Ascaron Entertainment and Tri Synergy, Inc., today announced a North American distribution partnership for the Ascaron Entertainment designed PC title, Port Royale 2. A 16th and 17th Centuries Sea based, real time strategy game full of pirates, pillaging, plundering, you can even control the expansion of the New World.

In TimeSplitters Future Perfect, Cortez - the hero from previous installments - returns with humanity on the brink of destruction. With the help of some familiar faces (some very familiar!) he must chase a mystery foe across different time periods to trace the origins of the TimeSplitters and save the day.

Combining the best elements of simulation and arcade-style play, Juiced will feature more than 50 licensed vehicles; real-time modding with hundreds of authentic aftermarket parts; realistic car physics and damage; and online head-to-head play, including for the first time ever, "crew based" team racing. Read more for 60 new screens...

Def Jam Fight For NY challenges players to step into the shoes of a ruthless street fighter battling for control of the hip-hop underground. The game features an all-new fighting engine including weapons, interactive environments and five unique fighting styles that can be combined to form dozens of customized hybrid styles for the ultimate edge on the streets. Def Jam Fight For NY features more than 40 of the most well-known artists and personalities in hip-hop today.

SCRAPLAND is an action game. In third-person, the player controls D-Tritus when he goes on foot and his gunship when he pilots on Chimera streets. The player, by hacking into the GDB, can transform himself into 15 different characters, acquiring then the special ability of every one of them. The player can also drive any gunship he finds and can create his own collection of unique gunships, freely combining pieces he finds aboard the ship.

World War II springs to life as you experience the most epic battles in the history of mankind. For the first time, the world's five superpowers battle for control on truly global scale. Direct the military and economic destiny of Japan, England, Germany, Russia or Germany. With each battle fought in real-time, comes the opportunity to create a new destiny as you change the course of history itself.

In Godzilla: Save the Earth, players will have nine game modes to choose from, including Action, the mission-based single-player game; Challenges, a series of single-player challenges to complete; Custom, where players can set the parameters of a fight; Versus, the classic one-on-one melee battle; and many more. The game also includes mini games, including rail-type arcade sequences.

Microsoft Games Studios has announced more great downloadable content for the popular Xbox racing title Project Gotham Racing 2. The new Long Beach Booster Pack is the second exciting booster pack now available for this game on Xbox Live. From today, 8th July, gamers will be able to download the Long Beach Booster Pack from Xbox Live for £2.99/€4.99.

Atari announce the release of Bandai's Digimon Rumble Arena 2 for the PlayStation2, GameCube and the Xbox. From October 2004, the Digimon will go at each other for the second time in a frenzied four-way fight to reign supreme.

iEntertainment Network announces that is has received an LOI (Letter of Intent) for funding of Civilization's Dawn, the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game announced at the E3 show in May.

“Kao: The Kangaroo” starts his new adventures for JoWooD Productions not only on the PC, but also on all major console systems. Jumping, running, and boxing, the brave kangaroo hero has to solve many exciting levels and tough challenges. “Kao – The Kangaroo 2,” scheduled for October 2004, is among the first games released for several systems simultaneously: XBOX, Playstation 2, GameCube, and, of course, PC.

The non-linear plot saves the established facts of the war beginning and allows to lead to the Victory any of three sides: USSR, Germany and Allies (GB and USA). The game recreates the real structures of all participants' armies, uses the real arsenal, equipment and military techniques. Read more for some new screens ...

JoWooD has released a new patch for their wildlife sim game, Wildlife Park. This update brings your retail game to v1.17 and addresses problems with the “restart park” option, crashes when building enclosures outside of the park, crashes when selling several animals during pause mode, etc. Read more for a detailed fix list and download links ...

Massive Entertainment has released sa small save game fix for their 3D RTS Ground Control II: Operation Exodus. This patch addresses save game problems that you may experience after applying thelatest v1.0.0.7 patch, this tool allows you to recover lost save files, as well as the save games from lost profiles. Vivendi has also released the dedicated Win32 server. Read more for download links...

Today, Konami Digital Entertainment - America announced details of the two concluding tournaments that will ultimately result in the crowning of the 2004 Yu-Gi-Oh! World Video Game Champion.

As promised, Dreamcatcher has released a new update patch for People Can Fly's FPS Painkiller. This update brings your retail game to v1.3 and contains more netcode optimization, adds ASE support, the possibility of lowering various gfx settings in order to boost performance, several game tweaks, and bug fixes. Read more for a detailed fix list and download links ...

Wish defines a new category of online game, the "Ultra Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game" (UMMORPG). Wish's highly-scalable server cluster infrastructure allows the game to support tens of thousands of simultaneous players in a single shared world. Wish is the first massively multi player online role playing game that truly tells a story, and lets player actions have lasting implications on the world.

Blizzard Entertainment today announced plans to enter into an agreement with Swingin' Ape Studios for the collaborative development of multi-platform titles based on Blizzard licenses. Their first project will be to continue work on the upcoming tactical-action console game, StarCraft: Ghost. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.