Game-oriented comic strip creator Penny Arcade Inc. today announced the dates for the third annual Penny Arcade Expo. The three-day event, a nonstop celebration of videogames and gamer culture, will take place Friday, August 25th through Sunday, August 27th, 2006 in Bellevue, Washington.

Hero's Journey is the new 3-D Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game from Simutronics, which is expected to be released somewhere in 2006. Simutronics will provide Hero's Journey players with frequent mini-releases as well as larger boxed expansions.

Guild Wars: Factions offers players an incredible gameplay experience with many new choices, including new regions, professions, skills, missions, and monsters, along with expanded options for both Cooperative and Player-versus-Player (PvP) play, and enhanced features for guilds.

EA has once more revealed new additions to the upcoming Battlefield 2 v1.2 patch, in particular the fact that UAVs will now visible in the world so if you are being scanned, you can know about it and take action against it, officer ranks will become available to everybody, and a bug that allowed players in vehicles to contest a flag from outside the flag radius is now fixed.

Mastiff hopes to increase the longevity of GBA owners' lives with their upcoming release of "Dr. Sudoku." According to a recent study conducted at the University of Edinburgh, games such as Sudoku can awaken 'survival genes' that lay dormant in the human brain. These survival genes make the brain cells live longer and resist disease, strokes and the effects of drugs.

Fight Night Round 3 brings the most intense boxing experience to gamers. Film-quality graphics showcase devastating punch impacts unparalleled in any game or film. On the way to becoming boxing's greatest legend, train to fight like the best including Muhammad Ali or create a boxing style unique only to your boxer.

Myelin Media announced that people who pre-order its Texas Hold'Em game, Stacked with Daniel Negreanu, at select retailers throughout North America, will get a bonus DVD featuring interviews with the 7 professional poker players in the game and a behind the scenes look at the development.

In Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 3, players will embody Captain Scott Mitchell as he commands the Ghosts and Special Forces allies equipped with the IWS in the quest to save the president of the United States, recover stolen nuclear codes and eliminate a vicious band of renegade soldiers hell-bent on unleashing catastrophe.

EA announced today that its college baseball game MVP 06 NCAA Baseball has shipped to retailers, celebrating everything that makes NCAA baseball unique -- aluminum bats, dugout clearing homeruns, relentless hustle and stadiums filled with passionate fans and school spirit.

After its success with GTR and GTR Legends, swedish developer SimBin and publisher 10Tacle are already hard at work on the sequel, GTR 2.