EA officially announced The Battle for Middle-earth II: The Rise of the Witch-king, enhancing every existing feature and offering players the chance to command the rise of evil in Middle-earth while experiencing the epic battles that took place before those depicted in the films.

IGA Worldwide has signed an exclusive multi-title, multi-platform agreement for a range of key titles from Codemasters, starting with Brian Lara International Cricket 2007 and DIRT: Colin McRae Rally OffRoad.

LMA Manager 2007 will deliver the series’ totally compelling world of football to the new formats in massively expanded editions, with teams from over 50 countries to manage or pick transfers from, while retaining LMA Manager’s intuitive and user-friendly interface, where every piece of information is no more than a couple of button-presses away, and comes complete with visual presentation.

Call of Juarez is situated in 19th-century Wild West America and requires a combination of both intelligent stealth and pure shooting. This demo allows you to play one mission as either Ray or Billy.

Since Troika is no longer amongst the living this patch is not official, so use at your own discretion. This update brings Activision's Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines retail game to v2.6 (requires v1.2 patch installed) and addresses a number of known issues, gameplay tweaks, bug fixes and so forth (thanks 3DGamers).

Caesar IV takes the city-building genre into the 21st century, with new gameplay and features, and a cutting edge 3D graphics engine developed specifically for the title.

Call of Duty 3 delivers the intensity of being closer than ever to the fury of combat during the battle for the Liberation of Paris, the most harrowing campaign of WWII, known as The Normandy Breakout. Activision's CoD3 product page seems to have been updated and, oddly enough, the PS3 platform has been removed..

In Taito's Kangaeru EXIT, sequel to last year's Exit, you play as Mr.Exit and are tasked with saving people out of buildings using logic, bypassing obstacles and solving puzzles.

Eidos today released the first details of its intense action title Kane and Lynch: Dead Men. Currently in development by Hitman developers IO Interactive. Kane and Lynch: Dead Men will be released in 2007 initially for the X360 and PC.

Freshly signed by RTL Enterprises the other day, German developer Silver Style, known for The Fall: Last Days of Gaia, has released the first screens for for its upcoming adventure game Simon the Sorcerer 4.

In the Game segment, sales decreased 29.1% compared to the same quarter of the previous fiscal year primarily as a result of a decrease in hardware unit sales of PS2 and PSP, as well as a decrease in PS2 software sales. Although combined profit from the PS2 and PSP businesses was relatively unchanged, operating loss increased primarily as the result of the recording of charges associated with preparation for the launch of the PS3, in addition to continued high research and development costs associated with PS3.

Gun Club is a non-violent arcade shooter, allowing gamers to enter the shooting range, steady their nerves, and take aim at the bull’s-eye. Experience the traditional 1st person shooter from a different perspective; Gun Club is void of blood and violence.

Ritual Entertainment has just released the SDK for 'SiN Episodes: Emergence' over Steam. The SDK allows players to create new single-player levels, new Arena Mode maps, and additional content for the 'SiN Episodes' universe. The SDK can be installed from the Tools tab inside the Steam client.

Cartoon Network Racing pits your favorite characters from Cartoon Network's original shows in a Kart Racing tournament against each other. Race with characters from The Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Laboratory, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Cow and Chicken, I.M. Weasel, and Johnny Bravo.

Rockstar has released a demo for its recently launched Table Tennis game, allowing you to try out single-player and LAN modes. However, what the demo does not make clear is that it is time-limited and will expire by the end of August and no longer work, even if you had previously downloaded it. At the same time, the demo will also disappear off Xbox Live itself and will no longer be available for download.

Vivendi Games' revenues of EUR 296 million were 24.4% higher than the prior year, primarily driven by the continued worldwide success of Blizzard's MMORPG World of Warcraft. Other solid performers in the first half of 2006 included the release of Ice Age 2, the game based on Fox movie, and continuing strong sales from backlist products including 50 Cent: Bulletproof and Crash Tag Team Racing.

B-Boy uses a dynamically controlled fighting system to help you battle the best b-boys on the planet. Over the course of an in-depth "B-Boy Life" mode, players build up a crew and battle against real-life superstar b-boys including legendary and original b-boy in-game host Crazy Legs.

Vivendi has signed high-profile Hollywood actors Dennis Quaid, Nick Chinlund and Michael Ironside to take on characters in Sabre Interactive's FPS TimeShift, which allows players to slow, stop or reverse time in order to overcome difficult scenarios and defeat challenging enemies.

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:

• Disgaea 2 [PS2] - Trailer #2
• Just Cause [PS2/Xbox/X360/PC] - Trailer #2
• Naruto: Clash of Ninja 2 [NGC] - Trailerpack
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...