MapleStory is an online adventure game that centers around the "Maple World," allowing players to combat monsters and develop their characters' skills and abilities in an immense platform-inspired persistent world. MapleStory parties for its 4th anniversary with loads of special events, items, quests and rewards for players.

For the first time in the 15 year history of this 3-on-3 fighter game, The King of Fighters XII has undergone a complete graphical overhaul. All sprites used over the past 14 years have been dropped and replaced with new 2D high definition, high resolution sprites, on detailed 2D backgrounds, drawn 100% by hand.

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:

• Elite Forces: Unit 77 (NDS)
• Nancy Drew Dossier: Lights Cameras Curses! (PC)
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The party is over and the Rabbids are ready to go home...to the moon! Rabbids Go Home features a new wacky storyline, diverse gameplay and intuitive controls, and a vast array of environments that leads to hilarious capers as the Rabbids wreak havoc on the Humans in pursuit of their quest.

Activision announced an agreement with Nelvana Enterprises to develop video games based on the toy and action animated TV series Bakugan, which tells the story of Dan and his friends as they battle their Bakugan Brawlers to save the planet of Vestroia and, ultimately, Earth from destruction.

Xbox, Warner Bros. Entertainment UK and Pathé UK announce a partnership that will bring an extraordinary variety of locally UK-produced films to Xbox Live consumers. Pathé has been behind a variety of successful films, ranging from The Duchess and Hunger to recent Slumdog Millionaire.

All Aspect Warfare chronicles the adventures of an “elite” team of combat marines who crash landed on the enemy planet they were sent to completely destroy. Stranded and left for dead with a deployed thermo-nuclear weapon ticking somewhere, their only chance of escape lies deep within hostile territory.

Zoo Publishing announced a deal to license, publish, and distribute the catalog of titles previously published and developed by, the now defunct, Empire Interactive, allowing it to re-release previous Empire titles, to port previously released games to new platforms, and to create a new gaming content from existing IPs.

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 1,000 quests embedded in an atmospheric world.

Following on from their showing at the recent GDC in San Francisco, Paradox Interactive confirmed its presence at this year’s E3 Expo in Los Angeles where a number of their development teams will be on hand to showcase the latest builds and features of their titles, all of which are scheduled to release this year.