What if what you do as a player in a game impacted your real world? What is reality? .hack, a sci-fi fantasy RPG, has pursued this innovative concept in the previous 4-part series where “The World” was ultimately destroyed. Years after the events of the first .hack series, “The World” was rebuilt.

Empire has released the first patch for BugBear's recently released racing game FlatOut 2. This beta 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.

Europa Universalis III delves deeply into the areas of exploration, trade, warfare and diplomacy and is an epic strategy game where players take control of a nation and guide it through the ages to become a great global empire.

Atari received a Staff Determination Letter from the Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Department stating it's not in compliance with rules where common stock needs to maintain a $1.00 minimum bid price, and therefore is subject to delisting from The Nasdaq Global Market.

Mage Knight Apocalypse is an action RPG based on the collectible miniature game from WizKids Games. Designed with a unique character leveling system and an unprecedented focus on team play, Mage Knight Apocalypse allows up to five players to embark on a cooperative or competitive journey through a war-torn fantasy setting.

An SEC report filled by Vivendi reveals quite a few details about what it has in stores for us in the near future. Psychonauts developer Double Fine is working on a new action/adventure title, while it is preparing several Xbox Live Arcade titles such as Battlestar Galactica, Red Baron, and The Incredible Machine. There is also mention of other, yet-unannounced projects, Crash Festival, M.A.C.H. (Modified Air Combat Heroes) for the PSP, and Sierra Online has a few MMO titles in the works, such as FreeStyle and Crash Online.

In Just Cause, you take on the role of the flamboyant Rico Rodriguez - an undercover CIA operative specializing in regime change - as he tries to overthrow the corrupt government of San Esperito. This rogue South American island is suspected of stockpiling WMDs and it's your job to negate the threat to world peace.

SkillGround is the world's first video game service where competitors from around the world can play top quality video games head-to-head in a secure and fair environment for fun and real money. The creators are currently hosting a beta test, and the first 1,000 people to sign up receive $50 to use as entry fees to play other gamers on SkillGround.

With authentic simulation physics, bone-jarring damage, photo-realistic graphics, 300 of the world’s hottest cars for you to collect, and licensed tuning and customization options, Forza Motorsport 2 improves on the unprecedented features gamers enjoyed in its debut installment.

Set in the most turbulent and bloody era in European history, Medieval 2: Total War will allow gamers to lead their armies across the battlefields of Europe and the Holy Land before discovering the Americas and doing battle with the fearsome Aztecs.

In a surprising turn of event, Strategy First announced today that it has cancelled any and all agreement with Game Factory Interactive, and its internal studio Mist-Land South who was developing, regarding the Jagged Alliance license.

Milestone, the creators of the Superbike series, are back and bringing Super-Bikes: Riding Challenge with them, the most realistic and in depth riding simulation.

In addition to the two new playable races, Dark Crusade will feature an all-new single player campaign centering on the conquest of a meta-map, with each territory captured giving tangible rewards to the occupying force. This demo allows you to try out a tutorial and 2 missions, as the Tau vs. the Space Marines.

MotorStorm delivers brutal off-road racing, plunging players into a stunningly realistic - but frenzied and chaotic - environment awash with grit, mud and petrol, in a game that leaves the standard rules of racing in the dust.

S2Games has released the full & free Win32 version for its online multiplayer FPS/RTS Savage: Battle for Newerth, giving you a chance to check out the entire game (thanks 3DGamers). This install includes 17 maps and all other content needed to get online and play.

Out of the Park Baseball 2006 offers gamers the ultimate in realism with its brand new pitch-by-pitch game engine, unrivalled playability and unparalleled customization. This final v1.0.3 patch/demo includes several new community requested features, as well as the usual bug/crash fixes and game tweaks.

Check out the following new screens from GameFactory Interactive's Games Convention 2006 lineup:

• Officers - Screens
• Jagged Farm: Birth of a Hero - Screens
• Warfare - Screens
• Gluk0za - Screens
• Protivostoyanie - Screens

Paradise is an adventure game which immerses the player in the heart of Africa, at once eternal and terribly contemporary. Ubisoft has released a new v1.1.3 patch for the English versions of the game, improving the graphical quality of the game.

Already revealed last week, EA today officially announced that it will release EA Replay, a compilation of EA games from the 90's exclusively for the PSP, bringing you back to a simpler time when the dawn of gaming's golden age took hold.

Warhammer: Mark of Chaos is a revolutionary real-time strategy 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.