Radon Labs' Drakensang: The Dark Eye brings back epic party-based RPG gameplay in a breathtakingly detailed world, based on one of the world’s biggest pen & paper franchises.

Men of War is 1C Company's latest RTS, taking place in Europe during the height of WWII. The story unfolds across three different campaigns played out through the eyes of Soviet, Allied and German soldiers.

The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences has announced that Bruce Shelley will be the 12th inductee into the Academy’s Hall of Fame. Shelley is the preeminent game designer, who assisted Sid Meier in bringing the award winning Civilization and Railroad Tycoon to the world, and later the Age of Empires strategy games with Ensemble Studios.

Volition, Inc.'s third-person shooter franchise will make its open-world, next-gen debut with Red Faction: Guerrilla. Set 50 years after the climactic events of the original Red Faction, this third-person, open-world action-shooter will return to Mars and once again redefine the limits of destruction-based gameplay.

Lips is a music and singing game that includes 30 songs, 2 wireless interactive microphones (with motion sensors that allow you to dance, move or swing to score points), the ability to use and sing your own music or download songs from an online service.

Sony has rolled out new PlayStation Store content starting with Qore Ep. 07 (free), Soldner-X: Himmelssturmer ($9.99), LittleBigPlanet Kabuki costume (free), 3 Age of Booty Map Packs (free), Far Cry 2 Fortunes Pack ($9.99), NARUTO: Ultimate Ninja STORM Pack 4 (free), SoulCalibur IV Customization Equipment 3 ($1.99), song packs for Guitar Hero World Tour, Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol Encore 2 and Rock Band, and the usual game/movie trailers and PS3 themes.

THQ has picked up 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand in which you play as one of the world's biggest hip-hop stars in an all-out battle to protect 50 Cent's assets and to collect payment from a crooked overlord.

Best Buy and EA in association with The United Inventors Association and By Kids For Kids announce the "Invent-A-Game Challenge," a national competition offering America's young people a unique chance to design an online game that EA will produce, with as Grand Prize a $10,000 U.S. Savings Bond.

X³: Terran Conflict is a brand new, stand-alone game set in the universe of X³. It is the culmination of the X trilogy, with a grand finale that takes us all the way back to Earth's own solar system.

Phantasy Star Portable includes the original PSU content, the Ambition of the Illuminus expansion pack, 4-player local multiplayer, PSP exclusive bosses and weapons, and a new History mode playable as a new character Vivienne.

Red Alert 3 takes players on an epic RTS adventure to an alternate future spawned by time travel run amok, featuring a fully co-operative campaign, the series' light-hearted style and classic, action-oriented gameplay. This v1.05 patch fixes several exploits and bugs, improves balance, makes user interface enhancements, includes the DRM de-authorization tool and more.

Hearts of Iron III will follow the series' tradition of most detailed and complete strategic game on WW2 while focusing on satisfying veteran players through a multitude of new features and systems, including a huge map with more than 10,000 provinces.

Namco Bandai America unveiled the formation of Surge, a new studio and publishing label dedicated to providing cutting-edge, genre-defining games that are targeted at satiating the appetite of western gamers, starting with Afro Samurai on Jan. 27, 2009.

Encompassing a variety of different characters while exploring many exotic locations and cultures across the game's universe of parallel worlds, Suikoden: Tierkreis will expand the bounds of the handheld RPG.

Set between the largely unexplored era between Ep III and Ep IV, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed casts players as Darth Vader's "Secret Apprentice" and promises to unveil new revelations about the Star Wars galaxy. As promised, LucasArts has released a new campaign (Jedi Temple on Coruscant) for 800 Microsoft Points ($10) while the playable characters (Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ki-Adi-Mundi, and Kit Fisto) will cost you 400 Microsoft Point ($5).

Alternativa is a classic point & click adventure game based on the original sci-fi/cyber-punk script which is composed of a number of shorter stories that lead us through the lives of individual characters as well as the fictional world of the future.

With an extensive range of features Runes of Magic prepares to redefine the standard of free-to-play MMO games. Even at the beginning Runes of Magic conveys its absorbing story in over 600 quests embedded in an atmospheric world.

This week Xbox 360 is kicking off two global 30-day specials to bring great deals on select Xbox Live content (every monday a deal on either a movie rental, a map pack or even an XBLA game) and even free multiplayer for a list of great XBLA titles.

In the Hotel for Dogs, based on the upcoming motion picture starring Emma Roberts and Jake T. Austin, players enter the old hotel to help two siblings, Andi and Bruce, feed and entertain an adorable collection of canines by building amazing gadgets, playing with the pooches and keeping the dogs happy in their new hotel home.

While Microsoft lauded last week's Black Friday sales in North America, overseas numbers have been through the roof as well. November was the Xbox 360's biggest sales month since its launched in Europe six years ago, with sales up 124% over last year.