EA and Jostens announced that Madden NFL 08 will give players the opportunity to extend their experience to the real world by giving them the ability to purchase their own custom-designed “Ring of a Champion,” customized to recognize the player's Madden Gamer Level advancements through the game.

CDV announced that it is working on a new expansion for its WWII RTS game Blitzkrieg 2. The Liberation addon is set near the end of the second world war and will add 2 entire new Western front campaings set in Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and France, and will of course also include plenty of new units, maps, and game modes.

Ultimate Duck Hunting is a realistic hunting simulation that features both shooting and retrieving. Choose your dog (yellow, chocolate, or black Labrador retriever) and train him to respond to your commands, all controlled by player motions using the Wii Remote.

GarageGames and Pronto Games announce the availability of Torque licensing for the Wii console. Torque for Wii is based on the Torque Game Engine, with built-in support for the unique Wii controller, making it a complete package for both disc-based and downloadable Wii games.

Today Nintendo added yet another 3 classic games to the Wii's Shop Channel. Wii owners with a high-speed Internet access can redeem Wii Points to download the following titles: Paper Mario (N64), Balloon Fight (NES), Silent Debuggers (TGfx16).

You are a fugitive and you’re being ruthlessly hunted by the very government you once served. The key to your survival is to improvise, adapt and overcome, your environment becomes your weapon. Composers Kaveh Cohen and Michael Nielsen in association with Groove Addicts bring their unique brand of orchestral-electronic fusion to Ubisoft's latest stealth action game.

SEGA's Universe at War: Earth Assault, developed by Petroglyph, is a combat-intensive RTS game enlisting players in an epic struggle to prevent total alien domination of planet Earth.

From the dawn of modern airmobile operations in Vietnam, to the bloody street fighting in Somalia, to battling the Taliban at the top of the world, Air Assault Task Force showcases forty plus years of airmobile operations around the globe.

Based on Nickelodeon's hottest new show, fans will play as Aang, Katara, Sokka and Haru as they grow into an unstoppable team utilizing the kung fu inspired bending arts through the Avatar universe. Players will explore the four Avatar nations in beautifully detailed environments and battle new enemies.

Sony Computer Entertainment UK today announced the availability of a high value Starter Pack for PS3, comprising a PS3, two first party games and two SIXAXIS wireless controllers, at £425.

In the game inspired by the classic Duck Amuck cartoon, players will compete against Daffy through a series of mini-games that range from retro inspired favorites to modern, innovative gameplay interactions, with the goal of driving Daffy's temperature, and his temper, through the roof.

Last month EA promised the new v1.06 patch for its 3D sci-fi RTS C&C3: Tiberium Wars to be released in July, and it seems it is keeping its word. C&C community manager Apoc revealed that the patch has passed QA and is scheduled for release tomorrow. The new patch fixes the invincibility exploit, increases disconnect reporting, fixes the Cloaking field bug, and plenty more. A v1.07 patch is already in the works, and is expected soon ...

PQ2 will help players calculate their intelligence by using the PQ scoring system based on the number of moves and the speed with which they complete more than 250 puzzles.

As a member of a black ops unit, your mission in Vampire Rain is to secretly eliminate a growing population of deadly vampires known as Nightwalkers. Your hands will sweat and your heart will pound as you use stealth, strategic thinking, and specialized weapons to face your supernatural foes. Be careful out there—because if you make one mistake, you're history.

Take Two has released screens and trailers for its upcoming titles:

• 'BioShock' (X360/PC) - Features, Screens & Trailer
• 'Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution' (NDS/Wii/PS3/X360) - Screens
• 'Top Spin 3' (PS3/X360) - Screens

Haze a new shooter from Ubisoft and Free Radical, puts you in the boots of a new recruit in the privately run Mantel army. Your conflict begins in a war-torn country where you have been sent to fight a vicious rebel faction, the Promise Hand. At first glance, all is well, but things quickly begin to look a little strange…

Space Empires V completely updates the user interface, and takes the player into a real-time rendered 3D universe. Watch space battles play out in glorious detail with realistic effects.

Silent Hill Origins reveals many of the series' most hallowed secrets. Assuming the role of a lone truck driver trapped in Silent Hill while making a routine delivery, players must escape the city's horrific inhabitants and confront the strange hallucinations that have haunted him since childhood.

Fallout 3 places a player in the role of a Vault-dweller, who ventures from his secluded, underground survival Vault into a post-apocalyptic world of mutants, radiation, gangs and violence.

Microsoft has released the summer backwards compatibility update, adding 61, and 4 updated ones, original Xbox games that you will be able to play on your X360. At the time of writing it is not yet available on Xbox Live, so you need to download it here, and burn it to DVD. Titles of note are WE 8, PGR 1/2, Outrun, Full Spectrum Warrior, DOOM 3, America's Army and plenty more...

Ubisoft released screens and trailers for its upcoming titles:

• Assassin's Creed [ALL] - Features & Screens
• Brothers In Arms Hell's Highway [ALL] - Features & Screens
• HAZE [ALL] - Features & Screens
• Jam Sessions [NDS] - Features & Screens
• My Word Coach [NDS/Wii] - Screens
• Naruto: Rise of a Ninja [X360] - Features & Screens
• Nitrobike [Wii] - Features, Screens & Trailer
• Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 [NDS/Wii] - Features & Screens

Nyko has unveiled a prototype of the Wii Party Station, which has all of the necessities for a Wii-themed gaming session. The station, which is tentatively priced at $24.99, features four Wiimote slots, cup holders, and LED score displays, and atop it all, a bowl for chips and dip — which is being redesigned to hold more grub.

Gary Grigsby’s World at War: A World Divided gives you complete control over the production, research, and military strategy for any of the major powers during WWII. The v1.011 patch brings several rule changes, a few interface improvements, and tons of new mod-ability improvements.

Two additional games will become available this Xbox LIVE Arcade Wednesday: Bomberman Live, mixing social gaming excitement with high definition graphics, and Yie Ar Kung Fu, a classic fighting game with enhanced graphics, hand painted backgrounds and new achievements.

Infinite Interactive's has released a new patch for its strategy title Warlords IV: Heroes of Etheria. This upgrade brings your retail game to v1.05 and adds bug fixes and balance changes, along with new items, skills, spells, improved AI and even a special set of 10 scenarios that link together to form a new story.