Take up the reigns of your country, guide domestic and foreign policy, navigate thousands of historical events, engage in various struggles and lead your country to prosperity – all in the name of glory!

SOCOM Confrontation focuses on online play and the global community and clans with support for Tournaments, Clan Ladders, Leader Boards, as well as the ability to modify their appearance through facial and physical customization.

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.

Greed Corp is a fresh and innovative turn-based strategy game for PlayStation Network. It will be the first in a series of games situated in a rich, fictional world inspired by the industrial revolutions and their destructive effects on the environment.

On Sunday, 8th of November at about 0:30AM industry veteran and CEO of the Spellbound Entertainment Armin Gessert died from a heart attack. Armin had been developing games since 1984 and had risen to fame with the hit titles The Great Giana Sisters and The Great Courts.

Smoking Gun Interactive, formed by ex-Relic people, today launched its first installment of the graphic novel series titled “X”. Written by controversial, award-winning author and social critic Douglas Rushkoff, the series is illustrated by Smoking Gun’s lead concept artist Cheoljoo Lee and Younger Yang.

Pandemic Studios' new open-world environment stealth-action thriller, Saboteur is set against the dramatic backdrop of occupied France and based on a true story, the personal tale of one man’s fight to find and kill the Nazi thugs who murdered his friends.

Sacred 2 is a action-oriented deep fantasy RPG where players are immersed in an epic journey through the medieval-like kingdom of Ancaria featuring pitched battles and a wide range of enticing quests. The Sacred 2 Ice & Blood add-on adds a new character, varied new quests/stories, new in-game items, as well as two new single-player areas with all-new enemies.

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:

• Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage (Wii)
• Vegas Party (Wii)
• Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey (NDS/Wii)
• Harvest Moon: Animal Parade (Wii)
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (NDS/Wii/PS3/X360/PC)
• Harvest Moon: Sunshine Islands (NDS)
• For the Glory (PC)
• Dragon Ball: Raging Blast (PS3/X360)
• Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans (NDS)
• NBA 2K10 (Wii)
• BUZZ! Quiz World (PS3)
• DJ Star (NDS)

We will update this throughout the day when new announcements become available. Read more for details ...

StarCraft II will feature the return of the Protoss, Terran, and Zerg races. It's overhauled and re-imagined with Blizzard's approach to game balance, and it's designed to be the ultimate competitive RTS game. Earlier this year, Blizzard started accepting sign-ups for a beta that was scheduled to commence in late 2009, which was confirmed a few months later. At the Russian games expo IgroMir, Blizzard producer Chris Sigat supposedly revealed that this was getting pushed to 2010.