Jagex Games Studio announced that Jon Hare, long time industry veteran known for Sensible Soccer, has joined the company as Head of Publishing. Hare has been appointed to oversee publishing at Jagex, with a particular focus on further developing its integrated gaming website targeted at time-pressed gamers.

The Witcher Enhanced Edition, CD Projekt's action/RPG, adds changes to the game's mechanics, better graphics, shorter load times, improved stability, the recently released D'jinni mod editor, two new adventures, making of DVD, two soundtracks, etc.

Nerf: N-Strike Elite features a classic rail shooter style of gameplay and equips players with a cache of fresh features. With the Wii Remote snapped into the Nerf Switch Shot EX-3 blaster and the red reveal lens engaged, players will be able to detect enemy weak spots, solve puzzles and decode secret messages as they blast their way to victory.

Meridian4 has signed a four title North American digital publishing agreement with RTL interactive Games Publishing, the crime-solving action arcade racing game Crash Time 2, racing team management game Racing Team Manager, Biathlon 2009 and winter sports compilation Winter Sports 2009: The Next Challenge.

In Chronicles of Mystery: The Scorpio Ritual (formerly "Testament of Sin"), players' detective skills will be pushed to their limits as they travel the world in an attempt to unravel an ancient mystery and save a fellow archaeologist before it's too late.

Art of Murder: Hunt for the Puppeteer is a point & click adventure where the player takes on the role of an FBI agent, whose task is to solve a series of macabre murders of wealthy, well-to-do citizens.

Monster Hunter Freedom Unite delivers over 500 hours of gameplay spanning 400 missions. Add in previously unreleased monsters, weapons and missions and you have the biggest Monster Hunter to date. Since its March of 2008 release in Japan MHFU has sold over 3.5 million units in Japan

The battle for Gold Medals and personal bests ignites excitement and healthy competition in Summer Athletics 2009. Athletes from all over the world run, throw, jump and swim for victory. Millimeters and split seconds will decide the winners. Summer Athletics 2009 will support Wii Balance Board, with a unique Balance Board Cup.

Acquire is developing the next installment in the Way of the Samurai series, currently only scheduled for release in Japan this fall, featuring over 100 weapons for you to wield in defense of the poor, lonely, while fending off rivaling samurai clans. Agetec revealed that it will publish the PS3 edition of Way of the Samurai 3 in North America, while UFO Interactive will do the X360 version.

Kombat forces friends to fight, worlds to collide, and unlikely alliances to be forged. In order to save all they know, the heroes and villains of Mortal Kombat must wage war against the combined might of the DC Universe. Midway's Ed Boon revealed that a planned DLC for MKvsDCU, containing two new characters, will no longer be released in the wake of the Warner Bros./Midway acquisition.

Might & Magic Clash of Heroes is a puzzle RPG in which, through five unique and epic quests, players will alternate exploration and turn-based puzzle battles in the game to save the world of Ashan from demonic chaos.

Tales of Monkey Island brings the adventures of pirate Guybrush Threepwood into a new era with an storyline that becomes deeper and more entangled during the course of the five-episode saga.

Another day, another batch of game trailers was released. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are trailers for:

• Wolfenstein [ALL] - Trailer (2)
• Bass Pro Shops: The Strike [Wii/X360/PC] - Trailer
• MAG [PS3] - Command And Control Trailer
• Assassin's Creed II [ALL] - Developer Diary #1
• Naruto Shippuden: Clash of Ninja Revolution 3 [Wii] - Trailer
• Unbound Saga [PSP] - Behind the Panels Trailer #2
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Unknown Worlds announced Natural Selection 2, the next evolution in multiplayer action/strategy gameplay and will be targeted for both competitive and public play. New features include dynamically changing environments, a new resource model, flexible game scripting and modes, and new weapons, abilities and upgrades.

Halo 3: ODST is a new game in the Halo saga that lets people experience events leading up to the epic story told in Halo 3 through the eyes of an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper, as they search for clues leading to the whereabouts of their scattered squad and the motivations behind the Covenant's invasion of New Mombasa.

Kenka Bancho 3 is a Japanese beat'em up for PSP which puts you in the role of a high school student on a class trip to a historic Japanese city, includes no shortage of fist-to-face and knee-to-gut action, and all in the name of pride and bragging rights.

Namco Bandai Europe has completed its purchase of Atari’s global PAL distribution operation, with the entity re-named Namco Bandai Partners with immediate effect, which will distributes titles worldwide, excluding Japan and North America, from Namco Bandai Games, Atari and other major international video game publishers.

In SimAnimals Africa, gamers play with and tame all new exotic animals including lions, elephants and gorillas as they explore exotic landscapes from savannas to jungles. This game is great for kids and features challenges and mini-games that players solve to unlock new items, animals and levels to explore!

In Overlord II, the new Overlord and a more powerful Minions horde take on the Glorious Empire, an advanced Romanesque nation, in a truly epic yet familiarly warped adventure.

Alan Wake places gamers in the role of the best-selling suspense author, Alan Wake. He escapes to this small town to recover from the mysterious disappearance of his fiancée and comes face to face with his darkest nightmares. Fan site Brightfalls has some disturbing news claiming that the release of the PC version is up in the air, and that both Microsoft and Remedy are only speaking about the Xbox 360 version at the moment.

Another day, another batch of game trailers was released. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are trailers for:

• NHL 10 [ALL] - Trailer #2
• Brutal Legend [ALL] - Tim Schafer Walkthrough Trailer
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

In Sands of Destruction you'll experience an action-packed story featuring a unique range of characters, a artistic atmosphere and an intense RPG battle system. SEGA has signed a licensing partnership with Funimation to produce home entertainment, broadcast/digital content, and merchandise for the first season of the Sands of Destruction fantasy adventure anime series.

With both single and multiplayer modes, Wii users will now be able to explore the world of Final Fantasy IV with up to three of their friends and coordinate commands into a single attack. Unravel a mystery told through the intertwining stories of a familiar cast of characters, and complete the FF IV experience with this latest installment in the franchise.

Popular TV game show 1 vs. 100 is coming to Xbox Live Primetime, pitting one Xbox Live member against 100 others from around the world with a live host and great prizes.

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers provides a fresh take on the Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles series as it combines the storytelling depth, expansive world and graphical quality of Final Fantasy with motion-driven, real-time action gameplay.