New screenshots have emerged from Liquid Entertainment's foray of domesticity, Desperate Housewives.

The makers of Dragonshard have been hard at work on the 3D "lifestyle" simulation based on the hit television show that will allow gamers to unlock the juicy scandals hidden in the outwardly "perfect" street of suburbia. The screenshots themselves show off the wardrobe, cooking and bitch slapping activities that the game has to offer.

You'll find the latest dirt from those Desperate Housewives here.

While those crazy folk at Maxis are geared up to expand the world of the The Sims 2 yet again, they definitely haven't skimped on the soundtrack side of things in The Sims 2: Pets, their latest instalment.

The game's score was put together by Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh, with the soundtrack chock full of well known contemporary rock and pop artists including The Flaming Lips, Pussycat Dolls and Hot Chip, who all went into the Maxis studios and recorded their songs in the game's native language - Simlish.

The final tracklisting for the game will include:


So apart from chewing on your virtual furniture, what exactly do pets bring to the Sims 2 universe? They'll dig holes in your yard, pee on the sofa and learn tricks. If you have trained your pooch particularly well you'll be able to put it to work in a choice of three career tracks - Show Business, Security and Service. With a pet selection that ranges from birds and guinea pigs to cats and dogs, Maxis has the whole menagerie covered.

EA plans to release the hounds onto your PC this November.

From the makers of Painkiller(!) comes Wildlife Zoo, a mangagement simulation game that will let players manage all the ins-and-outs of running their very own zoo.

The game offers over 100 different animals for you to show off, along with a host of other options like designing and building your own animal enclosures, visitor amenities, facilities for staff and playground equipment to keep the lions from eating the kiddies. As well as building your own zoo from the ground up, the game will allow you to take control of a host of zoo employees to help make it a thriving business: landscape architects, gardeners, keepers, veterinarians, and scientists.

Wildlife Zoo will feature:


Wildlife Zoo will be stampeding its way onto the PC later this month.

It's time to break out your best green scrubs and don your stethoscope for a game of doctors and nurses. Hospital Tycoon, the latest managment sim from Deep Red Games, aims to combine the drama and chaos of running a hospital with a touch of humour.

The game will let players control every aspect of running, upgrading and expanding their medical facility. Trying to step away from simulation games that revolve around micro-management, Hospital Tycoon will focus on how the characters (doctors, nurses, patients) react with each other and respond to how the player is running the hospital.

Hospital Tycoon will be skewed towards the humourous and bizarre rather than being a serious representation, giving patients a host of weirdly-named diseases like "Stress Zombosis" and "Monkey Nuts".

Hospital Tycoon is hoping to infect your PC mid 2007.

Since its announcement, the buzz surrounding Will Wright's latest venture Spore has grown to epic proportions. The first truly original title from Wright since The Sims in 2000, Spore allows you to develop your own alien species, from a single-celled organism right through to controlling the entire modern civilisation of your species' planet.

Initially, Spore was targeted with a late-2006 release date, but in a recent interview with GameSpot, Will Wright has stated that "we're saying the second half of next year for now". Looks like Spore will be sitting on the 'to be released' list until at least the end of 2007.

Spore will allow players to:


Check out the official site for all the latest media surrounding Spore.