Empire has signed an agreement with Fireglow Game to distribute Stranger, an RPG / RTS hybrid, and Sudden Strike 3: Arms for Victory, latest installment in the WWII RTS franchise, in the UK.

Arcade Moon invites you to water world of speed boats and crazy races in Aquadelic GT! Join the Aquadelic league and race for glory and cold, hard cash across Russian canals, Greek port towns and Caribbean islands!

Another day, another batch of games shipped to stores. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are announcements for:

• Blazing Angels 2: Secret Missions of WWII (PS3)
• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (NDS/PS3/X360/PC)
• Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker (NDS)
• Empire Earth III (PC)
• Gears of War (PC)
• Horse Life (NDS)
• John Deere: Harvest in the Heartland (NDS)
• Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Wii)
• My Coach Games (Wii/NDS)
• Neves (NDS)
• Ontamarama (NDS)
• Silent Hill Origins (PSP)
• SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Tactical Strike (PSP)
• Spectrobes Collector's Edition (NDS)
• Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance (PC)
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Destineer, formed by former Bungie Software executive vice president Peter Tamte, announce that it has licensed Unreal Engine 3 from Epic Games, Inc., for a yet to be announced project.

Nostradamus: The Last Prophecy is a classic point-and-click adventure game. Nostradamus sends his daughter Madeleine to help Catherine de Medici, who thinks she has been cursed. As practicing medicine is a male occupation, the game allows you to disguise as Madeleine's brother Cesar to interact with other NPCs.

Sony Computer Entertainment Japan announced that it will launch a newly designed PS2 in Japan on Nov. 22nd, 2007 (Europe early 2008) for an estimated 6,000 yen in three color variations, Charcoal Black, Ceramic White and Satin Silver. The new PS2 now has an internal AC and will be lighter in weight.

Rock Band allows you to perform music from the world’s biggest rock artists with your friends as a virtual band using drum, bass/lead guitar and microphone peripherals, in addition to offering online connectivity. Rock Band includes 58 tracks and spans every genre of rock ranging from alternative, classic rock to heavy metal and punk.

Weigh anchor, sail the seven seas, explore new continents and foreign cultures. Demonstrate your strategic skills, business acumen and diplomatic finesse. Revel in the jubilant cheers of your people – but don't disappoint them. This v1.04 patch makes the game compatible with The Sunken Dragon expansion, currently only available in Germany.

Final Fantasy XI: Wings of the Goddess, the 3rd expansion pack for Square Enix MMO, includes new areas, a wide variety of new jobs, time travel, and large scale battlefields. At a Final Fantasy Fan Festival in Osaka, Japan the Final Fantasy XI team announced a new Job for the game, the Scholar.

Writer/director Roger Avary, who won an Academy Award for Pulp Fiction with Quentin Tarantino, told SCI FI Wire that he is almost done with the script for his film adaptation of the Return to Castle Wolfenstein video game, which he hopes to direct. He added that everything is on hold until the writers' strike ends. Avary, who said he did research into the paranormal, the American military and the Nazis, also wrote the script for the Silent Hill movie.