SOE and Sigil Games Online announced that early access for Vanguard: Saga of Heroes pre-orders will commence Jan. 26 at approximately 10:00 a.m. PST, several days before its Jan. 30th. official launch.

SEGA announced a new PSP exclusive puzzle/platformer Crush, developed by Kuju Brighton. Reminiscent of Exit, Crush is a thinking man's game, allowing you to transform a 3D world into 2D in order to overcome obstacles and move on in the game.

Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal is an action-adventure game featuring seven playable Looney Tunes characters, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tazmanian Devil, Foghorn Leghorn, Marvin the Martian, Gossamer and a special secret character, all rendered in high-definition, next-gen graphics.

Aion is the ultimate MMORPG with strengthened interaction between players. Aion’s world consists of 3 realms - the heavens, the devildom and the dragon realm. Players will experience dynamic communications with the world of Aion as they conduct strategic battles.

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:

• Europa Universalis III (PC)
• Hotel Dusk: Room 215 (NDS)
• Sid Meier's Pirates! (PSP)
• Inuyasha: Secret of the Divine Jewel (NDS)
• The Legend of Heroes III: Song of the Ocean (PSP)
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Blizzard has released a small update for its MMORPG World of Warcraft. This v2.0.5 mini update, requires v2.0.6 installed, fixes a couple of bugs and implements minor changes with the UI for optimization.

Wow expansion pack The Burning Crusade expands the game by tremendous bounds, adding new races, quest, lands, Battlegrounds, professions and items, raising the level cap to 70, and more. Blizzard announced that the expansion pack sold a worldwide total of nearly 2.4 million copies in the first 24 hours of availability.

9Dragons is the first authentic martial arts MMO set in ancient China, where you join as a poor peasant and through training and quests you reach your destiny as a master of the martial arts. In a surprise turn of events developer Persistent Worlds announced that it has ceased trading. The official website is empty, and the beta test servers will be shut down in due course.

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars pits the armies of Earth against the invading alien Strogg in the ultimate online strategic shooter. Featuring strategic team play, persistent character promotions, day and nighttime combat missions, and the universe's most powerful weapons and vehicles.

In preparation for their potential deployment to Iraq, the U.S. Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade and other units of the Army's Southern European Task Force based at the U.S. Army Garrison Vicenza in Caserma Ederle (Italy) are learning Iraqi Arabic with the Tactical Iraqi Language & Culture Training System game, developed by Alelo, Inc.