A banner on the Worldwide PGR 3 XBL contest page reveals that Microsoft has plans to release a "Speedpack" for Project Gotham Racing 3, only available through Xbox Live. The download will set you back 400 MS points and will include 12 new cars and promises new gameplay enhancements, but no release date is mentioned.

Bethesda announced that its hit title, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has achieved record sales, reflecting huge market demand for the title. Over 1.7 million units of Oblivion for the PC and Xbox 360 have been shipped since the launch of the game.

Rage Hard is a first person, multiplayer, tactical shooter. It is designed to be the best multiplayer experience possible. Set in a close future, couple of years from now, it will bring you the round based clashes between police squads, mercenaries, terrorists and different gangs of criminals.

Th3 Plan introduces an entirely unique style of gameplay. The first single player multiplayer game enables gamers to control up to three characters at once, offering new ways for characters to work in precise coordination. Eko Software has released the first multilanguage patch bringing your retail game to v1.1 and fixing savegame, AI and pathfixing issues.

Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom is an Action/RPG which is based on the world of Kingdom Under Fire where forces of light and darkness are locked in battle. While the first title in the series, A War of Heroes, appeared on the PC, its two sequels were Xbox exclusive hack'n slash/strategy games, but it seems the franchise is returning back to its roots with the 4th episode.

God of War II is a groundbreaking, PS2 exclusive combat action-adventure videogame based on Greek mythology, where you will get reacquainted with the vicious ex-Spartan warrior Kratos and embark on the continuing epic odyssey.

Mobile Suit Gundam, developed by Dimps, is a Xbox Live enabled first-person shooter where you take on the role of a soldier during the One Year War. MSG will have you complete various tasks, such as stealing an enemy's mobile suit, and will be shown war from both the Federation and Zeon side's perspectives.

JoWooD Productions announces the Line-Up for 2006 which will be presented at E3 in Los Angeles. JoWooD is focusing especially on two titles: Gothic 3 and The Guild 2 which will be released in the second part of the year. Additionally to these highlights, three new JowooD Products will celebrate their premiere, said to be JoWooD's first episodic content game Dogs of War, the Panzer Elite Action standalone addon Shifting Dunes and presumable the next chapter in the Spellforce franchise.

The Stalin Subway is a realistic first-person shooter which is set in Stalin's Moscow of fall 1952. Iosif Stalin, the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of USSR is now 72 years old, and a group of military officials of high rank decides that the Generalissimo is weak and the power can be taken away from him.

THQ has released some details about the upcoming v1.5 patch for Relic's 3D RTS Dawn Of War/Winter Assault, adding unit balancing, interface enhancements, some optimizations and bug fixes. This preliminary list is still a under construction and is based on current work, so not final in any way (thanks Relicnews). Read more for details...