THQ today announced that the first multiplayer map-pack, Collateral Damage, for The Outfit is now available for download on Xbox Live Marketplace for 500 Microsoft Points.

Lighthouse Interactive today released a first patch for its well received train/ logical game Loco Mania. This update brings your retail game (works for all langauges) to v1.1 and is now fully playable on Win9x and WinMe, and addresses a HUD issue.

The Witcher is an action RPG, which combines the features of such games as Dungeon Siege, Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance, Gothic and Neverwinter Nights. The game is supposed to ensure entertainment to a broad group of older players, incorporating simple yet interesting game system, along with a complex plot and attractive 3-D graphics.

After a four-year hiatus and a move from Atari back to its original publisher, Hasbro's Micro Machines V4 promises to bring its own hilarious brand of mini multiplayer madness.

LMA Manager 2007 will deliver the series’ totally compelling world of football to the new formats in massively expanded editions, with teams from over 50 countries to manage or pick transfers from, while retaining LMA Manager’s intuitive and user-friendly interface, where every piece of information is no more than a couple of button-presses away, and comes complete with visual presentation.

Xbox Live surpassed 24 million downloads since the Xbox 360 launch in the US on November 22, 2005. For the full week of E3 over 1.5 million gamers Xbox 360 gamers around the world jumped in to Xbox Live through "E3: Bringing It Home," and received a full week's Gold membership for free.

After yesterday's premature revelations, Eidos today officially announced that IO Interactive's Hitman: Blood Money has gone goldmaster, shipped to the manufacturer, and will be in stores on May 30th.

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:

• Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars - Trailer
• The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar - E3 2006 Trailer
• NFL Head Coach - Motivation Trailer
• Heroes of Might & Magic V - Trailer (2)
• Paraworld - E3 2006 Trailer
• Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs - E3 2006 Trailer
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Seagate Technology Maxtor Corporation announced today that their shareholders have approved the previously announced definitive merger agreement under which Seagate will acquire Maxtor in an all stock transaction.

Check out the following new screens from Activision's E3 2006 lineup:

• Spider-Man 3 (ALL) - Trailer
• Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (ALL) - Features, Screens & Trailer
• Tony Hawk's Project 8 (PS2/Xbox/PS3/X360) - Features, Screens & Trailer
• Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam (GBA/NDS/Wii) - Features, Screens & Trailer
• Enemy Territory: Quake Wars - Features, Screens & Trailer
• The Movies: Stunts & Effects - Screens & Trailer
• X-Men: The Official Game (ALL) - Screens
• World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions (ALL) - Features, Screens & Trailer
• Over The Hedge (ALL) - Screens
• Cabela's African Safari - Trailer