Atari and Obsidian Entertainment today announced that the official Neverwinter Nights 2 web site has gone live, and is scheduled for a September 2006 release. Neverwinter Nights 2 is set in the popular Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms universe, and will transport players back to the embattled city of Neverwinter.

Blur the lines between game and reality with the return of "The World" - a complex virtual landscape filled with intrigue and mystery. When are you playing the game and when is the game playing you? Real life and game life become intertwined as you play the player killer-hunter Haseo in search of a mysterious character in a vividly created MMO world.

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:

• Auto Assault (PC)
• Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked (PS2)
• Bone: The Great Cow Race (PC)
• Hummer Badlands (PS2/Xbox)
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  We will update this throughout the day when new announcements become available. Read more for details...

Deer Drive is a stage-based 3D action hunting game, tailored for casual players, but with elements appealing to hardcore gamers. With only a firearm for protection, the player must take stand in an environment full of wild animals - whitetail deer trot and gallop, grizzly and moose charge and attack!

Announced earlier this year, Open Season will allow gamers to relive the humor and adventure of the movie by creating a fun and immersive interactive world that conveys the same comedic storyline, zany characters and artistic images projected in the animated film.

Shortly after previous update Firaxis has released another, large, patch for Sid Meier's Civilization IV. This update brings your retail game to v1.61 and includes numerous optimizations for memory usage that should help performance on all machines but are tailored to especially improve performance on machines at or near the minimum specification.

Two Worlds is an RPG under development at Reality Pump featuring thrilling fight choreographies, gripping characters and realistic worlds, creating new dimensions in the genre. The title also introduces new benchmarks in content with experienced script editors linking the cinematic story with maximum gaming freedom in a medieval fantasy world.

IGA Worldwide has signed a multi-year exclusive agreement to integrate its Radial in-game advertising technology into SimBin’s stable of officially licensed racing video game titles – GTR, based on the FIA GT and a recently announced new series to be based on the World Touring Car Championships.

It was a routine operation. Colombian and American Special Forces units were destroying a cocaine plantation when a sniper’s bullet killed their commanding officer. A moment later, all hell broke loose. The expedition dared to destroy cocaine fields belonging to the Bendictions cartel: the largest and most ruthless drug lord alliance in Colombia.

A leaked overview of Konami's E3 2006 lineup reveals that it will have a new Silent Hill title on display at the convention next month. Whatever information is available at this point indicates that Silent Hill : Original Sin is not going to be an all new title in the horror/adventure franchise but instead a remake of the very first, PSOne, title of the series. Silent Hill : Original Sin is currently scheduled to be released in North America on October 2006.

Sparta: Ancient Wars is a real time strategy based on historical events and timelines, and not to feature myths or legends. Based on the historical background of Spartans' high culture, there will appear huge ancient battles on your screen, enabled by a brand new stunning 3D engine.

While Microsoft ran an Xbox Live free for all last month, it was restricted to North America, so Microsoft Europe announced today it will host a similar weekend for EA's 2006 FIFA World Cup, starting Monday, May 8th, at 08:01 and ends Monday, May 15th, at 07:59.

Brigade E5: New Jagged Union is a tactical turn-based game. The scene of action is a small country called Palinero somewhere in the tropics. Recently a coup d'etat has happened in the country and civil war is about to break out. This demo allows you to try out a tutorial and one mission.

Belief & Betrayal is an adventure game putting the players into the role of the journalist Jonathan Danter, who - after the mysterious death of his uncle - gets involved in a dangerous church conspiracy, which has its roots through the centuries in the time when Judas got 30 silver coins for his betrayal of Jesus Christ.

In Emergency 4 you can either play the 20 mission campaign or choose to try the randomly generated missions. Emergency 4 will feature realistic physics (walls collapsing, fire spreading), simplified controls, as well as a multiplayer mode. This patch will bring your French/German retail game to v1.05 and addresses a multiplayer issue, a load issue and a few other tweaks.

War Front: Turning Point explores an alternate World War II, one in which Hitler is assassinated in the early days. This new timeline includes more than just new leadership. Players 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 his appearance at the GDC, "new" Battlestar Galactica creator Ronald D. Moore has expressed the willingness to take the franchise into new areas, one being the development of a game, "I've thought about doing something where you start a property across mediums, with Internet participation and role-playing video games," he told the Hollywood Reporter. The last Battlestar Galactica from Vivendi was a rather mediocre attempt.

Schanz International Consultants Spanish partner studio is debuting this year at E3. The Shadow of Aten is an action/thriller games where you embody a British ex-agent, Allam Scott, investigating the murder of a renowned British archaeologist in Cairo in the year 1936.

Online retails EBGames and GameStop are early out the gate with what might be a premature announcement for EA's newest edition in their football franchise, as both outlets have new listing for the yet to be announced NCAA Football 07, loaded with new features such as Student Athlete mode and ESPN Radio, on top of the usual Dynasty Mode. Read more for details ...

Blizzard has released new update patches for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos as well as The Frozen Throne. This upgrade brings your retail game to v1.20d and fixes a crash that could happen in multiplayer games. Read more for download links ...