Valve and Darwnia developers Introversion today announced an agreement to deliver its online strategy game DEFCON, via Steam this coming September.

Enlight Software has selected Exent Technologies to add in-game advertising to the company's most popular titles.

Dead Rising is survival horror game, in which you play Frank West, a freelance photographer who has made his way to an idyllic suburban town to get his hands on the scoop. He soon discovers that the town has been overrun with zombies, and while fighting off hordes of gruesome zombies, you have to discover the cause of the disturbing outbreak.

Unreal Tournament 2007 is being developed by North Carolina-based Epic Games. The game promises to blow fans away with the gameplay, modifiability and visuals that Epic's Unreal Engine 3 technology will deliver.

EA today announced the acquisition of Phenomic Game Development, known for The Settlers and SpellForce. EA Phenomic, based in Ingelheim, Germany, now becomes EA's newest studio in Europe, with a creative team dedicated to developing RTS games for the PC, console and online.

Midway today announced that 4-time Super Bowl champion, Bill Romanowski, will join Hall of Famer, Lawrence Taylor, as co-cover athlete of Blitz: The League. Bill Romanowski will also be featured as the voice and personality of one of the League's most hated linebackers, Bruno Batagglia.

Techland is not only working on an X360 version of Call of Juarez, Xpand Rally Xtreme, Dead Island and Chrome 2, but also has a brand new product in development. Warhound is a fast paced nonlinear FPP military shooter with character development that immerses player into the deadly world of the modern day mercenary. More details surely to come later this week at the Games Convention in Leipzig.

The only Final Fantasy never localized will finally reach North American shores on Nov. 14, 2006. Using the features of the NDS to their fullest, Final Fantasy III features graphics that have been reworked and remodeled in 3D, while maintaining the mythical Final Fantasy look and feel.

Activision is teaming up with Spike TV and Best Buy to deliver the “Game Head Call of Duty 3: Challenge,” a boot camp-style competition of survival and gaming that will telecast as a television special on Spike TV’s “Game Head” on Nov. 10, 2006 timed to the fall release of the Call of Duty 3 video game.

Activision is delivering big-time fun to the palm of gamers’ hands this fall with a diverse line-up of titles for the PSP, NDS and GBA platforms, such as GUN Showdown, Over the Hedge: Hammy Goes Nuts!, Spider-Man: Battle for New York, and console gaming in Activision Hits Remixed.

Disgaea 2 incorporates some of the same features it did in the original to retain its “Do anything & try everything” heritage while making radical innovations that include suggestions from game fans.

Sovereign Symphony, developed by Turkish Céidot Studios, is an RPG that gives you a chance to enter a new world of a fiction/scenario and be a character of this world. Pending approval Sovereign Symphony is also scheduled for PS3 and X360.

At a Vivendi press event last week we learned that both F.E.A.R. next-gen titles will each have an exclusive bonus level and bonus weapon. The story of the two bonus levels ties together to help explain the backstory of F.E.A.R. In the X360 level you play as Holliday and the weapon is the dual machine guns, while the PS3 extra content is still kept secret but our guess is that you play as that other guy who is big in the FEAR backstory, Holliday's partner. Whether there will be additional content remains to be seen, we'll have more details next month when we get to go hands on with the PS3 version.

It seems at least one X360 fan got lucky as he was able to purchase Microsoft's Xbox Live Vision camera, a month ahead of its scheduled Sept. 19 release date, at his local Toys 'R' Us. The package includes a headset, the camera, 1 month of Live Gold, and a registration key for fan-fave Uno. Whether this is a across the board occurance at Toys 'R' Us is not yet known, as it looks now this is merely a stocking error, but it does mean the cameras are already in stores, albeit get in the back.

Epic Games and EA today announced that they have entered into a license agreement for EA to adopt the Unreal Engine 3 for use in several next-generation titles that are currently under development.

The latest issue of GameInformer seems to have received inside information that EA/DICE are currently not only working on Battlefield 2142, but are also already in the process of creating a sequel to Battlefield Modern Combat, although the new title Battlefield: Bad Company will stricly be for next-gen consoles, and unlike its predecessor, will mostly be aimed at a singleplayer experience. More details are surely to follow shortly ...

Midway's Austin studio revealed through job listings that it is currently working on two next-gen platform titles. Area 52, described as "the sequel of a best selling first person shooter," is most likely a successor for Area 51, and scheduled for PS3, X360 and PC. The second project is even more ambiguous, only titled Criminal, which is under development for both PS3 and Xbox 360.

A Yankee Group study predicts that eventhough Microsoft is off to a fast start, launching the Xbox 360 nearly 12 months before the PlayStation 3, by the time third-generation consoles reach market maturity in 2011, the PS3 will once again be the market leader.

This is a first person shooter where you have to gather clues as you move through each of the missions. The 5 sub missions or levels are tied together with a single story to immerse the user in the game.

In an interview with Next Generation, CEO Scott Miller revealed that 3D Realms, and maybe a 3rd party developer, are already working on the sequel to its 3D sci-fi FPS Prey. When asked what his company is currently working on, Scott replied "Prey 2, of course! We are addressing concerns about combat, as well as adding in more gameplay innovations."

S2 Games today announced the Savage 2 Clan League, an automated clan system for the highly anticipated upcoming PC title, Savage 2: A Tortured Soul, which launches in November 2006 as a direct download from the S2 Games Website for $29.99 USD.

Test Drive Unlimited challenges players online to experience the most exotic and fastest vehicles on more than 1000 miles of diverse Hawaiian roads. Gamers win races, challenges, missions and tournaments to earn credits and purchase new cars, bikes, rare performance parts, clothes, apparel, homes and garages.

Turbine announced today the release of the third content module for D&D Online: Stormreach. The Litany of the Dead Part One free module pits players against Brother Salasso, the fearsome Vampire.

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.

dtp announced today that Gabriel Knight designer Jane Jensen will be making an appearance at the Leipzig Games Convention to announce and present her adventure game project Gray Matter, Jane's first adventure game since the 1999 release of Gabriel Knight 3.