Microsoft Game Studios will partner with Academy Award-winning writer, director and producer Peter Jackson, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Fran Walsh to establish Wingnut Interactive, a studio dedicated to the creation of world-class interactive entertainment. Two projects are already in the pipeline, one in collaboration with Bungie, set in the Halo universe, and the second will be an all new IP.

Check out the following new screens from Atari's X06 2006 lineup:

• Alone in the Dark (X360/PC) - 3 New Screens
• NeverWinter Nights 2 - 5 New Screens

Check out the following new screens from Eidos' X06 2006 lineup:

• Bionicle Heroes (ALL) - 4 New Screens
• Kane & Lynch: Dead Men (X360/PC) - Screens & Trailer

Quazal announced today that it has joined Epic Games’ Integrated Partners Program for Unreal Engine 3. Rendez-Vous and Spark! have been fully integrated into Unreal Engine 3 and is now available for licensing directly from Quazal.

Check out the following new screens from Activision's X06 2006 lineup:

• Call of Duty 3 (X360) - 4 New Screens
• DOOM (X360) - 10 New Screens
• Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (X360) - 4 New Screens
• Tony Hawk's Project 8 (X360) - 9 New Screens
• World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions (X360) - 4 New Screens

Check out the following new screens from Microsoft's X06 2006 lineup:

• Alan Wake (X360/PC) - 10 New Screens
• Crackdown (X360) - 9 New Screens
• Flight Simulator X - 10 New Screens
• Forza Motorsport 2 (X360) - 11 New Screens
• Fuzion Frenzy 2 (X360) - 15 New Screens
• Gears of War (X360) - 6 New Screens
• Halo 2 Vista - 12 New Screens
• Mass Effect (X360) - 6 New Screens
• Shadowrun (X360/PC) - 8 New Screens
• Viva Pinata (X360) - 15 New Screens
• Zoo Tycoon 2: Marine Mania - 9 New Screens

Guitar Hero II is going to be rocking a new stage! RedOctane announced today that the Guitar Hero crew will bring their award-winning tour to the Xbox 360.

A little while ago Microsoft sent a community mod team a cease and desist order for their Halo based Halogen mod for C&C without much clarification. Today at the X06 briefing it has been revealed why. Microsoft and Bungie are working with Ensemble Studios, known for Age of Empires series, on Halo Wars for the PC and Xbox 360.

Microsoft announced that DOOM will be available tonight for download on XBLA for 800 points. The game brings legendary DOOM mayhem to gamers, who for the first time ever can relive the classic demon-blasting fragfest, including the original four-episode, single-player game, four-player split screen (co-op & DM) and 4-player co-op and deathmatch over Xbox Live.

Eidos will pin you down in hostile territory with Crossfire the immersive new game where you become a member of an elite team of two deniable agents hired by the government to finish the job and disappear before they are ever identified.