Pirates of the Burning Sea is a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game set in the Caribbean islands of the 18th Century. You play a bold sea captain, master of your own ship and crew, as you seek glory and adventure across the trackless deep.

FF XIII provides tangible, intuitive controls while delivering seamless transitions between real-time gameplay and stunning in-game cinematics. The latest in cutting-edge technology has been utilized in development of Final Fantasy XIII, thus making this newest addition to the Final Fantasy series worthy of the title next generation.

So far, we've revealed the honorable mentions and the top handheld titles, and today, we're rolling out the top console/PC offerings. Once that's out of the way, we'll start the countdown of the top 20 titles, including what WP considers to be the best game of 2006. Read more for the final results!

Titan Quest: Immortal Throne features an original storyline, new gameplay features include an all-new skill mastery that combines with existing masteries to form eight new playable character classes, dozens of new monsters, hundreds of unique weapons and an additional 10 levels of character and skill development.

Armed Assault is a realistic, combat gaming offering freedom of action and immersive complex environments, blended with a unique touch of total simulation. This exe allows to host missions for Armed Assault demo as a stand alone server.

Making History: The Calm & the Storm puts players in control of global conflict, combining a highly sophisticated AI with rich historical detail. Last week's demo was pulled due to an installater bug, a proper version has now been released with improvements to the UI, AI, better balancing, new research and improved diplomacy.

Two Worlds is an RPG featuring thrilling fight choreographies, gripping characters and realistic worlds, linking the cinematic story with maximum gaming freedom in a medieval fantasy world.

Capcom hired former THQ representative Germaine Gioia as senior vp licensing, where she will expand Capcom's Hollywood presence. After reasonable success with the Resident Evil movies, and the upcoming Street Fighter and Onimusha flicks, Gioia will shop around deals regarding other original franchises suitable for the silver screen.

Yesterday we revealed the honorable mentions, and today we're announcing the top handheld titles. Check us out tomorrow for the top console/PC offerings. Once that's out of the way, we'll start the countdown of the top 20 titles, including what WP considers to be the best game of 2006. Read more for the final results!

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade is the exciting new expansion to Blizzard's MMORPG, expanding the game by tremendous bounds, adding new races, quest, lands, Battlegrounds, professions and items, raising the level cap to 70, and more. Following earlier todays gold announcement, here are some new screens...

Kameo: Elements of Power is an action-adventure game with RPG elements, sending players on a magical and epic journey full of intense combat, magnificent exploration and innovative morph-into-warrior action. After Halo, might Microsoft also be bringing Kameo to the movie screen? According to this IMBd listing a movie about "a young elf-girl uses her transformative abilities to fight the evil troll king Thorn," is currently in pre-production, scheduled for 2007...

Histwar: Les Grognards! is a revolutionary Napoleonic strategic and tactical war game that thrusts you into the thrilling and challenging role of the Commander In Chief of one of the many powerful Napoleonic armies between the years 1805 -1814 including the mighty French, Austrian and Russians.

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:

• Hotel Dusk: Room 215 [NDS] - Trailer
• Tales of The World: Radiant Mythology [PSP] - Trailer
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

Pokémon Battle Revolution will use its wireless connection to interact with its NDS brethren Pokémon Diamond & Pearl. This will open various options such as playing NDS games on the TV, and using the NDS tactical screen for your Wii games. Pokémon Battle Revolution will allow you to see your NDS Pokemons battle in 3D on the Wii.

Last year Resolution Interactive acquired various licenses from Daydream, including Clusterball, which finally gets a sequel. Clusterball 2 is a high-paced, adrenaline pumping flight sport demanding skill, tactics and ball control - designed as a first person shooter but without the splatter and gore.

War is everywhere in EA Mythic's Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, featuring next generation Realm vs. Realm (RvR) game play that will immerse players in a world of perpetual conflict.

The Burning Crusade is the expansion to Blizzard's MMORPG World of Warcraft. It expands the game by tremendous bounds, adding new races, quest, lands, Battlegrounds, professions and items, raising the level cap to 70, and more. Blizzard CM Tseric confirmed that TBC has gone gold and is on track for its January 16, 2007 launch date.

Soldner was one of the most promising titles of 2004, but ended up a major disappointment due to a extremely bugged & rushed release, ultimately resulting in the demise of its developer Wings Simulations. However JoWood seems to have enough faith in the franchise to merit a sequel as gEasy Development Team announced it is currently working on Soldner 2, currently scheduled for Q4 2007.

Square Enix announced the latest title in the Dragon Quest universe, and the first to make the jump to next-generation consoles, Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors will be released for the Nintendo Wii.

Xpand Rally Xtreme features new car classes, extreme rally tracks, expanded economics with a tuning plot, additional game modes and a realistic driving simulation model. A single player demo will be available early January featuring 2 rally track (Malaysia and Italy), Arcade and Simulation modes, drivable in 2 customizable vehicles.