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. Just in time for the German Oktoberfest, MapleStory Europe invites players to its annual virtual beer festival with (alcohol-free) beer-drinking monsters in tow.

Clay flies in this humorous clay-kicking head-to-head fighter series. Classic characters, rendered in clay, duke it out to find the ultimate Clay Fighter!  After a meteor transforms a circus into super-powered clay juggernauts, the clay fighters start a tournament to see who will challenge the awesome N. Boss.

Our House Party is the only game that lets you build and remodel your home as you design a unique customized creation. After shopping for raw materials in the Home Store, players will use their Wii Remote to hammer, saw, paint, tile and much more as they assemble and decorate their family dwelling.

Spore Creature Creator 2-D is a new Flash application where players experience an all new take on the variety and creative fun offered by the original 3-D Spore Creature Creator. Now available for free, players can create a creature from scratch or import a creature from the Sporepedia.

Matrix Games' War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition, developed by 2 by 3 Games, is a new expansion for its WWII strategy game War in the Pacific, adding more detail, more history, and more features! This incremental hotfix update fixes two critical issues with the v1.00.84 official update.

Modern Warfare 2 continues the gripping and heart-racing saga with an unprecedented level of action as players face off against a new threat dedicated to bringing the world to the brink of collapse.

Halo 3: ODST is a new game in the Halo saga that lets people experience events leading up to the epic story told in Halo 3 through the eyes of an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper, as they search for clues leading to the whereabouts of their scattered squad and the motivations behind the Covenant's invasion of New Mombasa.

Family Fun Football is a fun, arcade-style casual sports game for everyone to enjoy, where you can play against friends and family in vibrant themed football stadiums, or perhaps even in space!

A little bit of excitement at the end of the day with Microsoft announcing a 250GB Elite Modern Warfare 2 bundle, and all nicely painted. Might have to get one of those suckers ....

Apart from that, the day was pretty uneventful on my end, mostly work. Adam called in with a bit of good news. Apparently we got a call back from Nathan Fillion's publicist, and we are going to do an interview later this week. For the uninitiated, Fillion is an actor who's best known as Capt. Mal Reynolds in the "Firefly" TV series and "Serenity" movie. He's currently starring as crime novel writer Richard Castle in the ABC series, "Castle," but more importantly for us gamers, he's voicing Buck in Halo 3: ODST. Since we're big Firefly fans (as evidenced by the title of this post), we were very excited by this news, so check back in a few days for the end result.

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:

 

• Borderlands [ALL] - Trailer (5)

We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ..