Dead Rising is survival horror game, in which you play freelance photographer Frank West, who in search of a scoop ends up in a zombie invested suburban town. Capcom has released the first downloadable content, although it mere unlocks 8 new costumes for your character.

Flight Simulator X is the 10th installment in the long running franchise, featuring jaw-dropping realism and exciting new content. Microsoft has released a singleplayer demo, allowing you to check out the location of St. Maarten in the Caribbean and include 2 airports and 3 missions with increasing difficulty.

British rock stars Duran Duran announced today that they have commissioned their own custom-designed avatars who will live on a fantasy luxury island inside the online virtual world of Second Life. Their virtual counterparts will hold "in-world" concerts and media appearances taking place alongside the band's media, public and live engagements in the real world.

Vampire Story is a combination of the RPG and adventure genres. As Bernard, an adventurer living amongst the dead, you are investigating a creepy murder that even the vampires themselves.

Atari released its Q1 2007 results and while net revenue dropped from $23.9 to $19.5 million, mostly due to less titles in circulation, net losses were reduced from $32.8 to $7.1 million. After the recent sale of various franchises, Atari's CEO Bruno Bonnell announced in the subsequent conference call that it's now time to rebuild & grow the company. Unfortunately there was also less pleasant news, Eden Studios Aline in the Dark is getting pushed back from its original early 2007 date to fiscal 2008 (anytime after March 2007).

EU competition regulators have requested information from both Sony (Blue Ray), and Toshiba (HD DVD), to look into the commercial practices seeking to find out whether the companies are trying to impose their formats on movie studios and computer makers with exclusivity contracts. While requesting information isn't a "formal probe," it is however a consequential step to answer the questions.

Victoria: Revolutions is an expansion for Paradox Interactive 's history simulation game Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun offering several new and exciting features. such as the ability to link the addon to other Paradox games, thus extending the gameplay for both!

Commander: Europe at War is the first in a series of high level turn based strategy games, jointly developed by Firepower Entertainment and Slitherine Software.

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:

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Embark on your adventure to become the one mighty ruler of them all and take control of vast worlds, sprawling towns and cities or even control the world's horrific monsters to wreak havoc on your cowering enemies. For the first time ever you can rise to rule them all and with it the true destiny of Chantra is under your control...

Halo, produced by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, has finally announced a director. The Halo motion picture will be helmed by Neill Blomkamp, making his feature film debut. Blomkamp is widely regarded as one of the most innovative and original artists currently working in short films and commercial advertising.

Rockstar revealed today that its controversial action title Bully is on track for an October launch. Bully follows teenager Jimmy Hopkins as he tries to survive his crooked classmates and superiors, and navigate the tricky social hierarchy at the fictitious reform school, Bullworth Academy.

In Resistance: Fall of Man, the U.S. and Britain band together in a last-ditch effort to save Europe and Asia from a horrific scourge. Humanity’s hope for survival is slim, and the tide of the battle rests on the shoulders of U.S. Army Ranger, Sgt. Nathan Hale.

Ubisoft announced its participation in Games Convention, taking place in Leipzig from August 23 to 27, 2006 where it will present seven of its products, ranging from Dark Messiah, Double Agent, to Open Season and Horzes.

Destineer announced today that it has chosen Raleigh, North Carolina as the location where it will open its next development studio, with at least 100 engineers, artists, designers, QA staff, and management. The new studio will initially develop commercial videogames and training simulations based on Destineer’s work with the US intelligence community.

Bringing fast and furious bite-size gaming, Atari's PSP-exclusive Hot PXL is comprised of 200 deviously crafted micro-games based on a quirky and original story premise, drawing inspiration from street culture and the digital lifestyle.

Talk about short notice... SEGA today announced Sports Interactive's NHL: Eastside Hockey Manager 2007, which will already be available next month via digital download.

GMX Media announced today that its tactical FPS Specnaz: Project Wolf has gone gold, and will be released across Europe shortly.

Atari today announced a publishing agreement with Japanese AQ Interactive for the forthcoming X360 neo-apocalyptic action game, Bullet Witch, signifying the beginning of an on-going co-publishing relationship between Atari and AQ Interactive Inc.

Panzer Command: Operation Winter Storm is turn-based and has a great PBEM system for head to head play. This v1.12 update adds major new gameplay features and also resolves several minor issues.