Xbox today announced new European pricing at a press conference from the Leipzig Games Convention. Effective from Friday 27th August, Xbox will retail at an estimated street price of €149.99/£99.99. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) today announced that with immediate effect, the Recommended Retail Price of the PlayStation 2 games console in the UK would be reduced to £104.99. Read more for details...

Phantom Renaissance is the stand-alone expansion set for the highly acclaimed turn-based strategy game Massive Assault. Massive Assault: Phantom Renaissance features a renewed global conflict between the Free Nations Union and Phantom League in distant space colonies.

Exotypos announces the release of No Brakes: 4x4 Racing, the most complete and realistic off-road car simulator for PC, available now for an obscenely inexpensive price. The game relieves the intensity and dynamism of real 4x4 races and features a large variety of off-road vehicles and motorways, single player with four hot play modes, multiplayer with on-line support, movie capture support and more!

Sly 2: Band of Thieves breaks the rules of convention and truly immerses gamers into a world with no laws or boundaries. It's an exciting new adventure that charges gamers of all ages, skills and interests with a fun, uninhibited playground right at their fingertips.

"MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf" continues the massive destructible environments, intense combat and addictive online multiplayer gameplay that gamers have been praising since "MechAssault" first hit Xbox. Continuing in the 31st century, "MechAssault 2" allows gamers to encounter entirely new experiences in the epic BattleTech world. This third-person action/shooter game defines immense destruction taken to another level, as each environment in the game's five worlds is fully destructible.

Currently in development by Climax's Los Angeles studio, TRON 2.0: Killer App for Xbox will feature new, exclusive Xbox Live multiplayer combat, specially designed to deliver gamers a state-of-the-art online multiplayer gaming experience. Read more for some new screens ...

The Freestyle Revolution is back with NBA LIVE 2005. Elevate your game on both ends of the court with EA SPORTS Freestyle Control, which continues to be the benchmark for innovative control in a sports videogame.

Def Jam Fight For NY challenges players to step into the shoes of a ruthless street fighter battling for control of the hip-hop underground. The game features an all-new fighting engine including weapons, interactive environments and five unique fighting styles that can be combined to form dozens of customized hybrid styles for the ultimate edge on the streets. Def Jam Fight For NY features more than 40 of the most well-known artists and personalities in hip-hop today.

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 :

• The Sims 2 - Trailer
• Burnout 3: Takedown - Trailer
• Tiger Woods 2005 - Trailer
• GoldenEye: Rogue Agent - Trailer
• Cold Winter - Trailer
• Port Royale 2 - Trailer

This coming Friday Digital Illusions and EA will be releasing the World War II mod for Battlefield Vietnam. The 300mb mod will bring three Pacific Theatre maps from Battlefield 1942 into the Battlefield Vietnam engine. But these aren't straight ports of the original maps. Instead, they make use of all of the upgraded features of the Battlefield Vietnam game engine. Of course we will have it available on our fileserver network, read more for details...

Atari today announced that the Terminator 3: The Redemption web site has gone live. Developed for Atari by internal studio Paradigm Entertainment for PS2, Xbox and GameCube, and set for a September 7th release date, Terminator 3: The Redemption is loosely based on the 2003 summer blockbuster, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.

SEGA of America today announced the launch of Astro Boy for Sony PS2 and Astro Boy: Omega Factor for Game Boy Advance. Both highly anticipated titles are based on Osamu Tezuka's flagship character Astro (Tetsum Atom in Japan) - a robotic superhero with a human mind - who embarks on a jet-fueled adventure to reunite the robotic race with humans.

Shrapnel Games has released an updated demo for Dragoon: The Prussian Warf fixing some user reported bugs and crashes. This sequel to the Charles S. Roberts award-winning Horse and Musket, and first in an exciting new series of games under the Horse and Musket 2 banner, Dragoon: The Prussian War Machine is slated for release in August. Read more for download links ...

Restricted Area is an action-based roleplaying game with realtime combat, which combines a fascinating gameplay similar to Diablo 2 with innovative technology, tactic-shooter elements and a dark future scenario. Read more for a few new screens.

Monte Cristo Games and Focus are wroking on a sequel to last year's strategy game Fire Department (known in the US as Emergency Fire Response). Fire Department 2 will feature a lot of improvements and new features such as multiplayer capabilities, better AI, control over a larger amount of units, improved graphics, 5 campaigns and of course more realism. Read more for new screens ...

Sometimes the undead just won't rest in peace. Namco Hometek Inc. announced today that Ghosthunter, the dark and atmospheric third-person action-adventure game available exclusively for the PlayStation2 , has begun shipping to retail stores nationwide.

SCEA announced today the release of Hot Shots Golf FORE! for the PlayStation 2. The title features more golfers and caddies than ever before -- 34 in all, including new off-the-wall characters, returning favorites and popular PlayStation 2 characters including Jak, Daxter, Ratchet and Clank.

Terrorist Takedown puts you on the front line in the war on terror as a soldier in the US Army. Operate Apache and Huey helicopters, Hummers, heavy machine guns, rocket launchers and more as you strike at known terrorists. In 16 heart-pounding missions you must defeat the terrorists and protect our homeland.

Michelle Rodriguez, Matt Davis and Michael Madsen have each been cast in the new film, BloodRayne, based on the popular video game of the same name, joining the previously announced Sir Ben Kingsley and "Terminator 3" star Kristanna Loken. BloodRayne is written by Guinevere Turner ("American Psycho") and will be directed by Uwe Boll.

Dirty drivers must test their skill against the elements, as well as against the clock, in the Championship mode raced across densely wooded forest trails, treacherous Alpine passes and the extremes of the African desert. With a high-performance engine under the bonnet and a whole boot-full of features, Euro Rally Champion is set to scream away from the starting line on September 10th.

Colin McRae Rally 2005 accelerates the series to a blinding speed that captures the sheer adrenaline of edge-of-control rallying and lets you take the stages at speeds a third faster than before. You won't be spinning off unnecessarily either: the stages have been designed to let you use that speed as you hurtle through the detailed international environments. However, crash out and you'll see the individual damage models for each car in action – right down to scraping the paintwork!

SCi Entertainment today announced that Conflict: Vietnam, the next instalment in the award-winning Conflict series, has gone gold for PS2, Xbox and PC and will be released in the UK on September 3, 2004.

'The Fall: Last Days of Gaia' is an innovative Post-Apocalyptic Role Playing Game with tactical combat and a highly original, disturbing storyline. The game is scheduled for Q3, 2004. The Fall will be the first 3D-RPG set in an endtime scenario on the market.

Groove Games today announced the shipping of the next game in their top-selling Marine series, where gamers get to experience elite specialist assignments in the military. Marine Heavy Gunner: Vietnam hits most major retail store shelves this week giving players the opportunity to handle the biggest, meanest guns the US military can build

Set during the "New Generation" era of Robotech, Invasion is a first-person shooter that features transforming Cyclone motorbikes and Invid alien fighters. Other features include progressive scan support, widescreen mode, and 16-person online play. Developed by Vicious Cycle, the team behind BattleCry. Read more for new screens...