Paradox Interactive's Europa Universalis III delves deeply into the areas of exploration, trade, warfare and diplomacy, characterized by immense depth and historical content that charge its challenging gameplay with incredible replayability value.

Blizzard has released new update patches for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos as well as The Frozen Throne. This upgrade brings your retail game to v1.20e and fixes a multiplayer exploit and tweaks the (2)TerenasStand map. Read more for download links ...

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:

• Need For Speed Carbon - Trailer
• Glory of the Roman Empire - Trailer #2
• Dark Messiah of Might & Magic - Trailer
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

According to the Montreal Gazette, Radical president Ian Wilkinson announced today he is calling it quits and resigned, replaced by chief operating officer Kelly Zmak. No details were given as to why Ian so suddenly left the company he founded 15 years ago. A little over a year Vivendi purchased the Canadian developer, currently working on Scarface: The World Is Yours and was previously known for Crash Tag Team Racing, the Incredible Hulk, and The Simpsons: Hit & Run.

Codemasters has released a demo for its miniature racing game Micro Machines v4, giving you the opportunity to race against 3 additional people on three tracks (kitchen, a chicken coop, and on top of several unidentified rooftops), as well as a quick battle singleplayer mode against AI.

Tony Hawk’s Project 8 immerses players in the definitive skateboarding experience using ultra-realistic graphics, enhanced physics and extremely responsive controls that simulate the feeling of skating with every trick and bail.

Valve announced a Day of Defeat: Source Summer 2006 update featuring a free map pack, a new gameplay style, Detonation, two brand new missions (Jagd, Colmar). On top of that, it will also add new gameplay enhancements such as spawn clip adjustments, improved hit location detection, and weapon balancing. The DoD: Source Summer 2006 update is scheduled for release on June 28.

Race drivers will be competing in a massive variety of the world's most aggressive motor sports, complete with explosive damage effects, head-to-head online multiplayer racing and a game engine rebuilt for a greater degree of simulation.

Tripwire Interactive is pleased to announce that the next patch for Red Orchestra is now available through Steam, adding new weapons, file reductions to speed up loadtime, numerous map changes, and the usual game tweaks, item balancing, crash and bug fixes. Read more for details ...