Microsoft Game Studios and Bungie Studios today celebrated 5th Xbox Anniversary by announcing an Halo 3 Xbox Live multiplayer public beta, scheduled for spring 2007. Also On Dec. 4, a new Halo 3 trailer will be released, while next spring all-new Halo 2 multiplayer maps will be released.

2K and Firaxis Games announced Sid Meier's Pirates! for the PSP. In Pirates! you are a 17th century Caribbean Pirate Captain trying to become the most revered and feared pirate in history - exploring high seas and exotic ports, overtaking enemies in fierce naval battles, engaging in duels and attempting to seize valuable booty.

In Superman Returns: The Videogame, you explore and protect the truly living city of Metropolis, one that is not only expansive (with 80 sq miles and over 9,000 buildings), but also changes dynamically with you as you affect gameplay. EA has released a 900mb demo (five missions contained in two chapters), now available on Xbox Live Marketplace, but only for Gold members, until Nov 22nd.

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade is the exciting new expansion to Blizzard's massively multiplayer online role-playing game. It expands the game by tremendous bounds, adding new races, quest, lands, Battlegrounds, professions and items, raising the level cap to 70, and more.

Already revealed last week, THQ today officially announced the first Titan Quest expansion pack, Immortal Throne, adding new storyline, monsters, weapons, quests, skills, and character classes.

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:

• Gothic 3 (PC)
• Dead or Alive: Xtreme 2 (Xbox 360)
• Final Fantasy III (NDS)
• Heroes of Might & Magic V: Hammers of Fate (PC)
• Happy Feet (GBA/NDS/NGC/PS2/Wii/PC)
• Warhammer: Battle for Atluma (PSP)
• Capcom Classics Collection Vol. 2 (PS2/Xbox)
• Xiaolin Showdown (PSP/PS2/Xbox)
• Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz (Wii)
• Pocket Racers (PSP)
• Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Tag Force (PSP)
• DDR Ultramix 4 (Xbox)
• Naruto: Uzumaki Chronicles (PS2)
• Sonic The Hedgehog Genesis (GBA)
• Trauma Center: Second Opinion (Wii)
• Platypus (PSP)
• Luxor: Wrath of Set (PSP)
• My Little Pony: The Runaway Rainbow (GBA)
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Midway's classic space shooter is back! Now for the first time you can play Defender on Xbox Live. Protect the humans on the planet surface by destroying the invading alien abductors. Two versions, the classic game in its untouched original form and a graphically enhanced version, available for 400 points.

Thrillville queue-jumps previous theme-park games with its access-all-areas pass to adventure and enjoyment, placing a fully interactive and customisable amusement park at your fingertips, allowing you to experience the joys of creating and playing within their very own theme park.

Grey Dog Software has released the first patch for its sports management simulation software Wrestling Spirit 2, bringing your retail game to v1.1 and addresses several problems with the game, fixes bugs, crashes and makes various tweaks.

Steel Beasts is a simulation of small-unit armored and mechanized combat, centered around two of the world’s most awesome main battle tanks: the US’s M1A1 Abrams, and Germany’s Leopard 2A4.