So far, we've revealed the honorable mentions and the top handheld titles, and today, we're rolling out the top console/PC offerings. Once that's out of the way, we'll start the countdown of the top 20 titles, including what WP considers to be the best game of 2006. Read more for the final results!

Titan Quest: Immortal Throne features an original storyline, new gameplay features include an all-new skill mastery that combines with existing masteries to form eight new playable character classes, dozens of new monsters, hundreds of unique weapons and an additional 10 levels of character and skill development.

Left Behind: Eternal Forces, a real-time-strategy game, is set in an apocalyptic rendition of New York City. Players can command the Tribulation Forces as they attempt to save people from the Global Community Peacekeepers, commanded by the antichrist.

Armed Assault is a realistic, combat gaming offering freedom of action and immersive complex environments, blended with a unique touch of total simulation. This exe allows to host missions for Armed Assault demo as a stand alone server.

Making History: The Calm & the Storm puts players in control of global conflict, combining a highly sophisticated AI with rich historical detail. Last week's demo was pulled due to an installater bug, a proper version has now been released with improvements to the UI, AI, better balancing, new research and improved diplomacy.

Two Worlds is an RPG featuring thrilling fight choreographies, gripping characters and realistic worlds, linking the cinematic story with maximum gaming freedom in a medieval fantasy world.

Capcom hired former THQ representative Germaine Gioia as senior vp licensing, where she will expand Capcom's Hollywood presence. After reasonable success with the Resident Evil movies, and the upcoming Street Fighter and Onimusha flicks, Gioia will shop around deals regarding other original franchises suitable for the silver screen.

Yesterday we revealed the honorable mentions, and today we're announcing the top handheld titles. Check us out tomorrow for the top console/PC offerings. Once that's out of the way, we'll start the countdown of the top 20 titles, including what WP considers to be the best game of 2006. Read more for the final results!

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade is the exciting new expansion to Blizzard's MMORPG, expanding the game by tremendous bounds, adding new races, quest, lands, Battlegrounds, professions and items, raising the level cap to 70, and more. Following earlier todays gold announcement, here are some new screens...

Kameo: Elements of Power is an action-adventure game with RPG elements, sending players on a magical and epic journey full of intense combat, magnificent exploration and innovative morph-into-warrior action. After Halo, might Microsoft also be bringing Kameo to the movie screen? According to this IMBd listing a movie about "a young elf-girl uses her transformative abilities to fight the evil troll king Thorn," is currently in pre-production, scheduled for 2007...

Histwar: Les Grognards! is a revolutionary Napoleonic strategic and tactical war game that thrusts you into the thrilling and challenging role of the Commander In Chief of one of the many powerful Napoleonic armies between the years 1805 -1814 including the mighty French, Austrian and Russians.

Pokémon Battle Revolution will use its wireless connection to interact with its NDS brethren Pokémon Diamond & Pearl. This will open various options such as playing NDS games on the TV, and using the NDS tactical screen for your Wii games. Pokémon Battle Revolution will allow you to see your NDS Pokemons battle in 3D on the Wii.

Last year Resolution Interactive acquired various licenses from Daydream, including Clusterball, which finally gets a sequel. Clusterball 2 is a high-paced, adrenaline pumping flight sport demanding skill, tactics and ball control - designed as a first person shooter but without the splatter and gore.

War is everywhere in EA Mythic's Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, featuring next generation Realm vs. Realm (RvR) game play that will immerse players in a world of perpetual conflict.

The Burning Crusade is the expansion to Blizzard's MMORPG World of Warcraft. It expands the game by tremendous bounds, adding new races, quest, lands, Battlegrounds, professions and items, raising the level cap to 70, and more. Blizzard CM Tseric confirmed that TBC has gone gold and is on track for its January 16, 2007 launch date.

Soldner was one of the most promising titles of 2004, but ended up a major disappointment due to a extremely bugged & rushed release, ultimately resulting in the demise of its developer Wings Simulations. However JoWood seems to have enough faith in the franchise to merit a sequel as gEasy Development Team announced it is currently working on Soldner 2, currently scheduled for Q4 2007.

Super Swing Golf is a wholly rebuilt version of a golf game that's super-popular over in Japan and Korea. It promises to make use of the Nintendo Wii's new controller in order to make playing this golf game an experience in your very own living room.

Ubisoft's X360 exclusive Import Tuner Challenge, also known as Tokyo Xtreme Racer X, is an authentic and extremely customizable street-racing game that challenges racers to immerse themselves in Tokyo's underground to take on the fastest street-racing teams.

Square Enix announced the latest title in the Dragon Quest universe, and the first to make the jump to next-generation consoles, Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors will be released for the Nintendo Wii.

Xpand Rally Xtreme features new car classes, extreme rally tracks, expanded economics with a tuning plot, additional game modes and a realistic driving simulation model. A single player demo will be available early January featuring 2 rally track (Malaysia and Italy), Arcade and Simulation modes, drivable in 2 customizable vehicles.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. provides a dynamic gameplay of fast and tough combats, where you oppose smart & dangerous enemies, a large set of diverse weaponry, possibility to control machinery, detailed and interactive game world, story-driven single player with original team gameplay, and multiplayer with numerous modes. A THQ release schedule reveals that STALKER, 5 years after its announcement, will launch March 16, 2007.

Nexuiz is a free 3D deathmatch game that is simply first person shooting reduced to the very basics with perfect weapon balancing. Alientrap has released a new v2.2.2 version but unfortunately there are no details available yet as to what it fixes/adds.

In development at Japanese studio d'Artoon, Vampire's Rain is a survival horror action game set in Los Angeles where you play as John Lloyd, an AIB special agent who has to fight his way past hordes Night Walker zombies.

After a few weeks of deliberation and voting, our top games of 2006 are finally being unveiled! We're starting with titles that garnered honorable mentions; these nominees received a significant amount of votes but fell just short of making the cut. Come back tomorrow for the top handheld titles, which will then be followed by the top console/PC offerings. Once that's out of the way, we'll start the countdown of the top 20 titles, including what WP considers to be the best game of 2006. Read more for the final results!

Crackdown pushes the action-driving hybrid genre into the next generation with the introduction of the first-ever truly 3-dimensional persistent playground, highly innovative co-op gameplay and an extensive prop interaction system all while taking place in a massive and highly-stylized urban center. Scanned pages from the latest GamePRO magazine reveal that Crackdown will, for a limited time only, include a Halo 3 mulipayer beta when it's released this February.