Dell today announced that Mythic Entertainment, developer and publisher of the multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) Dark Age of Camelot, has standardized on Dell servers, desktops and notebooks to better serve its customers around the world.

Signaling the start of football season, Electronic Arts today announced that Madden NFL 2005 has shipped to retailers nationwide and will be in stores in time for National Madden Vacation Day on Tuesday, August 10th.

Alias and Kaydara today announced that Alias has signed an agreement to acquire Kaydara, a developer of real-time 3D character animation and motion editing solutions in the entertainment industry.

ZOO Digital is pleased to announce details of its forthcoming title Pool Shark 2, under development by Blade interactive, the developers of the World Championship Snooker series. With their amazingly realistic physics engine now on its latest iteration of development and refinement, Pool Shark 2 will be the most realistic Pool game to be released for PS2, Xbox, and PC on Nov 12, 2004.

Techland has released a single-player demo for its 3D racing game Xpand Rally giving you the chance to try out three tracks (Arizona, Poland and Kenya), arcade and sim mode in two different car models. Demo was not meant for public release and has been removed at Techland's request. A proper demo is expected later...

Heaven X announced today, that Alex Carver: Futurebrighter is in development for PC platform. Read more for details and screens...

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 :

• Worms Forts: Under Siege - Trailer #2
• LotR: Battle for Middle-Earth - Inside the Battle Volume 4
• The Urbz: Sims In The City - Trailer #3
• Resident Evil: Outbreak File No.2 - Trailer

1C and G5 Software companies will develop a new 3D RTS on motives of the 'Cuban Missile Crisis' (previously known as Caribbean Crisis). Game engine will be a modified Blitzkrieg engine. But game will not carry a historical reliability, in this Caribbean crisis the USSR and the USA will exchange nuclear attacks. In game there will be 4 campaigns: for the USSR, France, Germany, China, the USA and Great Britain. Read more for the latest screens ...

Created and developed by Naughty Dog, Inc., Jak 3 is the team's follow-up to their best-selling title, Jak II and their Greatest Hits PlayStation2 debut title, Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy. Combining a variety of genres including driving, adventure, action-platform, puzzles, strategy and exploration, Jak 3 promises to deliver one of the most entertaining and interactive experiences to gamers this holiday season!

Garage Games has released an updated demo for MaxGaming Technologies’ Dark Horizons: Lore, a fast action FPS style mecha game where the player’s stats will affect the outcome of the war and ultimately write the history of the Dark Horizons universe. This v1.1 demo features a new and enhanced interfaces, weapons, sound, maps and unlimited play demo on Windows and Mac. Read more for download links ...