Age of Empires III is an RTS set in 1500 A.D. and chronicles the Age of Discovery that started around the time that Columbus discovered the new world. Ensemble has released the manual version of the v1.04 which includes improve auto update, refresh button, resume button, bug fixes, and exploit fixes.

When assassins from Agent 47's contract agency, The ICA, are systematically eliminated in a series of hits, it seems a larger, more powerful agency has entered the fray. For Agent 47 it's business as usual, until suddenly he loses contact with The ICA. Sensing that he may be the next target, he travels to America, where he prepares to make a killing.

Variety is reporting that Ghost House Pictures has acquired the film rights to Sony's PS2 exclusive horror game Siren. Michael Gordon has been hired to write the screenplay, and he will work close together with Siren director Keiichiro Toyama. The Siren film version will focus on an American med school student searching for her missing sister in Japan. She begins her investigation in the remote mountain village of Hanuda, only to find herself trapped with an unspeakable evil that can no longer be contained.

Task Force 121 is a covert unit comprised of Navy Seals, Green Berets, Army Rangers and USMC Recon personel. Now you have the chance to join this elite force as they do battle against the Marxist rebels who threaten to damage U.S. interests.

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.

GMX are today announcing the release of a revolutionary flight simulation title Pacific Storm. Scheduled for release in March 2006, Pacific Storm is a ground breaking fusion of a real time strategy gaming with all the best elements of a flight simulation title.

Combine fully-automatic, weapon-equipped vehicles with highly detailed and interactive urban environments and you have Full Auto, the most destructive racing action ever experienced in a video game. This racer allows players to choose from a wide selection of unique vehicle designs and arm them with any combination of machine guns, cannons, and other deadly weapons.

KnightBlade: Line Of Defense is an episodic (three titles are planned in the series) game which tells the story of a band of renegades in a stolen experimental GALCOM craft - the GCV-KnightBlade who - against overwhelming odds, are the last line of defense against an embattled Earth.

Urban Chaos : Riot Response, previously known as Roll Call and Zero Tolerance: City Under Fire, is an FPS that lets you play as Nick Mason, a member of the newly formed G18 Counter Gang Division; an elite enforcement unit granted special emergency powers over all other public services and tasked with securing the city and its citizens at all cost.

Founder & CEO of Linden Lab, Philip Rosedale, and Jesper Juul, author of Half Real, will headline the Serious Games Summit (SGS), hosted by the 2006 Game Developers Conference (GDC). The GDC will dedicate two full days to the SGS, in an effort to advance and promote the use of video game technology in non-entertainment industries.