Lighthouse Interactive's Dead Mountaineer's Hotel, developed by Akella, is a 3D point-and-click adventure in the style of Benoit Sokal's Syberia, based on the original story by famous Russian sci-fiction writers Strugatsky Brothers.

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:

• Disgaea DS (NDS)
• Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure (NDS)
• Combat Mission Shock Force: Marines (PC)
• Rebel Raiders: Operation Nighthawk (Wii)
• Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility (Wii)
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An original game based on the popular Japanese GAME CENTER CX TV series, Retro Game Challenge reinvents how classic games are played. Featuring a story-driven progression, players complete short challenges in a wide-variety of fictional retro-games, ranging from shooting, racing, action and even an epic RPG.

300 movie director Zack Snyder, currently working on Watchmen, has signed an agreement with EA to develop three original games with EA’s Los Angeles studio in Playa Vista. While the IPs will be owned by EA, Snyder’s Cruel & Unusual Films will have the option to produce film adaptations based on those properties.

dtp's RPG Venetica, developed by Deck 13 (Ankh, Jack Keane), is a visually stunning RPG with a cryptic storyline, mixing emotions and action in a unique free roaming and living sixteenth century world full of surprise.

Hilton Garden Inn is the world’s first hotel brand to offer an intensive, interactive employee training program designed and created specifically for use on the PSP.

Being a common citizen, there is a probability of one in a million of receiving the back mark, a device implanted in your body that emits a signal which can be followed. If you are marked, you have become the main star of The Hunt, the degeneration into a TV show of the governmental cleaning action.

KOEI's Zill O'll: Infinite Plus is a new RPG title for the PSP based on the 1999 original PSOne game, also remade for the PS2 in 2005, with several new elements. In Zill O'll: Infinite Plus you receive points for completing missions, which you can spend on any of your six soul types: Brave, Kind, Search, Belief, Wild and Cool (thanks Andreas).

Kalypso Media have signed Stardock's The Political Machine, a strategy game in which players run for President. Players can choose an existing candidate or can design their own from scratch, then choose a map/scenario to campaign in. From there, players must tackle the issues and battle against their ideological opponent for victory on election day.

Love puzzle games, but also love an adventure? Now you can have both in one game with Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure, an adventure-puzzle game that adds a new element of fun by combining the action of an adventure game with the challenge of a puzzle game all in one.