Pirates of the Burning Sea is a MMORPG 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.

Microsoft today released the second iteration of its XNA Game Studio Express beta, upgraded with full functionality for Windows and third party toolset support, allowing hobbyists, academics and independent game developers to more easily integrate game content into their creations.

Electronic Software Association (ESA) top executive, and most recently E3 lead organizer, Mary Dolaher, has resigned and taken up a new position at IDG World Expo, organizer of numerous tradeshows such as MaxWorld and various others around the world. Not skipping a beat, IDG today announced it will be organizing Game Pro Expo in Los Angeles' Staples Center, the former E3 location, October 18-20, 2007. The new show will will have trade, consumer, and game competition components, comparable to the Tokyo Game Show/Liepzig Convention formulas.

F.E.A.R. is a paranormal action thriller presented entirely in first person. It is an unprecedented adrenaline rush of close-quarters combat seamlessly melded with the spine-tingling, shocking intensity of the unknown.

UFO: Afterlight is a mixture of squad based tactical action and global strategy with the gamer controlling the actions of elite ground troops, and the running and construction of an intricate network of interlinking bases while collecting resources. Altar and Cenega announced that UFO: Afterlight will hit the shelves on 9th February 2007.

When Activision dropped the Shrek The Third trailer at X06 a few weeks ago, it was the first sign of life of the next installment in the Shrek franchise, but lacking any sort of game details, until today ...

Immerse yourself in the intensity, carnage, and chaos of the war that divided a nation! Experience history brought to life in the first ever first-person action game based on the Civil War.

Sam and Max: Episode 1: Culture Shock and begins as Sam and Max discover that a group of former child stars have become involved in nefarious deeds. Only the six foot dog and his cunning rabbit companion can unravel the mystery

Penumbra: Overture is an innovative first person horror game utilizing physics for interaction and puzzles. The game is set in an underground facility on Greenland where the protagonist searches for information regarding his late father.

BioWare announced that it has signed a five-year agreement with Scaleform Corporation ot integrate its Scaleform GFx vector graphics engine into a number of its titles starting with Mass Effect for X360.