Wii made its debut across Europe last week on Friday 8th December, with thousands of people lined up to get their hands on Nintendo’s new console. Attracting vast crowds and selling out in stores all over Europe in just a matter of hours, a breathtaking 325,000 units were sold in the first two days making it the fastest selling home console in history.

BioWare is bringing an enhanced version, high-resolution graphics and new visual effects, of Jade Empire to the PC. The original, story of Jade Empire is injected with new monsters, weapons, combat styles, new challenges, and special items to discover. 2K Games pushed Jade Empire from its original January date, to Feb. 26, 2007.

Kynogon announced it has signed an agreement with Turbine to add its Kynapse A.I. middleware to Shadows of Angmar, an MMORPG recreating of Tolkien's fantasy realm where you can establish their unique reputations, and discover and wield legendary weapons in strategic battles, while adventuring solo or in Fellowships.

Oxygen Games announces its new extreme sports title, Snocross2: Featuring Blair Morgan, an adrenaline-filled racing experience where you pilot your sled through over thirty stunning tracks on your way to racing glory.

Ubisoft and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios announced plans to release a video game based on MGM’s upcoming motion picture Rocky Balboa.

The Legend Of Heroes III: Song Of The Ocean will embark players on an entirely new journey in a vast world with beautifully illustrated characters. Crafted by the studio that brought you Ys and Brandish, The Legend of Heroes III: Song of the Ocean stands to deliver an exciting on-the-go RPG experience for all PSP owners.

Guild Wars developer ArenaNet announced that, fuelled by the latest expansion Guild Wars Nightfall, sales for its subscription-free online RPG have surpassed three million units worldwide in a little more than a year and a half.

The winter season is near and RTL Enterprises announces yet another skiing title, as usual developed by 49Games, also known for Alpine Skiing. RTL Winter Games 2007 features 15 categories such as speed skating, biathlon, skijumping, alpine skiing, and making its entry this year is curling.

SEGA announced that Obsidian Entertainment will create an RPG based on the Alien film franchise with license from 20th Century Fox. This title will be developed for the next-gen systems and the PC.

Featuring an unmatched level of freedom and control, NHL 07 will represent a watershed moment in the history of the console hockey. EA has released the first patch for the North American retail/download version, addressing a multiplayer desynch exploit issue on the EASO servers.

Action packed pool, with a whole host of unlockable adult content provided by glamour photographer J. Stephen Hicks, making it hard to put your PSP down for quite some time. 13 scintillating pool games including 9 ball, 8 ball, Rotation, Black Jack and Snooker that will please and satisfy any pool shark

Creative Assembly is finalizing the first patch for its recently released 3D RTS Medieval II: Total War. The update is expected tomorrow, Tuesday December 14, and will include a new charge mechanic, 2 new charges, unit balancing/tweaks, AI optimizations, unpacker for the modders, and the usual bug/crash fixes. Read more for full fix list ...

Fireglow team is now developing a next generation game engine (codename: Sudden Strike Next7) and the first game based on this engine, which now is officially named 'Sudden Strike III: Arms For Victory'. Fireglow plans to develop several other games based on this engine in different setups related to war conflicts.

Nexuiz is a free 3D deathmatch game that is simply first person shooting reduced to the very basics with perfect weapon balancing. The new v2.2.1 version brings new weapon models and item models, new HUD graphics, support for multiple campaigns, and a number of bug fixes.

Fatal Inertia mixes street racing, demolition derbies and rallying with a futuristic setting where machines no longer need wheels and the laws of physics govern all. The sport is called Inertia and it's one that offers a heady mix of speed, combat and real world environments that can be used to make your victory and break your opponents.

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:

• Starshatter: The Gathering Storm (PC)
• Micro Machines v4 (NDS)
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  We will update this throughout the day when new announcements become available. Read more for details ...

Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords is a genre-bending style of gameplay rooted in a classic puzzle gameboard setting and incorporates role-playing and strategy elements, multiplayer gameplay modes and an engaging storyline that will immerse players in the richly diverse game world and offer a compelling gameplay experience.

The Show is an action RTS, with a story that catapults the player into fantastic, gripping futuristic scenario. the easy-to-use intuitive resource system of The Show allows for fast, action-packed battles.

Dungeon Siege II: Broken World picks up right where Dungeon Siege II left off with an all-new campaign mode, a new playable race, more items to discover and a brand new multi-class character development system.

EA Europe announced that it has signed a publishing agreement with SOE for Untold Legends Dark Kingdom, a next-gen action-RPGs delivering an immersive fantasy experience through its breath-taking graphics, dramatic storyline, and action-packed battles filled with heart-pounding combat, magical spells and brilliant SFX.

Dave Mirra BMX Challenge features 17 levels with 9 different environments and 9 bikes from which to choose. Up to 4 players can compete via ad hoc wireless play. Player characters are customizable, and Dave is the featured rider.

Alien Syndrome is a fast-paced action-RPG set in a stunningly imaginative sci-fi universe, offering a dramatic and engaging single-player campaign, plus a hugely re-playable co-op multiplayer mode where up to 4 players can delve into the daring quest.

Horse Racing Manager 2 is a sport management and horse racing game designed for management game fans as well as riding and horse racing aficionados. This v1.0.1.1 patch, for the French version only, adds a stable/jockey name editor, texture fixes, and multiplayer improvements.

EA has released a new patch for the 17th installment in its long running football franchise, Madden NFL 2007. The new update corrects lag issues that gamers were experiencing when playing the game against an opponent across a large geographical distance. Players were incorrectly aging in certain Create-A-Player/Train-A-Player situations. This has been fixed as well.

Starshatter: The Gathering Storm integrates elements of real-time-strategy games by allowing fleet commanders to direct the battle on a tactical level, launching fighters and directing destroyers to defend the fleet and annihilate enemy forces.