The team that brought Final Fantasy III to NDS comes together once again to breathe new life into a classicm Final Fantasy IV for DS will feature full 3D graphics, fully-voiced dramatic cutscenes, and added content.

Cooking Mama 2 promises more culinary fun and even tastier gameplay as Mama cooks up a spicy storm with new recipes, twice as many mini-games and an all-new multiplayer mode to challenge other players to a ‘cook off’, Mama style. YO! Sushi is offering its diners a chance to play Cooking Mama 2 for free through DS consoles placed on the restaurant chain’s conveyor belts.

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:

• Operation Darkness [X360] - Trailer
• Halo 3 [X360] - Legendary Map Pack Documentary
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The C&C series continues to thrive with Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath. As the expansion pack to C&C 3 Tiberium Wars, this RTS game returns to the Tiberium universe with Kane at the center of an epic new single player campaign. EA issued a statement to let fans know that the reported desync issues are being worked on, and that whilst tracking down the cause is difficult the devs are confident it will be resolved soon.

Rockstar is bringing its open-ended crime series to the next-gen consoles with Grand Theft Auto IV as the franchise returns to New York situated around the mysterious protagonist Nikolai. Fashion guru Karl Lagerfeld will be keeping you entertained as a DJ on one of GTA IV's many radio stations where he will play his favorite electronica and dance music, or give searing commentary.

Digital download portal GamersGate announced the addition of two new independent developers, Resolution Interactive (Clusterball and Ski-doo X-Team Racing) and Oxeye (Harvest: Massive Encounter) to its portfolio.

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.

Marvel and Sega announced today that all prominent cast members from The Incredible Hulk will also lend their voices and likeness to the video game, which will be released with the film in June 2008. Edward Norton, William Hurt, Tim Blake Nelson, Tim Roth and Liv Tyler will all take part in the game as their respective characters.

Bethesda spin-off company Vir2L Studios announces tow new NDS sports titles. AMF Bowling Pinbusters! puts the excitement of the lanes in the palm of your hands while Ducati Moto lets players experience the thrill of racing while on board the most extreme roadracing motorcycle of today - the Ducati!

Commander In Chief offers a true, realistic, and entertaining simulation of running a country’s government and taking part in economic, military, political, social, cultural, and foreign affairs by giving you the opportunity to become a head of state or government and make decisions on its behalf.

Memento Mori is a new adventure game featuring two main characters, Larisa Svetlova and Maxim Durand. It's the player's task to disclose the secret of the St. Petersburg art theft, a mysterious Finnish order and its machinations.

Medieval II: Total War Kingdoms offers an unprecedented amount of new content that gives gamers over 75 hours of epic new gameplay, including four new campaigns, 13 new factions with no less than 150 new units. SEGA has pulled the v1.05 patch as it realized it was bugged/corrupt. Proper versions coming tomorrow.

Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G, known in Europe/North America as Monster Hunter Freedom, is an expansion for Capcom's multiplayer RPG, adding new equipment, monsters, and missions. Launched March 27, Capcom announced that Monster Hunter Freedom 2G has shipped over 1.5 million units in Japan.

Sony Europe announced that on June 30, 2008 it will be closing down several servers for a slew of PS2/PSP titles. On PS2 you will no longer be able to play online with Amplitude, Destruction Derby Arenas, Everybody’s Golf, EyeToy Chat, F1 ‘04, Jak X, Lemmings PS2, My Street, Syphon Filter Omega Strain, This is Football 2004 This is Football 2005, Twisted Metal: Black Online. On PSP SCEE will close down Lemmings, and World Tour Soccer 2.

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:

• Aggression: Reign over Europe - Trailer #3
• Dragon Hunters [NDS] - Trailer #2
• Iron Man [ALL] - Story Trailer
• Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis - Trailer #2
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On life support for a few years, Interplay announced 2007 earnings increased 520% ($6 million) compared to 2006, mainly due to selling the Fallout license to Bethesda. CEO Herve Caen reiterated that it is securing funds for the Fallout MMO, and sequels to some of its most successful games, including Earthworm Jim, Dark Alliance, Descent, and MDK, are being considered. Interplay plans to launch its new website shortly (thanks NMA ).

Hail to the Chimp is a politically charged party game where players battle one another to become the new leader of the Animal Kingdom. Players use the game's unique team-up mechanic, balancing cooperation with competition, to claw their way to victory.

The Witcher: DuelMail, based on its role-playing game The Witcher, is a completely free-of-charge next-gen web-browser game that centers around battles between two players digitally incarnated as one of three completely different character classes. If you want to participate in the open beta, you need to create an account here.

Summer Sports: Paradise Island will turn your Wii into a luxurious island resort! Check into the Paradise Island Resort and explore the vast array of recreational activities in this lush tropical environment, such as Basketball, Croquet, Lawn Darts, Badminton, Volleyball, Horse Shoes, and Mini-Golf.

On an island continent shrouded in darkness and bounded on every shore by an impassable veil, war rages among desperate inhabitants fighting for survival. A mysterious famine has ravaged the land, leaving its denizens to struggle over what little fertile land remains.

Since Troika is no longer amongst the living this patch is not official, so use at your own discretion. This update brings Activision's Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines retail game to v5.1 (requires v1.2 patch installed) and addresses a number of known issues, gameplay tweaks, bug fixes and so forth.

THQ's Elements of Destruction, developed by Frozen Codebase using the Vicious Engine, is an engaging, frenetic game where players use the spectacularly destructive powers of nature to raze and blaze as they desire.

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. Kaos Studios released the v1.02 dedicated win32 server, so you can host your own multiplayer games.

Blending 2D global maps with 3D environments Mazes of Fate features 360 degree "free look" and movement controls. Originally a GBA game, the NDS version has all monsters, elements, and items animated in 3D, now with updated dungeons, and 4 extra characters. Although already gone gold, Mazes of Fate was originally scheduled for Oct. 2007, pushed to Feb. 2008, then delayed until March, and now an ambiguous Q2 2008.

Not only is Ubisoft working on a web-based version of Heroes of Might and Magic, China based NetDragon Websoft is developing a full-blown 2.5D MMORPG based on the franchise. Currently in testing, Heroes of Might and Magic Online will allow you to control a virtual hero who leads an armym and by capturing towns, players can also engage extra armies to help them in their conquests.