After recently being dropped by NCSoft, Spacetime Studios acquired the rights to its own space fantasy combat game Blackstar, but since the company is self-funded it was forced to scale down from thirty-two down to sixteen folks in the hopes of developing a pitch, a prototype and another publishing deal.

Having already received $1.5 million in June 2007, Ultizen Games announced that it has secured another $6 million USD in funding to support company’s continued rapid growth through acquisitions.

Las Vegas based developer HSC Labs has licensed has Simutronics' HeroEngine in connection with their massively multiplayer game project currently getting underway.

Theatre of War 2 is a 3D RTS that covers events of 1943, the operations in Tunisia. Players will have the option to lead the German Afrika Korps of Rommel, supported by Italian military contingent, in their last full-scale attack or be at the head of the opposing English and American armies.

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:

• Metal Slug 7 [NDS] - Trailer #2
• CustomPlay Golf 2009 [Wii/PC] - Trailer
• Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway [ALL] - Making Of Developer Diary #2
• Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising [ALL] - Grenade Trailer
• Tornado [NDS] - Lollipop Trailer
• Madden NFL 09 [ALL] - John Madden Interview Trailer
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Konami released its Q1 2009 financial results for the April-June quarter, revealing revenue went up 17% compared to the same period last year, while income jumped 65% dominated by the June 12 release of Metal Gear Solid 4, which has 3 million copies in two weeks. Kojima Productions' stealth action shooter boosted Konami's PS3 numbers from 1.3% last year to 57% this quarter, NDS, PS2 and PSP revenue dropped while Wii and X360 increased.

Red Alert 3 takes players on an epic RTS adventure to an alternate future spawned by time travel run amok, featuring a fully co-operative campaign, the series' light-hearted style and classic, action-oriented gameplay.

Deca Sports is an athletic offering, pulling together ten sporting events and pushing the player to their limits, fully using the Nunchuk/Wiimote to control your Mii like characters, including multiplayer. Hudson announced that its 10-Sport party game Deca Sports has exceeded 700,000 units shipped worldwide.

LittleBigPlanet is a community-based game where players meet on a blue and green planet scattered with individual plots, and use their character's abilities to play, create and share what they build with other gamers throughout the world via PS Network. Fans who pre-order LBP will get a Brady Games MiniGuide, a LittleBigStickerBook, a LittleBigPouch, an exclusive downloadable Nariko SackGirl and Kratos SackBoy.

Central to the appeal of Ghostlight's International Athletics, developed by The Code Monkeys, will be the immense variety of the ten gut-busting events and the innate need of man to compete and win against his fellow man.