The Worms series recently diversified with Worms Forts Under Siege, a tactical RTS-like spin-off created for Sega. However, Worms 4: Mayhem is a return to the series' trademark gameplay and sees Team 17's core Worms design and development team regrouping for a game of explosive annelid annihilation.

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.

Mastiff and Mad Catz Interactive announced that Mad Catz will be the exclusive distributor of Pump It Up: Exceed for North America. Pump It Up: Exceed is the hot dancing game storming through Latin America, the UK, France, and Korea, for the PS2 and the Xbox.

Already revealed last month, Frogwares is working on a game based on Jules Verne's novel Around The World In 80 Days. Journey on every existing means of transport, making you to use all inventiveness ingenuity, full of discoveries of unseen and unheard beauties. New gentleman, new bet, but it is up to you to choose itinerary. Would you do it in 80 days? Maybe you would rather make a stop at Bahamas, and give up the race for good?

Blizzard has released yet another new Warcraft III map, this time called "Sunken Ruins"... Map info: "In one of the most tumultuous and dangerous parts of the ocean lies an isle run by goblins. Their whole lot in life is to sell zeppelins to wayward seafarers whose ships were destroyed by perilous hurricanes common to these waters." This is a large sized map and the suggested no. of players is 3v3,4v4, FFA. It is based on the "Sunken Ruins" tileset. Go download it here!

Firefly Studios has updated its website with word about the second patch for its 3D RTS Stronghold 2. "The promised 1.2 update for Stronghold 2 should be available on Monday 16th of May. The 1.2 update improves multiplayer stability and connection issues and adds multiplayer functionality including the ability to kick players and create password protected games. Also the crime system has been tweaked, memory issues has been improved and various other bug fixes have been implemented."

Phantom Dust creator Yukio Futatsugi has commissioned the release of 34 new skills via the downloadable skill update 1.20 on Xbox Live. The new skills cover all the different skill schools and also include the mysterious 'Phantom Dust' skill which, while initially shrouded in mystery, promises to have a crazy, game altering effect. In addition to the new skills, Futatsugi and his team have made a ton of tweaks to existing skills, leveling out some of the more devastating and sometimes unfair skills and improving the homing ability of skills like 'Psycho Sniper'.

Interview With a Made Man is a complex and engrossing crime-based title, based on a storyline by best-selling author, David Fisher. The game revolves around the rise of a determined and ambitious Mafioso and takes the player from the jungles of Vietnam to the mean streets of the Big Apple. The game uses a third-person perspective and, through its multi-layered gameplay offers a dramatic insight to the world of organised crime, and those that inhabit it.

Running With Scissors finally cuts loose the next chapter in his bitter, disaffected saga: Apocalypse Weekend, which details the Dude's thermonuclear activities during the 48 hours following his original week-long rampage. A single-player expansion pack, Apocalypse Weekend offers over 20 new areas of Paradise to decimate, 10 original missions to execute with extreme prejudice and an array of "cutting edge" weaponry that would make Kill Bill’s Bride salivate. Apocalypse Weekend is shipping in June, and is now available for pre-order!

EA today announced their Medal of Honor European Assault "Crack the Code" Contest. This test of skill will be exclusively available to purchasers of MoH EA. Be the first individual to finish the European Assault game in Hero (most difficult) mode, conquer the German machine, and then unlock a top-secret code from German intelligence, and get a chance to win $10,000. Read more for details ...