THQ plans to release an "official" singleplayer demo for Relic's WWII based RTS Company of Heroes, featuring new Skirmish content between the Axis and Allied forces, and in general updated code. If you thought the beta demo was huge, then you better strap in, the non-beta version is even a smidgen bigger. Come back Tuesday September 5, 2006 at 9AM PST (6PN Euro time), we will have it available on our filesever network.

Frogwares third title in the Sherlock Holmes series. After Mystery of the Mummy, and The Silver Earring, the French studio is actively working on Sherlock Holmes: The Awaken, scheduled for release October 2006.

Another day, another batch of game trailers was released. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are trailers for:

• Pacific Storm: Allies - New Features Trailer
• Dawnspire: Prelude - Trailer
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Crackdown pushes the action-driving hybrid genre into the next generation with the introduction of the first-ever truly 3-dimensional persistent playground, highly innovative co-op gameplay and an extensive prop interaction system all while taking place in a massive and highly-stylized urban center.

Paradox Interactive announced that it has set the launch date for Silent Heroes. The stand-alone expansion to Codemaster' Soldiers: Heroes of World War II, will be only be available for download via Gamer's Gate on September 8th, 2006,

Tortuga: Two Treasures will have players setting sail as pirate captains in search of action, adventure and of course, treasure. You play Thomas ‘Hawk’ Blythe and after you get betrayed and captured, a dramatic battle for power, romance, treasure and truth commences aboard the Jolly Roger.

Another day, another batch of game trailers was released. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are trailers for:

• Red Ocean - GC06 Teaser
• Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War - Dark Crusade - Trailer
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

Wargaming has released a new patch for its Massive Assault Network 2 open beta test. This v2.0.215 beta adds further optimization, profile features, ATI Radeon bug fixes and a few other tweaks....

What if what you do as a player in a game impacted your real world? What is reality? .hack, a sci-fi fantasy RPG, has pursued this innovative concept in the previous 4-part series where “The World” was ultimately destroyed. Years after the events of the first .hack series, “The World” was rebuilt.

Empire has released the first patch for BugBear's recently released racing game FlatOut 2. This beta patch is for all European editions, including Germany, not US, and adds voice chat, improves multiplayer, updates gfx and fixes a bunch of crashes and bugs.