Enlight Software has selected Exent Technologies to add in-game advertising to the company's most popular titles.

Konami caught up with American Idol's famous judges Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson to get their comments about the upcoming PS2 video game Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol.

Ubisoft announced today that its Romania studio is currently working on a new installment in the popular Silent Hunter series. Silent Hunter 4: Wolves of the Pacific will put you in the role of a US submarine Captain in the Pacific Ocean.

Today Ubisoft announced that Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter was the top single-player and multi-player game on the Xbox Live online gaming service worldwide. Figures are based on the number of unique users during calendar year second quarter 2006, according to Microsoft. Additionally, Ubisoft recorded year-over-year sales growth of 81 percent in July on the U.S. market according to NPD.

Check out the following new screens from Deep Silver's Games Convention 2006 lineup::

• Gothic III (PC) - Screens
• Blood Magic (PC) - Screens & Trailer
• Heroes of Annihilated Empire (PC) - Screens
• Secret Files: Tunguska (PC) - Screens & Trailer
• Rush for the Bomb (PC) - Screens
• Trackmania United (PC) - Screens
• The Guild 2 (PC) - Trailer
• Warhammer Mark of Chaos (PC) - Screens
• Spellforce 2 (PC) - Screens
• Anno 1701 (PC) - Trailer
• Mage Knight Apocalypse (PC) - Screens
• EverQuest II: Echoes of Faydwer (PC) - Trailer

During the opening hours of the Games Convetion in Liepzig Nitendo announced two new titles for the Wii, Mario Strikers Charged and Battalion Wars 2. Read more for details...

Maelstrom is a groundbreaking strategy action epic which takes place on a devastated future Earth. In the wake of an apocalyptic ecological disaster, the planet is threatened by an alien invasion, thus becoming the battleground as a divided human race fights for survival.

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:

• Tony Hawk’s Downhill Jam [Wii] - Behind the Scenes Trailer #1
• Dark Messiah of Might & Magic - Kill Kevin Trailer #2
• Reprobates - Trailer
• Test Drive Unlimited [X360] - Chevrolet Trailer
• One Piece: Pirates' Carnival [NGC/PS2] - Trailer
• Naruto: Clash of Ninja 2 [NGC] - Trailer #4
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

Unreal Tournament 2007 is being developed by North Carolina-based Epic Games. The game promises to blow fans away with the gameplay, modifiability and visuals that Epic's Unreal Engine 3 technology will deliver.

EA today announced that best-selling fantasy author R.A. Salvatore will keynote the Dark Age of Camelot Roundtable Fan Gathering this September. Salvatore’s books have sold more than fifteen million copies and include the beloved series The Hunter’s Blades Trilogy, Icewind Dale Trilogy, and The Dark Elf Trilogy.

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 v2.8 (requires v1.2 patch installed) and addresses a number of known issues, gameplay tweaks, bug fixes and so forth (thanks 3DGamers).

SEGA today announced Sonic Riders is being developed for the PC and will ship this holiday season. Sonic Riders takes gamers on an electrifying ride on air boards at break-neck speeds through a wide variety of tracks. Catching massive air and pulling off insane aerial tricks will power up players against their opponents in a race to the finish line.

EA today announced the acquisition of Phenomic Game Development, known for The Settlers and SpellForce. EA Phenomic, based in Ingelheim, Germany, now becomes EA's newest studio in Europe, with a creative team dedicated to developing RTS games for the PC, console and online.

Eidos Interactive and TT Games confirm a new LEGO adventure in Bionicle Heroes, bringing to life the most powerful and exciting LEGO characters ever seen in one game, in an action-packed world of adventure and discovery.

Techland announced today that next week it will release a MP demo for its FPP Wild West themed shooter Call of Juarez MP. The demo will contain two game modes – Skirmish and Robbery located in typical Old West’s towns and players will be able to impersonate both outlaws and sheriffs and play in two available classes for each team, as a Gunslinger or a Rifleman.

In Company of Heroes gamers will experience the journey of the brave men of Able Company in a deep single-player campaign that begins with the invasion of Normandy through their fight across Europe, all set against the most dynamic, and completely destructible, battlefield ever seen in a game. This demo includes a tutorial and 2 missions.

Midway today announced that 4-time Super Bowl champion, Bill Romanowski, will join Hall of Famer, Lawrence Taylor, as co-cover athlete of Blitz: The League. Bill Romanowski will also be featured as the voice and personality of one of the League's most hated linebackers, Bruno Batagglia.

JoWooD Productions continues its successful cooperation with the German developer Piranha Bytes by publishing one of the most spectacular titles of the coming year: Gothic III, the third part of the legendary RPG saga.

RedOctane can today confirm news which will have the whole of Europe banging their heads with joy: Guitar Hero II, the acclaimed follow-up to Guitar Hero, will be available in Europe in November 2006, shortly after its American release date.

Pac-Man World Rally is an original kart racing game that puts players behind the wheel as Pac-Man or one of 14 other classic Namco characters racing for the checkered flag while using unique power-ups and items to prevent their opponents from claiming victory.

Brigade E5: New Jagged Union is a tactical turn-based game. The scene of action is a small country called Palinero somewhere in the tropics. Recently a coup d'etat has happened in the country and civil war is about to break out. This small patch addresses a tutorial issue...

An evolution in open world gaming, Saints Row provides an unprecedented amount of freedom to experience the game as the player sees fit. The game, based in the fictional urban surroundings of Still Water, is action adventure with its core as a third-person shooter.

Shortly after CEO Christoph Syring resigned from CDV, the German develioper/publisher has sold off several of its upcoming key titles. Licenses to three of its top titles, War Front: Turning Point, Panzer Tactics and Jack Keane have been bought up by newcomer GDD Games Development, for a undisclosed amount of money. What this means in terms of release dates or delays is not known. CDV North America could not be reached before press time.

UPDATE: GDD just announced it has sold the rights to 10tacle (thanks GameCaptain).

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:

• Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars - Trailer #2
• Armored Core 4 [PS3/X360] - Trailer #2
• LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy [X360] - Trailer #2
• Timeshift [X360/PC] - Trailer (3)
• Xpand Rally Xtreme - Trailer #2
• Test Drive Unlimited [X360] - Trailer (2)
• EverQuest II: Echoes of Faydwer - Trailer
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

Frogwares today revealed its third title in the Sherlock Holmes series. After Mystery of the Mummy, and The Silver Earring, the French studio is actively working on Sherlock Holmes: The Awaken, scheduled for release October 2006.