Merscom today announced the opening of the Fastlane Pinball Global Online Tournament. Each month, the player with the highest score will receive an exclusive Fastlane Pinball trophy. The winners from each month will compete in June 2007 to determine the Fastlane Pinball Global Champion.

D3Publisher of America announce that WTF will ship to North American retail stores on Sept. 26, 2006. WTF is a crazy collection of fun and addictive mini-games that drive the player to perform sometimes trivial, sometimes mind-bending, but always fun jobs in pursuit of the almighty dollar.

In addition to all the favorite cars and tracks returning from GTR, the player will now be able to experience the thrill of driving a whole set of new and exotic sports cars on several new tracks. On Friday, 9AM PST 10Tacle will release a 512mb demo allowing you to drive one of two FIA-GT class cars against up to 15 computer-controlled opponents at the Barcelona GP circuit. We will of course have it availalble on our fileserver network...

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:

• Team Fortress 2 - Trailer
• Marvel: Ultimate Alliance [ALL] - Trailer #3
• Caesar IV - Trailer #2
• Darkstar One - Dev Diary Trailer #3
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

Need for Speed Carbon delivers the next generation of adrenaline-filled street racing and will challenge players to face the ultimate test of driving skill on treacherous canyon roads.

LucasArts has released a new patch for Petroglyph's RTS Star Wars Empire at War. This update brings your retail game to v1.05 and fixes a save game issue, as well as several space tactical changes.

Japanese players will be able to sit down and play Valve's FPS Half-Life 2 in the arcades as Taito is currently working on an adaptation titles Half-Life 2: Survivor. Read more for details and screens ...

Comic fans can see their favorite Marvel characters in action when Activision showcases the highly anticipated Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, Spider-Man 3: The Game and Spider-Man: Battle for New York games in the Activision/Marvel booth #4315 at the International Comic-Con Convention in San Diego from July 19 through July 23.

Codemasters announced today that it has changed the name for Colin McRae Rally 2007 to DIRT: Colin McRae Off-Road, and in Europe it will be known as just Colin McRae: DIRT.

In each mission of Faces of War, players will be leading a squad of 6 soldiers in a full 3D environment. Through the decisive European battles of World War II, they will be in command of Allied, Soviet and German troops. A day ahead of schedule, Ubisoft released a 2 level singleplayer demo...