Pandemic has constructed a whole new "playground of destruction" from the ground up, fully stocked with the hottest vehicles and weapons. Set in a new and exotic hotspot, you can be your own boss in a wide-open world where there's only one rule: everybody pays. Last year Pandemic delayed Mercenaries 2 until Q1 2008, and what we revealed a few months back, has once more been confirmed, Pandemic's Mercenaries 2 is now scheduled for August 31, 2008.

Nitro Stunt Racing offers instant fun and fierce competition on amazing tracks. Following the standard motor racing rules, this game is a spicy mix of attractive elements such as pipes, loops and huge jumps on various surfaces. The demo lets you race 1 F-JET in a race mode (16 opponents) on 1 Jump track, with 3 difficulty levels.

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:

• So Blonde - Trailer #3
• Emergency Heroes [Wii] - Trailer
• Halo 3 [X360] - Legendary Map Pack Trailer
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

Summon Night: Twin Age is a fully stylus-driven action RPG set in the popular Summon Night universe featuring beautifully animated graphics, and addictive action RPG gameplay. The stylus is your key to the world of Clardona, whether as your swinging sword or your shimmering wall of fire.

Alone in the Dark returns with a heart-stopping survival experience realized through combining the use of real-time physics and environmental interaction to deliver an exhilarating action-orientated experience within a highly detailed, open environment. Despite the new screens from earlier today, Atari can't seem to hold on to a release date, as it confirmed that Alone in the Dark is once again being pushed back, this time until June 20, 2008.

Battlestar Galactica is an action-packed top-down space combat game set in the universe of the sci-fi television show. Sign up to defend the Galactica, or play as the ruthless Cylons as they seek to remove the human menace from existence. To celebrate the start of the TV's new season, Sierra Online is slashing price for the the XBLA edition of the game in half (400 MS Points) for a 24 hour period, starting Saturday, April 5th.

The City is alive! Goin´ Downtown,using Silver Style's new Toon shading technology, takes you to a futuristic metropolis to take up the challenge of an exciting point & click adventure. You are the charismatic hero Jake who earns his living as a mediocre and frustrated cop in the year 2072.

Last week rumors went around that Def Leppard would be featured on RedOctane/Activision's upcoming Guitar Hero IV, info extracted from an on-air Rockline radio interview. Said radio station has now put up a soundbite on its website where Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen confirms that Photograph, Animal, and Rock of Ages will be featured on the rhythm game's next installment saying "No, it is coming out, it would have been out earlier, but we didn't get around to it."

Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords expansion includes four new Hero professions, scores of new spells to cast and items to collect, challenging new quests, monsters and bosses and much more including a new archenemy, Antharg, the Lord of Plague. After hundreds of entries D3P chose Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords - Revenge of the Plague Lord as the official title.

SEGA has teamed up with Obsidian, who is also working on the Aliens RPG for SEGA, to develop its new 3rd person espionage focused action/RPG. Taking you on a suspenseful ride in the vein of James Bond, Jack Bauer, and Jason Bourne, Alpha Protocol has you work your way up the ranks as rookie agent Michael Thorton to become a bona-fide super spy.