The Outsider is a gripping, high-tech thriller played out against the backdrop of a living, crowded city based on present-day Washington DC and its environs including the CIA HQ at Langley, Andrews Air Force Base and Newport News Naval Dockyard. As a CIA operative you get wrongly accused, become public enemy #1, and with a mouth-watering arsenal of technology, combat talents and weaponry you either wreak ultra-violent revenge, or crusading to clear his name.

Codemasters today announced that it has launched the official RF Online website for its forthcoming science-fiction fantasy MMORPG. There's plenty to discover throughout the site, which will be expanded over the coming months, including more detail on the factions and, should your allegiance change, the site will re-skin to suit. For extra insider details, you can also sign up to the RF Online newsletter and get all the latest scoops.

Juiced: Eliminator will deliver a unique gameplay experience, taking advantage of the PSP's functionality to offer never-before-seen multiplayer games and expand on the crew and pink-slip racing. The game will feature new crews, cars and Eliminator Mode, where the slowest driver in each lap is removed from competition until one remains. Juice Games director Tim Preece answers some early development questions ..

Prepare to journey through a living, breathing fantasy world in the Square-Enix/tri-ACE co-production Radiata Stories. Explore a living, breathing fantasy world where time passes and NPCs all have their own daily routines. Recruit allies and pick sides in the war between humans and the faerie. The future's riding on your decisions.

Nintendo breaks with more than 20 years of video game history by abandoning the traditional controller held with two hands and introducing an all-new freehand-style unit held with one hand. Read more for details ...

Hyperspace Invaders is a new arcade space shooter where hostile aliens pursue the human race across the galaxy to deliver a devastating final blow. To save mankind, you must navigate one of 12 ships across a scrolling 3D combat zone and unleash its guns upon an unrelenting stream of aggressors.

Another day, another batch of game trailers were released. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are trailers for :

• Xbox 360 TGS 2005 Presentation
• Gears of War [X360] - TGS 2005 Presentation
• Black & White 2 - Creature Fight Trailer
• Ghost in the Shell [PSP] - Trailer #2
• Cold War [Xbox/PC] - Trailer #4
• FIFA Manager 06 - Trailer
• Indigo Prophecy [PS2/Xbox/PC] - Lucas Kane Chronicles #3

We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

Creature Conflict: The Clan Wars boasts an extensive single player campaign, where gamers get to chose which clan they are going to control and start the process of total domination – engaging in battles with the other clans and their leaders. This single/multiplayer demo features a tutorial and 2 planets, different than the first mp only demo released earlier this year (thanks Sven). Read more for download links...

Sony Online Entertainment invites you to get behind the wheel of exciting stunt driving as GripShift arrives now in stores. Available for the PSP, GripShift is the first to combine high-flying stunt-driving and puzzle solving all to the beat of hip hop sounds from down under.

Untold Legends: The Warrior's Code is the next game in the Untold Legends series following the top- selling Brotherhood of the Blade. The Warrior's Code is an entirely new RPG, as compared to its predecessor, with an evolutionary interactive combat engine, new 3D enhanced graphics, special effects and lighting.

Entertainment Software Association (ESA) announced today that a major retailer of pirated games and illegally modified Microsoft Xboxes in the Washington, DC area, has been sentenced to five months in prison with three years of supervised release, including five months of home confinement.

Field Commander is the first military turn-based strategy game for PSP offering engaging, challenging skill based warfare in a realistic military setting.

Check out the following new screens from Xbox 360 Tokyo Game Show 2005 LineUp :

(eM)-eNCHANT-arM (FromSoftware Inc.), CHROMEHOUNDS (Sega), Dynasty Warriors 5 Special (Koei Co. Ltd.), Everyparty (Microsoft Game Studios), Far East of Eden — Ziria (Hudson Soft) , FINAL FANTASY XI (Square Enix Co. Ltd.), Frame City Killer (Namco), KameoTM: Elements of Power (Microsoft Game Studios), Project Gotham Racing 3 (Microsoft Game Studios), Resident Evil 5 (Capcom), Ridge Racer 6 (Namco), Rumble Roses XX (Konami), Test Drive Unlimited (Atari Inc.), World Air Force (Taito Corp.), Wrestle Kingdom (Yuke's Co. Ltd.)

Gravity Interactive is rolling out ROSE Online, a deep impact game that allows players to inhabit the star system, wage interplanetary war and rule the galaxy.

Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War is a detailed real-time strategy game that lets players completely command one of the four mightiest empires of the ancient world: Greece, Rome, Egypt, and Persia. Rise & Fall places players directly in the heart of combat as a heroic general fighting side-by-side with their troops as one of history's eight greatest heroes battling to bring victory to their nation on the battlefield.

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.

Long a popular independent comic, Bone was described by Publishers Weekly as "Charming, character driven fantasy with an elegant design and masterful storytelling." And now Telltale, a company that takes you to the worlds where characters like Bone play and invites you to play with them, will be creating new episodes for PC gaming. Telltale has released a Bone demo allowing you to try out part of the game, if you want to continue, you can purchase an registration key to unlock the full game.

Destinies is an upcoming sci-fi/fantasy adventure under development at Lanthra Productions & Team Destinies. Explore Anthranella IX, and its many exotic places. Join Marc on this epic quest for the truth and what lies just beyond.

Developed by Strangelite Studio, the game is based on the Starship Troopers movie in which you will take the role of an elite 'special forces' trooper in the Mobile Infantry spearheading the assault against thousands of intelligent enemy bugs, emulating the best scenes from the movie and a whole lot more! Strangelite studio head Doug Binks gives us some more behind the scenes info in this developer diary.

THQ today announced that Bionicle: Maze of Shadows for the GBA is now available in retail outlets across North America. BIONICLE: Maze of Shadows is a RPG-light action adventure game based on the recent BIONICLE toy line, DVD and novel.

KumaWar, a free Virtual News experience which uses advanced video game technology to recreate real military events, has released its latest interactive episode, I.E.D. Sweep. The training mission puts players face-to-face with the deadly homemade bombs that have accounted for more than 90 percent of all U.S. casualties in Iraq.

The series famous for relentless intensity is returning bigger, better looking and more frantic than ever before. Sam Stone is back to rescue the universe one bullet at a time against overwhelming hordes of time traveling enemies in Serious Sam 2. Built from the ground up with a completely new engine, Serious Sam 2 will be a shot of adrenaline to the hearts of first-person shooter fans across the world.

SEGA today announced a partnership to create a next-generation franchise with PGR developer Bizarre Creations. The partnership adds more next-generation content to SEGA's expanding lineup of titles developed specifically for Western audiences.

The acclaimed TOCA series will return with every element of motorsport for real in TOCA Race Driver 3. Race drivers will be competing in a massive variety of the world's most aggressive motorsports, complete with explosive damage effects, head-to-head online multiplayer racing and a game engine rebuilt for a greater degree of simulation.

In addition to tricked out new race, crash and road rage modes, Burnout Revenge takes the series' blistering speed and spectacular destruction to dizzying new heights with an all-new Revenge mode, challenging gamers to battle the clock and unleash their frustrations on rush hour traffic.