Test Drive Unlimited challenges players online to experience the most exotic and fastest vehicles on more than 1000 miles of diverse Hawaiian roads. Gamers win races, challenges, missions and tournaments to earn credits and purchase new cars, bikes, rare performance parts, clothes, apparel, homes and garages.

Biart announced today that it has finished development of its diving simulator Diver: Deep Water Adventures, and the game will appear in the nearest months in the shops of Russia, France and Germany, while other territories are currently under negotiation.

Martial Heroes is a Free-to-Play full 3D MMORPG based on an ancient Oriental story. It uses beautiful costumes made with papers and fabrics. There are various opportunities like the Guild War vs. Evil War system.

Namco Bandai America and Deep Silver today announced an agreement to allow Koch Media to co-publish its RTS game Warhammer: Mark of Chaos and the fantasy RPG Mage Knight: Apocalypse in all European territories, both scheduled for release in late 2006.

The Nintendo DS makes its motion picture debut in the upcoming teen spy thriller Stormbreaker as Nintendo has signed an agreement with the film's producers that will turn the NDS into the ultimate spy gadget.

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:

• Blade Dancer: Lineage of Light [PSP] - Trailer #5
• Micro Machines v4 - Weapons Trailer
• Dungeon Siege II: Broken World - Trailer (2)
• Fatal Inertia [PS3] - Trailer #2
• Bet on Soldier: Blood of Sahara - Q&A Trailer
• Day Of Defeat Source - Jagd Trailer
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

The Paid Character Transfer feature allows WoW players to move characters to other realms and even from one account where you are the subscriber to another account where you are the subscriber, subject to certain restrictions. The cost of each paid character transfer is $25.00 USD.

Paradox Interactive announced today that it will publish an addon to Soldiers: Heroes of World War II. In Silent Heroes, previously known as Saboteurs, you take control of a special operations force during World War II.

Super Monkey Ball Adventure is an all-new, narrative-driven and platform-based style of gameplay, along with brand-new Monkey Ball abilities and a bunch of fresh new characters, adding 50 new and original puzzles to this new and exciting gaming experience.

Bet On Soldier is a first-person shooter with a corporation-takes-over-the-world-style plot, where you bet on the outcome of encounters with specific enemies. Focus has released the v1.3 patch, adding Team Deathmatch mode, PhysX support, making the game multiplayer compatibility with the Blood of Sahara addon, and the usual fixes, tweaks and adjustments.

Lighthouse Interactive announced that it has acquired the worldwide publishing rights (excluding North America) to Shadow Tor Studios' suspense adventure Barrow Hill, a gripping horror thriller, set in the Cornish landscape of England and told from a first-person perspective.

Call of Juarez is situated in 19th-century Wild West America and requires a combination of both intelligent stealth and pure shooting. Fast-paced revolver duels using historically accurate firearms, horseback riding, and memorable locations combine with top-notch graphics and an enthralling soundtrack to immerse both casual and hardcore players.

Zen Studios' Flipper Critters is a fully 3 dimensional, original new gameplay experience based on classic pinball. Unlike most games, which take place on small, closed tables, Flipper Critters pinball takes place on a much bigger scale. Conspiracy pushed back the release date from July to September 2006.

Virtua Fighter 5 is the latest installment in the critically-acclaimed series, and will elevate the arcade fighting genre to all-new heights as it takes true advantage of the capabilities of the next-generation hardware.

Activision announced today that enthusiasts/fans can now audition to be the voice of the King of Atlantis himself, Namor (aka Sub-Mariner)! Activision has already received so many great entries for Bruce Banner so they have decided to close that casting call and add a new character. Auditions for Namor and Jean Grey are going on now, so please keep those entries coming!

The King of Fighters Neowave features three-on-three team fighting, along with improved graphics and an enhanced game system, as well as full Xbox Live online game service support, including online multi-player head-to-head fighting and Tournament Mode.

Norm Koger's The Operational Art Of War series allows you to play and create any battle from the entire 20th Century of warfare and up to the modern day, with reasonable accuracy back as far as the 1850s. The patch fixes a reconstitution bug found in the release version of the game as well as a few other minor issues.

The Aussies bring down the ban hammer once more, this time outlawing sales of Blitz Games and Eidos' upcoming movie to game adaptation of Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs. While exact reasons as to why Australia's Office of Film and Literature Classification decided to not rate, thus banning the game, is unclear, but local publisher Atari Australia decided to not fight the decision. Earlier this year, Atari was also prohibited from selling Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure. After it initially being allowed, the sales license was revoked merely days before its actual launch.

Valve's SteamPowered website has been updated with details on a minor Red Orchestra fix addressing a recoil issue caused by the last patch, and the promised Sin Episodes: Emergence update adding the arena mode with 4 maps, as well as several tweaks, fixes ansd adjustments. Read more for details, or just restart Steam for the effects to take place.

Yoga. Massage therapy. Free catered meals. Discounted gym membership. These are just a few of the benefits that helped Insomniac Games earn the honor for the second-straight year of being named one of the best companies, and only game developer listed, to work for in America.

In Alien Shooter 2, hack 'n slash gameplay gets dropped into a science-fiction storyline packed with dozens of weapons and vicious alien life forms. After a premature release a few weeks back, the official demo is now available, offering two time-limited gamemodes: Campaign (8 minutes) and Survival (6 Minutes). After that, you will be back in the Main Menu and can start again.

Combining intuitive gaming with historically-inspired battles, would-be commanders will lead their forces to victory or defeat in three exciting single-player campaigns, or compete in multiplayer games via Nintendo-WiFi Connection or wireless multiplayer. Multiplayer games will also offer a competitive ladder system to rank the best online commanders.

Earlier this week, we ran an article about the resignation of Radical president and co-founder, Ian Wilkinson. No specifics were mentioned, but one of our faithful readers (thanks Glen) noted that this newspaper article was based on a more in-depth piece in the Vancouver Sun, pointing out that the transition was apparently planned more than a year ago.

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:

• Joint Task Force - Physx Trailer
• NHL 07 [ALL] - Ovechkin Trailer
• NHL 2k7 [ALL] - Joe Thorton Trailer
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

Hannibal: Vengeance of Carthage is a gripping 3rd-person tactical action game where players take the role of Hannibal Barka, commander in chief of the Carthaginian forces against the Roman Republic... it will not be a war of conquest, but a war of vengeance!