Norm Koger's The Operational Art Of War series allows you to play and create any battle from the entire 20th Century of warfare and up to the modern day, with reasonable accuracy back as far as the 1850s. The patch fixes a reconstitution bug found in the release version of the game as well as a few other minor issues.

Alone in the Dark returns with a heart-stopping survival experience realized through the use of state-of-the-art real-time physics and unprecedented environmental interaction combining to deliver an exhilarating action-orientated experience within a highly detailed, open environment.

The Aussies bring down the ban hammer once more, this time outlawing sales of Blitz Games and Eidos' upcoming movie to game adaptation of Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs. While exact reasons as to why Australia's Office of Film and Literature Classification decided to not rate, thus banning the game, is unclear, but local publisher Atari Australia decided to not fight the decision. Earlier this year, Atari was also prohibited from selling Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure. After it initially being allowed, the sales license was revoked merely days before its actual launch.

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.

Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception will feature a limited amount of flyable planes such as F/A-18 Hornet, Su-27 and the MiG-29, and the same group of countries are still waging war.

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 ...

Yoga. Massage therapy. Free catered meals. Discounted gym membership. These are just a few of the benefits that helped Insomniac Games earn the honor for the second-straight year of being named one of the best companies, and only game developer listed, to work for in America.

In Crysis, shooter fans will face a new kind of gameplay challenge requiring adaptive tactics and customization of weapons and armor in dynamic, hostile environments as mankind struggles to survive in the face of a horrific alien invasion.

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:

• Naruto: Ultimate Ninja (PS2)
• Night Watch (PC)
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  We will update this throughout the day when new announcements become available. Read more for details ...

Inspired by the events of the The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift film, this game will immerse players in the underground world of drift racing. Set in a world related to, yet separate from, the movie, the game features a ground breaking drift mechanic that makes drifting accessible to both beginning and veteran racing game drivers.

Force10 Networks announced its TeraScale E-Series family of switch/routers is offering online gaming companies the ability to support hundreds of thousands of players simultaneously as well as the seamless scalability to accommodate both new interactive worlds and users.

War Front: Turning Point explores an alternate World War II, one in which Hitler is assassinated in the early days, and you will take command of experimental weapons, prototype vehicles and units rarely seen in strategy games in an attempt to alter or secure the historical outcome of World War II.

Etrom is an epic adventure among realms and cities, democracies and “nazi” dictatorships, a journey through space-time portals, and many more locations, situations, rituals, secret-services plots, dark spells. This v1.1 patch adds new control scheme, safe mode, software vertex processing, disables vsync, fixes a few bugs, and the ability to jump directly to the Gun Shop.

In Alien Shooter 2, hack 'n slash gameplay gets dropped into a science-fiction storyline packed with dozens of weapons and vicious alien life forms. After a premature release a few weeks back, the official demo is now available, offering two time-limited gamemodes: Campaign (8 minutes) and Survival (6 Minutes). After that, you will be back in the Main Menu and can start again.

Titan Quest is an action role-playing game set in the ancient mythical worlds of Greece and Egypt. With an arsenal of more than a thousand pieces of unique and legendary equipment, players will have to overcome terrifying monsters and mythical beasts in their quest to save humankind from the Titans.

Out of the Park Baseball 2006 offers gamers the ultimate in realism with its brand new pitch-by-pitch game engine, unrivalled playability and unparalleled customization. You can create your own fictional baseball universe or team dynasty, sign free agents, draft hot prospects, and more, creating the most engrossing franchise management game ever.

Combining intuitive gaming with historically-inspired battles, would-be commanders will lead their forces to victory or defeat in three exciting single-player campaigns, or compete in multiplayer games via Nintendo-WiFi Connection or wireless multiplayer. Multiplayer games will also offer a competitive ladder system to rank the best online commanders.

Earlier this week, we ran an article about the resignation of Radical president and co-founder, Ian Wilkinson. No specifics were mentioned, but one of our faithful readers (thanks Glen) noted that this newspaper article was based on a more in-depth piece in the Vancouver Sun, pointing out that the transition was apparently planned more than a year ago.

In The Da Vinci Code game, players will be kept on the edge of their seats with suspense, discovery and survival as they guide Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu on a quest to solve a bizarre murder-mystery and uncover the ultimate treasure protected by an ancient secret society.

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:

• Joint Task Force - Physx Trailer
• NHL 07 [ALL] - Ovechkin Trailer
• NHL 2k7 [ALL] - Joe Thorton Trailer
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

My Worst Day WW2 is a 3D action tactical FPS. It is World War 2, and you are sent as a saboteur into winter Norway to destroy two big German canons. You are dropped from a plane into a large island in a fjord. The demo version of the game, hosting all game functionality, but has some time limited use.

Saints Row provides open world gaming an unprecedented amount of freedom to experience the game as the player sees fit. The game, based in the fictional urban surroundings of Still Water, is action adventure with its core as a third-person shooter. While the official launch date is set for Aug 29th, THQ plans to released a singleplayer demo on Xbox Live August 1st, 2006, as well as on the Official Xbox Live cover cd.