Midnight Club: Los Angeles provides a seamless environment for everyone who loves to compete, with no load times, no tracks, and no rules, allowing players to race who they want, when they want, and where they want in a recreation of LA.

SouthPeak Interactive announced the acquisition of Austin-based Gamecock Media Group.

Talisman is the quintessential fantasy hybrid board/role-playing game for up to four players, either online or offline. Originally scheduled for winter 2007, Capcom has canceled the project, even after trying to revive the development process by changing developers, and reverted the license back to Games Workshop.

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.

Rock Band 2 builds upon the first music game to introduce co-op band gameplay, multiple instruments, online multiplayer, unparalleled downloadable content and raises the bar by delivering an entirely new level of depth, connectivity, authenticity and features. The Stage Kit creates a light-and-smoke effect that is synchronized to the music and will help would-be rockers in living rooms look the part of rock stars on stage.

Combining 3D animation and 2D designs, A Vampyre Story follows the opera starlet, Mona, a woman kidnapped by Baron Shrowdy Von Kiefer and slowly becoming a creature of the night after coming under the vampire's spell.

Another day, another batch of games shipped to stores. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are announcements for:

• Dead Space (PS3/X360/PC)
• Deer Hunter Tournament (PC)
• Europa Universalis III: Complete (PC)
• FIFA Soccer 09 (PSP/PS2/PS3/X360/PC)
• Golden Axe: Beast Rider (PS3/X360)
• Littlest Pet Shop (NDS/Wii/PC)
• Naruto: Path of the Ninja 2 (NDS)
• Saints Row 2 (PS3/X360)
• Sam & Max Season One (Wii)
• SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation (PS3)
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Larger, deeper, and loaded with thrills, Persona 4 delivers an all-new story set in the Japanese countryside. A mysterious chain of deaths remains unanswered and only you and your team of gifted supernatural sleuths can uncover the truth. Will you thwart this hidden evil before it is too late?

Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop follows the harrowing tale of Frank West, an overly zealous freelance journalist on a hunt for the scoop of a lifetime. In pursuit of a juicy lead, he makes his way to the small suburban town of Willamette only to find that it has become overrun by zombies.

The New Xbox Experience will give X360 owners a completely new Xbox 360 experience that is fun, social and simple to use -- and puts more entertainment at their fingertips than any other device connected to the TV. Since the NXE update will require 128mb HD space to install, Microsoft is offering people with little space, or a HD-less X360 Arcade, a refurbished 20 GB hard drive for $19.99 or a free 512 MB Memory Card.

With customizable ships and characters from the Klingon Empire and United Federation of Planets, ground, space and shipboard gameplay and unique options for player-generated content set in the Star Trek universe, Star Trek Online is the MMOG that allows you to boldly go where no one has gone before!

Adult Swim is exposing fans and music lovers to hip-hop straight out of Johannesburg, South Africa in the comfort of their own country. African Swim is a collection of some of the most innovative contemporary African hip-hop music, compiling 15 tracks from some of South Africa's most popular hip-hop artists, downloadable for free.

In MySims you can create original characters, build a town, grow a community and discover a world of your own. Start by personalizing the appearance of your MySims from head to toe and go on to unlock cool new items as you befriend and build relationships with your neighbors.

Buckle up and prepare to unleash anarchy in the ultimate burner’s paradise as Burnout Paradise gives players license to wreak havoc in Paradise City, the ultimate seamless racing battleground with a massive infrastructure of traffic-heavy roads to abuse. After an attentive fan spotted a billboard ad sponsored by Presidential hopeful Barack Obama, EA confirmed that "the Obama campaign has paid for in-game advertising in Burnout."

Another day, another batch of game trailers was released. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are trailers for:

• Quantum of Solace [ALL] - Launch Trailer
• Dead Space [ALL] - Art/Gore/Creature Dev Diary Trailer
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Check out the following new screens and trailers from Sony Japan/America's Tokyo Game Show 2008 lineup:

• 'Resistance 2' (PS3) - New Screens
• 'Patapon 2' (PSP) - Screens & Trailer
• 'LocoRoco 2' (PSP) - 32 New Screens
• 'Resistance: Retribution' (PSP) - New Screens
• 'inFamous' (PS3) - New Screens
• 'Bleach: Soul Carnival' (PSP) - Screens
• 'Derby Time Online' (PS3) - New Screens
• 'Destroy All Heroes 2' (PSP) - New Screens
• 'Dissidia: Final Fantasy' (PSP) - New Screens
• 'Dress' (PS3) - New Screens
• 'Dynasty Warriors 6 Empires' (PS3) - New Screens
• 'Enkaku Sousa: Sana e no 23 Hiai' (PSP) - New Screens
• 'Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete' (PS3) - Screens
• 'Project Diva' (PSP) - New Screens
• 'LittleBigPlanet' (PS3) - New Screens
• 'Warriors Orochi 2' (PSP) - New Screens
• 'Gomibako' (PS3) - New Screens
• 'Juusei to Diamond' (PSP) - New Screens
• 'Monster Hunter Freedom Unite' (PSP ) - New Screens
• 'Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep' (PSP) - New Screens
• 'Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm ' (PS3) - New Screens
• 'WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009' (PS3) Career Mode - New Screens
• 'Noby Noby Boy' (PS3) - New Screens
• 'Final Fantasy Agito XIII' (PSP) - Screens
• 'Macross Ace Frontier' (PSP) - New Screens
• 'Minna de SPELUNKER ' (PS3) - New Screens

Galactic Bowling is a new stylized sports video game, powered by the Vicious Engine, delivering stunning, detailed graphics as well as intuitive and fluid, lifelike game play. Pre-order now and take 10% off its regular price ($19.99).

Sins of a Solar Empire will feature several micro-expansions over the next year, starting with Entrenchment which promises to bring fans a Starbase defense platform, turret upgrades to make them more powerful, mine fields and a Subspace Inhibitor platform that will slow enemy ships within its range.

Shrouded in secrecy and feared for their ruthlessness, you play the role of Altair, an Assassin intend to stop the hostilities by suppressing both sides of the conflict and throw the environment into chaos and shape events during this pivotal moment in history. In a recent interview, animation director David Wilkinson revealed that animator Alex Drouin is currently "busy making Altair even more beautiful" and "was getting Altair to swim," confirming a sequel is in the works.

The US Army has released a new version for America's Army: Special Forces (Overmatch). This upgrade brings their team-based multiplayer game to v2.84, and contains the Every Soldier a Sensor (ES2) training mission, a new multiplayer co-operative mission, and improved performance of the AI to react in a more realistic manner.