To add to Wii’s already robust launch lineup, THQ announced that it will release four games for the console when it’s released next month. The games are all based on television and movie licenses: Cars, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Barnyard and SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab.

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THQ is ready to incinerate next-gen consoles! The publisher has announced the formation of Incinerator Games, the latest addition to THQ’s group of internal studios. Comprised of veterans of the Twisted Metal, NFL GameDay, MLB 2006 and the Midnight Club franchises, Incinerator Games is primarily focused on development for next-gen platforms.

Based in Carlsbad, California, the studio is currently working on next-gen versions of Cars, the latest hit movie from Disney/Pixar. The game is set for release this Fall for Xbox 360 and Wii. Future projects are also being worked on at the moment.

There is word on the Auto Assault website of a merger between the North American and European servers. Further details of the merger, which occurs on July 13, can be found on the game’s official European forums. Apparently, the union will result in a single server located in North America and “a much more satisfying and diverse gameplay experience” due to increased server population.

Log on to Xbox Live, and you’ll find Cadillac V-Series Collection, a DLC for Project Gotham Racing 3, adding three vehicles from the auto manufacturer to the player’s virtual garage.

The three Cadillac V-Series cars include the 400 horsepower CTS-V, the 443 horsepower XLR-V, and the 468 horsepower STS-V, the most powerful production Cadillac ever made.

These cars are now available for free on Xbox Live Marketplace. Drivers who download the pack will be able to compete for the Cadillac Elite Gamer Picture award - any Xbox Live competitor who places within the top 100 on the Nurburging F1 racetrack in any of the three Cadillac cars will be awarded this elusive gamer picture.

BVG unveiled its E3 2006 lineup, revealing a next-gen Turok among other titles. Here’s the full list:

They will be set up at booth #1024 in the South Hall.

• Turok (PS3, Xbox 360)
  Turok is an epic, story-driven FPS game set on a dark, mysterious planet in the near future. Players take on the role of Joseph Turok, a former Black Ops commando, now part of an elite Special Forces squad on a mission to take down a war criminal on a genetically-altered planet. After the ship is shot down while approaching the planet, Joseph Turok must use his instincts and elite military training to elude an army of well-trained soldiers, and the ravenous, unpredictable creatures that populate the dangerous environment. Joseph Turok’s mission? Survive at all costs.
  
• Lumines Plus
  
• Disney’s Meet The Robinsons
  
• Disney’s Chicken Little: Ace in Action
  
• Disney’s Kim Possible: What’s the Switch?
  
• Desperate Housewives: The Game
  
• Spectrobes
  
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
  
• Lumines II
  
• Every Extend Extra
  
• Meteos: Disney Edition
  
• Disney’s American Dragon: Jake Long, Attack of the Dark Dragon
  
• Disney’s Kim Possible: Global Gemini
  
• Hannah Montana
  
• That’s So Raven: Psychic on the Scene
  
• Disney’s The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Undersea Adventure
  
• The Suite Life of Zack & Cody: Tipton Trouble
  
• Games for the Game Boy Advance include:
  
• The Cheetah Girls
  
• Phil of the Future.
  
• W.I.T.C.H.
  
• Disney Pixar Cars
  
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow