SEGA of America has announced the next installment in Sports Interactive's genre-defining Worldwide Soccer Manager series. Packed full with more than 100 new features, Worldwide Soccer Manager 2007, aka as Football Manager 2007 in Europe, is set to release in October 2006.

French RTL has been known for releasing several RTL Ski Alpin titles the past few years, and last year JoWood went downhill with a new Ski Racing franchise. This year however both companies are teaming up to bring us a mix of both their products in Ski Alpin Racing 2007.

Atari and Melbourne House are pleased to announce a closed public beta test for Test Drive Unlimited on the PS2. Accepting North American entries only, the purpose of the beta is to receive consumer feedback on tuning and balancing, assessing online stability, and general functionality testing.

NFL Head Coach is a 3D strategy sports game that challenges gamers to build and manage every aspect of a football team from the ground up, and work with all coaches in the NFL Coaches Club. EA has released a demo allowing you to try out various features, training, coaching sessions and game day plays.

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:

• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas [PS3/X360] - Walkthrough Trailer
• Guitar Hero II [PS2] - Trailerpack
• Baten Kaitos II [NGC] - Intro Movie
• Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Dark Crusader - Trailer #3
• The Witcher - E3 Story Trailer
• Joint Task Force - Behind the Scenes #1
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Bethesda announced that its newest TES IV plug-in, Mehrunes' Razor, will be available on Xbox Live and OblivionDownloads.com this Thursday, June 15th. Mehrunes' Razor is a fully-featured quest which, once completed, will grant you the Mehrunes Razor, with the ability to kill foes instantly. Apart from that, it will also feature hidden treasures, books, magic items and plenty more ...

Warfare is a real-time global war simulator with real material and it's devoted to a conflict in the Near East. There are two campaigns, one for the USA, the other for Saudi Arabia. The main goal of the first campaign is taking full control of the region; the second one is coming to power in Saudi Arabia and achieving the withdrawal of all American troops.

GSC Game World sent out a newsletter officially confirming the Q1 2007 release date of the long-awaited survival FPS, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. The oft-delayed title was originally scheduled for a 2003 release so we're not sure if this date is set in stone, but it's something.

According to Parks Associates, PC in-game advertising will increase from $80 million in 2005 to more than $400 million in 2009. In 2005, U.S. Internet gamer households received about $0.10 worth of advertisement-supported gaming content on a monthly basis, compared to $50 worth of TV content.

Lighthouse Interactive along with their North American co-publishing partner, Destineer Publishing, today announced that PC gaming application provider Xfire will be hosting a closed beta program for their 4X strategy game, Sword of the Stars, and are now accepting applications for the closed beta test.