Funcom announced that Anarchy Online celebrates its fifth anniversary today! To mark this considerable milestone, Funcom will be hosting numerous in-game events and activities this coming weekend, and give away all the released Anarchy Online expansion packs for free!

Lighthouse Interactive announced that it has acquired the worldwide publishing rights (excluding North America) to Shadow Tor Studios' suspense adventure Barrow Hill, a gripping horror thriller, set in the Cornish landscape of England and told from a first-person perspective.

The only Final Fantasy never localized will finally reach North American shores! Using the features of the NDS to their fullest, Final Fantasy III features graphics that have been reworked and remodeled in 3D, while maintaining the mythical Final Fantasy look and feel.

Jowood has released the first patch for Phenomic's RTS/RPG hybrid. This update brings your retail game to v1.02 and addresses various bugs, crashes and other enhancements, but most importantly adds the editor, which allows you to create your own thrilling PvP and free-game maps, this is the perfect tool for dedicated multiplayer fans.

Massive Incorporated and WEBZEN Inc. today announced plans to provide in-game advertising to two of the publisher's most anticipated MMO games. The agreement marks Massive's entry in the Asian market and WEBZEN's first services to provide in-game advertising.

Games Workshop and Cyanide are excited to announce that Cyanide are now the official licensed developer for a series of triple A titles based upon Games Workshop's popular Blood Bowl fantasy football property. More details of the first Blood Bowl title and publisher to follow shortly!

Call of Juarez is situated in 19th-century Wild West America and requires a combination of both intelligent stealth and pure shooting. Fast-paced revolver duels using historically accurate firearms, horseback riding, and memorable locations combine with top-notch graphics and an enthralling soundtrack to immerse both casual and hardcore players.

Zen Studios' Flipper Critters is a fully 3 dimensional, original new gameplay experience based on classic pinball. Unlike most games, which take place on small, closed tables, Flipper Critters pinball takes place on a much bigger scale. Conspiracy pushed back the release date from July to September 2006.

Virtua Fighter 5 is the latest installment in the critically-acclaimed series, and will elevate the arcade fighting genre to all-new heights as it takes true advantage of the capabilities of the next-generation hardware.

Spiderweb Software announces the upcoming release of Geneforge 4: Rebellion, the next chapter in their fantasy epic. Once again, return to the world of the Shapers, where you explore freely, choose for yourself what side you will fight for, and create and mold strange, powerful monsters to serve you.

In Phoenix Racing, you can modify everything from the transmission to the drive shafts. There are 10 different slots on the car you can switch out. As you race and win, modify your car and build it into a true racing machine. See if you have what it takes to handle the race. This demo features two tracks and the Allard J2X Mk1, built on real-world car data.

Bullet Witch is an action adventure taking place in the exceedingly bleak near future of 2013. Civilization is on the brink of extinction after demons begin appearing on the earth, and the player wades into the fray as a witch named Alicia.

Activision announced today that enthusiasts/fans can now audition to be the voice of the King of Atlantis himself, Namor (aka Sub-Mariner)! Activision has already received so many great entries for Bruce Banner so they have decided to close that casting call and add a new character. Auditions for Namor and Jean Grey are going on now, so please keep those entries coming!

Three Rings Design, known for Puzzle Pirates and currently working on Bang! Howdy, announced today it has completed a successful Series B financing round led by Mercury Capital Partners and Amicus Capital.

Reprobates, a classic 3rd person point & click-adventure, is based on the enhanced engine of Black Mirror and Nibiru and will again stun the players with beautiful graphics, highly detailed 3D character models and a thrilling atmosphere and story.

Norm Koger's The Operational Art Of War series allows you to play and create any battle from the entire 20th Century of warfare and up to the modern day, with reasonable accuracy back as far as the 1850s. The patch fixes a reconstitution bug found in the release version of the game as well as a few other minor issues.

Alone in the Dark returns with a heart-stopping survival experience realized through the use of state-of-the-art real-time physics and unprecedented environmental interaction combining to deliver an exhilarating action-orientated experience within a highly detailed, open environment.

The Aussies bring down the ban hammer once more, this time outlawing sales of Blitz Games and Eidos' upcoming movie to game adaptation of Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs. While exact reasons as to why Australia's Office of Film and Literature Classification decided to not rate, thus banning the game, is unclear, but local publisher Atari Australia decided to not fight the decision. Earlier this year, Atari was also prohibited from selling Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure. After it initially being allowed, the sales license was revoked merely days before its actual launch.

Valve's SteamPowered website has been updated with details on a minor Red Orchestra fix addressing a recoil issue caused by the last patch, and the promised Sin Episodes: Emergence update adding the arena mode with 4 maps, as well as several tweaks, fixes ansd adjustments. Read more for details, or just restart Steam for the effects to take place.