Atari today announced that development is complete on its PS2 exclusive Super Dragon Ball Z. Developed by former Street Fighter II producer Noritaka Funamizu’s new studio, Crafts & Meister, Super Dragon Ball Z takes the DBZ franchise into high-octane 3D arcade territory with intense, dramatic combos and unprecedented damage.

THQ has now released a new patch for Relic's 3D RTS Dawn Of War/Winter Assault. This update brings your retail game to v1.50 and mainly seems to add unit balancing, interface enhancements, some optimizations and bug fixes. Requires the previous v1.41 patch to be installed (thanks Relicnews). Read more for detailed fix list and download links...

Ubisoft today released its 2005-2006 annual results for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2006. At €547M, sales were up 3% from the previous fiscal year. Profits, however, declined over 50%, from €24.7M to €11.9M, due to research and development for next-gen titles and increased marketing costs during the console transition. The initial investment has already begun to pay off, as next-gen titles composed almost 30% of their sales for the fiscal year.

Night Watch is a tactical RPG, using the Silent Storm engine, and based on material from Russian writer Lukyanenko and is situated in the not so distant future. Replacing the earlier Russian demo, this version features 3 missions, 3 playable classes, all spells for first five levels, sixteen enemies of the three main classes including the boss at the end.

Super Monkey Ball Adventure is an all-new, narrative-driven and platform-based style of gameplay, along with brand-new Monkey Ball abilities and a bunch of fresh new characters, adding 50 new and original puzzles to this new and exciting gaming experience.

According to the New York Daily News, Roger Hill, who played a big-time gang leader in the 1979 cult movie, "The Warriors," filed suit yesterday, claiming that Take-Two does not have the rights to use his likeness in the video game of the same name. Hill's demands include $250,000 and a court order preventing further use of his likeness.

Valve's SteamPowered website has been updated with details on a minor Red Orchestra fix addressing a recoil issue caused by the last patch, and the promised Sin Episodes: Emergence update adding the arena mode with 4 maps, as well as several tweaks, fixes ansd adjustments. Read more for details, or just restart Steam for the effects to take place.

THQ has released a new, free, update for Relic Entertainment's 3rd person WWII action game. In addition to improved multiplayer performance, the Title Update also adds various game play improvements and several item cost changes and units balance tweaks. Read more for details ...

Super Monkey Ball Adventure is an all-new, narrative-driven and platform-based style of gameplay, along with brand-new Monkey Ball abilities and a bunch of fresh new characters, adding 50 new and original puzzles to this new and exciting gaming experience.

After just 35 days on store shelves, New Super Mario Bros. for NDS has racked up sales in excess of one half million in the United States alone. That's a sell-through rate of more than 20 every minute since the game went on sale May 15.

Blizzard has released new update patches for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos as well as The Frozen Throne. This upgrade brings your retail game to v1.20e and fixes a multiplayer exploit and tweaks the (2)TerenasStand map. Read more for download links ...

Valve announced a Day of Defeat: Source Summer 2006 update featuring a free map pack, a new gameplay style, Detonation, two brand new missions (Jagd, Colmar). On top of that, it will also add new gameplay enhancements such as spawn clip adjustments, improved hit location detection, and weapon balancing. The DoD: Source Summer 2006 update is scheduled for release on June 28.

Russian publisher/developer 1C Company announced today the opening of its British office in July 2006, led by industry veteran Peter King, previously active at Activision as Business development and Emerging Markets manager, and Novalogic as European Sales Director.

Activision today announced that it has opened a publishing office in Seoul Korea through the acquisition of CSR Entertainment's software distribution operations. The new office will enable Activision to fully leverage its product portfolio in the territory, particularly the upcoming online multiplayer action game Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.

Super Monkey Ball Adventure is an all-new narrative driven and platform based style of gameplay. How did the developers of such a well known franchise make the game even better this time around?

After skipping a week, 3D Realms is back on track with their latest installment in the weekly Prey update in which, Human Head Studios' Chris Rhinehart basically gives a little recap of the past 4-5 years since they signed the game and got started working wit hthe DOOM 3 engine. Also a reminder that next week is the demo launch, and also another press tour, probably showing off a near final version of the game. We're so there!

Developed by former Street Fighter II producer Noritaka Funamizu’s new studio, Crafts & Meister, Super DBZ promises fans and gamers incredible on-screen damage and an abundance of intense combos.

Xbox today named the team that will represent the United States later this month at the finals of the Xbox Cup in Berlin. The three lucky winners will fly out to Germany to compete against 31 other teams from across the globe on EA’s 2006 FIFA World Cup on the Xbox 360 console, in a bid to be crowned world champions.

Valve's SteamPowered website has been updated with details on a new Half-Life 2: Deathmatch update plugging multiple cheat exploits, weapon binging, respawn invincibility to prevent spawn camping. Read more for details, or just restart Steam for the effects to take place.

Earlier today there was a congressional hearing discussing video games, its content and laws to prevent minors from purchasing mature content. The Federal Trade Commission said it supports the video game industry's self-regulation of violent content but also stated an undercover sting operation revealed too many U.S. children (43%, down from 69% in 2003) are still able to buy Mature-rated games in stores.

In Tomb Raider: Legend, Lara comes alive with intricately animated expressions, moves and abilities. An arsenal of modern equipment, such as a magnetic grappling device, binoculars, frag grenades, personal lighting device and communications equipment. This updated demo features the same Bolivia mission, but now sports high resolution graphics, just like the final game (thanks Blues).

AiAi and friends come to the Nintendo Wii! An all-action extravaganza of unique new puzzles and madcap multiplayer gameplay, Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz takes the ground-breaking Nintendo Wii controller and shows the world exactly what it can do!

Nexuiz is a free 3D deathmatch game that is simply first person shooting reduced to the very basics with perfect weapon balancing. The new version includes a 21 level single player campaign system, 5 new maps, complete precompiled bump/offset/relief mapping, game and netplay optimization, all new particle effects, new gamemodes and gameplay changes, content download, and much more.

NFL Head Coach is a 3D strategy sports game that challenges gamers to build and manage every aspect of a football team from the ground up, and work with all coaches in the NFL Coaches Club. EA has released a demo allowing you to try out various features, training, coaching sessions and game day plays.

Lighthouse Interactive along with their North American co-publishing partner, Destineer Publishing, today announced that PC gaming application provider Xfire will be hosting a closed beta program for their 4X strategy game, Sword of the Stars, and are now accepting applications for the closed beta test.