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. Stardock has released a v1.40x patch that adresses some memory leaks, but mainly general tweaking and balancing.

Call of Duty 3 delivers the intensity of being closer than ever to the fury of combat during the battle for the Liberation of Paris, the most harrowing campaign of WWII, known as The Normandy Breakout.

In a somewhat belated press release announcing the newest trailer, it was revealed that Deep Shadow's sci-fi action game Precursors is also coming to the Xbox 360. Precursors leads you into unexplored regions of space, combines FPS gameplay, RPG elements and space combat.

Sid Meier's Railroads! marks the return of the watershed title in simulation/strategy gaming that launched the popular “tycoon” genre, and inspired a new generation of games. This demo includes a toutorial and one small 2-player map.

In Terrorist Takedown: Covert Operations you are special ops team leader Lt. Jake Morche. Your unit is sent into Columbia to take out a cartel boss, while being outnumbered and hunted down by the heavily armed drug mafia. This demo includes 2 playable missions..

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:

• Guild Wars Nightfall (PC)
• Star Trek: Tactical Assault (NDS)
• ATV Offroad Fury Pro (PSP)
• Dungeon Siege II: Deluxe Edition (PC)
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  We will update this throughout the day when new announcements become available. Read more for details ...

The Secret Files: Tunguska is a point-and-click adventure game based on the mysterious Tunguska phenomenon that occurred in July 1908, in which the Siberian region of Tunguska was engulfed in an inferno of flames that turned everything into debris and ashes.

SCEA announced that it will sponsor the eighth-annual Voodoo Music Experience in New Orleans, Louisiana. On October 28th and 29th, 2006, the musical event at New Orleans' historic City Park includes Red Hot Chili Peppers, Duran Duran, Wu-Tang Clan, The Flaming Lips and more

THQ has signed a worldwide publishing agreement with Gas Powered Games for its RTS game Supreme Commander. Chris Taylor is known for his work with Total Annihilation under Cave Dog, and Supreme Commander will mark his return to a genre that he helped popularize.

While Activision will not finalize other financial results for Q2 until after the internal review regarding the grant practices it is being investigated for, it did release preliminary numbers. Net revenues for Q2 dropped from $222.5M to $188.2M, but it still exceeded expectations as earlier projections had estimated for a mere $130M, so Activision actually performed 45% stronger than anticipated.