SOE and Sigil Games Online announced today the special features included in the Collector’s & Guild Edition, as well as pre-order details for Vanguard: Saga of Heroes. In the vast world of Telon, players are free to choose their destiny by exploring three spheres of advancement, adventuring, diplomacy, and crafting.

As the SEAL commander, the player will be supported by AI teammate executing traditional SOCOM team-based tactical, stealth and action gameplay. Multiple players will once again be able to form clans and take on their friends for team-based high-action gameplay.

Matrix Games announced that Destroyer Studios' Starshatter: The Gathering Storm has gone gold. Integrating elements of real-time-strategy games Starshatter: The Gathering Storm allows fleet commanders to direct the battle on a tactical level, launching fighters and directing destroyers to defend the fleet and annihilate enemy forces.

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 :

• Stranglehold [PS3/X360/PC] - Trailer
• Thrillville [PS2/Xbox] - Featurette Trailer #1
• Mercury Meltdown Remix [PS2] - Trailer
• Untold Legends Dark Kingdom - Mage Trailer #2
• Splinter Cell Double Agent [ALL] - Trailer (2)
• Word of Chaos - Trailer #4
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

Slope Shaiming is a young SCN soldier. Where the WRF survives slope the attack of the Syndicate soldiers, who want to take over control of the area tried in the east of Asia to break in. It decides to create a group, which oppose to the aggressors: the Resistance.

The Entertainment Software Association announced that the new E3 Media and Business Summit will be held July 11-13, 2007, in Santa Monica, California, and will combine the best elements of the former trade show into a business event celebrating the video game industry's present and future.

Need for Speed Carbon takes handheld racing to a whole new level with all-new crew-based gameplay and an exclusive east coast open-world city. Settle an ongoing turf war by building an unstoppable crew, winning races against your fiercest rivals, and outwitting the cops.

Earache Extreme Metal Racing will feature 10 racing teams burning a lot more than rubber through hell and other wastelands, along with a hard rockin' soundtrack. Specially for Friday the 13th, a 2nd demo featuring a new level, and two vehicles.

Earlier this week Miami Court Judge Ronald Friedman instructed Take-Two to get him a copy of Rockstar's upcoming Bully game, so he could play and "judge" for himself if the game was a public nuisance holds any merit. Although Jack Thompson initially called this a huge victory against the violent video game industry, it seems now he has been shot down, once again, as the Judge ruled that although he did not want his kid to play the game, the game did not contain anything you wouldnt see on regular TV. In short, the game is good to ship to stores next week...

Namco Bandai announced that .hack(R)//G.U. Vol.1: Rebirth has gone gold, plunging players into the most recent incarnation of “The World,” a massively multiplayer online game universe filled with secrets and unexplained phenomena.