Pirates of the Burning Sea is a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game set in the Caribbean islands of the 18th Century. You play a bold sea captain, master of your own ship and crew, as you seek glory and adventure across the trackless deep.

Blizzard has released a new upatch for its MMORPG World of Warcraft. This massive v2.0.1 update, for the French, German and UK editions of the game, revamps the honor system, adds arena skirmishes, and the usual slew of balance tweaks, bug and crash fixes...

The Dice Live Team is working on a Battlefield 2142 v1.10 patch, currently in beta testing, and will include added server options and a few gameplay enhancements along with a number of bug fixes. No word whether this update will also feature the reported new maps (Karlbo et Garmisch Partenkirchen) and supply line gameplay mode.

K2 Network's WarRock is an online FPS game, allowing you to experience online battlefields on a large scale, with supporting vehicles for land, sea and air.

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 :

• The Chronicles of Spellborn - The Howling Music Trailer
• Sam & Max Episode 2 - Situation: Comedy - Trailer
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

Bold Games announced the results of the “Blitzkrieg” phase of its Custom Map Competition for Tripwire Interactive's WWII Eastern Front FPS Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45. The top prize is brand new, high-end gaming rig, with additional prizes of top graphics cards and gaming keyboards/mice.

Virtua Tennis 3 gives gamers the opportunity to experience new levels of realism never thought possible on a home console system with enhanced photo-realistic graphics and advanced player animations that perfectly match the behaviour and mannerisms of individual professional players.

If you need a break from the multiplayer mayhem, Ubisoft has now also released the Splinter Cell Double Agent singleplayer demo, while Take Two has issued a demo (only for North America) for its recently released basketball game College Hoops 2K7 (North Carolina V.S. Florida). Both demos are now available on Xbox Live, but for the time being only Gold members will have access to download them, silver membership holders will have to wait until next week, to shoot some hoops.

Rainbow operatives take to the chaotic streets of Las Vegas as an escalating terrorist siege in “Sin City” threatens to take world terrorism to new, uncontrollable heights. The future of global security hangs in the balance as you battle to defend classic Vegas locations and environments like Fremont Street, the Strip, and casinos. Ubisoft announced it is working on the first patch addressing various multiplayer issues and fixing bugs ...

As part of Activision's "Ratings Are Not a Game," a sponsored survey concluded that parents overwhelmingly agree that the ESRB rating system is a highly effective and influential tool for determining what videogames are appropriate for their children to play.