Blue Dragon is an epic role-playing game that centers on a young boy named Shu and several of his friends who create and develop their combat styles by utilizing different types of Shadow Change, including Sword, Assassin, and Power Magic.

In Rainbow Six Vegas 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 released a 985MB MP demo, featuring Attack and Defend and Terro Hunt modes. Available only for Gold members, until 24th November.

Panzer Command: Operation Winter Storm is turn-based and has a great PBEM system for head to head play. Matrix Games has released a demo allowing you to try out a tutorial scenario, and a fully playable version of the first scenario in the German campaign.

Several weeks back, Atari released the first Xbox Live patch for Test Drive Unlimited, promising a second one was already in the works. Promise kept! The second patch has been released, making various enhancements, fixes, and plugging exploits but mainly addressing two dozen multiplayer issues.

Foolish Entertainment announced the release of Advanced Tactical Center for Battlefield 2, a tool for clans and communities to plan and discuss tactics before playing a game. With the provided palette of tools, everyone can make advanced tactics swift and easy.

Rising Star Games announced that Taito's classic is coming to PSP in 2007. Rainbow Islands endeared itself to an entire generation of gamers in the late 1980s with its playful mix of intense platforming challenges, a delightfully cute visual style and, of course, a heavy emphasis on rainbow-firing action.

The Wii Menu serves as the main portal to the different functions of Wii, and is designed to evolve throughout the life of the system. Some functions can be used right out of the box and more will roll out during the next few weeks and into next year, with content continually changing over time.

Panzer Command: Operation Winter Storm is turn-based and has a great PBEM system for head to head play. This v1.13 update adds new features, such as a new tutorial scenario and a 22 page tutorial guide have been added to help new players get used to the game, as well as some performance improvements and various fixes.

The PC Gamer Holiday 2006 issue features a nine-page article about Windows Vista and Microsoft's recent push for PC gaming with its Games for Windows initiative. The article talks about Microsoft's plans for the near future, an interview with Peter Moore, but most interestingly, it features a photo of a Games for Windows promo kiosk (similar to the current PS3/Wii demo stations). The kiosk to promote PC games has a display with various titles on it, including Flight Sim X, Age of Empires III, Rise of Nations, ShadowRun, and Halo 2, but most importantly ... Gears of War, complete with a Games for Windows logo on the box cover.

EgoSoft has released yet another upgrade patch for its space-combat exploration game X³: REUNION. This update brings your European retail game to v2.0.02, addresses a various issues, bugs, fixes, and improvements that were introduced with the last patch.