The new third-person action adventure will allow players to play through Aragorn's most epic quests in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Earlier today, Headstrong GamesWarner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest for Wii and DS. They also announced Aa new partnership between Warner Bros Interactive Entertainmentthem, The Sail Zaentz Company, and New Line Productions, Inc, which has allowed the game to come to fruition. The partnership will allow Warner Bros to expand the series with titles that appeal to a broad demographic of gamers.

Take-Two intends for all their sports titles to be multiplatform.

In a post-earnings conference call with GameSpot, Take-Two’s Ben Feder spoke about their sports business and its struggle to be profitable. He noted their plans to expand the list of platforms for which they will release their NBA titles. It was then revealed that NBA 2K10 would arrive on Wii when it ships across multiple platforms this fall.

Tecmo Bowl Wii transformed into this Mii-using family-themed football game.

Tecmo has announced Family Fun Football as an exclusive Wii title to be released this fall. The sports title will be an arcade inspired game that incorporates the Miis into its gameplay as well as quirky original characters, such as animals and aliens, interacting in vibrant stadiums and worlds.

The publisher announced that they are localizing and publishing the anticipated adventure game in North America.

After much uncertainty, Xseed Games recently announced that they will be bringing

tri-Crescendo-developed adventure game Fragile: Farewell Ruins of the Moon to North America, according to IGN.

Originally released in Japan by Namco Bandai, Fragile is set in a post-apocalyptic world. Players control Seto, who is one of the only humans left alive. He searches for other survivors in the world with nothing but a flashlight by his side.

Atlus' Trauma Center team brings the whole hospital experience to Wii.

The newest issue of Famitsu revealed that the team behind the Trauma Center series is developing a new title for Wii called Hospital.

Players will be able to play as different positions in a hospital such as a paramedic, a forensic analysis specialist, and a plastic surgeon. Two new gameplay examples shown are maneuvering an endoscopic camera with the Wii Remote, and extracting an iron beam out of a liver.

Taito fans will be happy to hear that many of the company's most popular franchises, including Rainbow Islands, Space Invaders, Bust-A-Move, and Arkanoid, are heading to DS and WiWare with brand new features and stages.

Yesterday, Taito announced that Arkanoid Plus!, Bust-A-Move Plus!, and Rainbow Islands: Towering Adventure! are heading to WiiWare. In addition, the company finally announced that the DS games, Space Bust-A-Move and Space Invaders Extreme 2, will be released in North America.

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A ton of new information about Guitar Hero 5 was recently unveiled including the release date, names of many of the musicians providing songs, and the ability to play a single song with four different drum sets simultaneously.

Activision revealed on the Guitar Hero 5 official website that the upcoming rhythm game is debuting on September 1, which is about a week before MTV Games and Harmonix's The Beatles: Rock Band. The site also provided new information on the gameplay and some of the 85 bands participating.

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Sonic and friends return to the racing genre in a new game that features online play, and special power-ups and weapons.

Sonic the Hedgehog is no stranger to racing games, having appeared in Sonic R on the Saturn and the Sonic Riders series. Today, Sega revealed that Sonic is ready to race again in the new game, Sonic & SEGA All-Star Racing, which is slated to appear on all major platforms including Wii and DS.

The two new trademarks hint at possible future releases, one of which could be the follow-up to Wii Fit.

With E3 2009 a week away, two new Nintendo trademarks have appeared that may indicate what Nintendo will reveal at their press conference.

The first of these is Wii Fit Plus. While the sequel to Wii Fit has been rumored for a while now this is the first time concrete proof has been shown in the form of an English logo.

The world's a stage in the sequel to the hit Balance Board-enabled snowboard game.

Ubisoft has announced that they have once again partnered with Olympic Gold Medalist Shaun White to release Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage, the sequel to last year's hit Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip, a title that has sold over three million copies worldwide.

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The Conduit developers are working on a Left 4 Dead and horror film-inspired online cooperative first person shooter.

Earlier this week, High Voltage Software unveiled a brutal fighting game called Gladiator A.D. Last night, they revealed their other major Wii project, The Grinder.

The Grinder is a cooperative first person shooter where a team of four people fight hordes of enemies, similar to the popular game... Read more...

A crazy new platformer that features five distinct worlds, music from the composer of Earthworm Jim, and world-rotating high jinks.

Majesco recently announcedFlip's Twisted World, a new platformer developed by Canada's Frozen North Productions. In the game, players will need to rotate the game environment in order to solve puzzles and open up new pathways.

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While this will be the first game in the series on Wii, both versions of Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter will share the same colorful universe and the new Action Drawing tool that can be used to create useful objects out of thin air.

In February, THQ CEO Brian Farrell stated that the company wished to "extend [the Drawn to Life] brand to Wii in the future" because of the robust sales demonstrated by the original game.

This dream became a reality today when THQ revealed that Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter will be released... Read more...

LucasArts and n-Space are bringing the popular series to DS this fall with Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron.

LucasArts announced today that Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron is heading to DS and is being developed by n-space.

Elite Squadron will feature the same squad-based gameplay as previous titles along with a handful of new features. The series will have multi-level battles where players can start on land, commandeer a vehicle and take it to space, and then come all the way back to the ground.

Ubisoft Vancouver will bring action-packed soccer fun for the whole family to the Wii this fall.

Ubisoft recently announced its newest addition to its Wii sports repertoire, Academy of Champions.

Created by Ubisoft Vancouver, Academy of Champions will have players improve their soccer skills, recruit new members, and create the strongest squad in order to defeat the rival Academy in the... Read more...

The Conduit developers are working on a brutal Wii fighting game that uses MotionPlus and is set in ancient Rome.

Last month, High Voltage Software said that they had a few announcements on the horizon. The first of two game announcements, Gladiator A.D., was recently revealed to IGN.

Gladiator A.D. is a brutal fighting game for the Wii that takes place in ancient Rome. Featuring two-player split-screen,... Read more...

Two classic franchises make their way to WiiWare; Clay Fighter invades Virtual Console; American Popstar and Photo Clock make the DSi flashy.

WiiWare gets two classic revivals this week as Taito brings Bubble Bobble Plus! and Hudson launches Adventure Island: The Beginning. Interplay brings the Sega Genesis version of Clay Fighter to Virtual Console. DSiWare has two releases this week, American Popstar: Road to Celebrity from Gameloft and Photo Clock from Nintendo.

Hudson Soft celebrates the long weekend with new trailers for Help Wanted.

What do you want to be when you grow up? That's the question Hudson asks gamers in their recent trailers for Help Wanted, available now for Wii.

Help Wanted lets you participate in over 50 wacky jobs as you attempt to earn enough money to save the world. The two new trailers show off some of the madness you can expect in the final game.

The celebrated film director discusses the creation of Boom Blox.

Boom Blox is a game franchise overseen by Oscar-winning film director Steven Spielberg, who has forged an impressive partnership with game giant Electronic Arts. This new trailer feature the directing legend talking about Boom Blox's creation and what has been added to the sequel.

Boom Blox Bash Party is available now.

Nintendo's CEO talks about the company’s fiscal prudence despite its incredible success.

Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata is at the helm of one of the biggest videogame companies in the world. He's overseen revolutionary hardware and software launches that have changed not just the industry, but its consumers as well, and his company has just posted record financial results in the wake of a... Read more...