In Birth of America you control one of the major contenders in French & Indian Wars, and the War of the American Independence, trying to achieve military and political victory. This v1.05 patch addresses bug fixes, interface changes, scenario and gameplay tweaks, and a few gfx adjustments.

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.

Atom Entertainment has redesigned the Shockwave.com site and announced a major investment in high quality online game development with the creation of the Shockwave.com Game Studios.

CellFactor is a FPS set in a warfare industrial atmosphere. As the plot develops, you'll gain access to other two main characters as well, each one with distinctive singularities in the game play. You'll count with a great amount of traditional and experimental weapons, and even your character will get more powerful as the game goes along.

Ignition announced it has signed Puyo Pop Fever for European distribution. The latest version of SEGA's signature brainteaser comes from Sonic Team with wacky new puzzle pieces and a combo-crazy Fever Mode.

Rush for Berlin is a tactical real time strategy game, set on the European battlefields of World War II, during 1944-45. The player's goal; to capture the German capital, as either the British/US/French alliance or the Red army of the Soviet Union.

In a recent financial statement, British publisher SCi, who took over Eidos last year, revealed some of its future plans. Not only is it working on a new version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, but it is also bringing Namco's Stacked featuring Daniel Negranu to the UK. To top it all off, SCi will also be bringing Tomb Raider: Legend to all three current Nintendo platforms: DS, GBA and GameCube.

"Today we have banned a batch of players from ESO for a variety of cheats, including hacked decks, point trading, as well as for racist chat channels and comments. If you have found that your ESO account has been disabled and would like to appeal your ban, please e-mail age3.abuse@ensemblestudios.com. We'd like to thank the players who have e-mailed in to report abusive or cheating players. Please do include screenshots or recorded games with your e-mails to help us track these issues."

Stranger is a real-time strategy game, with elements of role playing games set in a world, split in two parts, surface and a subterranean one, which are in a tenuous balance. Stranger will also feature multiplayer, although details beyond "The players may play on their own, or unite in teams" are a bit sketchy.

Valve announced that it will soon start pre-loading Ritual Entertainment's episodic FPS SiN Episode 1: Emergence via its Steam online delivery system. One month before its release Valve will also preload and launch the first in a series of its own episodic Half-Life 2: Episode One. Counter-Strike: Source will get 2 new player models and an HDR enabled version of de_dust, while Day of Defeat: Source is due for a new map that will introduce a new gameplay mode.