Visit the vast world of Mardias in Square Enix's Romancing SaGa. Select from one of eight playable main characters to follow through a series of amazing adventures, with the outcomes of your decision forever altering the future of Mardias. Fully customize your characters in battle with proficiencies, multi-class training, and purchasable skills and spells. Guide a party of up to five characters in battle, inviting and dismissing new warriors as you see fit.

German publisher dtp has released the first patch for Frogwares' Jules Verne based adventure game 80 Days. This update brings your German retail game to v1.1, improves performance, stability, and adds a tutorial to the game. Read more for download links ...

SpeedTree will be made available for Playstation 3 game title developers under a Tools & Middleware license agreement concluded recently with SCEI. SpeedTree delivers low-polygon, highly realistic trees and plants, with adjustable wind effects, seamless LOD transitions, and a library of hundreds of tree models from more than 100 species.

Disney’s Chicken Little brings the excitement of the film to life and allows gamers to master unique gadgets and play as the key characters from the film in an endless variety of action-packed game play. Saving the day takes an arsenal of gadgets, friends and hero power.

Nintendo's official Wi-Fi Service website reveals that people who purchase Mario Kart DS may be experiecing problems in multiplayer as the "Global Wi-Fi Service is experiencing intermittent problems." The problems are only for Mario Kart as the only other multiplayer enabled title Tony Hawk's American Sk8Land seems to have a clean bill of health. There seems to be no particular reason for the hiccups but Nintendo asks to maybe move location or turn of interfering devices such as wireless LAN, microwave ovens, cordless devices, computers.

Aspyr announced today it will publish the PC edition of True Crime: New York City in January 2006. You are Marcus Reed, a former criminal turned cop, using and abusing your authority to hunt down the murderer of your mentor while cleaning up the 'hoods of New York City, from Harlem to Chinatown.

Delta Force: Xtreme brings Delta Force game back to life to face the enemy in over 60 levels of single and multiplayer FPS action, graphically enhanced, new maps, improved features, STATS and much more. Novalogic has released a new patch bringing your retail game to v1.6.9.3 and adds NovaWorld & multiplayer enhancements, balance tweaks, adresses several bugs, and other fixes (thanks 3DGamers). Read more for details and download links ...

SiN Episodes features the highly anticipated return of Elexis Sinclaire, the world's most dangerous and seductive biochemist, and the only man who stands in her way, John R. Blade. The sworn enemies face off in Freeport City, a near-future mixture of San Francisco, Tokyo and New York, all set inside the unrestricted SiN universe.

AhnLab today introduced its powerful HackShield technology to U.S. developers and publishers of massively multiplayer server-based computer games. The competition for monthly fees from online gamers is fierce and gamers will not spend a penny in an insecure virtual world, no matter how good the game is. MMOG publishers risk their entire investment from a single lapse in security.

Capcom today announced that its popular Street Fighter franchise will make its debut on the PSP with Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max. A direct conversion of the arcade fighting game, Street Fighter Alpha 3, Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max is enhanced with additional original content specifically designed for the portable system including Wi-Fi functionality and extra gameplay modes.

SEGA America today released Shadow The Hedgehog for console and Sonic Rush for NDS. Shadow the Hedgehog takes to the streets with a huge array of weapons and vehicles in search of his true identity, while Sonic Rush is a fast-paced side-scrolling adventure

Bandai today announced that The Legend of Heroes: A Tear of Vermillion for the PSP has shipped to retail outlets. This role-playing game recounts the epic tale of Avin, a 17-year old boy in search of his sister who was taken by the disciples of Octum, the god of Darkness.

Introversion today announce that its action/strategy games Darwinia will be available to gamers worldwide on December 14, 2005 via Valve content delivery system Steam.

Originally developed by BioWare, Neverwinter Nights has set a new standard in the role-playing genre with a deep and engrossing storyline; immersive character development; stunning graphics; and, an expansive multiplayer experience like none other. Now Atari, Obsidian Entertainment and BioWare are bringing Neverwinter Nights 2 to the PC, expected early 2006.

Buena Vista Games brings gamers and Narnia fans an unforgettable adventure with The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe in which players are thrust into a mysterious frozen world where they will play as four heroes -- Peter, Edmund, Susan and Lucy Pevensie -- to free Narnia from a cold, bleak eternity under the control of the evil White Witch.

Pro Cycling Manager will have more detailed animations, an experience system, stage editor and also several multiplayer modes. Cyanide Studio has released a new patch for its cycling manager. This update brings your retail game to v1.5R and adds 5 new stages, the Pescara Trophy, 10 new ladder stages, multiplayer fixes, etc..

Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War is the first real-time strategy game to place players directly in the heart of combat with Hero Mode, allowing them to fight side-by-side with their troops from a third-person perspective as the ultimate super-weapon. Check the freshly launched official Rise & Fall website, or read more for new screens ...

SEGA today announced that the Xbox 360 edition of its first-person psychological thriller Condemned: Criminal Origins has shipped in North America. Condemned: Criminal Origins allows players to experience a heightened level of psychological tension as they use their instincts, forensic tools, and melee combat to track serial killers and bring them to justice.

SCEA announced today the release of its PSP exclusive Kingdom of Paradise, an action-RPG that combines fantastical sword-fighting with an original story rooted in a mythical world in the Orient.

War on Terror is a modern combat RTS game, set against the background of today's greatest threat to world peace – terrorism! Forces clash in believable scenarios, set within real locations across the globe.

Microsoft today announced that more than 400 pieces of downloadable Xbox Live Marketplace content, including free interactive demos for games like FIFA 06, Kameo, King Kong, NBA LIVE 06, NFS Speed Most Wanted, as well as new music videos, will be available to Xbox 360 fans starting November 22nd.

Square Enix announced today that its PS2 exclusive Dragon Quest VIII is on sale today. In Dragon Quest VIII old meets new, as classic gameplay is married to sumptuous graphics, delivering a sweeping adventure, bringing gamers of all ages into a world straight out of Japanese anime.

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment's Friends: The One With All The Trivia videogame is now available in North America. Based on the TV, the trivia-based videogame allows Friends fans to challenge themselves and others with over 3,000 questions about their favorite show.

Vanguard: Saga of Heroes will be the premier third generation MMORPG. A vast, seamless, immersive virtual world filled with elements of familiar High Fantasy, including traditional themes and more, all depicted using cutting-edge graphics technology. Sigil’s expertise and experience in the field will bring groundbreaking static and dynamic content to the genre.

True Crime: New York City will follow another policeman through the meticulously re-created streets of a real-life metropolitan area. However, instead of the wisecracking LAPD detective Nick Kang, gamers will now play as Marcus Reed, a former gang member turned NYPD officer.