Atari announced today that it has signed a licensing agreement with Activision to include Pitfall! and River Raid in Atari's forthcoming Atari Flashback 2. Celebrating the 30th anniversary of Atari's first home game console, PONG, Atari Flashback 2 features more than 40 classic games, including arcade classics, previously unreleased titles from the Atari vault and rare homebrew games created by fans and supporters of Atari's early console models.

A free-flowing game during which players can assume the role of multiple characters and experience the game from multiple viewpoints, Indigo Prophecy allows players' actions to affect the plot by offering a scenario driven interactive experience. Through motion picture techniques such as actor direction, multi-camera views, motion tracking and a contextual music score, players find themselves intimately immersed in the game. "PC demos will also be unleashed in different languages in selected magazines this September, later via Internet."

Crashday puts you in a world of stunts, dents and adrenalin. 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.

Call of Duty 2 is an all new epic title which delivers an unparalleled portrayal of the chaos and intensity that was World War II. CoD 2 is powered by a proprietary new engine featuring striking new visuals, advanced A.I. technology, the most realistic squad combat and explosive action in new historic campaigns.

In Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 3, players will embody Captain Scott Mitchell as he commands the Ghosts and Special Forces allies equipped with the IWS in the quest to save the president of the United States, recover stolen nuclear codes and eliminate a vicious band of renegade soldiers hell-bent on unleashing catastrophe. A lonesome PC screen wandered into our offices ...

While earlier this month it came to light that GSC Game World's oft delayed FPS S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl will not be making any appearance this year, a specific new time frame was not announced. Through a release schedule for THQ France it has now been revealed we could possibly have to wait more than a year, as it is tentatively listed for autumn 2006. In the meantime, three new screens to, hardly, make up for it...

UPDATE : THQ France admitted making a mistake in their release schedule, which is now under revision, and informed us that STALKER is scheduled for, somewhere in, 2006.

Dragonshard will incorporate classic role-playing themes, a powerful and dynamic real-time strategy engine all woven together with a rich storyline involving a global conflict for an immensely powerful artifact with the power to change the fate of Eberron itself. Atari has sent out a pre-canned Q&A between Atari Community Manager Shane 'The DungeonMaster' DeFreest and member of Liquid Entertainment.

Explore Anthranella IX, and its many exotic places. Join Marc on this epic quest for the truth and what lies just beyond. The story twists until the last moment; but at the end, you will know this world, its people, the fate of Peter and more importantly – a little more about yourself. What makes us human? Do we have limits? Can we travel as far as our dreams? The answers await in Destinies, an upcoming sci-fi/fantasy adventure under development at Lanthra Productions & Team Destinies.

Delve deeper into the film experience through alternative viewpoints designed to immerse the player into the action and truly "feel" the tension of the adventure. Ubisoft has just launched the official King Kong website, the game adaptation of Academy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson's upcoming theatrical movie. The website features some screens, trailers and newsletter signup possibility.

Another day, another batch of game trailers were released. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are trailers for :

• Indigo Prophecy - Trailer (2)
• Officers - Intro Movie Part 3
• Blitz: The League [PS2/Xbox] - Trailer
• Black & White 2 - Spell Trailers (2)
• Mario Superstar Baseball [NGC] - Trailer
• Brian Lara International Cricket 2005 - Trailer #5
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...