Today, Majesco shipped Guilty Gear X2 #Reload for the Xbox to retailers nationwide. Available for a suggested retail price of $19.95, Guilty Gear X2 #Reload features Xbox Live support, offering players head-to-head competition, real-time global rankings, and community support of voice and friends.

Prince of Persia: Warrior Within features a deep, mysterious storyline starring a darker, edgier Prince who is vigilant in his quest to unseal his mortal destiny. Read more for further details and some screens ...

For the new season, the Club Football 2005 range is bigger and bolder with a new game engine to power faster and more responsive gameplay. With twice the amount of official team content in each game, great skill moves and new game modes including Career, Practice and classic Scenarios, the new Club Football 2005 range will bring players even closer to the heart of the action and the heart of their team.

TimeGate Studios delivers a breathtaking world of magical splendour, heroic deeds, and fearsome enemies with Kohan II: Kings of War, a fantasy-based real-time strategy game. Presented in beautifully rendered 3D, Kohan II: Kings of War allows gamers to lay siege to enemy cities, explore fantastic realms, fight strange creatures, and build a world-spanning empire.

Sony Online today announced that EverQuest: Omens of War, a new expansion for the incredibly popular PC MMORPG, EverQuest, is now available. This expansion takes advantage of a new, next-generation graphics engine that allows players to experience the new areas of the game in unprecedented graphical splendor.

Activision has announced that Call of Duty: United Offensive has shipped to retail outlets nationwide. The highly anticipated expansion pack to Infinity Ward's Call of Duty brings the cinematic intensity of the brand to unprecedented heights with more action than ever before.

Project: Snowblind is a the first-person action shooter putting you in the role of an elite super soldier, fighting on the front lines of a near-future war using unique weapons, abilities and high-tech gadgetry that inject depth and variety to gameplay. Currently in development by Crystal Dynamics, Project: Snowblind places unique emphasis to its intensive multiplayer and online play modes and will be available for the PS2, Xbox and PC this Winter.

World of Warcraft is an online role-playing experience set in the award-winning Warcraft universe. Players assume the roles of Warcraft heroes as they explore, adventure, and quest across a vast world. Whether adventuring together or fighting against each other in epic battles, players will form friendships, forge alliances, and compete with enemies for power and glory.

A Dreamcatcher Europe community rep has put a post in the official forum that we can expect a new Painkiller patch later this week. Even though it is for the French version, we expect the English version to be available at the same time. People Can Fly is finalizing the v1.35 patch which will include the usual bug and crash fixes, but also the dedicated server update, and more importantly, the PainED SDK editor so people can start modding away. A full fix list is promised for tomorrow, and we will of course have the patch on our fileservers as soon as it becomes available.

Another day, another batch of game trailers were released. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are trailers for :

• Evil Genius - Trailer
• Knights Of Honor - Intro Movie
• Crashday - Trailer
• Call Of Duty: United Offensive - Trailer (2)
• Children Of The Nile - Trailer #6
• Still Life - Trailer #2

"Shark Tale" takes you on a new adventure as Oscar, a bigger-than-life fish working his way up the food chain, who becomes an unlikely hero as he searches for an easy path to fame and fortune. With a blend of original and film-inspired gameplay, players immerse themselves in a hip, underwater urban culture featuring the gritty environments of Reef City and funky tunes inspired by the film.

Take an adventure as Pitfall Harry, the daring, risk-taking explorer who laughs in the face of danger. Featuring over 50 levels of fast-paced action and puzzle solving adventures, the game challenges players to swing, fight, climb and crawl through eight types of treacherous South American environments including lush jungles, dark tombs, ancient Aztec ruins and glacial mountains.

Microids is working on an all new murder/adventure game "Still Life". Using an updated Syberia engine, "Still Life" lets you play the role of FBI agent Victoria McPherson. Situated in Chicago, you are on the heels of a serial killer, much like your grandfather did 60 years earlier in Prague (Microids' Post Mortem). By means of flashbacks and timewarps, you will travel to locations like Eastern Europe to interrogate suspects, or North America, to scrutinize dead bodies.

Namco announced details today for the highly addictive Arcade Mode in Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War, the company’s highly anticipated premiere aerial combat game. Developed by Namco Limited in Japan, Ace Combat 5 will make its scheduled landing onto retail shelves, exclusively for the PlayStation2, this Fall. Read more for details and screens..

Def Jam Fight For NY has gone gold for the PS2, Xbox and Nintendo GameCube. The game will ship to retail stores nationwide on Monday, September 20, 2004. Def Jam Fight For NY thrusts players onto the mean streets of New York amidst a brutal battle for control of the city’s hip hop underground. Featuring a cast of more than 40 hip hop artists and celebrities, players will come face to face with dozens of hip hop’s biggest names in the game, including Busta Rhymes, Ludacris, Ice T, Lil’ Kim, Method Man, Redman and Snoop Dogg.

Epic has released a new patch for its sci-fi FPS Unreal Tournament 2004. This patch brings your retail game to v3323 and adds once again bug fixes, fixes game crashes, balancing, tweaks for the Onslaught mode, demo recording, engine, mod support and plenty more. Read more for detailed fix list and download links ...

Eidos today announced the development of the first-person action shooter Project: Snowblind. The game puts players in the role of an elite super soldier, fighting on the front lines of a near-future war using unique weapons, abilities and high-tech gadgetry that inject depth and variety to gameplay. Currently in development by Crystal Dynamics, Project: Snowblind places unique emphasis to its intensive multiplayer and online play modes and will be available for the PS2, Xbox and PC this Winter.

Terrorist Takedown puts you on the front line in the war on terror as a soldier in the US Army. Operate Apache and Huey helicopters, Hummers, heavy machine guns, rocket launchers and more as you strike at known terrorists. In 16 heart-pounding missions you must defeat the terrorists and protect our homeland. Check the freshly launched website, or read more for a few new screens...

Enlight has released a new patch for their animal style management/sim title, Zoo Empire. This update brings your retail game to v1.2, but so far no details are available as to what. Read more for download links...

Activision today announced that Rome: Total War has been released to manufacturing and will be shipping to retailers in North America on Wednesday, September 22. Developed by award-winning developer The Creative Assembly, Rome: Total War is a revolutionary new title in the best-selling Total War series that will carry players into the midst of ancient history's most intense conflicts.