In the name of Kane! Revealed yesterday, EA officially announced that the Command & Conquer series continues to thrive with Command & Conquer 3: Kane’s Wrath. As the expansion pack to Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars, this RTS game returns to the Tiberium universe with Kane at the center of an epic new single player campaign.

Contrary to popular beliefs that online gamers are asocial, introverted loners, a study by researchers at Nottingham Trent University claims the opposite. 75% of online RPG players make good friends with the people they meet in their virtual worlds, with almost 50% meeting in real-life situations and one in ten going on to develop physical relationships.

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.

A few days ago gossip magazine The Inquirer claimed that it had received information regarding the upcoming DirectX10.1 update not being compatible with current DX10 hardware. Microsoft's DirectX lead program manager Sam Glassenberg debunked that rumor as false, and confirmed that all DirectX10 enabled cards will work fine with the minor DX10.1 update, it may just be that the new features are not incorporated.

Codemasters' Leipzig Games Convention 2007 showcase booth (Hall 4, F01) will feature playable premieres for Clive Barker’s Jericho, Turning Point: Fall of Liberty, new downloadable content for Overlord, Colin McRae: DiRT on PS3, and an area dedicated to LotR Online: Shadows of Angmar's Book 10 content update, and Fury.

Experience the new high-def., next-gen sights and sounds of Beautiful Katamari as the Prince takes on a new high-rolling adventure, with his famous cousins in tow, to save the Katamari universe once again after the King of All Cosmos has a very un-royal and unfortunate accident.

EA Mythic’s MMORPG, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, will be playable in the GOA booth at Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany on August 22-26, during which the first details about High Elves and Dark Elves, the final two armies in WAR, will be revealed.

Medal of Honor Airborne, next-gen debut of the series, is set to redefine the series by introducing players to an entirely new way of experiencing a WWII FPS – namely the fully interactive Airborne experience.

EA Tiburon, known for Madden NFL Football and NCAA Football titles, is developing the latest installment in the Tiger Woods franchise. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 will include two new features, GamerNet And Photo Game Face. Read more for details...

Auran's Fury 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. Fury's 'Challenge' is the richest prize pool ever for an online role-playing event with more than USD$1,000,000 in prizes.

When the moon is no longer lighting the night sky, two rabbits — Cookie & Cream — are put in charge of discovering where the nighttime orb has gone to. Their investigation leads them to a mysterious trap-filled island. They'll have to work together if they hope to rescue the errant lunar object in time for the Moon Festival.

After we previously had one of the PGR4 developers speaking out about their game being limited by the HD DVD (even though it was retracted shortly thereafter) Epic's VP Mark Rein made a similar statement. At the Edinburgh Interactive Festival Rein stated, "We'll compress some things. But you know, we may have fewer maps on the 360 version...Blu-Ray has definitely given us a lot of legroom."

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company announced that Microsoft has started production of the Xbox 360 graphics-memory subsystem using the TSMC 90nm embedded DRAM process, featuring a high-density macro design (80Mb) and fast performance to 500MHz.

Majesco announced that its Nintendo DS video game, Cooking Mama, has shipped more than 500,000 units to retail since its launch 11 months ago.

For decades, mankind has contemplated what would have happened if two historical icons had battled…with balls. Finally, there’s a studio brave enough to tackle this difficult question. Blazing Lizard announces its first console downloadable game, Pirates vs. Ninjas Dodgeball.

D3 Publisher has signed an worldwide exclusive license agreement to publish and distribute Illusion Softworks', known for Mafia and Hidden and Dangerous, yet-to-be-announced next-gen title based on new IP currently under development.

KwonHo: The Fist of Heroes is a free to play MMO allowing users to create their own unique fighter using a myriad of customization options along with their character’s fighting style with five different martial arts to choose from. Players can select between Tae Kwon Do, Muay Thai, Tai Chi Quan, Ba Ji Quan, or Judo fighting styles.

'The Cell' director Tarsem Singh has signed on for 'The Unforgettable,' a science fiction thriller from Warner Bros. Pictures being produced by Basil Iwanyk, David Goyer and Jason Hall (former WBIE VP), based on Monolith's Condemned: Criminal Origins.

Rebel Raiders: Operation Nighthawk is the ultimate futuristic aerial combat game featuring some of the most frenzied air battles ever witnessed with an intensity rarely reached in a videogame. Originally released in 2005, it seems XS Games is get it Wiimade, scheduled for Sept. 2007.

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:

• Space Siege - Trailer
• Madden NFL 08 [ALL] - Launch Trailer
• Heavenly Sword [PS3] - Trailer (2)
• Battlestrike: Force of Resistance - Trailer
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ..

Interplay announced earnings for the Q2 2007, reporting a net income of $5.46 million, compared to last year's $2.06 million. The results are mainly due to the sale of its Fallout license to Bethesda (for $5,750,000), while itself obtaining an exclusive license, under certain conditions, to use the IP for developing a Fallout MMO.

Combat Mission: Shock Force is a tactical military simulation depicting a hypothetical near future conflict between NATO and Syrian forces in Syria. Paradox has released a new patch, bringing their version (not the Battlefront edition) to v1.02 and fixing various bugs/crashes, adding ATi gfx card compatibility feature and more.

Paradox Interactive will attend the Games Convention in Leipzig August 22-24. While they have a large autumn lineup, recently increased through a newly signed distribution contract with publisher Nobilis Group France, they'll mainly focus on their two September releases at Leipzig: Tarr Chronicles and Galactic Assault: Prisoner of Power.

System 3 will be unveiling Ferrari Challenge to the world at the Leipzig Games Convention. A press conference will take place on Thursday, August 23rd at 15:00, and it will be the first time anybody sees a playable version of the officially licensed racing simulation.

Sins of a Solar Empire is a real-time space strategy title under development at Ironclad Games. Unfolding the fate of three unique factions, Sins of a Solar Empire is the first chapter in an epic science fiction saga.