The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) announced today that its founding president, Douglas Lowenstein, will leave the organization early next year after twelve years of service to launch a new trade association in the investment industry.

inXile entertainment announced today that it has acquired the rights to the addictive 'toy' Line Rider, and will bring all the fun & thrills of the addictive Web version, aswell as adding new features, to the NDS and Nintendo Wii.

TLotR: Shadows of Angmar will allow players to forge heroic legacies in the War for Middle-Earth, experience an evolving persistent recreation of Tolkien's fantasy realm where you can establish their unique reputations, and discover and wield legendary weapons in strategic battles, while adventuring solo or in Fellowships.

While already revealed a little while ago, EA officially announced the development of the NDS exclusive Theme Park, allowing players to create, manage, and develop their own fun-filled park, packed with amazing rides, enticing shops and engaging sideshows, all via an intuitive Touch Screen interface.

Overclocked, developed by House of Tales team, known for The Moment of Silence, is a psychological thriller which uses many technical innovations and a surprising narrative approach to form an eerily real gaming experience.

EA announced Medal of Honor Vanguard, where you reprise the role of Frank Keegan, Corporal of the 82nd Airborne Division and engage in behind enemy lines missions throughout Europe, epic battles that turned America’s first paratroopers into heroes of WWII

Dusk-12 is an FPS about a project to create the perfect soldier that ran out of control, and turned into the incurable virus. The whole city is now under quarantine as the inhabitants transformed into blood-thirsty assassins. A group of Spec Ops. soldiers are now trying to uncover the secrets of those aborted experiments undertaken 4 years ago.

Deep Silver has released a new patch for D-Alive's zoo management game Wildlife Park2 . This v1.11 patch (for all international editions) although there are no details as to what this patch actually fixes ...

In its continuous push to promote its Steam titles, Valve is once more offering Outerlight's multiplayer first person maritime gaming experience, The Ship, for free. Everyone is invited to try The Ship free from December 22nd through 26th. Set on a series of luxury, art deco cruise ships built by Mr X, this devilish game challenges you to kill or be killed.

FIFA Manager 07, previously known as Total Club Manager 2006 is getting an expansion to its already extensive 2,000 clubs and over 20,000 players. The Extra Time expansion, currently only announced in Germany as "Verlängerung," adds new stadiums from all over Europe, new features such as ability to sell advertisement, start as coach, half time screens with commentary and plenty more..

In an interview with MTV, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe's CEO Phil Harrison revealed that a sequel for LocoRoco is in the works, "It was a very successful game for us and we're continuing to evolve the franchise," he said. "We're going to bring 'LocoRoco' back in a couple of new ways with some new friends in the future."

Nintendo has plenty in store to keep your Wii Remote and touch screen busy in the New Year. Whatever sort of games you like to play there is something for everyone, ranging from nail-bitingly addictive puzzle games to adrenaline-filled action titles. With no less than 66 NDS titles and 26 Wii games, this selection will keep you tied up until Easter!

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade is the exciting new expansion to Blizzard's massively multiplayer online role-playing game. It expands the game by tremendous bounds, adding new races, quest, lands, Battlegrounds, professions and items, raising the level cap to 70, and more.

In a post morten look at Prey, Human Head Studios' CEO, Tim Gerritsen, and co-founder Chris Rhinehart look back at their long in development sci-fi shooter Prey, and give us more details behind the ideas and development. In closing Chris briefly touches on the currently in development Prey 2, stating that they are looking into dynamic stuff, developing the Portal system and the improving the way the alien AI uses the portals. A reference to a Prey mod allowing you to create your own portal with the wrench might be a clue to expect something similar in the sequel.

GripShift combines high-flying stunt driving with unique puzzle-solving action in an all-out, pedal-to-the-metal racing experience. Sidhe Interactive is optimizing the PSP version for the PS3 (720p, 60fps), which will be downloadable from the PlayStation Store in demo mode (limited to a subset of the levels in Challenge Mode), which you can then purchase and unlock the full game.

In Final Fantasy XI, players embark on numerous adventures through vast environments in Vana'diel: a persistent world with over a hundred areas to explore, including mountains, forests, glaciers, deserts, oceans, rivers, castles, and dungeons. This December update adds new features, job adjustments, salvage, besieged updates, warping to Sky, and more!

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:

• Dragon Quest IX : Defender Of The Stars [NDS] - Trailer
• The Shield [PS2/PC] - Trailer
• Fuzion Frenzy 2 [X360] - Trailer #6
• Pirates Constructible Strategy Game Online - Trailer
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Meridian4 has signed a multi-title publishing agreement with Cinemax to bring two of their casual titles; Bugs Escape 3D and Gumboy: Crazy Adventures to North America.

SilverBirch Studio's War! is an RTS on the DS that lets you command up to 64 units on each side, and offers both a tactical and combat view using the dual screens.

THQ brings some holiday cheer to its sandbox action game Saints Row. The freely downloadable The Ho Ho Ho Pack (not available in Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan) adds Santa Claus ensemble to your inventory, including coat, hat, boots and hair, now available for download on Xbox Live Marketplace.