A-ha! Experience for everybody!' (PSP) - 3 New Screens

Celebrating Metal Slug’s 10th Anniversary, SNK Playmore and Ignition Entertainment will release Metal Slug Anthology, containing: Metal Slug 1 through 6; with Metal Slug 1 and 2 making their first appearances on a home console, since the NEOGEO AES system.

New reports from DFC Intelligence predict that the worldwide video game and interactive entertainment industry (hardware, software, PC, consoles and handhelds) is expected to grow from about $29 billion in 2005 to as much as $44 billion in 2011.

LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy takes the fun and endless customization of LEGO and combines it with the epic story, characters and action from the original Star Wars movies that revolutionized pop culture forever. A 500 mb demo is available on XBL Marketplace, letting you try out part of the singleplayer experience.

Last year Sony announced that they were working on an emulator for the PSP, allowing owners of its handheld to play all PSOne titles without a problem. Scheduled for November, Sony has now released a beta version of its PSX-P emulator, which works for firmware v1.0 through 2.71, although from v2.5 up, you will need to use eLoader. The developers are not quite satisfied with the framerate, but future updates should remedy that. Once the official/final PSX-P is released you will need a PC with wifi or a PS3 in order to use it.

Packed with non-stop action, an explosive arsenal of alien weaponry, advanced mental abilities and an irreverent personality that satires 1960's era icons and science-fiction mythology, Destroy All Humans! 2 uncovers an open-ended world where the player can unleash massive destruction on the ground or in their UFO.

While details are very limited, Square Enix is working on a remake of the first Front Mission game in the franchise, which originally came out on SNES. Front Mission the First will use the main touch screen for tactical movement of troops, like we have seen in Advance Wars: Dual Strike. While other recent ports, FF III for instance, seem to have gotten a graphical upgrade, this does not seem to be the case with FM The First.