Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced that Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (WAR) will ship in Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia simultaneously with the North American and European Fall 2008 release.

The Sims, an Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) Label, today announced details for The Sims 2 IKEA Home Stuff. The latest new content for The Sims 2 brings a selection of must-have items from IKEA to key living spaces in your Sims' home focused on the bedroom, the living room and the home office.

The famed Grand Theft Auto series has made headlines yet again! As newly-released sales figures show, Grand Theft Auto IV has crushed the competition by selling 3.6 million units and earning $310 million in its first day of release, earning Guinness World Records for the Highest Grossing Video Game in 24 Hours and the Highest Revenue Generated by an Entertainment Product in 24 Hours.

Agetec, Inc. is pleased to announce that its Nintendo DS game, Touch Darts, will be released in North America in June of 2008.

Blizzard Entertainment announced today that planning has begun for its third Blizzcon gaming convention to take place in the Anaheim Convention Center on October 10th and 11th. BlizzCon, the company's successful series of consumer-oriented shows celebrating its products (most notably the Warcraft, Diablo and StarCraft franchises) began in 2005 and have become larger with each iteration, selling out quickly at the 2007 show.

Microsoft and Epic Games' Design Director Cliff Bleszinski will be unveiling the first gameplay footage for the upcoming Gears of War 2 tonight at 11 p.m. Pacific.

Earlier this week GameSpy visited Blizzard headquarters to gawk at the artwork lining the walls and to get some serious hands-on time with the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Lich King. WoW has continued to build on its own phenomenal success, passing 10 million paid subscribers within a few months of the release of the first expansion, Burning Crusade. Will the next expansion keep the momentum going? See our extensive preview and interview with a co-designer for more details, and read on as we talk about the future of WoW.

With the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, World of Warcraft will introduce its first Hero Class, the Death Knight. Death Knights have been part of Warcraft lore since the real-time strategy game days, serving as powerful mounted necromancers who could command the armies of the Undead or engage in hand-to-hand combat behind the strength of their powerful vampiric runeblades.