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.

SEGA of America today announced the release of its NDS exclusive The Rub Rabbits!, delivering an all new "rub comedy" adventure that leverages the unique touch-screen and voice recognition interface on the DS hardware by delivering quirky original music, stylized art, and many new features and multiplayer modes.

Featuring all new authentic tricks, FIFA Street 2 provides new gameplay experiences by making over-the-top moves and skills even bigger in this fast-paced sequel.

Shorthly after the North American version, Blizzard has now also released the European version of the new update for its MMORPG World of Warcraft. This v1.9.3 update adds Valentine's Day content, the usual gameplay enhancements, balance tweaks, bug fixes, etc.

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.

EA is pleased to announce Command & Conquer The First Decade shipped to stores nationwide today. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the special collector's edition includes a dozen of your favorite Command & Conquer games spanning the last ten years plus a bonus DVD of commemorative video features.

EA announced today that Arena Football has shipped to stores nationwide. With Arena Football, gamers can now experience the excitement of the indoor gridiron with fast-paced, high-scoring offenses and the ability to send players over the walls.

Exteel is an online game featuring stylized action in a universe filled with robots on a far off world where the exiled survivors of a lost war struggle against each other for control of the planet's resources. Exteel features easy-to-access gameplay and a unique merging of strategic combat and high-speed action.

Blizzard has released a new update for its MMORPG World of Warcraft. This v1.9.3 update is for the US/AUS edition of the game, and adds Valentine's Day content, the usual gameplay enhancements, balance tweaks, bug fixes, etc. Read more for download links ..

Namco Bandai announced today that its PS2 exclusive popular role-playing game, Tales of Legendia, has shipped to North American retail outlets. Tales of Legendia is poised to send players on an epic quest by combining the depth and storytelling of a traditional RPG with the furiously-fast real time action of a fighting game.

Wargaming has released a new patch for its Massive Assault Network 2 open beta test. This beta patch improves chat server, fixes game crashes, increases turn limit and plenty more ...

Lionhead has released the promised first patch for its just released strategy sim Black & White 2. This update brings your retail game to v1.2 but no details are available at this point as to what exactly it fixes. Read more for download links ...

Originally scheduled for Feb 2005, then signed by the now defunct Digital Jesters, Widescreen Games' white water rafting and kayaking game Wild Water Adrenaline is finally scheduled for release Q1 2006, to be published by Nobilis.

CCP Games today announced that EVE Online has reached 100,000 active game subscribers and is maintaining the robust subscription growth trend of the past year.

Rebel Raiders: Operation Nighthawk is the ultimate futuristic aerial combat game featuring some of the most frenzied air battles ever witnessed with an intensity rarely reached in a videogame. Previously licensed by the now defunct Digital Jesters, Nobilis has taken over publishing rights set for March 2006.

Stardock announced that its strategy game Gal Civ 2 has gone gold and will be in stores Feb. 21, 2006. Galactic Civilizations II takes place in the distant future, when mankind has become a space-faring civilization and must contend with other extraterrestrial powers for domination of the galaxy. The sequel is a true evolution for the series, with rethought fundamentals and exciting new changes.

Loco Mania is a simulation of a train dispatcher - a very important person who has control over a large railway network with many trains in it. The player controls switches and train directions with the intent to get the trains through the system as fast as possible.

The forces of evil should beware – everyone's favourite hero is back as the hit Mega Man Battle Network 5 series blasts onto the Nintendo DS, combining all the fantastic features of the original Team Protoman and Team Colonel games. Catch Mega Man Battle Network 5: Double Team DS as it launches across Europe on 13th April 2006.

Prey is serious, dark story, based on authentic Cherokee mythology. Themes of sacrifice, love and responsibility are explored and the story dives into emotional territory not yet explored by similar games.

The all-new Sensible Soccer comes complete with lightning fast football action, mesmerising dribbling, physics defying sliding tackles and, most famously, a huge amount of unbelievable goals, that can go curling into the top corner, thanks to the outrageous levels of after-touch.