Pirates of the Burning Sea is a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game set in the Caribbean islands of the 18th Century. You play a bold sea captain, master of your own ship and crew, as you seek glory and adventure across the trackless deep.

In Crashday your task is to scrap your vehicle with breathtaking stunts or to wreck cars in aggressive street races, showing your opponents that they made a fatal mistake in choosing you as their enemy. Atari has released a demo for Crashday featuring 2 playable events (Stunt and Wrecking), playable online and over LAN, but has a 50 launch limit on it.

Konami announced The Silent Hill Experience for the PSP, a behind-the-scenes look at the Silent Hill franchise. Using an intuitive 3D interface, SH fans will be able to view all-new digital interactive comics, listen to music from the Silent Hill games, and watch exclusive video content, including an interview with the director of the upcoming Silent Hill movie.

Nintendo Japan announced today it will launch a high-end version of its Nintendo DS portable game machine on March 2 in Japan, which will be thinner and lighter than the existing model. The Nintendo DS Lite will be sold for 16,800 yen ($145) versus 15,000 yen for the existing model, and weighs 218 grams compared to 275 grams for the Nintendo DS.

SEGA today announced Super Monkey Ball Adventure, an all-new narrative driven and platform based style of gameplay, along with brand new Monkey Ball abilities and a bunch of fresh new characters, adding 50 new and original puzzles to this new and exciting gaming experience.

Square Enix Europe announced today that the 3rd expansion pack for its MMORPG, Final Fantasy XI: Treasures of Aht Urhgan, will release in Europe and Japan on April 20th, 2006, following North American shipment on April 18th, while Final Fantasy XI for Xbox 360 on April 20th in Europe and Japan.

Majesco today announced handheld installments of the popular Guilty Gear fighting series. Guilty Gear Dust Strikers for the NDS and Guilty Gear Judgment for the PSP, both developed by ARC System Works, are due in early spring.

Blackbean games today announced that they will be bringing the modern day tank simulation Iron Warriors, also knows as T-72: Balkans on Fire!, to Europe. Iron warriors brings a never before seen depth of realism to the tank simulation genre. Every shell and every piece of terrain has been perfectly recreated to provide gamers with the most realistic tank experience possible!

Revealed a few days ago, Sony todya officially announced that Killzone is to make its debut on the PSP with Killzone: Liberation, an all new action packed instalment in the Killzone series has been developed specially for PSP and will feature a new intelligent third-person camera system – ideally suited for handheld gaming.

Eidos confirms that Commandos Strike Force, developed by Pyro Studios, will be released on March 17th, 2006 on PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC in all European territories.