Mastiff today announced it has shipped dance game Pump It Up: Exceed for the PlayStation 2 and the Xbox. The game comes in a package that includes the special five-button Pump It Up mat, and will be available at retailers throughout North America for a suggested price of $59.99.

NCsoft announced today that the first major update to its competitive online role playing game, Guild Wars, has now gone live. Players can enjoy two stunning locations - Sorrows Furnace and Grenth's Footprint - as well as the challenging new quests, monsters and bosses at no extra charge. The new content will automatically stream to players' PCs when you log on. For a detailed fix/content list, check here...

Sony Computer Entertainment America is leading the charge for what will surely be a brisk holiday season for the PSP, bringing an unparalleled gaming experience to the portable market, and with these six new action-packed first-party titles scheduled for release before the end of the year.

You lead Team Rainbow, the world's most elite counter-terrorist unit, as they are called into action and unfamiliar territory to battle a bioterrorist threat. Stakes escalate as they are personally targeted by an evil terrorist organization. Ubisoft announced today that the Xbox & PS2 editions (No word on the PC version) of RS: Lockdown ship today, and will be in retail stores on Thursday.

Since Troika is no longer amongst the living this patch is not official, so use at your own discretion. This update brings Activision's Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines retail game to v1.7 (requires v1.2 patch installed) and addresses a number of known issues, gameplay tweaks, bug fixes and so forth. Read more for details and download links ...

Shrek SuperSlam pits the characters from the Shrek franchise against each other in the only game that combines the twisted humor and pop culture parodies of the Shrek universe with the fast-paced action of a melee fighting game.

The sequel to last year's top-selling Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors for GBA, Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors 2 is the first game from the franchise to be released for Nintendo's new handheld video game system and takes the interactive Dragon Ball fighting experience to new heights of handheld gameplay.

Neocron developer Reakktor.com announced today that it is developing a free upgrade for its futuristic cyberpunk MMORPG Neocron 2. The upgrade called Neocron Evolution 2.1 will contain a sizeable graphics package updating i.e. the complete vegetation of the game world and weapon models. There will also be major changes to the game engine, with improvements to areas like shadows, physics and collisions. The upgrade will be released in quarter 4 2005.

Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure combines combat, action, adventure and stealth, using a thrilling graffiti-driven framework to tell its story of self-expression and the fight for creative freedom. A thug, an outcast, a rebel...the lead character, Trane, is all of these in Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure.

Atari and Marc Ecko today announced Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure will now ship in November 2005 for a simultaneous launch on the PS2, Xbox, and PC. "The extra time offers the development team at The Collective additional time for adding the polish that a groundbreaking game like Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure deserves," said Marc Metis, Senior Vice President of Marketing for Atari, Inc.

Valve's SteamPowered website has been updated with details regarding the latest update for its online delivery system Steam. This update adds Blue Shift game & icon, updates drivers for Source games, and adds support for H-L1 High Definition model pack. Read more for details, or just restart Steam for the effects to take place.

"Play ball" today, with the launch of Mario Superstar Baseball for Nintendo GameCube. Players choose their captains from more than 20 beloved characters in the Mario universe, including Peach, Daisy, Yoshi, Birdo, Bowser, Bowser Jr., Wario and Waluigi, who all have a unique Star Skill that allows them to perform a special move while pitching or batting.

Nexuiz is a free 3D deathmatch game that is simply first person shooting reduced to the very basics with perfect weapon balancing. This 1.2 adds full CTF, Domination and Teamplay support, new Runematch mode, two new CTF maps, reduced falldamage, and the usual game tweaks and big fixes. Read more for download links ...

NovaLogic has released a new patch for their multiplayer shooter Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising, as well as its expansion pack Escalation. This update brings your retail game to v1.6.7.13 and adds s Kill Cam feature, crosshair and HUD improvements, multiplayer tweaks and the usual bug fixes etc.. Read more for a detailed fix list or download links..

Super Mario Strikers, known in Europe as Mario Smash Football, is a five-a-side based football tournament pitting teams of classic Nintendo characters against each other. To win games players simply have to place more balls in the back of their opponent's net than the other team.

SCEA today announced seven additions to its PS2 "Greatest Hits" lineup: ATV Offroad Fury 3, Hot Shots Golf: FORE!, Jak 3, Killzone, Rachet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal, Sly 2: Band of Thieves, and Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain.

Bet On Soldier is a first-person shooter with a corporation-takes-over-the-world-style plot, where you bet on the outcome of encounters with specific enemies. Before entering battle, players can wager on which particular enemy soldiers they are going to kill. This humongous (800mb) patch brings your German retail game to v1.1 and addresses various bugs, game crashes and so forth. Read more for download links ...

Video Game publisher Mastiff today announced the launch of the official Pump It Up: Exceed website, which will be available in stores early September 2005 for the PS2 and Xbox. The website features the latest news on the home game, sample music tracks, videos of expert dancing and more. Or you can always check our Pump It Up: Exceed preview.

Ubisoft has released an new update patch for Blue Byte's 3D RTS game 'Settlers: Heritage Of Kings.' This patch brings your retail game to v1.05 and adds 6 new maps (3 for the original, and 3 for the expansion), as well as a few minor improvements and bug fixes. Read more for download links.

Rising Star Games has revealed the titles it plans to show at Games Market Europe next week. Rising Star will have playable versions of several titles from its retro remakes range, including Bubble Bobble Revolution and an early demo of Rainbow Islands Revolution both on Nintendo DS, with a first look at Space Invaders Evolution on the PSP.

Today's Nintendo revealed their release scheduled for GBA, NDS and gamecube through the end of the year. Today's launch of Nintendogs marks the end of the summer doldrums and the beginning of the "dog days" of summer with no less than 170 titles for the next few months. Read more for details ...

CustomPlay Golf is the first game to focus on creating and playing your own golf course. Fusion Labs has released an updated demo featuring 3 of the best looking holes from the complete version of CustomPlay Golf, which also includes 50% of the editor enabled, presenting you with a unique opportunity to experience the CustomPlay 'Create, Communicate and Play' first hand. Read more for download links ...

Atari and Frontier Developments announced the betatest for the upcoming RollerCoaster Tycoon 3: Wild! expansion. You must already own RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 to participate. Sign-ups are now available, so dont delay! The beta test will start the first week of September.

Techland has released a new patch for the Asus OEM edition of its rally racing sim Xpand Rally. Like before this update brings your retail game to v1.1.0.0 and improves the performance of the dedicated game server, fixes multiplayer problems, allows for changing the time of the day and weather conditions when running player-created maps, adds a 'less dust' feature in multiplayer to increase the game's performance, and improves the ChromEd tool (thanks 3DGamers). Read more for download links ...

2K Sports today announced details regarding the professional poker player lineup and world class poker venues found in the World Poker Tour video game, based on the highly-popular television series of the same name. This combination of world-class venues coupled with real pros, brings players authenticity and realism that can only be found in World Poker Tour.