Horse Racing Manager 2 is a sport management and horse racing game. It was designed for management game fans as well as riding and horse racing aficionados.

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:

• Need for Speed Carbon (GBA/NDS/PSP/NGC/PS2/Xbox/PC)
• The Secret Files: Tunguska (PC)
• Death, Jr. 2: Root of Evil (PSP)
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Within the first five weeks of launch, Wii owners can pick from up to 32 games, representing the most diverse, and most exciting, console video game library available. Additionally 30 Virtual console titles will become available, bringing it to a total of no less than 62 games to play during the holidays.

Test Drive Unlimited challenges players online to experience the most exotic and fastest vehicles on more than 1000 miles of diverse Hawaiian roads. Gamers win races, challenges, missions and tournaments to earn credits and purchase new cars, bikes, rare performance parts, clothes, apparel, homes and garages.

SEGA announced that Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz developed by SEGA Studios for the Nintendo Wii has gone gold. AiAi and all his friends will roll their way onto Nintendo's new console with new mind-blowing puzzle levels and 50 new and exciting Party Games specifically designed to fully exploit the innovative Nintendo Wii Remote.

The Secrets Of Atlantis is a point and click adventure situated in the 1930s. You are Howard Brooks, a young aeronautic engineer who awakes on the Hindenburg zeppelin, investigating a strange vessel, one which will take you to the four corners of the earth, interacting with over 30 NPCs, and solving nearly a dozen puzzles.

Rainbow operatives take to the chaotic streets of Las Vegas as an escalating terrorist siege in "Sin City" threatens to take world terrorism to new, uncontrollable heights. After a brief print mag exclusivity, Ubisoft has now released the 477mb single-player demo on Xbox Live Marketplace, now also available in North America.

In Calling All Cars you take the role of a bounty hunter careening around a stylish cartoon world on the hunt for criminals on the loose. Originally announced as Criminal Crackdown, Jaffe revealed that it has now been renamed to Calling All Cars, possibly to distance the game from Microsoft's X360 title Crackdown

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 :

• Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz [Wii] - Trailer
• Superman Returns [PS2/Xbox/X360] - Audio Trailer
• Thrillville [PS2/Xbox] - Featurette Trailer #2
• Konductra [NDS] - Trailer
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Nintendo is making the greatest video game archive in history available for download to its Virtual Console. On top of the 530 GameCube titles, Nintendo will have 30 classic games available for download, from NES, SNES, N64, Sega Genesis and TurboGrafx16 consoles.

Celebrating Metal Slug’s 10th Anniversary, SNK Playmore and Ignition Entertainment will release Metal Slug Anthology, containing: Metal Slug 1 through 6; with Metal Slug 1 and 2 making their first appearances on a home console, since the NEOGEO AES system.

Rare's Viva Pinata brings a vibrant world of living pinata animals to video games, television and beyond. The Viva Pinata universe showcases an engaging cast of colorful, wild-roaming pinata animals that entertain and challenge imaginations. Viva Pinata has gone gold and is on track for its November 9, 2006 release date.

Enlight announced X3: Reunion 2.0, adding new features to the original X3 game, including free expansions, while removing Starforce protection, enabling more players to access the game without the potential performance issues of the copy protection.

The Ship is a thriller set onboard a 1920's luxury liner where Mr X, the Ship's owner, has "invited" you to a mysterious game of hunt and hunted, as players must secretly track and extinguish specified passengers while avoiding similar fate. You now get the chance to try out the full game for free starting Thursday, November 2 at 1 pm PDT through Sunday, November 5 at the same time, available on on Steam.

Capcom's President and CEO Kenzo Tsujimoto made a few interesting statements during the company's annual report. Because of the higher next-gen development costs, Capcom intends to implement a multi-platform strategy, marketing a single title for different game consoles, thereby expanding sales and optimizing profits. A new multiplatform development engine has been created to further improve efficiency. Capcom believes the next-generation game consoles market is declining, while online games, especially PC, are growing rapidly, so a new company will be established, first in Asia, to explore that trend.

Sid Meier's Railroads! marks the return of the watershed title in simulation/strategy gaming that launched the popular “tycoon” genre, and inspired a new generation of games. This asset pack contains four new train liveries you can use with Sid Meier's Railroads!

Alawar announced today that it has signed an agreement with Extent to add in-game advertising to its lineup. The deal includes casual titles ranging from arcade-style games like CheboMan to 3D arkanoid-breakout games like Magic Ball 2.

EA announced the return of England cricket hero Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff to the front of pack for Cricket 07. With its fully licensed squads, groundbreaking Century Stick control system and more natural camera perspective, Cricket 07 will bring players the most immersive gameplay experience to date.

Konami will release a 207mb demo tomorrow, allowing you to try out part of the game. Whether there will be a simultaneous Xbox Live release is not known at this point. Pro Evolution Socceris known for its realism, and the new edition is abundant with new gameplay additions. Player AI has been massively upgraded, while the physical side of play has been refined. We will of course have the demo available on our fileserver network.

The Collective announced today that it is working on a new original next-gen console game entitled Harker. The game, inspired by the classic horror novel, "Dracula," is set to take the survival horror genre in a new and much more personal direction.

In Paradise City, developer Sirius Games, formerly known as Media Mobsters, the player takes on the role of a young ambitious gangster with the single goal of becoming the most successful and influential criminal in the entire city.

Civ IV: Warlords will deliver six unique and interesting scenarios, giving players the chance to change the course of history with the help of their new powerful "warlord" unit. 2K Games has released the first patch addressing various AI, graphics, UI, multiplayer, sound issues, as well as general tweaks and balance adjustments.

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.

2K Sports announced today a unique, new sports title that adds more explosive excitement to baseball video games than ever before, The BIGS. This over-the-top baseball action title puts an entirely new spin on MLB as it blends outrageous visuals and intuitive gameplay mechanics.

Medal of Honor Airborne 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. This is the first game in the Medal of Honor series to be released on next generation platforms.