Starting as a small town star and working through the ranks to become a national legend, Sprint Cars: Road to Knoxville lets players race in several single player modes packed with options or engage in a two-player, split-screen arcade mode for one race or an entire season. Valusoft has released a 60 min try before you buy demo, which can be unlocked to the full game by purchasing a license key.

Fatal Inertia mixes street racing, demolition derbies and rallying with a futuristic setting where machines no longer need wheels and the laws of physics govern all. The sport is called Inertia and it's one that offers a heady mix of speed, combat and real world environments that can be used to make your victory and break your opponents.

Battlefield 2142 is set in the future, the world is plagued by a second Ice Age, and wars have broken out over the remaining territories. EA has released a beta version of the upcoming v1.10 patch, so use at your own risk.

Ubisoft announced The Vikings addon for Blue Byte's strategy 2D to 3D remake The Settlers II: The Next Generation, which will obviously add the Viking race, new campaign with 12 missions, all other races become playable in singleplayer, new quest system, and more.

Warhammer: Mark of Chaos is an RTS game set in the renowned Warhammer world, featuring epic battles within massive landscapes, while offering an astounding level of detail, from a bird's eye view down to the insignias on a warrior's armor. Namco will release the v1.6 patch on Monday which will add new features, fix bugs/crashes, and add a slew of unit/item balance tweaks.

Virtua Tennis 3 gives gamers the opportunity to experience new levels of realism never thought possible on a home console system with enhanced photo-realistic graphics and advanced player animations that perfectly match the behaviour and mannerisms of individual professional players.

Winners were announced tonight during the 4th annual Spike TV Video Game Awards held at the University of Southern California's Galen Center in Los Angeles. Hosted by Samuel L. Jackson, the 2006 Video Game Awards premieres on Spike TV Wednesday, Dec. 13 (10:00 PM-Midnight, ET/PT).

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 :

• Mass Effect [X360] - X06 Walkthrough Trailer
• Supreme Commander - Trailer
• Hellgate: London - Trailer #9
• Sam & Max Episode 2 - Situation: Comedy - Trailer #2
• Final Fantasy Versus XIII [PS3] - Trailer
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EA announced The Sims 2 Seasons, the latest Expansion Pack for The Sims 2 loaded with new seasonal activities for your Sims including snowball fights, chasing fireflies, playing in leaf piles, and more!

BoB II: Wings of Victory recreates the fierce and famous air battles southern England in 1940, allowing the player to act as the supreme commander of either side, or simply fly and let your generals manage the war below. This update brings your retail game to v2.05 and improves load times, stability, and also adds multiskin support, advanced flight modeling etc..

Ever since Valve launched its automatic weapons pricing system, the Desert Eagle has remained popular due to its usefulness, even with an ever increasing price. The Five Seven, P228, and Dual Elites will be tweaked and be made more effective to counter this. Valve also revealed that early next year it will start incorporating in-game ads in Counter-Strike v1.6 through its recent partnership with IGA. Strategically placed billboards will begin featuring carefully selected branding in order to not disrupt gameplay.

French developer Cyanide is already working on a new project, Loki, an action/RPG set in a universe inspired by mythology and ancient races such as the Greeks, Vikings, Aztecs and Egyptians.

As predicted The Multiverse Network announced it optioned the rights from 20th Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising to develop an MMOG based on Firefly, the science fiction television series created by Joss Whedon that has enjoyed a hugely popular and loyal following since its premier in 2002.

NCAA March Madness returns for the 2007 season, offering custom playbooks for each team, an enhanced Dynasty Mode, and other new features.

Step up as the lead blocker to create a hole, and then take control of the tailback and smash through, overpower, or slash away from would-be tacklers as you fight for every yard. Innovative rushing controls give you a game-breaking ground attack featuring all-new jukes, cutbacks, and the distinct running styles of your favorite backs.

SEGA announced that it has added new missions, new weapons, new classes and increased the level cap to the Phantasy Star Universe server on Xbox 360, PC, and PS2 platforms. SEGA also announced that from now on it will add content every week, instead of every month.

The game will provide players with extremely dynamic gameplay of fast and tough combats, where players are to oppose dangerous and wise enemies, a large set of multifarious weaponry, possibility to control various machinery, incredible detailing and game world interactivity, story-driven single player with original team gameplay, a well-balanced multiplayer with numerous modes.

The latest issue of PCGamer contains a Q&A on the newest C&C title, giving details on previously undisclosed feature, Match Broadcast. Undoubtably aimed at competition/league gaming, Match Broadcast will allow player to stream on going gaming sessions over the web, even allowing people who do not have the game to watch via a standalone client. It also allows a moderator to comment through VOIP, shift specators camera angle, and even highlight certain aspects of the love match, as if it were a teleprompt presentation.

TrackMania United is the complete TrackMania game, regrouping all the TrackMania games released until now and all their add-ons. The Stadium environment from TrackMania Nations will benefit from a new version with twice more blocks, while integrating a whole new set of functionalities both for online and solo play.

Enlight announced the next installment in the award-winning sports Mogul series, Football Mogul 2007. As the premier sports statistical-simulation game on the market, football fans will experience all the intense excitement and strategic challenge that they have come to expect from the series.