Making History: The Calm & the Storm puts players in control of global conflict, combining a highly sophisticated AI with rich historical detail. This pre-release demo allows you to check out a full-length tutorial, as well as one scenario, playable with all 8 nations but with a limited number of turns.

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:

• WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2007 (PS2/X360)
• F-24 Stealth Fighter (GBA)
• SingStar Rocks! (PS2)
• NFL Street 3 (PSP/PS2)
• EA Replay (PSP)
• Star Wars Galaxies: the Complete Online Adventures (PC)
• Eragon (GBA/NDS/PSP/PS2/Xbox/X360/PC)
• Sonic The Hedgehog (X360)
• Everquest II: Echoes of Faydwer (PC)
• Warhammer: Mark of Chaos (PC)
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In Sacred: Underworld, players will be able to re-live the excitement of the entire original Sacred adventure with two new characters, or continue with existing characters. This new patch brings your English retail game to v2.28 and addresses gameplay issues, fixes single/multiplayer problems, quest issues and more ...

Signed by RTL Enterprises, German developer Silver Style, known for The Fall: Last Days of Gaia, keeps on trickling out screens for for its upcoming adventure game Simon the Sorcerer 4.

While the PC edition has been breaking sales records the past few months, the PSP and Xbox 360 have yet to be released, but SEGA announced that both platforms have now gone gold and are on track for their December 1st, 2006 retail debut.

Enhanced versions of the PS2 and PC game of the same name, Asterix and Obelix XXL 2 for the handhelds will take advantage of their unique capabilities while staying rooted in the same great tradition of parody that runs throughout the stories of Asterix and his friends.

Thrillville queue-jumps previous theme-park games with its access-all-areas pass to adventure and enjoyment, placing a fully interactive and customisable amusement park at your fingertips, allowing you to experience the joys of creating and playing within their very own theme park.

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:

• Madden NFL 2007 [Wii] - Defense Trailer
• Hellgate: London - GStar 2006 Trailer
• Lost Planet [X360] - Trailer 7
• Army of Two [PS3/Xbox] - Trailer #2
• Thrillville [PS2/Xbox] - Trailer #3
• Untold Legends Dark Kingdom [PS3] - Story & Characters Trailer
• Warhammer: Mark of Chaos - Launch Trailer
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Atlus U.S.A. announced the acquisition of the North American publishing rights to Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja, an original RPG designed exclusively for the NDS and slated to be in retail stores February of 2007.

Set one year after the events of its predecessor, in Yakuza 2 you will face the Osaka underworld and the terrible Dragon of the West, Ryûji Kôda.