Emergent Game Technologies introduced its Academic Program giving college students hands-on experience and training with its development tools and game engine, and providing colleges and universities with its leading development solutions.

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.

While Relic is working on the Company of Heroes expansion pack, it is also continuing to fine-tune the original. A new patch has been released, bringing you retail game to v1.71 fixing some DX10 issues, memory leaks, bugs, crashes and a tweaks of the Allied War Machine.

MindArk has signed a license agreement with Crytek to use the CryENGINE 2 in its real cash economy based virtual world Entropia Universe. The transition is expected to be finished by mid-2008, and will be available to all Entropia Universe partners.

Rockstar is bringing its best-selling, open-ended crime series to the next-gen consoles with Grand Theft Auto IV. While details on the game are still slim, we now know that the franchise returns to New York.

Turtle Rock Studios and Valve's forthcoming Source Engine powered survival co-op game Left 4 Dead will be shown at QuakeCon 2007 in Dallas, Texas August 2-5. The game will be playable by attendees and members of the design team will be on hand to answer questions about this action title coming soon to the PC and X360.

Telltale and GameTap announced that the Sam & Max episodic game series will return this fall for another round of online mayhem. Feature the same quick wit and bizarre scenarios, Season Two will see some changes to the world, and general improvements born out of player feedback.

Players will embark on a global quest to overcome an evil threat, by controlling Spider-Man and one of numerous Super Hero or Super Villain sidekicks, as they master unique fighting moves and styles while switching between characters to execute team combos and defeat foes.

Virtua Fighter 5 raises the bar for console fighting games including all the features fans know and love plus enhanced gameplay mechanics, additional characters and new fighting styles, as well as newly redesigned 3D environments.

In Worms: Open Warfare 2 players will be able to challenge others from all over the world via multiplayer battles using a wireless connection as they command their worms through clashes that take place in famous battles of the past, as well as fictional fights of the future.