In tow with Valve, Blizzard is planning to add to StarCraft 2 and Diablo 3 but is starting its experiment with the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion which will track player's achievements and centralize the info into Blizzard Account according to an interview with WoW lead designer Jeff Kaplan. As more of its games get added, the system will migrate to an Xbox Live type gamerscore where players can compare statistics from their various Blizzard games with other people.

Paradox Interactive 's Mount & Blade is a single-player, third- or first-person action/role-playing game with a focus on medieval combat.

The Guild 2: Pirates of the European Seas add-on provides a total new area – the seas of Northern Europe, where trading might be as promising as roaming the dangerous waters as a pirate. This v2.1 (also works for the Gold Edition) adds Guilds, special quests/rewards, Alderman title, fixes various bugs, including pathfinding, game logic, management of supply & demand of goods, stability issues, out of sync problems (multiplayer stability!) etc...

The Guild 2 will be a combination of unique sweeping role-play and a fascinating life-simulation, conjuring the medieval life anew on your PC. This v1.40 patch fixes out of sync errors, improves performance, fixes several bugs concerning gameplay events and interaction, logic issues and so on.

Legendary presents a world suddenly thrust into chaos and turmoil when ancient creatures of myth are unleashed into modern day society, and it is up to you, as the cause of it all, to stop it all.

Having just released Art of Murder: FBI Confidential, City Interactive is already preparing a follow-up point-and-click adventure developed by the same studio. In Testament of Faith, you play French archaeology student Sylvie Leroux in search of a medieval dark secret linked to the Maltese Order, taking you to various locations such as Istanbul, Malta and Rome.

Last month Microsoft revealed that it was reducing the price of its 20GB unit to $300 while at the same time introducing a 60GB edition for $380. According to Ars Technica there might be more as its sources revealed Microsoft might hack off another $50 off the entire model lineup, the HD less Xbox 360 Arcade would go from $279 to $199, while the 60GB Xbox 360 Pro gets reduced from $ 350 to $299, and the high end 120GB Xbox 360 Elite would be sold for $399 instead of its original $449 price.

Originally scheduled in 2000 as a DreamCast title, Thunder Force VI is a side scrolling shooter game in development for the PS2, directed by SEGA's Tetsu Okano, known for Segagaga, Astro Boy: Omega Factor and Gunstar Super Heroes.

1C Company has signed an exclusive partnership agreement with Gamecock that will allow it to license, market, localize and publish Gamecock titles throughout Russia, CIS, Baltic countries, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland.

MTV and Harmonix announced that next week's addition to the Rock Band Music Store will be a bunch of new tracks, System of a Down will add B.Y.O.B. and Toxicity to the mix (160 MSP$1.99) while the Cruefest track pack #2 includes Buckcherry's Rescue Me, Mötley Crüe's Face Down In The Dirt, and Sixx AM's Life Is Beautiful (each 80 MSP/$0.99 or 240 MSP/$2.99 for the pack)