At World Wide Invitational in Paris, Blizzard officially announced the third installment in the Diablo franchise! A short demo showed off the Barbarian & witch doctor classes, picking up God Of War like red orbs as health, busting through walls, which also does damage to enemies, co-op, customized equipment for each class, promising more quests than in previous titles, improved controls, easy access to skills through a revamped hotbar, and of course all in nice 3D.

Today Project Top Secret officially reaches the most anticipated milestone yet as Acclaim finally announces the winner of the Directorship, Michael “Doran” Zummo. Mike will be offered the biggest career bump in the industry as he’s offered the directorship of an upcoming game from Acclaim Games, working with David Perry as Executive Producer.

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:

• Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway [ALL] - Making Of Developer Diary #1
• Crysis Warhead - Trailer
• Guitar Hero: Aerosmith [ALL] - Launch Trailer
• Wizard101 - Making Of Trailer #1
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CoD 4: Modern Warfare is an action-thriller arming gamers with the most advanced and powerful arsenal of modern day firepower to fight a new war in the world’s most treacherous hotspots. The v1.7 patch fixes a multiplayer exploit, Chinatown Sabotage overtime crash and a fix for MP icons showing up in English on multilanguage installs.

Believe it or not, there is still supporting the original Soldner: Secret Wars (and its Marine Corps expansion). This v33724 patch adds a new maps, removes some others, updates the physics, as well as several balance vehicle & weapons tweaks.

SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation focuses on online play and the global community and clans that support it, with support for Tournaments, Clan Ladders, and Leader Boards. Additionally, players will be able to modify their appearance through facial and physical customization.

On June 27, 2008, Bill Gates transitions from his day-to-day role at Microsoft to focus more time on his work with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates will remain Microsoft’s chairman and will be involved in select projects based on direction from Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer and the leadership team.

Swords will be honed and weapons optimized in Namco Bandai's Soulcalibur IV. Delivering new gameplay modes, characters and enhanced features with unprecedented 3D modeling and animation, Soulcalibur IV will be the definitive fighting game experience.

Reshape the battlefield - and the fate - of a broken nation in Fracture, Pacifica and the Atlantic Alliance, boast soldiers with powers beyond those of ordinary men. The differing states of superhumanity result in balanced yet stylistically different combat tactics that have never been seen before.

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning will bring Games Workshop's fantasy world to life in a way that will allow players to create characters destined for great deeds and glory on the field of battle.

THQ's Saints Row 2, using Volition's open-world engine, offers vastly expanded customization options, a totally transformed and expanded city of Stilwater, new vehicles, sandbox tools and toys as well as both online co-op and competitive multiplayer.

38 Studios announced the appointment of Thom Ang as Director of Art to oversee the management and direction of all aspects of 38 Studios artistic development, including the MMOG codenamed Copernicus, and work closely with Todd McFarlane and R. A. Salvatore

CDV's American Civil War, from the creators of Birth of America, is a historically accurate, realistic and fun turn-based grand operational strategy game of the American Civil War (1861-1865).

Wanted Fan Immersion Game, Sweden-based developer/publisher Stillfront, is a browser-based, free-to-play, massively multiplayer game is steeped in the mythology of Universal Pictures' action-thriller Wanted, which tells the story of an office drone recruited into a fraternity of assassins -- a ruthless secret society charged with carrying out the will of destiny.

McFarlane Toys announces a partnership with Activision to produce action figures from the hit video game franchise, Guitar Hero, with the first line is expected to hit store shelves this fall.

Ubisoft announced details for the upcoming release of Fan Pack, a downloadable content package for Rainbow Six Vegas 2 which includes three new multiplayer maps, a new High Stakes setting, along with the ability to attain new ranks and A.C.E.S.

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:

• Shaun the Sheep [ALL] - Trailer
• Samba De Amigo [Wii] - Trailer #2
• Huxley [X360/PC] - Cinematic Trailer
• Soulcalibur [XBLA] - Gameplay Trailer #3
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Numen: Contest of Heroes is an action/RPG that will plunge the player deep into the amazing world of Greek mythology, the realm of almighty gods, brave heroes, fabulous creatures, and great deeds.

Rogue Galaxy and Dark Cloud developer Level 5 is working on an all-new PS3 exclusive fantasy turn-based strategy/RPG, White Knight Story. At its Tokyo press conference Sony not only revealed the movie download service plans from earlier today, but also said that Level 5's RPG White Knight Story will be released this fiscal year, which ends March 31, 2009.

As society succumbs to a worldwide energy crisis, a new global depression takes hold. Amidst this desperate backdrop, two superpower alliances emerge. Join the battle on the frontlines of tomorrow as the Western Coalition or the Red Star Alliance. Early July Kaos will release a multiplayer demo featuring the Oilfield and GNAW maps, updated with the latest v1.1.1 code, will be released.

Got a new X360 console or had one repaired, but maybe you downloaded games or other content from Xbox Live Marketplace onto an older X360 console, and now you want all that content on your new system. With the license transfer tool, you can transfer the licenses of all your previously downloaded content from your old console to the new one.

Martin, Diana and Java pursue ceaselessly the most revolting monsters dripping with Slime. These very special agents are commissioned by M.O.M, the director of CENTRE, to lead these paranormal investigations throughout the world.

Expanding the saga with an independent storyline, Prince of Persia: The Fallen King utilizes the NDS' stylus controls to deliver the extraordinary acrobatic and combat action that fans have come to expect from the Prince of Persia franchise.

Forged by Chaos is an online fantasy game with many RPG elements, using Crytek's CryEngine 2, based on the Chaos theme - worlds powered by steel and battle magic - featuring customizable characters, interactive environments, multi-player interaction, and enhanced game world dynamics.

Meridian4 announced that Buka's catalogue of games is rolling out over the Internet, with many titles available at your favorite digital distribution channel. Titles including Battle Mages, Battle Mages - Sign of Darkness, Operation Matriarchy, Entente: WWI Battlefields and just recently, Pacific Storm became available on Steam. Purchase it before July 1, save 20% off $19.99.