Majesco announced The Wild West for the Nintendo DS. Developed by Happy Happening and scheduled for a summer release, The Wild West will deliver touch-screen shootout scenarios on the untamed frontier.

Enlight Interactive announced Circus Empire, the world's first ever 3D circus simulation game. Players will be able to design their own circus in three dimensions, complete with trapeze artists, clowns, lion tamers and a variety of other performers, each with their own distinct personality.

In Pirates of the Caribbean Online, players try to become the Caribbean's most legendary pirate, all while forging alliances, hunting for buried treasure, battling evil undead forces and facing off against enemies from the movie franchise.

Battlestations: Midway follows the story of naval recruit Henry Walker, whose first assignment as a gunner at Pearl Harbor is the starting point of an incredible career at the heart of the US Pacific Fleet in 1942. Eidos has released 2 new historical battle maps and brand new vehicles now available on Xbox Live Marketplace.

BioShock is 2K Games' hybrid first-person shooter, which is in development at System Shock 2 developers Irrational Games and combines elements of sci-fi and role-playing genres. 2KGames' Elizabeth Tobey claimed that if the online petition asking for a Collector's Edition reaches 5,000 signatures, Take Two would listen to the masses and make it happen, although she failed to specify what sort of extras it would include....

Escape from Bug Island known in Japan as Necro-Nesia, is a third-person survival-horror game that takes a quirky, creepy and over-the-top journey onto an island filled with giant evil insects and mutant creatures.

Stardock Entertainment and Ironclad Games announce that Sins of a Solar Empire Beta 1 is now available to all who preordered the game, and its primary purpose is to act as a compatibility test, to ensure that Sins runs beautifully on a wide range of system setups. Beta 1 allows for single-player sandbox games as the Trader Emergency Coalition, while future beta iterations will add progressively more features, leading to the final game release.

Sacred 2 is a deep fantasy RPG where players are immersed in an epic journey through the medieval-like kingdom of Ancaria. Highly action-oriented, Ascaron's Sacred 2 features pitched battles and a wide range of enticing quests.

Heart Of Osiris is not a sequel to last years point & click adventure Ankh, but a standalone expansion pack. Ankh: Heart Of Osiris is situated in the same environment as the original but now lets you play the game from a different perspective and character, the Pharaoh himself. This v1.01 patch adds GeForce 2/4 MX support, and fixes a load save game issue.

Sporting various new features, and a new graphics engine, Arena Wars Reloaded is an action strategy game focusing once again on fast-paced RTS action and multiplayer mayhem.

Another day, another batch of games shipped to stores. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are announcements for:

• Pogo Island (NDS)
• Purr Pals (NDS)
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Genesis Rising: The Universal Crusade is a futuristic 3D game that uses the best elements of RPGs within the context of a fast moving RTS game, set in a mysterious future universe where organic machines are built using genetic engineering. This v1.031 fixes a CD recognition issue caused by the previous v1.3 patch.

Beniot Sokal's White Birds Productions studio is working on Sinking Island, a dark detective adventure story, set on a tropical paradise, at a millionaire's hotel a crime is committed, and while the island seems to be sinking for unknown reasons, you, as detective Jack Norm, have to find out who did it.

Raylight Studios has recently been awarded an official PSP developer license and has signed a deal to develop Hot Wheels: Ultimate Challenge.

Atari has released the first downloadable content for its action game Bullet Witch, including a free, brand-new White Witch costume for the game’s heroine Alicia, and a Bullet Witch Xbox 360 Theme pack. In addition, for 20 points each, players can download one brand new mission “Dynamite Beauty” and two enhanced versions of the "Clad in Streaming Black" mission featuring ‘Great Spells’ unlocked and a heightened level of difficulty, respectively.

Electronic Arts announced that it has renewed the license to launch additional games within the world created by J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic literary fiction, The Lord of the Rings, through 2008.

Dawn of Magic, also known as Blood Magic, is an action/RPG where the weapon of choice is magic. In this game, the player controls an Unlikely Hero in an ambitious search through many hostile environments looking for Modo, the ethereal being bent on destroying the world.

Frogster Interactive announced the development team for the production of Speedball 2. The lineup now includes the legendary Bitmap Brothers, founders and owners of the famous Speedball license and the French studio Kylotonn Entertainment as developer and co-producer.

Legend of the Dragon is a 3rd person action game with RPG components, featuring fantastic martial arts movements from the TV series. As in the series, players will find Twelve Signs of the Ancient Chinese Zodiac, each with its own temple, and each temple with its own guardian.

SCi has acquired online distribution specialist Bluefish Media, allowing Eidos to grow its successful New Media and Casual Games businesses and improve its profit margins on videogames distributed through digital download.

1C Company announced that Battle Lord has changed its name to King’s Bounty: The Legend, an adventure game with tactical turn-based battles and role-playing elements. The change of names does not mean any changes for release dates or the main conception behind the project.

Loki is Cyanide Studio's latest hack 'n slash action/RPG where you go on an incredible journey through four great mythologies. Loki allows the player to take on the role of one of four heroes - a mighty Norse warrior, a fierce Greek fighter, a powerful Egyptian sorcerer or a skilled Aztec shaman.

2K announced Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword, the latest expansion pack for Civ IV franchise. Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword will focus on the late-game time periods after the invention of gunpowder and will deliver 12 challenging and decidedly different scenarios created by Firaxis Games, and the Civilization Fan Community.

It seems Team Ninja is not only working on the PS3's Ninja Gaiden Sigma, but also on an adaptation for the NDS. According to the latest Famitsu, Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword is not just a hack 'n' slash action game like its bigger brethren, but more of a 3D action-adventure in the style of the recent Hotel Dusk: Room 215, where you play sideways and use the touch-screen to control your movements.