Auran's Fury is the ultimate competitive online RPG. It takes the best elements of an MMO - combat, advancement and teamwork - and blends them with the best elements of an FPS - instant action, fast pacing and diverse game types.

Jack Keane, developed by Deck 13, is a classical adventure game with their rich story-telling and fun gameplay. As the player you guide hero Jack Keane as he faces some of his toughest challenges yet.

SCEA announced the creation of a new in-game advertising business unit, headed by 25-year industry veteran Darlene Kindler as director of Network Advertising, who will report to Phil Rosenberg, senior vice president of Sales and Business Development.

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.

Clive Barker's Jericho is a squad-based horror FPS devised by the master mythmaker, novelist and filmmaker Clive Barker. The Jericho Team is a seven-man strike force that protects government interests from paranormal threats. Next up in the series is Corp. Simone Cole, who is a reality hacker.

Namco Bandai's Eternal Sonata, previously known as Trusty Bell, is an Xbox 360 exclusive RPG, boasting gorgeous graphics, 3-D character models, and a groundbreaking battle system.

In PES8 player detail has been taken to incredible levels with full facial animation and high-def to show full movement and subtle details to the various kits during the course of a match, as well as an extensive Edit mode, allowing gamers to customize their PES experience. This patch/mod allows you to alter the demo time limit from 5 minutes up to 255 mins.

The Witcher is an action RPG, combining features of such games as Dungeon Siege, Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance, Gothic and Neverwinter Nights, incorporating a simple-yet-interesting game system, along with a complex plot and attractive 3D graphics. A message on the official forum reveals the game has reached gold master status.

Competing against more than 700 gamers from a record 74 countries, the United States overcame the stiffest competition in World Cyber Games history to capture three gold medals, two silver medals, a bronze medal, and the overall team title at the Grand Final in Seattle.

Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway, the 3rd entry in the series, once again 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.

Transformers: The Game lets gamers control the outcome in the battle for Earth as they choose to protect it as Autobots or destroy it as Decepticons.

Soldier of Fortune Payback, the 3rd installment in the SoF series, continues with the organization know as The Shop where players take on the role of a hired mercenary, blasting their way through high intensity combat situations in the world's most dangerous hotspots in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe.

Medal of Honor Heroes 2 is designed completely from the ground up for the Wii and PSP. Just like the recent Madden 08 announcement, the Wii edition will include an all-new mode that simplifies gameplay for players of all skill levels.

Bus Driver is a realistic simulation of a bus driver's duty, offering over ten different kinds of buses to drive, an expansive city environment with various districts, and over two dozen routes with varying weather conditions set at differing times of day.

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.

With the GamerNet system, players will be able to challenge creator-posted content and be rewarded with online points. Utilizing Photo Game Face, players can take their created characters and style, dress, and accessorize themselves through the game’s customization systems.

Touchmaster features 23 of Midway's classic Touchmaster games, a wide variety of card games, puzzles and skill-based challenges, such as Solitaire, Mah Jongg, Hot Hoops and Trivia. They've been translated to take advantage of the DS' touch-screen and stylus controls.

SEGA's Universe at War: Earth Assault, developed by Petroglyph, is a combat-intensive RTS game enlisting players in an epic struggle to prevent total alien domination of planet Earth.

CoD 4: Modern Warfare is a new action-thriller that will arm gamers with the most advanced and powerful arsenal of modern day firepower to fight a new war in the world’s most treacherous hotspots. Activision will release a single player demo Thursday, Oct. 11, featuring the Bog Rescue level, which we will of course have available on our fileserver network.

UPDATE: Apologies for the typo; the demo is coming Oct. 11, not Nov., as I mistakenly posted. One too many Friday night beers, I presume!

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:

• Assassin's Creed [ALL] - Freedom Developer Diary
• Empire Earth III - Behind the Scenes Trailer #1
• Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games [NDS/Wii] - 110m Hurdles Trailer
• Mass Effect [X360] - Character Spotlight #2
• Painkiller: Overdose - Trailer #3
• The Sims 2 Castaway [NDS] - Trailer
• Sonic Rivals 2 [PSP] - Knockout Trailer
• Too Human [X360] - Video Diary #1
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

EverQuest: Secrets of Faydwer, the 14th expansion, lets characters advance up to level 80, and discover thousands of new items, including Heroic Items that push abilities to new heights, as well as dynamic high level raid content, new spells, and new Advancement Abilities to rejuvenate even the most hardened warrior.

Using the Wii remote as a golf club, swing into the action with your favorite characters as Super Swing Golf Season 2 returns to the island to challenge the new courses with all new story, tournament modes, new multiplayer modes, completely new customizations, costumes, and secrets.

StarCraft II will feature the return of the Protoss, Terran, and Zerg races, overhauled and re-imagined with Blizzard's approach to game balance, designed to be the ultimate competitive RTS game.

In its seventh consecutive year, the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS) announced today the 2008 dates, new facility and early line-up of speakers and sponsors for its upcoming D.I.C.E. (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) Summit.

In Evil Under the Sun famous detective Hercule Poirot is back in typical style, turning up at just the right time to begin an investigation into the murder of a famous actress during what should have been the start of a relaxing holiday.