Mexican authorities conducted raids against 12 alleged distributors of counterfeit Nintendo products in a major “fayuca” (contraband) market in Guadalajara. Authorities seized 15,000 pirated Nintendo products, including 4,500 illegal Wii game discs.

2K Sports' NHL 2K8 will leverage all of the next-gen capabilities, featuring innovative gameplay, revolutionary player models and stunning visuals to create an entirely new hockey experience, centered on authenticity and the NHL Signature Style.

System 3 will be unveiling Ferrari Challenge to the world at the Leipzig Games Convention. A press conference will take place on Thursday, August 23rd at 15:00, and it will be the first time anybody sees a playable version of the officially licensed racing simulation.

In Half-Life 2: Ep. Two, armed with new weaponry and vehicles, Dr. Gordon Freeman must race through a countryside riddled with an increasingly fierce Combine threat. Half-Life 2: The Orange Box also includes Team Fortress 2 as a multiplayer addition, and physics-focused Portal.

FIFA 08 will create a football experience that matches the complexity, finesse and beauty of the real-world game. FIFA 08 challenges you to master the skills required to play like a pro football player, allowing you on the pitch to defy the odds, perfect your skills, elevate your game and rise up to win glory for your club.

Revealed a few weeks ago, the Blitzkrieg 2: Liberation add-on is set near the end of the WW2 and will add two new Western Front campaigns set in Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and France, and will of course include plenty of new units, maps, and game modes.

Valve announced it has rolled out the public beta for its largest Steam update yet. The update, which will be available free of charge, introduces an expansive set of social networking and online multiplayer features to its digital delivery platform.

According to an inside source, IESB.net claims that Underworld/Live Free or Die Hard director Len Weismen is in negotiations with New Line Cinema to direct the Escape from New York, as well as Epic Games' Gears of War. Variety is reporting that Silent Hill writer Roger Avary (Pulp Fiction) and producer Samuel Hadida (Resident Evil) have been tagged to bring id's Wolfenstein to the big screen.

Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer is based on both the comic book series as well as Twentieth Century Fox/Marvel Entertainment's movie sequel.

In NCAA Football 08 players will look to be a leader and become a legend on the field with a new and deeper recruiting system and an all-new Campus Legend mode. EA and The Weather Channel Interactive announced that NCAA Football 08 features the ability to experience real-time weather conditions and updates.

2K Sports' NHL 2K8 will leverage all of the next generation capabilities, featuring innovative gameplay, revolutionary player models and stunning visuals to create an entirely new hockey experience, centered on authenticity and the NHL Signature Style.

Mass Effect is a science-fiction action-RPG created by BioWare, previously known for Jade Empire, KotoR, and Neverwinter Nights. Mass Effect will deliver an immersive story driven gameplay experience with stunning visual fidelity. If you haven't seen our Mass Effect preview yet..

Mass Effect is a science-fiction action-RPG created by BioWare, previously known for Jade Empire, KotoR, and Neverwinter Nights. Mass Effect will deliver an immersive story driven gameplay experience with stunning visual fidelity.

Rock Band allows you to perform music from the world’s biggest rock artists with your friends as a virtual band using drum, bass/lead guitar and microphone peripherals, in addition to offering online connectivity. The latest GamePro issue reveals that Rock Band will have you playing at 41 replicas of real life venues in cities across the globe, such as London, Paris, Boston, NY, Amsterdam. The article also hints at a possible Nov. 6 release date.

Square Enix officially announced that Fan Festival 2007, the celebration that commemorates Final Fantasy XI fans around the world, will be taking place Nov. 15–17, at the Hilton Hotel in Anaheim, Calif., and will give attendees the first chance to play FFXI: Wings of Goddess.

SEGA's Football Manager 2008 will be fully updated for the new season and allow players to select their favorite club or international team and guide them to glorious success by putting them through Cup matches, Leagues, Euro Championships and even major international tournaments, with over 5,000 playable teams from over 50 countries.

SCEA announced an exclusive multi-year, multi-title game development deal with Eat, Sleep, Play, David Jaffe and Scott Campbell's new development company. Eat, Sleep, Play will create titles for the PlayStation platforms, starting with Twisted Metal: Head On for PS2, early 2008.

Manhunt 2 was banned even before it saw the light of day; the ESRB slapped it with an AO, resulting in both Sony and Nintendo refusing to publish the game on its consoles. In an interview with C&GV, Condemned 2 producer Constantine Hantzopoulos admits that the controversy has led them to scale back the game's mature content and remove certain non-essential items.

CMP Technology, organizers of the Game Developers Conference, have partnered with business matchmaking company Connection Events, known for the Game Connection convention, to produce the Lyon Game Developers Conference.

The Sims Life Stories introduces an all-new Story Mode with two stories that follow the lives of Riley Harlow and Vincent Moore, two very different characters who have reached similar crossroads in their love lives.

Work up the ranks of The Mob, from opportunist G.I. fighting in Vietnam, to "wise guy" on the make, doing deeds and winning favor from the Don in New York City.

Fallout 3 places a player in the role of a Vault-dweller, who ventures from his secluded, underground survival Vault into a post-apocalyptic world of mutants, radiation, gangs and violence.

Ubisoft announced its Imagine series of games, which will allow girls aged 6 to 14 to explore their favorite interests and hobbies. The first games will launch in October 2007 for the Nintendo DS: Imagine Fashion Designer, Imagine Animal Doctor, Imagine Babyz and Imagine Master Chef. Imagine Figure Skater will follow in early 2008.

SCEA unveiled new features for the highly-anticipated PlayStation Home, a 3D community-based service set to revolutionize the broadband entertainment world, and announced new content for its PlayStation Network.

DBZ: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 delivers an extreme 3D fighting experience, improving upon last year's game with over 150 playable characters, enhanced fighting techniques, beautifully refined effects and shading techniques, making each character's effects more realistic, and over 20 battle stages.