Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War is the latest creation from award-winning developer Stainless Steel Studios and renowned game designer Rick Goodman. Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War is a detailed real-time strategy game that lets players completely command one of the four mightiest empires of the ancient world: Greece, Rome, Egypt, and Persia.

In King of Fighters: Maximum Impact 2, you can once again prove that you're the best fighter in the world. The game features a host of famous SNK characters with different fighting styles.

As promised EA has released the singleplayer demo for The Battle for Middle-Earth 2 demo. The massive 1.3GB demo allows you to play as either the Goblins or Dwarves and feature a tutorial and single-player skirmish mode on two maps. Read more for download links ...

The US Army has released a new updated version for America's Army: Special Forces (Link-Up). This upgrade brings their team-based multiplayer game to v2.6 and includes two new missions, new match-making service, updated punkbuster, and the usual tweaks, bug and game crash fixes. Read more for details and download links ...

Keepsake will immerse you into a journey beyond compare. Assisted by a dragon afraid of heights, Lydia takes on to explore the Dragonvale Academy's empty structures in search for her best friend Celeste. Lighthouse has released an English demo for Wicked Studios' adventure game allowing you to check out several areas of the enchanted Dragonvale Academy, probe some of the game's puzzles and get a feel for the main character.

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 :

• Neverwinter Nights 2 - Trailer
• Drakengard 2 - Trailer #2
• Driver Parallel Lines [PS2/Xbox/PC] - Crashes Trailer #3
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

Heroes of Might & Magic V will benefit from the established features and characteristics while offering a wealth of innovations such as an immersive scenario, a variety of factions, 3D graphics, a revolutionary tactical combat system, and a story-based campaign mode. Learn more about the magic schools in HOMM5, or discover more about performance enhancing artefacts.

EA has released the first patch for FIFA Manager 06, previously known as Total Club Manager 2006. This update brings your French, German or English retail game to v1.2 and addresses a slew of fixes, enhacements, and gameplay tweaks. An update for the editor is also available, adding up to date data. Read more for detailed fix list and download links ...

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe is thrilled to announce the Summer 2006 release of its PSP exclusive LocoRoco. Bright, refreshing and compulsive, LocoRoco plunges you into a colourful world where jelly-like creatures (LocoRoco) sing, roll and bounce their way through levels to reach their goals.

Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45, built on Epic's Unreal 2.5 Engine, is a World War II standalone follow-up game to the Red Orchestra mod, that introduces new gameplay and features. Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 will be available through Steam, and in retail March 2006.