Lighthouse Interactive and developer VSTEP announced that they are working on Ship Simulator 2007, a through-development of the 2006 edition, but will graphically be even better by using an upgrade of the Quest 3D engine and will include many much-desired new features.

In Birth of America you control one of the major contenders in French & Indian Wars, and the War of the American Independence, trying to achieve military and political victory. This v1.11 patch fixes bugs, crashes, improves AI, optimizes the UI and a few other tweaks.

Dusk2Dawn announced Mercs: Gun4Hire, a multi-level game that takes the best from popular genres, such as first-person shooters, space dogfighting and third-person run-and-gun and brings them all together in one explosive title for home computers.

Eidos has signed a publishing agreement with Conspiracy for its billiards simulation video game, Pocket Pool, featuring advanced AI, real world physics, 13 scintillating pool games including 9 ball, 8 ball Rotation, Black Jack and Snooker.

Shrapnel Games and Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space developer Digital Eel are taking gamers on a bold new adventure with Eat Electric Death!, a fast and furious board game of tactical starship combat for two or more players (allowing for team play).

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. Ubisoft has quietly rolled out a new patch for the X360 version of the game, fixing crash and bugs, optimizing multiplayer and tweaking several of the weapons.

Test Drive Unlimited challenges players online to experience the most exotic and fastest vehicles on more than 1000 miles of diverse Hawaiian roads. Gamers win races, challenges, missions and tournaments to earn credits and purchase new cars, bikes, rare performance parts, clothes, apparel, homes and garages.

Veteran video game music composer Richard Joseph was in a class of his own. In the industry since the 80s he was a pioneer on the C-64/Amiga and credited for being the first to use true voice acting in his compositions. Earlier this year Richard Joseph was diagnosed with lung cancer, and whilst receiving chemotherapy he slipped into a coma after which his weakened body sadly gave up the fight. Richard died on the afternoon of March 4th, 2007.

Ground on the ancient European seafaring time, Tales of Pirates present fantastic world full of numerous cities and unprecedented great scenes in front of the players where players can players reside in, experience the mystery of the endless seas, and feel the romantic and interesting life of a pirate.

Paradox Interactive announced a new booster pack for Hearts of Iron II: Doomsday, Armageddon. Scheduled for March 2007, as a download only, Armageddon will include two completely new alternative history scenarios, perfect for those looking for new challenges!