Imperium Romanum II is a city-building game where the player takes the role of a Roman patrician, a nobleman, who has just started his political career. His ultimate goal is to become the Governor of Rome.

Meridian4 has signed a publishing agreement with Hermitworks Entertainment Corporation for their unique, habit-forming action/trading game; Space Trader: Merchant Marine.

GamersGate has signed 2K Games as the latest publisher to join the ranks of the PC digital download portal, starting with the strategy titles: Sid Meier’s Civilization III: Complete and Shattered Union. Additional titles will follow, including the titles: Sid Meier’s Railroads!, CivCity Rome and the classic action-adventure game Sid Meier’s Pirates!.

Deer Drive meshes hunting simulation with arcade style pick-up-and-play action and pacing for an exciting gaming experience. Deer Drive is the first deer hunting game that features two player simultaneous play.

Game Entertainment Europe (GEE) and Games Factory Online (GFO) are organizing a press conference where there will be release announcements of 3 triple-A games for various platforms, casual race game Hovorun (PC), tile game Rummikub (NDS), and an MMO version of strategy board game Stratego.

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 will feature dynamic, personalized gameplay via Tiger Woods' personal coach, Hank Haney, a more intuitive and customized EA Sports GamerNet++ experience as well as an all-new game engine powering online play.

In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, you'll engage in exciting wizard duels, mix and brew magical ingredients in Potions class, take to the air to lead the Gryffindor Quidditch team to victory, and discover the identity of the Half-Blood Prince. Warner Bros. decided to push the movie release from Nov. 2008 to July 2009, so we asked EA about whether the game would also suffer a delay. Various sources claimed they were surprised by the news, while the producer said the announcement came at an inopportune time, indicating the game would also have to be pushed due to overlapping story lines outside of the already-released book.

Shattered Suns is a new science-fiction, real-time strategy game with unique features such as three-dimensional battles, a moving battlefield, player-designed units, unique economic challenges and an interactive campaign.

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:

• NBA 2K9 [PS2/PS3/X360] - Teaser Trailer
• Saints Row 2 [ALL] - Sons of Samedi Trailer
• Empire: Total War [PC] - Naval Battles Trailer
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

Battlefront.com and Fury Software announced the third, and newest, game in the Strategic Command series. WWII Pacific Theater shifts the focus from Europe and into the steaming jungles and islands of Asia- Pacific.

Empire Interactive has signed a multi-year distribution agreement with Atari to bring its titles to the North American market, such as Animal Paradise (NDS), Pipe Mania (NDS, PSP PS2, PC), Unsolved Crimes (NDS), and Hello Kitty: Big City Dreams (NDS).

According to an ad in the 3rd season DVD set for FOX's Prison Break released earlier this week, Brash Entertainment will be making the action series into a game. Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row, and his only hope is his brother who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out from the inside. No details were provided, only that the game is currently scheduled for Feb. 2009.

EA announced a publishing agreement with Japanese development studio Grasshopper to publish an all-new action horror game produced by Shinji Mikami and directed by Suda51. EA also signed a deal to publish Epic's new action game developed by its People Can Fly studio (known for Painkiller).

Step into the world of Too Human, Silicon Knights' third-person epic action game. As the cybernetic god Baldur, players are thrust into the midst of an ongoing battle that threatens the existence of mankind.

Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway, the third entry in the series, has you reprise the heroic role of Sergeant Matt Baker, a soldier of the 101st Airborne Division, during Operation Market Garden in the late stages of World War II.

Physics engines provider Havok announced that it has signed a two-year licensing agreement with Deep Silver to take full advantage of the Havok Physics, Havok Animation and Havok Behavior solutions, starting with its 1960s biker themed Ride to Hell.

In further backlash to the Activision/Vivendi merger, Radical's HR VP Leah Rubin revealed that it has to lay off 100 of its employees due to canceled projects. "Activision Blizzard is committed to making the best games possible and has elected at this time to reduce the number of titles that Radical is developing from four games to two, therefore, we will be proportionately reducing the size of our studio."

Castle Crashers is a four-player game for the Xbox Live Arcade, where players are knights on a quest to regain a stolen idol. Embark on the adventure on your own or with up to three friends and discover the mind-boggling magic and mystery in the mythical world.

Codemasters' Rise Of The Argonauts is an action/rpg set in ancient Greece where you will embark on an epic quest, and encounter legendary figures such as Jason, Hercules and Atalanta.

Everyone's favorite orange-clad ninja returns to the role-playing genre with Path of the Ninja 2, featuring an all-new original storyline, a huge roster of playable characters, an improved combat system and for the first time, exciting Wi-Fi battles.

Sci-Fi London: Oktoberfest will premiere Dead Space: Downfall, the feature-length animated prequel to EA's survival horror game. In the bold and often-bloody Dead Space, gamers will step into a third-person sci-fi survival horror experience that promises to deliver the ultimate in psychological thrills and gruesome action.

In a "free to subscriber" update from The Chaotic Throne series called Gracia – Part 1, players will find advancing in the game to be dramatically faster. This, plus a host of other changes to enhance the player experience, makes this update much more accessible to newer players than before.

TNA stands for Total Nonstop Action, so you can expect TNA iMPACT! to be more extreme and action-packed than competing WWE titles, including tweaks like a six-sided arena, with game modes involving a cage and race for the belt.

Bohemia Interactive Studio and Black Element Software announce a new multi-platform title, Carrier Command: Gaea Mission. Based on the original Carrier Command released in 1988, and fully licensed and endorsed by its creators, the new game strives to deliver innovative and intense gameplay in a truly next-gen rendition.

Lighthouse Interactive announced the next expansion for Kerberos Productions' 4X space strategy game Sword of the Stars: A Murder of Crows, adding never-before-seen weapons, ships and tactics, but also introducing a new race, The Morrigi.