When assassins from Agent 47's contract agency, The ICA, are systematically eliminated in a series of hits, it seems a larger, more powerful agency has entered the fray. For Agent 47 it's business as usual, until suddenly he loses contact with The ICA. Sensing that he may be the next target, he travels to America, where he prepares to make a killing.

Destineer Publishing’s Bold Games division today announced the sequel to its top-selling flight-simulation, Wings Over Europe: Cold War Gone Hot delivers seat-of-your pants dogfight experiences flying some of the most legendary jet fighters in Cold War history.

The world famous motorcycle racing game returns in this latest installment as the most realistic racing title for the PS2 based on the real life MotoGP. All licensed engine classes, circuits, and riders are recreated to provide fans with the most complete MotoGP experience to date. Featuring realistic engine classes, bike physics, weather conditions, and a new upgrade system, MotoGP4 is the ultimate in Grand Prix racing.

Guild Wars developer ArenaNet and NCsoft opened the virtual door for a weekend-long sneak peek at its new game Guild Wars Factions, and more than 500,000 players participated in the invitation-only preview event and cumulatively spent more than three million hours online,

Graffiti Entertainment announced today that they have signed an agreement with Vision Studios for North American publishing rights to Strike Force Red Cell, a soon to be released FPS for the PC and X360. Strike Force Red Cell is counter-terrorist game where you fight against terrorist in a real world first person shooter environment.

Ninety-Nine Nights is a fantasy game that mixes action with strategy elements. You control a massive army that is challenged by hordes of enemies, in a multi-angle scenario, where you can assume the role of various characters and see the game world from totally different points of view.

In Birth of America you control one of the major contenders in French & Indian Wars, and the War of the American Independence, trying to achieve military and political victory. This v1.05 patch addresses bug fixes, interface changes, scenario and gameplay tweaks, and a few gfx adjustments.

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade is the exciting new expansion to Blizzard's massively multiplayer online role-playing game. It expands the game by tremendous bounds, adding new races, quest, lands, Battlegrounds, professions and items, raising the level cap to 70, and more.

Atom Entertainment has redesigned the Shockwave.com site and announced a major investment in high quality online game development with the creation of the Shockwave.com Game Studios.

CellFactor is a FPS set in a warfare industrial atmosphere. As the plot develops, you'll gain access to other two main characters as well, each one with distinctive singularities in the game play. You'll count with a great amount of traditional and experimental weapons, and even your character will get more powerful as the game goes along.

Ignition announced it has signed Puyo Pop Fever for European distribution. The latest version of SEGA's signature brainteaser comes from Sonic Team with wacky new puzzle pieces and a combo-crazy Fever Mode.

Rush for Berlin is a tactical real time strategy game, set on the European battlefields of World War II, during 1944-45. The player's goal; to capture the German capital, as either the British/US/French alliance or the Red army of the Soviet Union.

In a recent financial statement, British publisher SCi, who took over Eidos last year, revealed some of its future plans. Not only is it working on a new version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, but it is also bringing Namco's Stacked featuring Daniel Negranu to the UK. To top it all off, SCi will also be bringing Tomb Raider: Legend to all three current Nintendo platforms: DS, GBA and GameCube.

"Today we have banned a batch of players from ESO for a variety of cheats, including hacked decks, point trading, as well as for racist chat channels and comments. If you have found that your ESO account has been disabled and would like to appeal your ban, please e-mail age3.abuse@ensemblestudios.com. We'd like to thank the players who have e-mailed in to report abusive or cheating players. Please do include screenshots or recorded games with your e-mails to help us track these issues."

Stranger is a real-time strategy game, with elements of role playing games set in a world, split in two parts, surface and a subterranean one, which are in a tenuous balance. Stranger will also feature multiplayer, although details beyond "The players may play on their own, or unite in teams" are a bit sketchy.

Valve announced that it will soon start pre-loading Ritual Entertainment's episodic FPS SiN Episode 1: Emergence via its Steam online delivery system. One month before its release Valve will also preload and launch the first in a series of its own episodic Half-Life 2: Episode One. Counter-Strike: Source will get 2 new player models and an HDR enabled version of de_dust, while Day of Defeat: Source is due for a new map that will introduce a new gameplay mode.

The past week has been pretty productive in terms of demo releases, so in order to make it easier for people to track down their favorite game, here is a quick roundup of what was released in the past week :

'Tomb Raider: Legend' - Demo
'Daemonica' - Demo
'Hearts of Iron II: Doomsday' - Demo
'Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends' - Demo
'GTI Racing' - Demo
'Pathologic' - Demo
'Condemned: Criminal Origins' - Demo
'Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords' - Demo
'Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII' - Demo
'Stoked Rider featuring Tommy Brunner' - Demo
'Fire Department 3' - German Demo
'Evolution GT' - Demo

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Condemned: Criminal Origins allows players to experience an unnatural level of psychological tension as they use their instincts, forensic tools, and melee combat to track serial killers and bring them to justice.

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...

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:

• Justice League Heroes [PSP/PS2/Xbox] - Teaser Trailer
• Sword of the Stars - Cinematic Opening Trailer
• The Secrets of Da Vinci: The Forbidden Manuscript - French Trailer
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