NHL 08 will feature an exclusive AHL license for the first time, with all 29 teams from the primary development league for the NHL fully playable in game.

Celebrating its 100-year anniversary, SdLL has released a demo for Pétanque: Game of the Century. Based on the official FFPJP (Fédération Française de Pétanque et du Jeu Provençal) rules, Petanque is similar to bocce, or curling without the ice, and a popular French past time sport.

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures is an Online Action RPG, mixing a deep, story-driven single-player experience and a massive and brutal multiplayer end-game brings forth the ultimate representation of the Age of Conan.

SEGA's Universe at War: Earth Assault, developed by Petroglyph, is a combat-intensive RTS game enlisting players in an epic struggle to prevent total alien domination of planet Earth. As a follow-up to this week's cross-platform gaming, developer Petroglyph Studios stated, "we have been assured by MS that UAW should have no problems running LIVE on XP."

Clive Barker's Jericho is an squad-based horror FPS devised by the master mythmaker, novelist and filmmaker Clive Barker. The Jericho Team is a seven-man strike force that protects government interests from paranormal threats.

In the last Chibi-Robo, our diminutive hero restored happiness to the Sanderson home, but in this DS sequel, he's taking on the great outdoors. Guide your miniature robot and complete chores and clashes with enemies in an epic quest to become the highest-ranked Chibi-Robo out there.

It's the year 1914 and you are the commander of a submarine in the German Emperor's fleet during WWI. For the first time you have the opportunity to play exciting underwater missions in the first world war, to work out strategies, to use your powerful weapons and to take care of your submarine!

The OPM UK August issue is said to have a small article confirming that Free Radical is working on a new Timesplitters title. With its current project, Haze, due to wrap up in the next few months, Free Radical is said to be "gearing up to insert monkeys and guns into all the wrong places," spoofing Gear of War, Halo and others. OPM is a PlayStation syndicated magazine, so it is not sure if TimeSplitters 4 will be on any platforms other than the PS3.

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:

• Eternal Sonata [X360] - Trailer #3
• Sacred 2 [X360/PC] - Trailer #3
• Sinking Island - Trailer [French]
• NCAA Football 08 [ALL] - Trailer #9
• Age of Armor - Trailer #2
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With R-Type Tactics developer Irem is deviating from the usual shoot'm up genre into the tactical/RPG genre, giving fans of the franchise a chance to see all the units and enemies up close and personal, in 3D, while also adding 2 player versus mode.