Conspiracy Entertainment Europe is pleased to announce the signing of Zen Studios' Flipper Critters, a fully 3 dimensional, original new gameplay experience based on classic pinball. Unlike most games, which take place on small, closed tables, Flipper Critters pinball takes place on a much bigger scale.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl is Nintendo's latest incarnation in the popular Super Smash Bros. series of titles. Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Wii will feature all new characters ranging from Kirby and Wario to Samus, and even Metal Gear Solid's Snake.

Titan Quest is an action RPG set in the ancient mythical worlds of Greece and Egypt. With an arsenal of more than a thousand pieces of unique and legendary equipment, players will have to overcome terrifying monsters and mythical beasts in their quest to save humankind from the Titans.

Determinance is a free-form multiplayer sword-fighting PC title which has been in development for three years. It boasts an intuitive mouse-based control-system and has been developed using Garage Games' Torque engine.

Industry analysts are speculating that CPU manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices may be looking to acquire graphics card ATI Technologies, consistent with AMD's strategy to increase capacity over the next few-years. Analysts believe ATI is a rare-buy in the semiconductor space right now given the near-term tie-up dynamics and while it has been rumored before, recent financial figures make people believe the time is right.

Valve's SteamPowered website has been updated with details about a hefty update to its Source engine and the Steam client itself. This update updates source engine base content to support new engine features, brings the friends list out of beta, added a file defrag option and various other tweaks and fixes. Read more for details, or just restart Steam for the effects to take place.

Planetwide Games announced today the upcoming release of Nacho Libre Comic Book Creator. Nacho Libre fans will now be able to create their own Nacho Libre comics and comic books from key movie scenes, characters, tag lines, audio and graphics from the film.

As promised, EA has released The Battle for Middle-Earth 2 v1.04 patch addressing a crash, a few multiplayer desync issues, as well as modifying the Palantir button order on several units.

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:

• Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War - Trailer #11
• Panzer Command: Operation Winter Storm - Trailer #3
• Warhammer: Mark of Chaos - E3 2006 Trailer
• Heart of Eternity - Trailer #2
• Stacked with Daniel Negreanu - MTV Trailer
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

Strategy First announced today that Gameyus Interactive's RTS Alliance Future Combat has officially gone gold, and is due to hit stores in North America June 12, 2006.