Ultimate Baseball Online 2006 lets sports fans and gamers play a virtual version of baseball in a real-time, and compete in tournaments to win cash and other valuable prizes, on any PC with a broadband connection

Sam and Max: Season 1: Culture Shock and begins as Sam and Max discover that a group of former child stars have become involved in nefarious deeds. Only the six foot dog and his cunning rabbit companion can unravel the mystery!

ThreadSpace: Hyperbol is a Projectile-Based Tactical game set in the distant future. Players battle each other on roads in space, called Hyperchannels, as they pilot massive Ships capable of firing a wide variety of Projectiles. Iocaine Studio has launched the open beta, if you wish to participate, sign up here ...

Spider-Man: Battle for New York allows gamers to take on the role of their favorite Super Hero, Spider-Man, and one of his famed nemeses, Green Goblin, in an original storyline which builds upon their legendary comic book rivalry.

Limelight Networks today announced it has renewed its alliance with Microsoft as the Content Delivery Network to continue to deliver content and downloads from Microsoft and game developers directly via the Xbox 360's Xbox Live network.

The World Series of Video Games presented by Intel announces today that the upcoming Major event on the World Series of Video Games circuit will be entitled the "UK Gaming Championship". The event will be held at the London Trocadero in Piccadilly Circus, October 6-8, 2006. Hours of operation are 10-10 Friday and Saturday, and 12-5 on Sunday.

Aspyr will serve up adrenaline pumping action early next year on PC tennis courts everywhere with the release of Top Spin 2, a world-class tennis game that immerses players in the world of top-ranked professional tennis.

With NFL Street 3 you can play your style of football both on the ground and in the air in this newest iteration of the popular NFL STREET franchise. Show off your style and boost your score by performing stunning aerial moves, jumping into the air and collecting special items and game modifiers that hover above the playing field.

CDV announced American Conquest Anthology, which includes American Conquest, and its Fight Back and Divided Nation expansions, letting you relive events from American history from the period of 1492 to 1865. The collection includes a total of over 100 missions, 25 campaigns and 22 nations, random map generator and online multiplayer modes that will keep players battling through history for months. American Conquest Anthology will ship to North American retail in November 2006.

Ubisoft's X360 exclusive Import Tuner Challenge, also known as Tokyo Xtreme Racer X, is an authentic and extremely customizable street-racing game that challenges racers to immerse themselves in Tokyo's underground to take on the fastest street-racing teams.

L.A. Noire, developed by Team Bondi formed by The Getaway's Brendan McNamara, is an interactive detective story set in the classic noir period of the late 1940's. L.A. Noire blends action, detection and complex storytelling and draws players into an open-ended challenge to solve a series of gruesome murders.

Microsoft Game Studios today announced that the Zoo Tycoon 2: Marine Mania expansion pack has gone gold, allowing you to turn your dream zoo into an aquatic adventure.

Alpha Prime is a first person action game with an emphasis on the single player experience. At its core is a Science Fiction story written by the foremost Czech Sci-fi author Ondrej Neff. Game play will be a varied balance of combat and more technical activities such as hacking and remotely controlling robotic devices.

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:

• Mage Knight: Apocalypse (PC)
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (NGC/PS2)
• Down in Flames: Eastern Front (PC)
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  We will update this throughout the day when new announcements become available. Read more for details ...

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

• Devil May Cry 4 (PS3) - 10 New Screens
• God Hand (PS2) - Screens
• Lost Planet: Extreme Condition (X360) - 18 New Screens
• Mega Man Star Force (NDS) - Features & Screens
• Monster Hunter Portable 2nd (PSP) - Screens
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Justice For All (NDS) - Screens
• Power Stone Collection (PSP) - Features & Screens

Ascaron has released a new patch for its latest iteration in the ANSTOSS soccer management franchise. This 4th patch requires v1.03 to be installed and fixes various bugs, and game crashes. Old save games will no longer work after applying this patch.

Pompolic: Call for Heroes is a third-person action game with RPG elements placed in a fantasy world. Quotix Software programmer Attila Siladji tells us more about their upcoming action/rpg.

Former VP of Global Online at EA Lars Buttler, and Might & Magic creator Jon Van Caneghem, who also founded New World Computing, have officially launched Trion World Network Inc., the publisher and developer of games and original entertainment for the broadband era.

Bullet Witch is an action adventure taking place in the exceedingly bleak near future of 2013. Civilization is on the brink of extinction after demons begin appearing on the earth, and the player wades into the fray as a witch named Alicia.

Sierra Entertainment announced today that it is developing Ice Age 2 The Meltdown, based on 20th Century Fox's animated film, for the Nintendo Wii, and will be available at retailers nationwide this holiday season.