THQ and Nickelodeon today announced their 2005 video game lineup. Games based on Nickelodeon's highly rated television series "SpongeBob SquarePants," "The Fairly OddParents" and "Danny Phantom," as well as new installments of Nicktoons and Tak will ship across multiple game systems in 2005.

EA predicts the results of this weekend's 'Super Bowl XXXLX' game between the Patriots and the Eagles. The New England Patriots defeat the Philadelphia Eagles 26-21 and we have the complete scoring breakdown and summary for you. Read more to check out a rundown of the game, including new screens ...

Ubisoft has released a new patch for Crytek's Far Cry. This update patch brings your retail version to v1.31, and addresses a multiplayer exploit. Read more for download links ...

Valusoft has released the first patch for SCS Software's latest hunting game Hunting Unlimited 3. This update brings you retail game to v1.1 and fixes a few bugs, enlarges the trophy collection, and elephants no longer take a fixed number of shots to kill (thanks 3DGamers). Read more for details and download links ...

Rich in legend and filled with adventure, the World of Warcraft awaits! For the first time, players experience the lands of Azeroth from a new, in-depth perspective. As heroes, they explore familiar battlefields, discover new lands and take on epic quests and challenges in Blizzards massively multiplayer, on-line, role-playing game. Limited amount of slots, so go and sign up NOW!

The full Nintendo DS launch software line-up has been unveiled today at a press conference! The launch date of March 11 for Nintendo DS will be supported by some of the strongest Publisher launch titles to date, with games from EA, Sega, Ubisoft, Activision, Namco, THQ, Ignition and Vivendi. Read more for details and screens on the full lineup...

Techland has released the first patch for their rally racing sim Xpand Rally. This update brings your retail game to v1.1.0.0 and improves the performance of the dedicated game server, fixes game's mods problems in multiplayer, allows for changing the time of the day and weather conditions when running player-created maps, introduces (by popular demand) a 'less dust' feature to the multiplayer mode (to increase the game's performance and make racing with more people easier), and improves the ChromEd tool. Read more for download links ...

DreamCatcher Games has released the first patch for Golem Labs' global domination strategy SuperPower 2. This patch brings your retail game to v1.4 and adds even more features :A.I. aggressiveness slider, ban console command, private chat, as well as a good numbers of tweaks and fixes. This patch is for the International and US editions of the game.

EA has released an updated version of the MoH: Pacific Assault mod developer kit, letting the mod community create their own maps for EA Pacific's WWII based first-person shooter. This new version features improved lightmapping, support for collaborative development and milkShape plugins. Read more for details and download links ...

Electronic Arts and Nintendo announced today that the popular boxing title, Super Punch-Out!! for the SNES, will be included exclusively in the GameCube version of Fight Night Round 2. Shipping on March 1, 2005 the newest addition in Fight Night series is making its debut on the GameCube bundled with an added bonus only available for GameCube fans.

The World Cyber Games Committee announced eight game titles that will serve as official games for the World Cyber Games 2005 (WCG 2005) to be held in Singapore this coming November. Six PC games and two console games were chosen for the competition, which organizers expect to attract more than 1.25 million competitors worldwide. Read more for details ...

Super Monkey Ball Deluxe, for the first time on PS2 and Xbox consumers for the first time, features 300 stages (114 from Super Monkey Ball, 140 from Super Monkey Ball 2, and 46 Deluxe-exclusive boards). Check out the freshly launched Super Monkey Ball Deluxe website, or read more for new screens and trailer.

Activision has released the final v1.51b patch for its WW2 based FPS Call of Duty: United Offensive which resolves an exploit that can be used to crash servers, and resolves an issue with non-functioning Machine gun on mp_bocage. This is a server side only patch. If you do not plan on hosting a server, there is no need to download and install it. Read more for download links ...

Jowood has released a new patch for its RTS/RPG game SpellForce bringing your retail game to v1.52a (for all language versions) and fixes a problem encountered with the Gold Edition of Spellforce and the latest Patch 1.52, players were asked for a cd-key although the GE doesn`t require one. Read more for download links ...

Valve's SteamPowered website has been updated with details regarding yet another update for its Source SDK which adds SDK bot sample code, source files for HL2 SP maps, interface plugin to add bots to mods, bspzip tool, and fixed resource leak. Restart Steam to get the latest update. The HL2: DM level design contest is over, the winners maps will be included in the HL2: Deathmatch release, as well as two new weapons (Slam and Stunstick). Later this week there will be an update to the Half-Life SDK this week which most notably will include source files for six Half-Life 2 maps.

Turbine's execute producer for D&D Online Judith Hoffman has revealed in her January producer letter that Turbine is about to move the project into beta stage. Judith goes on to explain that the beta will be split in four stages, with the first one (beta 0) being most likely internal, while two to four will be closed tests with participation from the community, but gradually openinig up to the public. "In the next month or two" signups will begin on the official Dungeons & Dragons Online website, so keep an eye out if you are interested in participating.

Ubi Soft has yet again released new patches for 1C Maddox's WW2 flight sim Pacific Fighters. This update brings your retail game to v3.04 (for both the standalone and merged installations) and corrects take off acceleration of the carrier based aircraft making it easier to take off with the fully loaded aircraft, tuned maximal speed of F2A and fixes various glitches on ATI cards. Read more for download links.

Jowood has released a new patch for its RTS/RPG game SpellForce bringing your retail game to v1.52 (for all language versions) and fixes some minor problems and logic issues, addresses multiplayer incompatibility problems between the Gold Edition and Shadow of the Phoenix addon, optimized netcode allowing players with different language versions to play, both in coop and pvp games. Read more for download links ...

As we mentioned a few days ago, Valve announced it would release the official Counter-Strike Bot, as well as an updated version de_tides, rebuilt by Turtlerock Studios. True to their word, it is now available through steam, which also updates a few other maps and a few other tweaks. Read more for details ...

Paradox has released the first patch for its strategy game Hearts of Iron 2. This update brings your retail game to v1.1 and adds interface inhancements, gameplay changes, AI improvements, addition of mod support, and a long list of bug fixes and balance adjustments. Read more for download links ...

After yesterday's server patch, LucasArts has released a new client patch for Pandemic's sci-fi shooter Star Wars Battlefront. This update brings your retail game to v1.2, and adds mod map names, adds invisibility counter, network code improvements, resolves some balance issues, and regaular fixes. Read more for download links ...

Activision has released the final v1.5b patch for its WW2 based FPS Call of Duty which resolves an exploit that can be used to crash servers. This is a server side only patch. If you do not plan on hosting a server there is no need to download and install it. Read more for download links ...

Maximus XV Abraham Strong: Space Mercenary created by Rebelmind is a sci-fi RPG/action title presented in astounding real-time 3D graphics. This update brings your retail game to v1.02, unfortunately no details as to what it fixes are available at this point (thanks 3DGamers). Read more for download links ...

Cenega Publishing has released a new patch for Black Emelent's third person horror / action adventure game 'Shade: Wrath of Angels.' This update brings your retail game to v1.02 9US & UK versions available) and includes 32 new save points at the most critical places throughout the game and a Special Time Combat mode with 2 new deadly arenas. Read more for download links ...