NHL 08 will feature an exclusive AHL license for the first time, with all 29 teams from the primary development league for the NHL fully playable in game.

Celebrating its 100-year anniversary, SdLL has released a demo for Pétanque: Game of the Century. Based on the official FFPJP (Fédération Française de Pétanque et du Jeu Provençal) rules, Petanque is similar to bocce, or curling without the ice, and a popular French past time sport.

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures is an Online Action RPG, mixing a deep, story-driven single-player experience and a massive and brutal multiplayer end-game brings forth the ultimate representation of the Age of Conan.

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. As a follow-up to this week's cross-platform gaming, developer Petroglyph Studios stated, "we have been assured by MS that UAW should have no problems running LIVE on XP."

Clive Barker's Jericho is an squad-based horror FPS devised by the master mythmaker, novelist and filmmaker Clive Barker. The Jericho Team is a seven-man strike force that protects government interests from paranormal threats.

Based on the feature film, Spider-Man 3 allows players to experience the actions of heroic red-suited Spider-Man and, for the first time ever, his darker, more mysterious black-suited persona.

In the last Chibi-Robo, our diminutive hero restored happiness to the Sanderson home, but in this DS sequel, he's taking on the great outdoors. Guide your miniature robot and complete chores and clashes with enemies in an epic quest to become the highest-ranked Chibi-Robo out there.

It's the year 1914 and you are the commander of a submarine in the German Emperor's fleet during WWI. For the first time you have the opportunity to play exciting underwater missions in the first world war, to work out strategies, to use your powerful weapons and to take care of your submarine!

The OPM UK August issue is said to have a small article confirming that Free Radical is working on a new Timesplitters title. With its current project, Haze, due to wrap up in the next few months, Free Radical is said to be "gearing up to insert monkeys and guns into all the wrong places," spoofing Gear of War, Halo and others. OPM is a PlayStation syndicated magazine, so it is not sure if TimeSplitters 4 will be on any platforms other than the PS3.

With R-Type Tactics developer Irem is deviating from the usual shoot'm up genre into the tactical/RPG genre, giving fans of the franchise a chance to see all the units and enemies up close and personal, in 3D, while also adding 2 player versus mode.

PGR 4 tries to create an emotionally-charged racing experience, where players become attached to their careers, profiles and vehicles. Drivers will be rewarded with a growing fanbase that’ll cheer them on, react to their every move and support them through victory.

Medieval II: Total War Kingdoms offers an unprecedented amount of new content that gives gamers over 75 hours of epic new gameplay, including 4 new campaigns, 13 new factions with no less than 150 new units. Creative Assembly's Taamati Hanson-Pou tells us more about the Teutonic Wars Campaign.

Koch Media UK is pleased to announce today a distribution deal with Virgin Play for Dead’n’Furious on Nintendo DS and Final Armada on PSP and PS2.

World in Conflict is a strategy game that delivers intense action and coordinated team play amidst a apocalyptic showdown between the Soviet Union and the US, with destructible 3D battlefields, team-based multiplayer action and a focus on fast, hard-hitting battles.

Earlier this week Ubisoft released a new an all-new downloadable content package (Player's Pack Black Edition) on Xbox Live, adding 5 new multiplayer maps, charging the usual rate (800 Microsoft points/$10). Shortly thereafter the download mysteriously disappeared, and today Ubisoft stated that the content was supposed to have been free, and is offering everybody a refund, although it was not specified if it was a monetary or through points. To make up for the debacle Ubisoft will now also make the previous Red pack free of charge.

Featuring the who’s who of 90s music icons such as MC Hammer, Sir Mix-A-Lot, REM and the Spice Girls, SingStar ‘90s will have you and your mates longing to wear Bum Bags all over again.

SEGA's Condemned 2: Bloodshot is a first-person action thriller immersing players in a world of psychological terror, featuring all-new fighting mechanics and online multiplayer functionality.

Fearless Mafia hitman Jackie Estacado is part of the Franchetti crime family helmed by vicious cousin Paulie. On the eve of his 21st birthday, Jackie is suddenly possessed by the terrifying and spectacular powers of the Darkness. German gamers will have to be content with a heavily censored version of the game as not only the usual Nazi symbols have been removed, but also 4 of the darklings' kill methods, and the tentacles will no longer eat hearts, but instead suck out yellowish-green fog representing souls.

EA Playground captures the exuberance and nostalgia of your neighborhood playground, turning your gaming space into an arena of interactive fun with immersive activities designed for kids, and the kid inside all of us.

Game Factory Interactive revealed its lineup of titles on display at this year's Games Convention in Liepzig, Germany (22nd to 26th, August), JAZZ:Hired Guns, Jagged Farm: Birth of a Hero, Warfare, and Gluk’Oza: Action!

Opoona is a "lifestyle RPG," where you, as Opoona, descendant of brave warriors, known as Cosmo Guards, must adapt to a new environment, meet new people, get a job, all while becoming aware of the precious world and people surrounding him.

Everlight: Fairies, Candles and a Wish is a 3D fantasy adventure under development at Silver Style Entertainment, known for The Fall. Not much else is known at this point, so check out some new screens....

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:

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PT Boats is the first simulator of the Mosquito-fleet, created with the use of technologies of a level never seen before in naval combat simulator games. Patrol Torpedo Boats were used in WW2 mainly to attack large cruiser due ot their maneuverability and speed.

Battle Rage is the third person shooter with elements of the beat-'em-up game that allows a player to control giant robots. Battles between the robots take place on carefully selected battlegrounds (so-called "arenas") and they are short, quick, brutal skirmishes.