The Sims 2 Pets allows players to create and control digital characters throughout their lives while determining the outcome of their relationships and choosing their destiny. Each platform will feature customized content. This v1.6.0.273 patch addresses a slew of bugs, crashes and various other tweaks.

Created by three recent graduates of University of Teesside in computer games programming and design, Twisted Studio has announced ambitious plans to establish itself as a creative company routinely associated with high-quality products, developing and distributing enjoyable and innovative gaming titles on a regular basis.

Sacred 2 is a deep fantasy RPG where players are immersed in an epic journey through the medieval-like kingdom of Ancaria. Highly action-oriented, Ascaron's Sacred 2 features pitched battles and a wide range of enticing quests.

For the fourth quarter of 2006, Vivendi Games' revenues of EUR 326 million were 33.1% above the prior year, 25.4% for the entire year, primarily driven by Blizzard's World of Warcraft, not including the freshly released Burning Crusade expansion, and Scarface: The World is Yours. Other bestsellers in the quarter included the new releases The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning, Eragon and F.E.A.R. (for X360).

Namco Bandai announced the second installment in the hack trilogy, .hack//G.U.Vol. 2: Reminisce. Taking place after the original, .hack//G.U. Vol. 2: Reminisce has players returning to the fictitious Massive Multiplayer Online setting called The World to continue Haseo's journey as he and his friends look to escape from what has become a digital trap

Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar adds countless new features and improvements to the award-winning Galactic Civilizations II experience, greatly increasing the game's strategic depth and longevity for even the most experienced players.

If you're in pursuit of adrenaline, powder snow and pure freedom then look no further; that's what you’ll get delivered, with Freak Out! the ultimate freeride skiing experience. This demo allows you to try out one level, Broken Back Mountain, also playable in split-screens multiplayer

In an interview with C&VG, Crytek's CEO/President Cevat Yerli reveals that its sci-fi FPS will have a multiplayer beta so that they can avoid a Far Cry catastrophe. Whether or not this will be open to the general public was not mentioned, but it is good to know Crytek is taking extra time to refine the multiplayer component of Crysis in order to avert the shoddy offering of its predecessor.

In Attack on Pearl Harbor, history's yours to shape: Either nation can win the war depending on your actions as players battle for supremacy behind the cockpits of some of the most prolific fighters, bombers and torpedo-bearing aircraft of the WWII Pacific Theater.

Frater is a 3D hack'n slash from Rebelmind, set in the 19th century, where you play Frater Simon sent on a mission by the monasteries to free God's Envoy, taken hostage by a mighty Alchemist Marcus.