The success of Nintendogs continues to go from strength to strength for Nintendo with the latest sales across Europe reaching 2 million since its launch on the Nintendo DS on the 7th October 2005. The innovative software has expanded the gaming population by attracting new audiences, including many female purchasers. Nintendogs has also made a massive impact across the globe, with sales in the US reaching 1.5 million and over 1 million in Japan.

The Sims 2: Open for Business will revolve around setting up businesses and making money. Construction company, restaurant, nightclub, or simply decide to work from home, it will all be possible. You will need to strategically place employees, or fire useless workers, in order to keep your customers happy.

KOEI today announced that Samurai Warriors: State of War, its tactical action game set in the turbulent times of civil war Japan, has reached gold status, and will ship on March 7, 2006.

Cult of Mithras is a downloadable add-on for Legion Arena. It allows players to take their armies on new adventures into a new world, fighting against old enemies and new mythological beasts.

LucasArts has released the first patch for Petroglyph's just released RTS Star Wars Empire at War. This update brings your retail game to v1.1 and addresses a slew of tweaks, and fixes multiplayer, balance, and graphical issues.

This morning UK publisher SCi made a brief statement that it "does not believe that it is in the company's or the shareholders' interests to prolong talks any further." This means that it has called off negotiations with whoever was in the running up until last week to take over SCi, who themselves had recently taken over ailing UK publisher Eidos. When the news broke SCi's stocks dropped considerably but by the end of business day prices rallied to close slightly above starting price that same morning.

As expected LucasArts has released the first patch for Pandemic Studios' Star Wars Battlefront II. This update brings your retail game to v1.1 and adds new map support, improves multiplayer, adds balance tweaks and various graphical issues.

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.

Join the famous CSI team in Las Vegas and investigate five all-new cases using the latest forensic science. Work along side Grissom, Katherine, and the entire cast as you utilize the latest crime-solving equipment.

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 :

• Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition Remix [PS2/Xbox] - Trailer
• Far Cry Instincts: Predator [X360] - Watertech Trailer
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

The latest issue of Japanese magazine Famitsu reveals that Namco is working on a Tekken port for the PSP. Tekken: Dark Resurrection is based on the new Tekken 5 arcade game, including all of its 35 locations and characters. Eddy Gordo and Armor King are confirmed amongst the 30 or so playable fighters, and also various modes such as Time Attack, Practice and mini-games will be included. Tekken on the PSP will also support AdHoc multiplayer, and is scheduled for release in Japan this summer.

In Battlefield 2: Euro Force, the European Army joins the Battlefield fray for the first time on PC. Complete with seven new weapons and four new vehicles, the European Army will be sent into battle against MEC and Chinese forces on three brand new maps.

A statement sent to fan site RPGVault by Smiling Gator Productions' Matt Simmons reveals that the once cancelled Source engine powered MMO-FPS Twilight War: After the Fall has been revived. Smiling Gator has concluded an agreement to license the Twilight War concept and sub-license Valve's Source engine to a new partner company, General Computers, to fund and continue development on Smiling Gator's behalf. General Computers is an IT based in North America and China.

Playing with pull back friction vehicles, ‘Mad Tracks’ players will battle in numerous challenges like races (Weakest link, red light, Roller Coaster...) or mini games (Snooker, table soccer, long jump, crocket, bowling, Darts...). More than 45 challenges in 10 original environments await, each victory unlocks new cars, new tracks or spare parts to improve performances of 16 cool vehicles.

Could the Playstation 3 be coming as early as September 2006? According to Next Generation Sony's next-gen console will launch barely a few days apart in Japan and North America, and, as expected, Europe will have to wait. Not only that, but Next-Gen claims that Sony will unveil its unified online multiplayer service, larely based on Xbox Live, in the next few weeks, which is currently called PlayStation HUB. The service would be subscription-based and support voice, chat, downloadable content, as well as PSP multiplayer.

The World Cyber Games Committee today announced the eight titles (6 PC and 2 console) that will serve as official games for the 2006 World Cyber Games, and will serve as the official events at the 2006 Grand Final in Monza, Italy this October.

Ubisoft today announced Go! Sudoku for the PSP, an addictive puzzle game and interactive experience that requires gamers to place numbers inside a grid so that every column, every row and every box contains the number one to nine only once.

In Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, players will be introduced to the world of Ashan, the new setting for all future Might & Magic games. Ashan is a dark and unforgiving world, scarred by a bloody history and threatened by an apocalyptic prophecy: the Dark Messiah.

On Thursday, February 16, 2006, Austrian-based independent developer Bongfish Interactive Entertainment will open the mountain for beta testers to take a freeride with their highly anticipated snowboard title, Stoked Rider featuring Tommy Brunner.

Developed by MadMinute Games, Take Command: 2nd Manassas explores the titular 1862 battle of the American Civil War, which proved to be the pivotal engagement of the Northern Virginia Campaign.