Valve and Darwnia developers Introversion today announced an agreement to deliver its online strategy game DEFCON, via Steam this coming September.

As a troublesome schoolboy, you'll laugh and cringe as you stand up to bullies, get picked on by teachers, play pranks on malicious kids, win or lose the girl, and ultimately learn to navigate the obstacles of the fictitious reform school, Bullworth Academy.

Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War is a detailed RTS game letting you completely command one of the four mightiest empires of the ancient world: Greece, Rome, Egypt, and Persia. This patch brings your US/UK/German and French retail game to v1.15, although details as to what exactly it fixes are not available at this point.

War Front: Turning Point explores an alternate World War II, one in which Hitler is assassinated in the early days, and you will take command of experimental weapons, prototype vehicles and units rarely seen in strategy games in an attempt to alter or secure the historical outcome of World War II.

After more than four years of business and product development, Left Behind Games will release a playable Beta Demo of the company's highly anticipated product, Left Behind: Eternal Forces on Tuesday August 29.

LucasArts today announced an agreement with Free Radical Design to develop a new video game for next-generation console platforms. Product and release details will be unveiled at a later date.

Lexicon Entertainment's Chronos Twins is a sidescrolling action game that plays on the concept of time travel in a reassuringly unique manner as it is interwoven as a main game play element.

The Secret Files: Tunguska is a point-and-click adventure game based on the mysterious Tunguska phenomenon that occurred in July 1908, in which the Siberian region of Tunguska was engulfed in an inferno of flames that turned everything into debris and ashes.

After two years of development Climax's Warhammer Online was cancelled after which Games Workshop granted its license to Mythic Entertainment. Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is an MMO game for PC and console set in the fantasy world of Warhammer.

Perimeter: Emperor's Testament will feature all new & updated graphics, tons of new units and structures, a new soundtrack, and a total of 25 new missions.

Check out the following new screens from Eidos' Games Convention 2006 lineup:

• Just Cause (ALL) - Screens
• Bionicle Heroes (ALL) - Screens & Trailer
• Reservoir Dogs - Screens
• Battlestations: Midway - Screens & Trailer
• Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend - Screens
• Kane & Lynch: Dead Men - Screens
• Justice League Heroes - Screens & Trailer

Dominions 3 will build on the foundation of Dominions II, taking an already proven formula of addictive strategic gameplay and enhancing it in many ways, either from the input of the Dominions community, or straight from the minds of Illwinter.

The future of soccer was unveiled today at the Leipzig Games Convention in Germany when EA revealed the dynamic new EA SPORTS engine that will appear in FIFA Soccer 07 on the X360 and lead the franchise into the future.

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

• Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (PC) - Screens & Trailers
• Call of Duty 3 (ALL) - Screens
• Marvel Ultimate Alliance (ALL) - Screens
• Tony Hawk Project 8 (ALL) - Screens

Enlight Software has selected Exent Technologies to add in-game advertising to the company's most popular titles.

Konami caught up with American Idol's famous judges Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson to get their comments about the upcoming PS2 video game Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol.

Ubisoft announced today that its Romania studio is currently working on a new installment in the popular Silent Hunter series. Silent Hunter 4: Wolves of the Pacific will put you in the role of a US submarine Captain in the Pacific Ocean.

Test Drive Unlimited challenges players online to experience the most exotic and fastest vehicles on more than 1000 miles of diverse Hawaiian roads. Atari announced today that the Xbox 360 version has gone gold and is on track for its Sept. 5 launch date, other platforms are due Oct/Nov.

Today Ubisoft announced that Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter was the top single-player and multi-player game on the Xbox Live online gaming service worldwide. Figures are based on the number of unique users during calendar year second quarter 2006, according to Microsoft. Additionally, Ubisoft recorded year-over-year sales growth of 81 percent in July on the U.S. market according to NPD.

Check out the following new screens from Deep Silver's Games Convention 2006 lineup::

• Gothic III (PC) - Screens
• Blood Magic (PC) - Screens & Trailer
• Heroes of Annihilated Empire (PC) - Screens
• Secret Files: Tunguska (PC) - Screens & Trailer
• Rush for the Bomb (PC) - Screens
• Trackmania United (PC) - Screens
• The Guild 2 (PC) - Trailer
• Warhammer Mark of Chaos (PC) - Screens
• Spellforce 2 (PC) - Screens
• Anno 1701 (PC) - Trailer
• Mage Knight Apocalypse (PC) - Screens
• EverQuest II: Echoes of Faydwer (PC) - Trailer