Namco Bandai announced that Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop 2 has gone gold. This sequel is a game where aspiring shop keepers can open a variety of stores in which they tend to their Tamagotchi customers’ needs by successfully completing tasks in a variety of playful mini-games.

Capcom announced that its sci-fi action shooter, Lost Planet: Extreme Condition will get a SteelBook case packaged Collector’s Edition available at launch, which will include the game, art book, and as a special bonus, an exclusive multiplayer map that won't be available on Xbox Live until in summer 2007.

Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar adds a multitude of new features, a new singleplayer campaign, the elimination of two of the game’s alien races and the introduction of several others. Stardock announced that people who pre-order the Dark Avatar expansion will get access to the open beta, which will begin on November 16.

Dominions 3: The Awakening is a turn-based strategy game set in a world of epic struggle between men, monsters, and gods. This v3.01 patch corrects several minor bugs that slipped past pre- production testing, but more importantly tweaks several aspects of the game and enhances the overall experience.

Konami announced today that since its European launch last week, Pro Evolution Soccer 6 has sold over three million copies for PS2, Xbox 360 and PC.

Virtua Tennis 3 gives gamers the opportunity to experience new levels of realism with enhanced photo-realistic graphics and advanced player animations that perfectly match the behaviour and mannerisms of individual professional players. Adding a whole new dimension to the way you play tennis, VT 3 fully supports the PS3 controller tilt function.

Aion is the ultimate MMORPG with strengthened interaction between players. Aion’s world consists of 3 realms - the heavens, the devildom and the dragon realm. Players will experience dynamic communications with the world of Aion as they conduct strategic battles. Producer Ju-hyun Jang tells us more about Aion: The Tower of Eternity.

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 :

• Medal of Honor: Airborne [ALL] - Trailer #2
• Heroes of Might & Magic V: Hammers of Fate - Trailer
• The Chronicles of Spellborn - Trailer #4
• Full Auto 2: Battlelines [PS3] - Trailer #2
• Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire [PS3] - Trailer #2
• God & Heroes: Rome Rising - Trailer (2)
• Lost Planet [X360] - Trailer #5
• Rainbow Six Vegas [ALL] - Downtown Map Trailer
• Cricket 07 [PS2/PC] - Trailer #2
• Vanguard: Saga Of Heroes - Walkthrough Trailer
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Krome Studios announced today that it has acquired former Atari development studio Melbourne House, bolstering its size to almost 300 in-house making it truly one of the largest and most proven independent studios worldwide.

Enlight announced it has signed Vision Videogames' SpaceStationSim allowing you build their own unique version of the International Space Station (ISS) using dozens of modules and stylized components from NASA and its exploration partners.

Unknown Worlds announced Natural Selection 2, the next evolution in multiplayer action/strategy gameplay and will be targeted for both competitive and public play. New features include dynamically changing environments, a new resource model, flexible game scripting and modes, and new weapons, abilities and upgrades. NS2 will be a standalone product, available through Steam.

Aion is the ultimate MMORPG with strengthened interaction between players. Aion’s world consists of 3 realms - the heavens, the devildom and the dragon realm. Players will experience dynamic communications with the world of Aion as they conduct strategic battles.

Xyanide Resurrection is a classical 2D/3D shoot-'m-up game, where you take on the role of Drake, a government executioner from the planet Mardar. Drake's mission is to capture the escaped evil witch Aguira and bring her back to the Judge.

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 :

• Neverwinter Nights 2 - Behind the Scenes Trailer #6
• Rayman Raving Rabbids [ALL] - Rabbits Don't Scare People Trailer
• Everquest 2: Echoes of Faydwer - Halloween Trailer
• Naruto: Uzumaki Chronicles [PS2] - Trailer #2
• The Secret Files: Tunguska - Trailer #5
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Microsoft today released the second iteration of its XNA Game Studio Express beta, upgraded with full functionality for Windows and third party toolset support, allowing hobbyists, academics and independent game developers to more easily integrate game content into their creations.

The Pro Evolution Soccer series is renowned for its realism, and Pro Evolution Soccer 6, also known as Winning Eleven: Pro Evolution Soccer 2007, is abundant with new gameplay additions. Player AI has been massively upgraded, while the physical side of play has been refined. This demo allows you to play a match as either Italy, Sweden, Spain or Czech.

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 :

• Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz [Wii] - Trailer
• Superman Returns [PS2/Xbox/X360] - Audio Trailer
• Thrillville [PS2/Xbox] - Featurette Trailer #2
• Konductra [NDS] - Trailer
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Enlight announced X3: Reunion 2.0, adding new features to the original X3 game, including free expansions, while removing Starforce protection, enabling more players to access the game without the potential performance issues of the copy protection.

Konami will release a 207mb demo tomorrow, allowing you to try out part of the game. Whether there will be a simultaneous Xbox Live release is not known at this point. Pro Evolution Socceris known for its realism, and the new edition is abundant with new gameplay additions. Player AI has been massively upgraded, while the physical side of play has been refined. We will of course have the demo available on our fileserver network.

Civ IV: Warlords will deliver six unique and interesting scenarios, giving players the chance to change the course of history with the help of their new powerful "warlord" unit. 2K Games has released the first patch addressing various AI, graphics, UI, multiplayer, sound issues, as well as general tweaks and balance adjustments.

Contrary to what was indicated last week, it seems "Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, along with their partner, Microsoft, have mutually agreed to postpone making a feature film based on the Halo video game universe until we can fulfill the promise we made to millions of Halo fans throughout the world that we would settle for no less than bringing a first class film to the big screen."

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 :

• Need For Speed Carbon [ALL] - Trailer (3)
• Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 - Fall Update Trailer
• Spectrobes [NDS] - Webisode #2
• Dungeons & Dragons Tactics [PSP] - Trailer #2
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The Perfect Dark Zero Platinum Hits Edition will feature six additional multiplayer maps, including four that are currently available only on Xbox Live Marketplace, and two brand new ones, Facility and Ruin map remakes from the original Perfect Dark, in one convenient package.

Click&Buy has signed an agreement with Acclaim to provide a payment system for Acclaim's virtual wallet. Through the virtual wallet, Acclaim users can buy Acclaim Coins; thereby using those coins for all games, including the latest games in Beta mode and MMORPG games.

Rogue Warrior, developed by Zombie Studios, is a story-driven tactical FPS putting you in the boots of a Navy SEAL who leads a team behind enemy lines in North Korea on a covert mission to assess the threat posed by the country's nuclear arsenal.