Days of Thunder: NASCAR Edition gives players the opportunity to go head-to-head against select NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers, including champions such as Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, and Tony Stewart, and the drivers from the iconic "Days of Thunder" film.

Backbreaker is taking sports video games to a place where the action is never the same and every hit looks and feels as realistic as a Sunday afternoon. Utilizing NaturalMotion’s euphoria motion synthesis engine, you’ll never see the same tackle again. Ever.

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

• Rock Band 3 [ALL] - Keyboard Trailer
• Portal 2 [ALL] - GamesCom Trailer
• Dance Central [X360] - GamesCom Trailer

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

Fans of the FIA World Rally Championship will soon be able to get closer to the action as Black Bean Game announced today that its internal development studio Milestone is working on a new official WRC video game.

Sony has rolled out new PlayStation Store content, starting with Shank, Press Your Luck, PixelJunk Racers 2nd Lap, MotorStorm 3D Rift, demos for MAG (Beta), Shank, Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2, DLCs for Mafia II, Clash of the Titans, song packs for Guitar Hero 5, Rock Band, the usual game/movie trailers, and PS3 themes, and downloadable PSP/PS0ne games (Zuma, Arcade Air Hockey & Bowling).

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

• Brink [ALL] - Dev Diary Trailer #3
• Portal 2 [ALL] - Extended Wheatley Trailer

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

Toy Soldiers is a an action-packed strategy-based game in which players are cast into a fantastic, miniature world where antique toy soldiers fight for survival using an extensive arsenal of tanks, fighter planes and flame throwers in vintage WWI dioramas.

Ben 10 Ultimate Alien: Cosmic Destruction puts players in the shoes of 16-year-old Ben Tennyson and 16 devastatingly powerful alien forms. Together they embark on a thrill packed mission to the four corners of the globe on the hunt for an ancient alien artifact that could save humanity from a mysterious cosmic storm and ultimate destruction.

Following in the tradition of The First Encounter, the game will feature all the insane action of the original game but with visuals beautifully rendered to current standards. Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter will also feature an all new Co-Op Tournament mode that will allow teams to compete with one another.

MotionSports is a new sports title that will bring players unparalleled immersion, as the movements they make in real-time are accurately represented by the on-screen athletes. Exciting sports challenges include skiing, horseback riding, hang gliding, football, soccer and boxing.

The Sims 3 gives you the freedom to create unique Sims and immerse them in your own living neighborhood of endless possibility!

Step into the dark and tormented world of SAW 2 and experience the gruesome traps that Jigsaw has created to test your will to survive.  With new traps, puzzles, and combat system players will need to think fast and act quick to pass the rigors of the tests Jigsaw has engineered.

Civilization V reinvigorates the classic turn-based strategy genre with a new engine built from the ground-up. Players are introduced to a new combat system, deeper diplomatic interactions and a cavalcade of expanded features that deliver a fully immersive experience.

With Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II, the epic story continues as players once again assume the role of the devastatingly powerful Starkiller - Darth Vader's secret apprentice set during the largely unexplored era between Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope.

EverQuest II returns to the culturally diverse world of Norrath in the future of the original EverQuest, with the sheer size and graphical detail greater than ever seen before. Larger in scope than its predecessor, EverQuest II will allow players from every corner of the earth to explore familiar areas and new, undiscovered territories of Norrath.

Lionheart: Kings' Crusade is a real-time strategy that places players between the years of 1189-1192, calling upon warriors to enter the heart of the battle in one of the most vicious wars of all time.

Pride of Nations is a turn-based historical strategy game set in the colonial era of the 19th century, where the player takes control of a country and guides it through industrialization, military conquest, and colonization.

Front Mission Evolved brings the classic Front Mission franchise into an action-packed third-person shooter that gives players full control of a massive humanoid war machine—the wanzer. Players will battle through intense combat situations as they explore an immersive world in both the single player campaign and online multiplayer.

Cities in Motion sees players develop and operate their own public transport company building a travel network across Vienna, Helsinki, Berlin, and Amsterdam using more than 30 different modes of transport including buses, trams, subway trains and water buses.

Good Old Games just launched a weekend promo where it offers  Total Annihilation Commander Pack (with 2 expansions!) for $5.99. To celebrate GamesCom GOG is running a week long promo, giving 40% off on Gothic 2 Gold, Spellforce Platinum, Painkiller Black Edition and The Guild Gold plus 25% off on the Realms of Arkania series. The promo will last for the whole next week until Thursday, August 26.

In Casebook Trilogy: Special Edition you are a forensic investigator. Together with your partner, Det. James Burton, you must unravel three challenging cases involving Kidnapping, suicide and murder...

Krome Studios is one of Australia's biggest independent development studios but has been hit hard by the economic downturn in recent years. Yesterday it closed down its Adelaide office, which is had opened in 2006 to house most of the Ratbag Games employees that were sent packing when Midway closed it down. That same year Krome also acquired Atari development studio Melbourne House which has now been hit by massive layoffs, a similar fate reported at its main Brisbane studio

From the creative minds behind the original Command and Conquer, End of Nations takes warfare to an unprecedented scale, bringing the real-time strategy genre into the online world of connected gaming.

Beyblade: Metal Fusion features a complete game-specific story with the original characters from the show. Players find themselves in the midst of a disappearance of the world’s most powerful Beybladers. Sucked into a giant fortress, players must battle robot bladers and discover the mystery behind the abduction.

Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock redefines music gaming with an all-new, story-driven Quest Mode, a completely redesigned rock-inspired guitar controller, the biggest on-disc selection of rock music in a Guitar Hero game and Quickplay+, which invites challenge-starved fanatics to test their rock skills. At a recent press event, we shot the breeze with Neversoft producer Randy Guillote about the finger-blistering guitar solos that await us ....