What do you do when you are the doctor and someone comes into your hospital with butterflies in their stomach, water on the knee, and a frog in the throat? Operate of course! From EA's casual games site Pogo.com comes OPERATION Mania - a new twist on the classic OPERATION board game from Hasbro. Become an expert surgeon as you admit, diagnose and treat patients with the zaniest ailments in healthcare history. Play as Dr. Humerus who is an up and coming surgeon as he builds his reputation and is called in to save the day at five different hospitals in fun and wacky locations.

Merscom announced at Casual Connect Seattle it will be launching an original hidden objects franchise, with the first title, Coyote's Tale: Fire and Water, scheduled for launch in Q3 2008. Coyote's Tale: Fire and Water is the brainchild of Matt Shetler, Merscom's Producer for the Blood Ties project, and is being developed by GO! Games, the Siberian developer who also developed Blood Ties.

Reflexive Entertainment has always been a fan of multiplayer gaming and is excited to announce Big Kahuna Party, a special multiplayer focused version of one of its most beloved franchises, coming exclusively to WiiWare on the Wii.

Platinum Weapons make their first appearance in-game through the shops' new Goodie Bag, these upgradable weapons level alongside your character and give you stronger attack powers. This Goodie Bag is only available for a limited time so you'll need to be quick to be in with a chance of collecting one of these incredible weapons.

Developed by phenomedia, Star Karts follows the zany Crazy Chicken through an intergalactic racing competition, while Atlantis Quest is a side-scrolling action (or platformer) game that takes Crazy Chicken through 30 levels of challenges both above and below the sea. In The Pharaoh's Challenge, players can try their hand at puzzle-solving in the Egyptian-themed adventure.

SEGA of America, Inc. and SEGA Europe Ltd. today announced that Phantasy Star 0 (pronounced "zero") the brand new Phantasy Star RPG adventure, will be coming to North America and Europe. Phantasy Star 0 is one of the most highly anticipated Nintendo DS titles coming out in 2009 with innovative features found only on Nintendo DS like the Visual Chat interface, addictive action-RPG gameplay, top-notch visual quality and exhilarating multiplayer modes.

Garriott took time off from gaming to live on the Russian space station, and then spent three months in quarantine thereafter. In that time, it was announced he was leaving NCsoft and gaming. During the time in quarantine, Garriott has had time to think about his next steps in the world. The interview, in part, quoted Garriott as saying: "After 25 years at Origin, the last thing I wanted to make was yet another medieval fantasy game. Now, after a very interesting break, I'm keen to get back into the fray and work on a new game. Probably medieval fantasy and probably online; there's something very powerful about getting people together."

Available for 1000 Wii points, Jungle Speed is not for the faint hearted. Players must watch carefully and react quickly. With a jungle character seated comfortably at the game table, players are each dealt a pile of cards. Play starts when the first person flips their card. Moving around the table symbols are revealed until two of the exposed cards match. Players with the matching cards must then scramble to grasp the totem in the middle of the table. The faster player then gives their cards to their unfortunate adversary. With paws flying, the first person to get rid of all their cards wins the game.

When it comes to solid computer programs that unleash the creative and productivity-based juices, while there are several good one, few carry the weight of Adobe. The company has set a standard by which so many others are judged. And while Adobe has programs that run in concert with desktops and laptops in ways many do not realize (like Flash), the top dog in the Adobe lineup is Photoshop.

Square Enix announced Monday that it is working to curtail the selling of large amounts of FFXI Gil, the currency of Final Fantasy XI, for real-world money--a practice know as real money trading (RMT). The announcement, which was posted on both the English and Japanese PlayOnline Web sites, stated that "a number of accounts which were confirmed to have violated the user agreement by using unauthorized third-party software tools were discovered and have been permanently suspended."