Strategy First and Slitherine Software are thrilled to announce that their strategy game, Legion Arena, has shipped and is now available in North American stores nationwide.

Alpine Skiing 2006 captures the essence of the sport by allowing players to take part in each of the four disciplines of alpine skiing: Downhill, Slalom, Giant Slalom and Super G. Alpine Skiing 2006, aka Ski Alpin 2006, is known in North America as Bode Miller Alpine Skiing. This English/German demo features 3 skiers (including Bode Miller), three slopes, and allows you to try out one race in three game modes (quickstart, practice and arcade).

Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror is scheduled to be released in North America spring 2006 and will not only see the return of Gabe Logan, but also Theresa, Lipan et Lian Xing. The PSP version will allow you to give commands to the rest of your team a la SOCOM, and a multiplayer wi-fi mode is also par of the new features. Sony promises near PS2 quality graphics due to the usage of streaming technology.

Greek publishing and distribution company hell-tech announced that it has secured the publishing rights to Moon Byte Studios/Replay Studios' Crashday for Greece, former Yugoslavia, Turkey and South Africa. In Crashday it is your task to scrap your vehicle with breathtaking stunts or to wreck cars in aggressive street races.

MVP 06 NCAA Baseball is being produced by Electronic Arts Canada in Vancouver, B.C., and will celebrate everything that makes NCAA baseball unique -- aluminum bats, intense action, and stadiums filled with school spirit and packed with passionate fans.

Paradox Interactive announced that they will be publishing the North American release of two titles from pan-European publisher Deep Silver, Rush for Berlin and Heart of Empire: Rome, both scheduled for Q2 2006.

Konami of Europe has announced Street Supremacy, a multi-player racing game, specifically developed by Genki for PSP. Due for release in March 2006, Street Supremacy is a high-octane racing title featuring a wealth of licensed vehicles.

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 :

• Act of War: High Treason - Trailer
• WarRock - Trailer
• TOCA Race Driver 3 - Telemetry Trailer
• Me and My Katamari [PSP] - Trailerpack
• Sonic Riders (NGC/PS2/Xbox) - Trailer #3
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

LucasArts today announced its downloadable content plans for the Xbox version of Star Wars Battlefront II. Now available for free download, the newly added Assault mode on Kashyyyk adds another location for the Hero Free-For-All, a mode previously seen only when you selected Assault at Mos Eisley. In January LucasArts will release two new hero characters and 4 favorite maps from the original Battlefront, for only $4.99. Read more for details ...

Valve's SteamPowered website has been updated with details regarding the latest update for its online delivery system Steam. As promised this release add two new models (G.I.G.N and Guerilla), a nade exploit, bot fixes, and various other tweaks and fixes. Just restart Steam for the effects to take place.