Times Online is reporting that rally racing legend Colin McRae, 39, star of Codemasters' racing franchise, has died in a helicopter crash today, together with his 5-year-old son Johnny, another adult and another child. According to a police statement, the crash occurred around 1610 BST on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2007, in Jerviswood, east of Lanark. McRae's agent confirmed that McRae had been piloting the helicopter himself. According to friends, McRae's wife Alison and their daughter Hollie, 9, were not on board.

Combining its humorous adventure roots with an epic storyline and immersive gameplay, R&C Future: Tools of Destruction draws players into a vast, new galaxy, with bustling cities, gigantic enemies and giant boss battles. While the downloadable demo will be available Oct. 4, you can already pre-order the game at GameStop (for $5) and get a one-level demo disc.

World in Conflict is an RTS that delivers action and coordinated team play amidst a showdown between the Soviet Union and the US, with completely destructible 3D battlefields, aggressive team-based multiplayer and a focus on fast, hard-hitting battles. Massive Entertainment’s David Polfeldt tell us a bit more about the single-player campaign.

Revealed a few weeks ago, the Blitzkrieg 2: Liberation add-on is set near the end of the WW2 and will add two new Western Front campaigns set in Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and France, and will of course include plenty of new units, maps, and game modes.

Medal of Honor Airborne introduces players to an entirely new way of experiencing a WWII FPS – namely the fully interactive Airborne experience. EA is working on the first patch for MoH Airborne, which enables the Dedicated Server, fixes several bugs, and makes some balance changes on the Anti-Tank Weapon.

Evochron Renegades is the sequel to Evochron Alliance with a lot of design aspects heavily influenced by player feedback and requests. It is a first person 3D space combat, trader, and mercenary simulation.

Opoona is a "lifestyle RPG," where you, as Opoona, descendant of brave warriors, known as Cosmo Guards, must adapt to a new environment, meet new people, get a job, all while becoming aware of the precious world and people surrounding him.

Sporting various new features, and a new graphics engine, Arena Wars Reloaded is an action strategy game focusing once again on fast-paced RTS action and multiplayer mayhem.

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:

• Halo 3 [X360] - Making of the John-117 Monument Trailer
• Dark Sector [PS3/X360] - Trailer
• Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron [PSP] - Customization Trailer
• Sonic Rush Adventure [NDS] - Trailer
• Medal of Honor Heroes 2 [PSP/Wii] - Trailer #2
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

Turok is an epic, story-driven first-person shooter set on a dark, mysterious planet in the near future. Players take on the role of Joseph Turok, a former Black Ops commando, now part of an elite Special Forces squad on a mission to take down a war criminal on a genetically-altered planet.