Conspiracy Entertainment has just signed a publishing agreement with Epicenter Studios to bring together the Wii-exclusive Real Heroes: Firefighters. But while the title all but screams "fiery action," you'll be quite surprised to learn that it won't be violent at all. So what's in store for you in this game? Read up over after the jump.

It looks like Lara finally has a daddy to come home to. Warner Bros Home Entertainment recently subscribed up to £15 million (US$ 30 million) new shares in the company and announced a new strategic partnership with the house behind the Tomb Raider series. For more details regarding this, read our full article after the jump.

After showing you a solar tsunami as it occurs, we bring you this horse-shaped image from your left. See it? That's the Horsehead Nebula from the Orion constellation. Using only a small telescope, the Star Shadows Remote Observatory from New Mexico, USA was able to photograph its entire surroundings. Head over the full article to see the Horsehead Nebula in its fullest majesty.

Does seeing numbers and operation symbols bore you out of your wits? Perhaps if you lived as an Aztec, things would be more to your liking. These ancient Americans had a complex system all their own, and they used hearts, arrows, bones, and other indigenous representations to denote expressions. Learn more math after the jump!

Fans of Propaganda Games' Turok (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC) based in North America, Canada, and Mexico rejoice! Major Nelson has announced that a demo for the game has finally been launched in the aforementioned regions.

Head on over to the full article for more details.

Think the previously released demo was the end of Naughty Dog's good tidings? Think again. We have picked up word that the official site for the PS3 console's Uncharted: Drake's Fortune is offering a challenge that's sure to test your sleuthing skills, and can win you and a friend a trip to Mexico. More details up ahead in the full article.

The Xbox Live downloadable content for Namco Bandai's Beautiful Katamari for the Xbox 360 is now out, with a new Royal Rainbow-themed Dashboard theme available for the following regions: Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Singapore, Taiwan, and the US. The theme costs 150 Microsoft Points and is non-refundable.

New in-game content for the Prince's rolling adventures on the Xbox 360 are also available, in the form of four new missions:

• Milky Way Constellations - Roll up 88 constellations to create the Milky Way
• The Weaver Girl - Roll up a huge ball of yarn and string to create Vega, the Weaver Girl
• Shopping Spree - Make a Space Station but be thrifty about it; sounds like an offshoot of a Katamari mission from one of the previous games where the value of the items collected are taken into account
• High-calorie Katamari - Feed Cetus the Whale, roll up lots of food!

Certainly exciting new content, and Katamari fans will immediately take a liking to these new missions. The catch? The first three missions are available in Asia only, while the last mission, High-calorie Katamari, is a Japan-exclusive. Which means there's no downloadable Katamari action for the rest of the world...well, at least for now.

Of course, they may get released to other regions. More updates as they come!

Heads up, bandicoot loving Xbox 360 owners! A demo for the upcoming video game Crash of the Titans just appeared over at Xbox Live Marketplace. The download is for free and should be available for all Xbox Live regions except Asia and Mexico.

The full retail copy, alongside the Wii, PSP and Nintendo DS, is expected to ship in October 2. Crash of the Titans is actually the 14th entry in the much-loved Crash Bandicoot video game franchise. This iteration focuses on the discovery of an element known as Mojo.

The evil Doctor Neo Cortex is planning to use this substance to create a loyal mutant army out of the inhabitants of Crash's homeland Wumpa Islands. The game will have a total of 20 episodes with each containing multiple mini levels.

The demo is around 530.76 MB and is a good way to prepare for the full copy of Radical Entertainment's Crash of the Titans. Enjoy!



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People may soon have to trade in their conventional travel passports for something a little more in the near future. The construction of Spaceport America, the world's first commercial spaceport, in New Mexico is already being planned out.

The design was provided by engineering enterprise URS Corporation teamed and Foster + Partners which  is based in the United Kingdom. The 100,000 square-foot facility will serve as the primary airbase for Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic suborbital spaceliner, as well as the headquarters for the New Mexico Spaceport Authority.

Spaceport America's hanger can support two White Knight Two carrier aircraft and five SpaceShipTwo spaceliners. Both vessel types now under construction at Scaled Composites in Mojave, California. The design for the terminal incorporates the natural earth as a berm while relying on passive energy for heating an cooling, with photovoltaic panels for electricity and water recycling capabilities.

A concrete roof will be built with massive window openings with a view of the runway and spacecraft. The construction of the spaceport will begin in 2008 with a projected completion date in late 2009 or early 2010. Will Whitehorn, President of Virgin Galactic explains the company's purpose and goal:

The deal between New Mexico and URS working with Sir Norman Foster will produce a spectacular, but very environmentally efficient landmark for the new era of space travel. The design for Spaceport America is not only breathtaking but also practical which is also what I believe SpaceShipTwo and its launch aircraft WhiteKnight Two will be regarded as when their respective designs are unveiled next January.

Whitehorn added that Virgin Galactic is dubbing 2008 as "The Year of the Spaceship" to hail the advent of their plans to make private space travel available for everyone.

Did Sierra Gamer's Week '07 get you wet yet? If not, be ready to cream your pants (so to speak) due to their latest installment, Wet (Xbox 360, PS3). Don't let the title give you any ideas, because this game is a solid third-person shooter with a good mix of sword swinging action. Find its first trailer below.

Info on the game is slippery, but we do know that the girl in the bathtub is named Rubi. We see a lot of her crazy moves, which you can find on the first high-budget Asian action film you can think of. Our well endowed babe is a gunslinger who can do fancy kills with a katana.

Wet seems to be set in Mexico, but with a twist of Hong Kong flicks. Prepare to get wet and wild! Here's the video: