Microsoft Game Studios today announced that the Zoo Tycoon 2: Marine Mania expansion pack has gone gold, allowing you to turn your dream zoo into an aquatic adventure.

Alpha Prime is a first person action game with an emphasis on the single player experience. At its core is a Science Fiction story written by the foremost Czech Sci-fi author Ondrej Neff. Game play will be a varied balance of combat and more technical activities such as hacking and remotely controlling robotic devices.

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:

• Mage Knight: Apocalypse (PC)
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (NGC/PS2)
• Down in Flames: Eastern Front (PC)
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Check out the following new screens from Capcom's TGS 2006 lineup:

• Devil May Cry 4 (PS3) - 10 New Screens
• God Hand (PS2) - Screens
• Lost Planet: Extreme Condition (X360) - 18 New Screens
• Mega Man Star Force (NDS) - Features & Screens
• Monster Hunter Portable 2nd (PSP) - Screens
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Justice For All (NDS) - Screens
• Power Stone Collection (PSP) - Features & Screens

Ascaron has released a new patch for its latest iteration in the ANSTOSS soccer management franchise. This 4th patch requires v1.03 to be installed and fixes various bugs, and game crashes. Old save games will no longer work after applying this patch.

Pompolic: Call for Heroes is a third-person action game with RPG elements placed in a fantasy world. Quotix Software programmer Attila Siladji tells us more about their upcoming action/rpg.

Former VP of Global Online at EA Lars Buttler, and Might & Magic creator Jon Van Caneghem, who also founded New World Computing, have officially launched Trion World Network Inc., the publisher and developer of games and original entertainment for the broadband era.

Bullet Witch is an action adventure taking place in the exceedingly bleak near future of 2013. Civilization is on the brink of extinction after demons begin appearing on the earth, and the player wades into the fray as a witch named Alicia.

Sierra Entertainment announced today that it is developing Ice Age 2 The Meltdown, based on 20th Century Fox's animated film, for the Nintendo Wii, and will be available at retailers nationwide this holiday season.

According to German Gamestar magazine, Epic's Jay Wilbur revealed at the Tokyo Game Show that UT 2007 has been further delayed, until Q2/Q3 2007. While Epic never announced an official release date, Sony initially mentioned it was to be a launch title, and while many retailers had it listed for end of the year, a few months ago The Inquirer reported it was postponed until 2007. Specific reasons for the delay were of course not provided, but it is safe to assume the extra development time will be used to polish the game.