Sierra and NovaLogic today announced that they have entered a co-publishing agreement for the PS2 exclusive first-person shooter Delta Force Black Hawk Down: Team Sabre.

Square Enix announced that its PS2 exclusive action shooter Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII will be available across European on November 17th, 2006.

In Broken Sword: The Angel of Death you take the role of unwitting hero George Stobbart as he investigates dark secrets from a long-forgotten history. This v1.1 patch fixes some issues with ATI gfx cards and older AMD cpus.

Pirates of the Burning Sea is a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game set in the Caribbean islands of the 18th Century. You play a bold sea captain, master of your own ship and crew, as you seek glory and adventure across the trackless deep.

Tecmo today that its favorite tropical island sports game, Dead or Alive: Xtreme 2 has gone gold and will ship Nov. 14th to retailers. All your favorite DOA girls are back in Team Ninja’s Xbox 360 exclusive, Dead or Alive: Xtreme 2, and ready to battle it out in the tropical waters of Zack’s Island.

LucasArts presents a series of feature stories about Thrillville. You can expect stories like the one that follow approximately once every month from now until the game's release on PS2, PSP and Xbox this November, each article further detailing certain aspects of the game.

JoWooD announces that it has entered into an agreement to acquire publisher DreamCatcher, providing JoWooD with direct access to every major retailer of PC and video games in North America. We contacted DreamCatcher several days ago for comment, but have yet to receive a reply.

EA revamped its download service, now known as EA Link, allowing gamers to demo, pre-order and purchase EA games, including exclusive access to game extras such as trailers, wallpapers, and bonus in-game content.

In Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, players will be introduced to the world of Ashan, a dark and unforgiving world, scarred by a bloody history and threatened by an apocalyptic prophecy: the Dark Messiah. A multiplayer patch for Dark Messiah is available through Steam, just restart your client and your game will update automatically. Read more for detailed fix list ...

Eastern European developer Plastic Reality Technologies, who recently finished work on its FPS El Matador, has shut its doors due to the fact it could not find any further investment, all its employees left to work over at Illusion Softworks, and therefore has no further projects in development (thanks Tiscali Games)

Due to its stock options investigation THQ has released preliminary financial results indicating its soaring business as net revenue increased 68% (from $142.7 to $240.2 million) driven by sales of Saints Row, Company of Heroes, Cars. In the subsequent conference call, THQ execs revealed that the Juiced and MX franchises are getting new installments in the next year (no earlier than March 2007), while a Titan Quest expansion is scheduled for Q1 2007 (Jan-March). No details were revealed, but it was strongly hinted that both Saints Row and Company of Heroes will be seeing further installments, or expansions, in the series.

Capcom announced that its sci-fi action shooter, Lost Planet: Extreme Condition will get a SteelBook case packaged Collector’s Edition available at launch, which will include the game, art book, and as a special bonus, an exclusive multiplayer map that won't be available on Xbox Live until in summer 2007.

Digimask announced that its face mapping technology has been fully integrated into Unreal Engine 3 and is now available for licensing directly from Digimask Ltd.

Justice League Heroes is an action adventure game with role-playing customization featuring Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, Zatanna and other unlockable Justice League super heroes.

EA today released its Q2 2007 financial results, announcing it had reeled in a whopping $784M in net revenue, up 16% over last year. Gross profit was up 14%, although its net income dropped 50% ($51M to $22M). In the subsequent conference call, EA revealed that Army of Two and Crysis are getting delayed until next fiscal year (not before April 2007), and announced new titles, such as a Wii/PS3-specific Sims game, a new Road Rash, The Simpsons movie tie-in, a new SimCity game, The Sims 3 (not before April 1, 2008), and a next-gen version of Criterion's FPS Black.

The Empire is the largest realm of Men in the Warhammer world and its army forms the frontline in the ongoing war against Chaos. As the Age of Reckoning commences, the Empire, along with its allies, the Dwarfs and High Elves, is caught in a bitter struggle against the Armies of Destruction.

Bleach is a Wii exclusive anime hack & slash game making full use of the Wiimote to control your characters movement and attacks. Currently only announced as a Japanese Wii launch title, no information for Europe or North America is available at this point.

Kynogon announced that it has joined Epic Games’ Integrated Partners Program (IPP) for Unreal Engine 3, as its Kynapse A.I. middleware solution is now fully integrated with the Unreal Engine 3 and is available for licensing.

Pirates of the Burning Sea is a MMORPG set in the Caribbean islands of the 18th Century. You play a bold sea captain, master of your own ship and crew, as you seek glory and adventure across the trackless deep.

Microsoft today released the second iteration of its XNA Game Studio Express beta, upgraded with full functionality for Windows and third party toolset support, allowing hobbyists, academics and independent game developers to more easily integrate game content into their creations.

UFO: Afterlight is a mixture of squad based tactical action and global strategy with the gamer controlling the actions of elite ground troops, and the running and construction of an intricate network of interlinking bases while collecting resources. Altar and Cenega announced that UFO: Afterlight will hit the shelves on 9th February 2007.

Rare's Viva Pinata brings a vibrant world of living pinata animals to video games, television and beyond. The Viva Pinata universe showcases an engaging cast of colorful, wild-roaming pinata animals that entertain and challenge imaginations. Microsoft announced that Viva Pinata will hit European shelves on December 1st, 2006.

Bladestorm will offer massive battles mixed with strategy, much like the DW titles, but one of the main differences is that the game will be situated in the Western medieval timeframe.

Within the first five weeks of launch, Wii owners can pick from up to 32 games, representing the most diverse, and most exciting, console video game library available. Additionally 30 Virtual console titles will become available, bringing it to a total of no less than 62 games to play during the holidays.

Nintendo is making the greatest video game archive in history available for download to its Virtual Console. On top of the 530 GameCube titles, Nintendo will have 30 classic games available for download, from NES, SNES, N64, Sega Genesis and TurboGrafx16 consoles.