Another Thursday, another batch of games shipped to stores. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are announcements for:

• Battle of Europe (PC)
• Blazing Angels Squadrons of WWII (Xbox/X360/PC)
• Monster 4x4 World Circuit (Xbox)
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  We will update this throughout the day when new announcements become available. Read more for details...

X-Men: The Official Game ties in with the upcoming movie X-Men: The Last Stand and provides the backstory. The new X-Men game, written by screenwriter Zak Penn and comic book writer Chris Claremont, lets you play as either Wolverine, Nightcrawler, or Iceman.

2K Sports today announced that Matador Records, among other record labels, is providing music for the in-game Major League Baseball 2K6 soundtrack.

The Game Developers Choice Awards is the only peer-based, open nomination awards program in the industry where honors are bestowed to developers by developers. Recipients were announced last night at the 2006 Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Jose.

Brigade E5: New Jagged Union is a tactical turn-based game. The scene of action is a small country called Palinero somewhere in the tropics. Recently a coup d'etat has happened in the country and civil war is about to break out. The main character of the game has to hire a band of mercenaries and take control of the situation.

Shrapnel Games announced that its turn-based fantasy 4X strategy game Dominions 3: The Awakening is now available for pre-order. Originally scheduled for 2005, it is now projected to go Gold in June.

Wargaming has released a new patch for its Massive Assault Network 2 open beta test. This beta patch improves chat server, fixes game crashes, increases turn limit and plenty more ...

SEGA today announced a new partnership with Obsidian Entertainment to collaboratively develop an original role playing game for PC, PS3 and X360

Championship Manager 2006 offers a wide range of innovative new features and is the most realistic version to date, with Player data given a complete overhaul. It's the only game on the market for PC to contain signings from the January transfer window!

After previously locking up the FIA GT, SimBin further strengthens its position in the motor sport game genre by acquiring the game license for the WTCC, the World Touring Car Championship, one of only three existing FIA world championships.