NCsoft® and ArenaNet® announced that Guild Wars: Eye of the North™, the first ever expansion to the subscription-free Guild Wars® franchise of fantasy online role-playing games, will be released to the public on August 31, 2007. The Guild Wars: Eye of the North expansion will be available for an expected price of $39.99 in North America and 34.99 (Euros) in Europe, as well as through the NCsoft store at PlayNC.com and in the Guild Wars in-game store.

The nitrous tanks are charging and the V8 engines are revving as FlatOut Ultimate Carnage and FlatOut Head On race onto the Windows PC platform and PSP™ (PlayStation®Portable) system in Fall 2007. For the first time ever, the award-winning FlatOut franchise is coming to handheld consoles. FlatOut Head On delivers the most destructive racer ever onto the PSP™ (PlayStation®Portable) system. Previously announced for the Xbox 360™ which is receiving high marks in Europe, players can get ready to give the green light to this year’s most destructive and high-octane racer for the PC in North America.

The fate of the world is in gamers’ hands with the announcement that TRANSFORMERS: The Game from Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI), under license from HPG, the licensing division of Hasbro, Inc. has shipped to retail stores nationwide. Timed to the highly anticipated theatrical release of the “TRANSFORMERS” live-action feature film from DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures, the game allows players to experience the unstoppable power and massive scale of the AUTOBOTS and DECEPTICONS in an epic battle for Earth.

Direct2Drive (D2D), IGN Entertainment's digital retail store, today announced an agreement to digitally distribute a broad catalog of PC game titles from THQ Inc, one of the world’s top gaming and entertainment software publishers. Through this agreement, titles such as Supreme Commander and STALKER: Shadows of Chernobyl were simultaneously available for sale both digitally on Direct2Drive and through traditional retail stores.