X-Men: The Official Game ties in with the upcoming movie X-Men: The Last Stand and provides the backstory. The new X-Men game, written by screenwriter Zak Penn and comic book writer Chris Claremont, lets you play as either Wolverine, Nightcrawler, or Iceman.

Japanese magazine Famitsu revealed that Namco is working on a PSP port for its long running arcade flight game Ace Combat. While little details are known at this point, 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.

Urban Chaos: Riot Response, previously known as Zero Tolerance, is a high velocity, first person shooter where the player confronts real terror in an American city.

In Dynasty Warriors 5 Empires, the armies of the kingdom are at your command! The player's ultimate goal is to conquer the 25 regions of Ancient China and build an entire Empire using cunning diplomacy and uncompromising force. Before each battle, the player will meet with the war council to decide upon military and political policies for the kingdom; then it's time for war.

The Settlers II: The Next Generation is the remake of BlueByte's 2D classic Settlers 2, making the jump to 3D (thanks Blues). Read more for screens and trailer ...

Rogue Trooper is a mix of intense 3rd person action and next generation stealth elements, with complex line-of-sight AI, multiple game paths, full tactical use of your bio-chip operated equipment and both single- and multiplayer online gameplay.

Daemonica is an intriguing 3D interactive murder mystery that offers an immersive storyline with unexpected twists, extensive dialogues with believable characters, puzzles and both mandatory and optional quests. This demo replaced the previous trial/timed demo, and features the first act of this five act murder mystery as it unfolds and unravels in front of you.

Age of Empires III is an RTS set in 1500 A.D. and chronicles the Age of Discovery that started around the time that Columbus discovered the new world. Ensemble has released the manual version of the v1.06 which adds new features, fixes exploits, bugs, crashes and updates a few maps.

A Texas Hold 'em game that captures the spirit of the professional poker tour, Stacked utilizes an advanced learning artificial intelligence system that adapts to each player's style of play and a detailed tutorial mode to deliver a thrilling and realistic poker experience.

Tyrone McMillan was convincted to seven years in jail for leading police on a high-speed chase through two counties on August 5th of last year. After 55 minutes of hot pursuit he crashed into a few cars, injuring a police officer, all because of a parole violation. McMillan later told police he thought he could outrun them because he played the PlayStation video game Grand Theft Auto.

Crave Entertainment today announced a brand new installment in the popular BMX Franchise, Dave Mirra BMX Challenge for the PSP.

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars pits the armies of Earth against the invading alien Strogg in the ultimate online strategic shooter. Activision revealed today that ET: Quake Wars will be playable at the Activision booth at E3 2006 where they will have a 24 player LAN set up.

Ritual Entertainment is looking for several highly skilled and motivated artists to add to our latest project. Jobs us for grabs are : Art Lead / Art Director, 3D Animators, 3D Environmental Artists. Check out Ritual's Help Wanted section for more information on these, as well as other positions it is looking to fill.

The World Cyber Games today announced that Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox 360 and Games for Windows will sponsor the global tournament through 2008, providing hardware, software, and marketing support for the events.

Namco Bandai announced today that the final chapter in its RPG series, Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra, is coming to North America fall 2006. As Shion, uncover the future of mankind in a journey to unveil the Gnosis phenomenon and save the galaxy in this exciting conclusion to the Xenosaga trilogy.

Heroes of Might & Magic V will offer a wealth of innovations such as a highly immersive scenario, a variety of appealing factions, modern 3D graphics, a revolutionary tactical combat system, and a story-based campaign mode. Ubisoft has released a singleplayer demo with 3 playable missions (2 campaign missions, 1 custom game), 2 playable races, and 6 presets for Duel game (play on Ubi.com).

The Chronicles of Spellborn is a MMORPG set in the Enclave of the Five Sacrifices. Developed by Dutch studio Khaeon Games, Spellborn uses the Unreal 2.5 Engine, and today it has released an explanation of character statistics

Strategic Command 2 Blitzkrieg adds tons of new features including many player submitted suggestions. This demo features the same 2 campaigns as before, but now also includes an all new Demo Tutorial Guide, the full game manual (153 pages in pdf format) as well as several game tweaks and enhancements.

Down In Flames focuses on tactical fighter to fighter dogfight combat in World War II. The game is turn based, and the action is resolved through a unique 'action - reaction' game mechanic. This demo features the same content as before, but now includes an all new damage system, updated cannon and machinegun effectiveness, improved wingmen AI, new spitfire animations and more.

Atari and Obsidian Entertainment today announced that the official Neverwinter Nights 2 web site has gone live, and is scheduled for a September 2006 release. Neverwinter Nights 2 is set in the popular Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms universe, and will transport players back to the embattled city of Neverwinter.

Blur the lines between game and reality with the return of "The World" - a complex virtual landscape filled with intrigue and mystery. When are you playing the game and when is the game playing you? Real life and game life become intertwined as you play the player killer-hunter Haseo in search of a mysterious character in a vividly created MMO world.

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:

• Auto Assault (PC)
• Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked (PS2)
• Bone: The Great Cow Race (PC)
• Hummer Badlands (PS2/Xbox)
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  We will update this throughout the day when new announcements become available. Read more for details...

Announced earlier this year, Open Season will allow gamers to relive the humor and adventure of the movie by creating a fun and immersive interactive world that conveys the same comedic storyline, zany characters and artistic images projected in the animated film.

Shortly after previous update Firaxis has released another, large, patch for Sid Meier's Civilization IV. This update brings your retail game to v1.61 and includes numerous optimizations for memory usage that should help performance on all machines but are tailored to especially improve performance on machines at or near the minimum specification.

Two Worlds is an RPG under development at Reality Pump featuring thrilling fight choreographies, gripping characters and realistic worlds, creating new dimensions in the genre. The title also introduces new benchmarks in content with experienced script editors linking the cinematic story with maximum gaming freedom in a medieval fantasy world.