Bandai revealed its key titles to be unveiled at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, California on May 18-20, 2005. Digimon World 4, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex for PSP and several others. Read more for details and each title ...

Eidos today announces four of its key titles to be unveiled at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, California on May 18-20, 2005. Eidos games will be featured by exclusive appointment only. We will be there, so keep an eye out for our coverage. Read more for details and each title ...

Kingdom Hearts II follows Sora, Donald, and Goofy on their continuing quest to find their friends and King Mickey. It has been a year since the events of Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories. The story begins in Twilight Town, a quiet burg nestled between night and day. Sora and friends are joined by a vibrant new cast of characters, including the king himself! In the effort to help Mulan and stop the villain Hades' devious plots, they will encounter countless dangers both familiar and brand-new.

Konami of Europe has announced that its forthcoming Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django title for GBA will boast wireless compatibility, allowing users to enjoy 'Crossover Battles' with Capcom's Mega Man Battle Network 5 title. This feature marks the players can play against each other using two totally different games.

Namco announced today it will be adding a new "take no prisoners" street fighting game, Urban Reign, to its line-up of fighting titles. Urban Reign will be available exclusively for the PS2 this fall. Read more for details and screens ...

Interplay Entertainment has entered into an agreement on April 25, 2005 effective April 19, 2005 with Snowblind Studios pursuant to which Snowblind receives an exclusive license to the Dark Alliance trademark under certain conditions for the purpose of making non Massively Multiplayer video games (thanks NMA). Interplay still retains the MMO rights...

It is with great sadness that Elixir Studios today announced it is to cease day-to-day operations, effective immediately, and will seek the orderly sale and re-use of all its remaining assets and IP. Read more for details ...

Introversion has released a new patch for its action game Darwinia. This update brings your retail game to v1.2 and includes a brand new mouse selection system, improved Radar Dishes, performance enhancements, new modding features, and a bunch of bug fixes and difficulty tweaks. Read more for download links ...

EA today announced the latest installment in the widely successful James Bond videogame franchise, From Russia With Love, starring Academy Award-winner, Sir Sean Connery. The highly anticipated game is scheduled to ship this winter on the PS2, Xbox, and the GameCube. Read more for screens & ingame trailer...

Gizmondo Europe is delighted to announce its biggest E3 presence ever with a roster of fantastic new games to be unveiled, hands-on demos of the amazing multi-entertainment device, a string of A-list performances, and the first showing of some incredible new game hardware technology not available on any other gaming console.

Prepare to rain hell from the skies above in World War II's fiercest aerial battles as Codemasters today confirms it has secured the PAL co-publishing and distribution rights to Heroes of the Pacific for PS2, Xbox and PC. Coming this September, Heroes of the Pacific puts the player in the boots of the courageous men who fought like heroes in incredible aerial and naval conflicts from the Pacific Theatre, 60 years ago.

Square Enix today revealed the appearance of the top Japanese vocalists Emiko Shiratori and RIKKI and the return of MC James Arnold Taylor at the highly anticipated concert, "More Friends -- Music From FINAL FANTASY®." The concert starts at 8PM on Monday, May 16th at Gibson Amphitheater.

Frontier Developments Ltd. announced today that it has been collaborating closely with Aardman Animations Ltd. ('Aardman') on the development of a major new console game, "The Curse of the Were-Rabbit", starring the much-loved, Oscar-winning, claymation duo Wallace & Gromit.

Soul Calibur III offers the series' hallmarks of exhilarating sword-fighting action and profound martial arts while also delivering highly improved graphics and sound effects to create a unique gaming experience. It also features a Character Creation Mode, which allows players to create original warriors.

Matrix Games and 2 by 3 Games have released the fourth update patch for their strategy game War In The Pacific. This update includes a large list of fixes and improvements, ranging from submarine operations to kamikaze use. In total 55 minor bugs were repaired by this patch. Along with the fixes come 25 new player requested features! Read more for details fix list and download links ...

Namco announced today that Namco Museum 50th Anniversary is coming this August to the PS2, Xbox, GameCube, GBA, and PC. In honor of the company's 50th anniversary, Namco Museum 50th Anniversary introduces 14 exciting, classic games from the 70's and 80's to a new generation of gamers.

ArenaNet and NCsoft Corporation today announced that Guild Wars is available at retail in Europe, North America and Australia. Guild Wars is the ultimate global online RPG, a transporting experience that transcends the boundaries of geography, technology and language. Play with anyone, anywhere, at any time and there's no subscription fee required. Guild Wars immerses players in a colorful, robust and detailed online fantasy world where success is determined by player skill, not by the time spent playing.

MLB 2006 features numerous new gameplay enhancements, and returning gameplay favorites, including EyeToy functionality, online playability, and Voice Recognition, MLB 2006 promises to provide gamers with a true-to-life experience from the diamond.

The world is being overrun by colored blocks, which are coming from deep underground in the colorful, fast-paced puzzle game Mr. Driller 2. In the game, Mr. Driller meets his competition, Anna Hottenmayer, in the sequel to the critically acclaimed Mr. Driller.

Groove Games has announced today that Digital Extremes’ highly anticipated first-person shooter, Pariah, has gone gold and has begun manufacturing. Created for the Xbox and PC, Pariah packs a punch with an in-depth storyline driven single-player campaign and robust multi-player action including a map editor that allows gamers to continually create new content for the game. Pariah will ship worldwide to retail stores the week of May 2nd.

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 :

• Jak X: Combat Racing - Trailer (2)
• Far East of Eden 3 - Trailer

Fansite Diablo II.net sends word that they have received a very interesting email from one of their readers. Said person claims to be a musician in the Slovak Republic and has returned from a session in Bratislava, with the local Radio Symphony Orchestra, where they just recorded music for Diablo III. To further substansiate that claim, Diablo II.net noticed that Blizzard's recording session for Diablo II: Lord of Destruction was also held in Bratislava, Slovakia, with the Slovak Radio Philharmonic. Too much of a coincidence? Maybe E3 will bring a surprise announcement ...

Eidos announces that Championship Manager 5 will be released on Xbox and PlayStation 2 on 13th May 2005. Championship Manager 5 features 25 playable national leagues with 59 divisions and a massive database of footballers from around the world.

LucasArts has released a new patch for Obsidian's Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords. This patch brings your UK/German retail game to v1.0b, and adds Intel i915 chipset support, some new voice lines and addresses various game crashes, journal & scripting fixes, and a few other tweaks. Read more for download links ...

Turner Broadcasting System today unveiled GameTap, a broadband entertainment network that offers games-on-demand plus original programming via a broadband connected PC. GameTap will launch fall 2005, monthly subscriptions will be anywhere from $10-20, and so far 17 publishers have signed up for over 300 titles.