Major League Baseball 2K6 includes innovative features such as a new movement system and realistic player collisions on the infield and outfield. New broadcast elements include flashback replays, and a unique player morale system will unfold the drama like never before in a baseball video game.

While The Sims 2 Open for Business is scheduled to ship Feb. 28th, it seems that certain European countries are selling the second expansion pack ahead of its official date. Inside there is a flyer already revealing another possible expansion, The Sims 2: Family Fun Stuff, which is "coming April 2006" and will add a new collection of furnishing, clothing, decor and accessories to your Sims' lives (thanks SimTimes).

Apparently this, and Glamour Shopping, are booster packs, similar to the Battlefield 2 material.

EA has released a new patch for it the original 3D RTS Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth. This update brings your retail game to v1.03 and a slew of unit tweaks and a few bugs/crash fixes. Read more for detailed fix list and download links.

World War 2 is drawing to a close and the Russians and Germans are caught in a furious battle for a devastated Berlin. As a sniper, recruited by the OSS (former CIA), it is the beginning of a lonely stealth mission in the Russian territory. This demo features three mission. Read more for download links ...

Frogster has released the first patch for Load's miniature racing game Mad Tracks, bringing your German retail game to v1.1 and adding joypad support, bug fixes, and multiplayer optimizations.

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.

Oblivion is a single-player game that takes place in Tamriel's capital province, Cyrodiil. You are given the task of finding the hidden heir to a throne that sits empty, the previous emperor having been killed by an unknown assassin.

After a life of small-time jobs and petty thefts you've been accepted into America's most famous criminal organization, the Corleone family. Now it's up to you to carry out orders, earn respect, rise through the ranks, and make New York City your own. Play your cards right and you could even be running everything as the next, and most powerful, Don.

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 :

• Battle for Middle-Earth 2 - Collector's Edition Trailer
• Commandos Strike Force [PS2/Xbox/PC] - Developer Diary #1
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

Battlefield 2: Modern Combat will drop players into the heat of battle on the high tech frontlines, entering a new modern era of combat with more firepower and new expansive environments.

Comments made by ArenaNet's co-founder Jeff Strain over at Gameindustry.biz seem to indicate a change in formula is in order to make it suitable. "Their whole goal is to encourage people to go and buy games on the shelf, then there's an online component for it," he explained. "But for us, when you buy it on the shelf, that's just the beginning of our relationship with you - and we want a direct connection with our customer so that we're always giving you new content, always supporting you directly. Xbox Live just wasn't really built, from a business standpoint, to support that."

Unreal Tournament 2007 is being developed by North Carolina-based Epic Games. The game promises to blow fans away with the gameplay, modifiability and visuals that Epic's Unreal Engine 3 technology will deliver.

Rampage: Total Destruction reinvents the classic arcade series and offers up a wide array of playable monsters that have the ability to perform unique combo attacks and individual super moves. Rampage: Total Destruction unleashes the chaos like never before with new levels of destruction, and an interactive 3D environment.

Attempt mad jumps, high-flying stunts and arcade-style racing as Midway announced today that it is bringing the original Rush to the PSP. Go head-to-head with a friend in a street race or cruise mission using Wi-Fi functionality, or experience Story Mode which allows you to race through 5 Los Angeles city re-creations while finding treacherous shortcuts and surviving death-defying jumps!

Cyanide has released a new patch for its Olympic Wintersports based title WinterSports Pro 2006, aka Winter Challenge. This patch brings your English, French, Italian, Russian and German retail game to v1.02 and fixes an issue with the direction arrow in slalom mode, and several multiplayer problems. Read more for details and download links.

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. SEGA pinned down the official release date for the PC edition to April 11, 2006.

In Tomb Raider: Legend, Lara comes alive with intricately animated expressions, moves and abilities. An arsenal of modern equipment, such as a magnetic grappling device, binoculars, frag grenades, personal lighting device and communications equipment.

The X Quest universe is set in the near future, with technology based on NASA-type future reality. X Quest starts with two teams of seven contestants that enter the cramped compartments of a space simulator and partake in a month-long series of missions within the virtual world, and TV viewers can watch the adventures unfold on Fox.

Infinite Ward sends word that the Call of Duty 2 patch is currently being tested, and will be released soon. The update will include punkbuster (and it's functional unlike claims made on the official IW forum), 2 new multiplayer maps, fixes for multiplayer exploits and bugs, and the ability for players to auto download mods and maps. A second update for the X360 version is also being worked on, which will improve Xbox Live multiplayer functionality. Read more for details ...

Cyanide announced that Winter Challenge is now available for online order/download from its website. Winter Challenge, aka Wintersport Pro 2006, is based on the upcoming Olympic Wintersports in Torino, and will feature 16 disciplines (skiing, bobsled, ski jumping etc.) and over 700 athletes from 29 countries, as well as multiplayer.