Softwrap today announced that it has partnered with Funcom, to provide it with antipiracy technology, allowing them to sell games directly from their eStore and through any of their affiliates, starting with Dreamfall: The Longest Journey.

Last month Bethesda's PR guru Pete Hines revealed that a patch for the X360/PC editions of TES4: Oblivion was in the works, fixing a number of issues that they found or were reported by the community. Since then it has been quiet on the progress but Pete finally confirmed that a beta patch will be released this week, and if all goes well (meaning no major bugs pop up), the final patch should be released in a few weeks.

Codemasters today announces an original next-generation title with the signing of Overlord from Age of Wonders developer Triumph Studios. Overlord is a groundbreaking action adventure, set in a seriously warped fantasy world.

Turbine announced today that Keith Baker, the original creator of the Dungeons & Dragons Eberron campaign setting, will pen additional storylines and works of fiction for Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach.

Atari today announced the development of Dungeons & Dragons: Tactics for the PSP, which authentically utilises the D&D 3.5 rule-set created by Wizards of Coast, and allows players to take a party of six adventurers into a wide variety of dangerous environments to experience deep and exciting turn-based action.

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Dark Crusade will feature two new playable races, the Tau Empire and the Necrons, bringing the number of totally unique races to an unprecedented seven.

Army of Two will throw gamers into hot spots ripped from current day headlines where they will utilize unique TWO man strategies and tactics while seamlessly transitioning between playing with intelligent Partner AI (PAI) and a live player. When one man is not enough, it will take an army of two to fight through war, political turmoil and a conspiracy so vast it threatens the entire world.

Check out the following new screens from Namco Bandai's E3 2006 lineup:

• Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception (PSP) - Features & Screens
• The Fast & The Furious (PSP/PS2) - Features & Screens
• .Hack//G.U. (PS2) - Features & Screens
• Hellgate: London - Features & Screens
• Legend of Heroes II (PSP) - Features & Screens
• Mage Knight: Apocalypse - Features & Screens
• Mobile Ops: The One Year War (X360) - Features & Screens
• Naruto: Ultimate Ninja (PS2) - Features & Screens
• One Piece: Grand Adventure (PS2) - Features & Screens
• Pac-Man World Rally (PSP/NGC/PS/PC) - Features & Screens
• Snoopy vs. The Red Baron (PSP/PS2/PC) - Features & Screens
• Tekken: Dark Resurrection (PSP) - Features & Screens
• Warhammer: Mark of Chaos - Features & Screens
• Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra (PS2) - Features & Screens
• Zatch Bell! Mamodo Fury (PS2) - Features & Screens

Atari announced today that its heart-stopping survival experience AITD will be presented in a TV action dramas like episodic fashion. Alone in the Dark will be split into a number of distinct episodes in a season-style format, with cliffhangers, scenes from next episode and so forth ...

Half-Life 2: Episode One, the first in series of episodic games from Valve, is now available for pre-purchase and pre-load via Steam. Those who pre-order the game before it is made available on June 1st will save 10% off the $19.95 price.