Apple's latest version of its online music and video store, iTunes 7 offers more TV series, music and now also movies for download, but our main point of interest is the fact that it now also allows you to download casual games to play on your 5th generation iPods, including EAs Tetris, Mahjong and Mini Golf, Pac-Man from Namco and PopCap Games' Bejeweled, Zuma, for $4.99 each.

Join Square Enix in a special event preceding DigitalLife featuring its newest game, Final Fantasy XII! Square Enix are calling all Cosplayers to join them at Times Square for this event on Oct. 11, 2006! Now's your chance to come out and show the world! While all Final Fantasy cosplayers are welcome, those in FF XII costumes are likely to get something special!

While details on Factor 5's upcoming dragonslaying title Lair are very limited, at least some new screens give us something to tide us over until TGS where the PS3 exclusive title is surely to be officially unveiled with additional details .. Until then ...

Konami's classic arcade side-scrolling, space shooter Scramble launches on Xbox Live Arcade Wednesday, Sept. 13 at 1:00 AM Pacific. Scramble your fighter and take on the enemy base in the next generation version of this popular game, complete with optimized sound and a choice of play in original mode or with new, enhanced visual detail.

As the SEAL commander, the player will be supported by AI teammate executing traditional SOCOM team-based tactical, stealth and action gameplay. Multiple players will once again be able to form clans and take on their friends for team-based high-action gameplay.

JoWooD Productions continues its successful cooperation with the German developer Piranha Bytes by publishing one of the most spectacular titles of the coming year: Gothic III, the third part of the legendary RPG saga. Piranha Bytes Announced that Gothic 3 has been shipped to Sony Austria for replicationm meaning that after more than three and a half years of time development has been finished.

Paradox Interactive announced today that its Soldiers: Heroes of World War II addon Silent Heroes, in which you take control of a special operations force during World War II, has been delayed. No new release date has been set yet ...

Dreamfall: The Longest Journey is an action-packed thriller set in a large and varied game world mixing gritty reality with imaginative fantasy, featuring 3 worlds, 3 distinctly different playable characters, wrapped in a mature, exhilarating, and innovative storyline. Funcom has released a v1.03 patch for the French edition, fixing driver issues with NVidia Geforce 7xxx cards (thanks Patches).

Fight an all-out war for survival in the year 2142. In Battlefield 2142, players choose to fight for one of two military superpowers - the European Union or the newly formed Pan Asian Coalition -in an epic battle for survival.

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:

• Gothic III - Trailer #6
• Joint Task Force - Launch Trailer & Walkthrough
• Need For Speed Carbon [ALL] - Emmanuelle Trailer
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

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.

Stranger is an RTS game, with RPG elements, set in a world, split in two parts, surface and a subterranean one, which are in a tenuous balance. This patch fixes Athlon 64 X2 problem. The patch doesn't affect players' profiles and saved games.

Word of Chaos is an adventure/rpg that will take its players to the vast fantasy world of Worluk. The epic tale follows the adventures of Skandar Graun, a half-orc who has to revenge the mirder of his parents, and retrieve the legendary artifact called ‘The Word of Chaos” from the Order-worshipping Peltar.

Technologies announced that it has shipped the Multi Reader 360 for the Xbox 360, enhancing the capabilities of the Xbox 360 by giving gamers an easy way to listen to music, view photos and participate in group gaming sessions with one affordable device.

Set in the most turbulent and bloody era in European history, Medieval 2: Total War will allow gamers to lead their armies across the battlefields of Europe and the Holy Land before discovering the Americas and doing battle with the fearsome Aztecs.

Activision announced today that, according to NPD Funworld, Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty 2 for the Xbox 360 has sold more than one million units in the U.S. alone..

Destineer today announced Fullmetal Alchemist: Dual Sympathy, a side-scrolling action/adventure game that puts players in the role of Edward Elric, the Fullmetal Alchemist on a quest to defeat the evil Homunculi and acquire the fabled Philosopher’s Stone.

As an aspiring Underworld figure, spread corruption throughout the galaxy using new strategic gameplay elements to influence other factions, steal their funds, slow their production, spy on them and more, all en route to becoming the most notorious criminal leader since Jabba the Hutt.

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:

• Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales (PC)
• Bomberman (PSP)
• Bounty Hounds (PSP)
• Company of Heroes (PC)
• Cooking Mama (NDS)
• Joint Task Force (PC)
• Lego Star Wars II (ALL)
• Mega Man ZX (NDS)
• One Piece: Grand Carnival (NGC/PS2)
• NHL 07 (PS2/Xbox/X360/PC)
• NHL 2k7 (Xbox/X360)
• Rengoku 2 (PSP)
• Shot-Online (PC)
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  We will update this throughout the day when new announcements become available. Read more for details ...

Sierra will release a demo for F.E.A.R. Extraction Point tomorrow Wed, Sept. 13th at 10 a.m. PST. This 550mb single-player demo features part of a mission, with several weapons at your disposal, and we will of course have it available on our file server network at that time.

Ascaron has released a new patch for its latest iteration in the ANSTOSS soccer management franchise. This 3rd patch requires v1.02 to be installed and fixes various bugs, and game crashes. Old save games will no longer work after applying this patch.

ArenaNet announced that Guild Wars Nightfall will make its debut in a massive event open to anyone and everyone who would like to play. The event will take place September 22, 2006, beginning at 07:01pm GMT and running through September 25, 2006 at 6:59am GMT

The furious battle of Pearl Harbor became the first in the sequence of gory sea combats. Now you can take part in all major Pacific battles of the World War II in the Pacific Storm game that is a mixture of RTS, war-game and simulator.

Ubisoft has released a new patch for its tactical FPS Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, bringing your retail/download version to v1.30, also known as Multiplayer Pack 3, and adds two anticipated multiplayer game modes: Siege Mode and the Original Ghost Recon Co-op Mode as well as the admin tools to create dedicated servers.

It's time to conquer ancient Japan on your Xbox 360! Samurai Warriors 2 introduces a host of new gameplay options, like the multiplayer strategy board game Sugoroku, integrated Castle levels, cooperative play, and the dungeon-crawling Survival Mode. New to the 360 version is competitive online play via Xbox Live.