NBA Street series expands on the fast-paced and larger-than-life 3-on-3 basketball gameplay, creating a hyper-real world that merges legendary courts with the hometown courts of your favorite NBA stars into one seamless city of streetball moments.

Valve announced it has signed an online distribution agreement with GSC World offering its RTS/RPG hybrid Heroes of Annihilated Empires on Steam later this month. HoAE challenges gamers to create a powerful leader and a dominant military force through battle, diplomacy and treachery in a rich fantasy world.

As promised Microsoft has released the first patch for Ensemble Studios' AoE III: The WarChiefs, bringing your retail game to v1.01 which mainly addresses balance issues and a few exploits that players have found.

Namco Bandai announced development of a NDS exclusive RPG, Inuyasha: Secret of the Divine Jewel, featuring an all-new original storyline, original characters created exclusively for the game and an intuitive battle system based on action from the popular animated series.

Splinter Cell Double Agent will reinvent the spy action genre by introducing a double agent concept and a new breed of game play that adds an exciting new dimension to the gaming experience. Ubisoft has released a pair of demos, a single and multiplayer demo, allowing you to check out their recently released stealth action game.

Ubisoft has released a new patch for Nival Interactive's Might & Magic V. This update brings your retail, and download, game to v1.4 and adds new features, and the usual improvements, balance tweaks, bug and crash fixes.

Majesco announced that it has renamed Bust-A-Move Revolution into its official name, Bust-A-Move Bash!, and revealed game details for its first Wii puzzle title.

ZuxxeZ has released a new patch for its RTS Earth 2160. This v1.3.8 upgrade works for all language editions of the game and improves mod support, ability to cancel construction, but mostly adds rebalancing to a few items.

The Burning Crusade expands the game by tremendous bounds, adding new races, quest, lands, Battlegrounds, professions and items, raising the level cap to 70, and more. A few weeks back the expansion got delayed, and now Blizzard has pinned down a new release date for Europe & North America, January 16, 2007.

Heatseeker will strap you into the pilot’s seat and deliver an exhilarating white-knuckle ride that’ll have you clutching the joypad as you engage in face-melting 6G turns and fight against a seemingly-impossible amount of airborne enemies.

Paradox announced that its strategy game Europa Universalis III will be shipping to stores on January 23, 2007 in North America with releases in Europe and Australia to follow shortly thereafter.

In Sacred: Underworld, players will be able to re-live the excitement of the entire original Sacred adventure with two new characters, or continue with existing characters. This new patch brings your French/German retail game to v2.28 and addresses gameplay issues, fixes single/multiplayer problems, quest issues and more ...

Fuzion Frenzy 2, developed by Hudson, is a party game set in space that combines futuristic arcade action, superior mini-games, tournament modes, and custom tailored games with online features such as multiplayer and customizable tournaments.

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:

• Disney's Kim Possible: What's the Switch? (PS2)
• Every Extend Extra (PSP)
• For Liberty! (PC)
• Left Behind: Eternal Forces (PC)
• Lumines II (PSP)
• The Sopranos: Road to Respect (PS2)
• Viva Piñata (X360)
• World Championship Poker Featuring Howard Lederer: All In (X360)
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  We will update this throughout the day when new announcements become available. Read more for details ...

The first new playable race to the Realms in two years, the Minotaur has returned to Camelot, and they seek the help of the mightiest warriors from the three warring Realms. Powerful Minotaur Relics, long hidden and sealed away, have been unearthed, and their corrupting influence now threatens the world of Camelot.

In Superman Returns: The Videogame, you explore and protect the truly living city of Metropolis, one that is not only expansive (with 80 sq miles and over 9,000 buildings), but also changes dynamically with you as you affect gameplay.

With the PS3 release date drawing near, several of launch titles might not make it in time. EBgames/Gamestop have updated release dates for F.E.A.R. and TES4: Oblivion, putting Vivendi's shooter to Jan. 1st 2007, while Bethesda's RPG is scheduled for Feb. 2007. SEGA needs extra time to incorporate downloadable content for Sonic The Hedgehog, which won't make launch date, but should still arrive before year's end. Word from EA Canada is that the PS3 edition of NBA Live 07 has been cancelled, in favor of NBA Street Homecourt.

Dawn of Magic, also known as Blood Magic, is an action/RPG where the weapon of choice is magic. In this game, the player controls an Unlikely Hero in an ambitious search through many hostile environments looking for Modo, the ethereal being bent on destroying the world.

Lost Planet is a sci-fi action shooter set within the merciless frozen tundra of a hostile planet, humans struggle for survival as conflicts arise between man, the surrounding indigenous creatures and the monstrous beings that have invaded. A flyer in the Gears of War retail box indicates that Capcom will release a multiplayer demo on Xbox Live, although no details as to when are mentioned...