Atlus' Operation Darkness is an epic fantasy WWII turn-based strategy game from Metal Saga developers Success. Set during WW2 you are part of an special ops team tasked with tracking down Hitler, featuring multiple scenarios, mixing historical events with fiction.

UK based publisher/developer Data Design Interactive announced the opening of its US office in Sarasota in Florida, with the purpose of opening this new studio is to help provide the correct creative atmosphere required to work effectively on today’s demanding Next-Gen projects.

Only a few weeks ago did GreenScreen Interactive announce it was acquiring ZOO Digital Publishing and Destination Software, as it now has been acquired itself by another company. Mandalay Media, who itself has recently merged with Twistbox Entertainment, is looking to acquire various types of companies in digital distribution, interactive entertainment, and online digital media and publishing.

Russian based publisher/developers Russobit-M and Game Factory Interactive have started a merger process, that will result in a holding with an annual revenue of over $45 mln and staff more than 350 people, aiming an active development of new market segments, like online, console and casual games in first turn.

City Interactive appointed Gabriel Del Castillo to the position of CEO Americas and Lisa Rivera as Vice President Sales North America as part of the company’s plans to expand into North and Latin American markets. The company will launch its PC adventure game Art of Murder: FBI Confidential and Code of Honor 2, a first-person shooter for the PC, later this summer.

Atlus' Operation Darkness is an epic fantasy WWII turn-based strategy game from Metal Saga developers Success. Set during WW2 you are part of an special ops team tasked with tracking down Hitler, featuring multiple scenarios, mixing historical events with fiction.

Since Troika is no longer amongst the living this patch is not official, so use at your own discretion. This update brings Activision's Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines retail game to v5.3 (requires v1.2 patch installed) and addresses a number of known issues, gameplay tweaks, bug fixes and so forth.

Polish game developer/publisher City Interactive has signed a license agreement with Nintendo granting it a license to develop and publish games for the NDS on the European, Australian & New Zealand markets, with a future option to further expand the scope of the deal. The Warsaw-based developer is now planning to launch two Nintendo DS titles, I Love Beauty and Sushi Academy, both slated for a Q3 2008 release.

Atlus' Operation Darkness is an epic fantasy WWII turn-based strategy game from Metal Saga developers Success. Set during WW2 you are part of an special ops team tasked with tracking down Hitler, featuring multiple scenarios, mixing historical events with fiction.

Empire Interactive announced the addition of two new hires to the North American team, P.J. Snavely, director of product management, and Zach Rener, director of product marketing, who will join Karim Farghaly, vice president of sales, in Empire Interactive's new Austin offices.

Halo Wars is a strategy game based on the Halo universe where players command armies of familiar and new UNSC units in its initial encounters against the Covenant, an alien coalition threatening to obliterate mankind. In a recent interview, lead desgienr Graeme Devine reveals that Ensemble would like to release a map editor with the game, and work out a way for users to share the maps.

World War II General Commander - Operation: Watch on the Rhine is a real time operational strategy game that breaks with the conventional way of playing and puts the player in an authentic WWII tactical and strategical decision making simulation.

Martin Tremblay has been named President, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, where he will set the long-term direction of the studio’s worldwide interactive entertainment strategy, and oversee publishing, marketing, sales and distribution, licensing and business development of the Studio’s interactive entertainment product.

Digital media company SilverBirch Inc., known for announced an agreement to acquire Netherlands-based Lighthouse Interactive with offices in Montreal, Toronto and London, England.

Operation Darkness is an epic fantasy WWII turn-based strategy game from Metal Saga developers Success. Set during WW2 you are part of an special ops team tasked with tracking down Hitler, featuring multiple scenarios, mixing historical events with fiction.

Since Troika is no longer amongst the living this patch is not official, so use at your own discretion. This update brings Activision's Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines retail game to v5.2 (requires v1.2 patch installed) and addresses a number of known issues, gameplay tweaks, bug fixes and so forth.

Atlus' Operation Darkness is an epic fantasy WWII turn-based strategy game from Metal Saga developers Success. Set during WW2 you are part of an special ops team tasked with tracking down Hitler, featuring multiple scenarios, mixing historical events with fiction.

Flying Labs' Pirates of the Burning Sea is a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game set in the Caribbean islands of the 18th Century. You play a bold sea captain, master of your own ship and crew, as you seek glory and adventure across the trackless deep. In order to increase population density and emphasize key game features Flying Labs has shut down 7 of its 11 available servers.

Tusk interactive, founded by former DICE Canada lead designer Armando "Aj" Marini, announced that it is using Microsoft's XNA game studio for the development of its upcoming title.

People looking to get into the game industry might be interested to know that Game Developer magazine has released the results of its 7th annual Game Developer Salary Survey, calculating an average American game industry salary in 2007 of $73,600, slightly up from 2006’s figure of $73,316.

The Ant Commandos announced its upcoming lineup of products hitting retail this spring. The new lineup includes the first-ever guitar controllers to offer 4-in-1 compatibility, with all of its new guitars being 100% compatible with all Guitar Hero and Rock Band games for PS2 and PS3

The Founders of IO Interactive and creators of Hitman announce the formation of their new development company Reto-Moto, committed to redefining the online multi-player space.

Since Troika is no longer amongst the living this patch is not official, so use at your own discretion. This update brings Activision's Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines retail game to v5.1 (requires v1.2 patch installed) and addresses a number of known issues, gameplay tweaks, bug fixes and so forth.

Disney Interactive Studios announced an agreement to acquire Chinese independent developer Gamestar. With locations in Shanghai and Wuhan, Gamestar was founded in 2002 and has collaborated on several titles with international partners.

After yesterday's sad news about CastAway Entertainment there is more bad news as Pseudo Interactive, Canadian studio behind the Full Auto titles, is forced to shut down when Eidos/SCi canceled an in-development title. According to 1UP, all 50 employees were let go after last minute attempts failed to bare any results.