American Civil War: Our Hearts were touched with Fire, from the creators of Birth of America, is a historically accurate, realistic and fun turn-based grand operational strategy game of the American Civil War (1861-1865).

CivCity: Rome is a new city building strategy game inspired by the world of Sid Meier's Civilization, allowing you to recreate the glory of Rome by building a small settlement into a mighty imperial city. Take 2 has released the first patch, bringing your retail game to v1.1, addressing game play issues, optimizing the map editor and fixes an graphical issue at 1024x768 or higher resolutions.

Another day, another batch of games shipped to stores. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are announcements for:

• Star Trek: Legacy (PC)
• Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (NDS)
• Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops (PSP)
• Fight Night Round 3 (PS3)
• Pimp My Ride (PS2/X360)
• Ice Age 2: The Meltdown (Wii)
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  We will update this throughout the day when new announcements become available. Read more for details ...

KOEI announced that its PS2 exclusive strategy game Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI is coming to North America, on February 6, 2007.

Sandvine's broadband network solution observed an 80% increase in the number of Xbox Live users across a sampling of North American-based broadband service providers' networks during the first week following the release of six new Xbox games, mainly due to the release of Gears of War.

The only Final Fantasy never localized will finally reach Europe, Spring 2007! Using the features of the NDS to their fullest, Final Fantasy III features graphics that have been reworked and remodeled in 3D, while maintaining the mythical Final Fantasy look and feel.

Blizzard has released a small update for its MMORPG World of Warcraft. This massive v2.0.1 update revamps the honor system, adds arena skirmishes, and the usual slew of balance tweaks, bug and crash fixes...

Pacific Storm: Allies the allies of the main factions, American and Japanese, come into conflict. Powerful Germany will join Japan forces to fight against England, Australia and USSR. New units to construct, new historical locations to visit and a brand new version of the engine that brings better graphics than ever.

The non-linear plot of Officers preserves the established facts of the origins of WWII and allows gamers to lead either one of 3 sides (USSR, Germany and Allies) to victory, recreating the real structures of all armies, using the real arsenal, equipment and military techniques. This demo features the first mission of the Allied campaign, Omaha Beach.

THQ has signed a worldwide publishing agreement with Gas Powered Games for its RTS game Supreme Commander. Chris Taylor is known for his work with Total Annihilation under Cave Dog, and Supreme Commander will mark his return to a genre that he helped popularize.