Live and breathe basketball like never before with NBA LIVE 06 on the Xbox 360. Rebuilt from the ground up and powered by next generation gameplay, players can see and feel the emotion and intensity of the complete basketball experience. Players jump to life with real-world physics and enhanced animations including sweat rolling down the players' faces.

Earlier this month LucasArts & SOE announced new game enhancements for Star Wars Galaxies hoping to significantly improve the gameplay experience. However, if your Star Wars Galaxies account was in good standing as of November 3, 2005, you purchased the latest expansion pack, Trials of Obi- Wan prior to that date, and you find that these new enhancements are not to your liking, you may request a refund of the purchase price of the Trials of Obi-Wan expansion pack.

A few days ago Bungie revealed both its Halo titles will be playable on the new Xbox 360, but it seems Microsoft has been hard at work with other popular franchises as it revealed today over 200 titles are currently playable on the X360, and titles will get added gradually. The backwards compatibility only works with the HD enabled system, not the cheap Core System, unless you upgrade. The process is enabled by software emulation, games will be playable in HD with antialiasing, which will be freely downloadable, burn on cd and insert in the X360, or install automatically through Xbox Live. Xbox save games and paid downloadable content however will not be transferable to the Xbox 360.

MVP 06 NCAA Baseball is being produced by Electronic Arts Canada in Vancouver, B.C., and will celebrate everything that makes NCAA baseball unique -- aluminum bats, intense action, and stadiums filled with school spirit and packed with passionate fans.

KOCH Media has released the first patch for EgoSoft's space-combat exploration game X³: REUNION. This update brings your European retail game to v1.2.01 and fixes several crash issues, improves storyline, optimizes performance and a few other tweaks. Read more for detailed fixlist and download links ...

Activision and Marvel Entertainment jointly announced today that the companies have expanded their long-term, broad-based strategic alliance by signing a multi-year extension to their current video game licensing agreements for the Spider-Man and X-Men franchises through 2017.

The Matrix: Path of Neo will enable players to actually play as Neo, the central character, and relive his most important and memorable scenarios from the complete film trilogy, including the original film, The Matrix. Atari has released the first patch, but only for the North American edition of the game, addressing various graphical issues, translation problems and more ..

SEGA announced Super Monkey Ball Touch & Roll, exclusively on the Nintendo DS System. Slated for release in March 2006, Aiai, MeeMee, GonGon, and Baby are back in true classic Super Monkey Ball style, with all-new gameplay control using the Nintendo DS stylus and wireless multiplayer modes!

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell 4 will thrust players into a new breed of game play that promises to innovate and revolutionize the Splinter Cell franchise. Ubisoft is taking the saga of Sam Fisher into entirely new territory, expanding the story and depth of his character.

Illusion Softworks, known for the Hidden & Dangerous, Mafia and Vietcong series, revealed Chameleon, already in the works since 2002, is a 3D action game using an updated Mafia/H&D2 engine, and playable from 1st and 3rd person perspective (thanks ABCgames). Read more to check out the screens ..