Rock Band allows you to perform music from the world’s biggest rock artists with your friends as a virtual band using drum, bass/lead guitar and microphone peripherals, in addition to offering online connectivity. Harmonix, MTV Games, and Rhino Entertainment announced a deal that will bring 18 master tracks from the Grateful Dead to Rock Band after its initial launch.

SCEA announced the availability of the limited-edition Daxter PSP Entertainment Pack, which features the new "Ice Silver" colored PSP system; Daxter Greatest Hits game; the animated TV comedy, "Family Guy -- The Freakin' Sweet Collection," on UMD; and a 1GB Memory Stick PRO Duo, starting today for $199.99.

Nerjyzed Entertainment, an African American owned digital entertainment company, announced its new sports videogame, Black College Football Experience. An authentic, action-packed football game created using the Unreal 3.0 engine, BCFx is a cultural experience that puts players and fans into the heart of black college football.

One The Sims title ships, another gets announced. EA announced the beta launch of The Sims On Stage, an interactive online playground that allows anyone with a standard PC or Mac and broadband connection to unleash their inner creativity by recording karaoke songs, stories, comedy routines and more.

As we revealed a few weeks ago, EA officially announced that Boogie is coming to the NDS/PS2. Boogie will have gamers dancing, singing and starring in their own music videos. Players can also choose and customize different characters in the game to best show off their dancing style and karaoke skills.

Alone in the Dark returns with a heart-stopping survival experience realized through the use of real-time physics and environmental interaction combining to deliver an action-orientated experience within a detailed, open environment. Atari Europe confirmed that the PC/X360 editions are still on track for March 2008, but the PS3 version, while still in development, is pushed back to an unknown date.

White Gold: War in Paradise explores the shadowy background of modern low intensity conflicts, where the newest weapons often do battle with the antics of witchdoctors. An FPS with a handful of RPG elements thrown in for a good measure, White Gold offers a rich scenario in addition to the non-stop action.

UberSoldier 2 is sequel to 2005's is a 3D FPS that tells the alternative story of World War II. The main character – Karl Stolz – falls into the net of global conspiracy and becomes the part of the secret Nazi experiment devoted to the creation of the UberSoldier, but ends up joining the resistance.

Microids has signed an agreement with Kheops Studio to develop Dracula 3, an adventure game inspired by the world of Bram Stoker, and sequel to 1999's Dracula: The Resurrection, followed by Dracula 2: The Last Sanctuary in 2000).

Chromadrome 2 is set in the world of Chromates, happy-go-lucky, quantum particles that just love playing games. It's your goal to help Chromate stay on the track, while negotiating loops, jumping holes, and clearing a path through hundreds of other silly Chromates that just love to get in your way.

FIFA 08 will create a football experience that matches the complexity, finesse and beauty of the real-world game. FIFA 08 challenges you to master the skills required to play like a pro football player, allowing you on the pitch to defy the odds, perfect your skills, elevate your game and rise up to win glory for your club.

Capcom revealed a preliminary lineup for the Tokyo Game Show, where it will show off a multitude of titles such as We Love Golf (Wii), Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles (Wii), Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure (Wii), Mega Man Star Force 2 (DS), Wantame Music Channel Doko Demo Style (DS), Devil May Cry 4 (PS3, Xbox 360), Sengoku Basara 2 Heroes (PS2), and reportedly 3 unannounced titles.

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:

• Godzilla: Unleashed [NDS/PSP/Wii] - Trailer (2)
• Heavenly Sword [PS3] - Trailer (2)
• Huxley [X360/PC] - Orchestral Score Trailer
• Instinct - Trailer
• Sam & Max Season Two - Trailer #3
• Tony Hawk's Proving Ground [ALL] - Demo Trailer
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Based on the MTV crazy-stunts-gone-bad-on-purpose show Jackass: The Game, developed by Sidhe Interactive, features mini-games, story mode and all the raunchy, and craziness you come to expect from the TV show, with likeness/voices from the real cast.

Anybody who logs into his Xbox Live account during the course of the day will be notified that Xbox Live will be down for maintenance, starting at 2:01 PDT on September 10th, for approximately four hours. Whether it is for a fall dashboard update, or preparing for the Halo 3 launch, no further details were provided.

Mutant is third person 3D shooter where the main hero is able to use several special abilities, the most significant one is the presence of two more hands that are placed in two hollows in his jacket directly under the arms. Mutant can hold different guns in each hand and he can fire at several targets at once.

Square Enix announced its Tokyo Game Show lineup, where it will show off a multitude of titles in playable form, such as FF Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates (NDS), FF IV (NDS), FF Tactics A2: The Sealed Grimoire (NDS), Crisis Core: FF VII (PSP), Dragon Quest IV (NDS), Chocobo's Dungeon: Toki-wasure no Meikyuu (Wii). New footage for non-playable titles such as, FF XI: Wings of the Goddess (multi), Dissidia: FF (PSP), FF XIII (PS3), FF Versus XIII (PS3), The Last Remnant (Xbox 360, PS3), and Dragon Quest IX : Protectors of the Sky (NDS).

Sony announced its Tokyo Game Show lineup, where it will show off a multitude of titles, such as echochrome, Go! Sports Ski, Heavenly Sword, LittleBigPlanet, Lair, Warhawk, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, Mainichi Issho, Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, and White Knight Story. SCEJ will display 40 titles in total at its booth, read more for the list ...

SKATE will deliver the feel of skating through innovative controls, authentic cameras and a fully reactive skateboarding city. The game features professional skaters such as Danny Way and PJ Ladd, as well as a reactive city and relevant in-game cameras that capture and deliver the most authentic skateboard experience to date.

DEFCON is an online, competitive, multiplayer strategy game based around the theme of global thermonuclear war. 30 of the best UK DEFCON players competed on Saturday 1st Sept. for the championship, as well as a jackpot of prizes worth up to £10,000, including a 50” Philips plasma screen TV.