In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince you return to Hogwarts to help Harry survive a fraught sixth year. Engage in exciting wizard duels, mix and brew magical ingredients in Potions class, take to the air to lead the Gryffindor Quidditch team to victory, get sidetracked by Ron’s romantic entanglements and journey towards discovering the identity of the Half-Blood Prince.

Briefly mentioned in the latest Activison financial conference call earlier this year, no official announcement has been issued yet, however at last weekend's comic-con an Activision rep revealed that MUA 2 is being pushed from a, non-confirmed, tentative fall 2008 release until 2009. Probably done to give its freshly unveiled Spider-man game a bit more breathing room.

Summon Night: Twin Age is a fully stylus-driven action RPG set in the popular Summon Night universe featuring beautifully animated graphics, and addictive action RPG gameplay. The stylus is your key to the world of Clardona, whether as your swinging sword or your shimmering wall of fire.

38 Studios announced the expansion of its design team with the appointment of Travis McGeathy as systems design lead. Travis hails from SOE and joins his former co-workers at 38 Studios, Jason Roberts and Steve Danuser, who have been laying the groundwork in IP and game development in year one at the studio.

Ankama Games, known for its first MMO DOFUS, starts a new Tactical MMORPG project: Wakfu, featuring bright graphics and a fantasy universe much like its predecessor, even though the development team will be adding many innovations to the tactical gameplay.

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures is an Online Action RPG, mixing a deep, story-driven single-player experience and a massive and brutal multiplayer end-game that brings forth the ultimate representation of the Age of Conan. Funcom announced Age of Conan has gone gold, and that a patch will be available at launch with additional content, optimizations and bugfixes.

GRID takes players to locations over three continents to compete in a variety of racing events. Packed with the most powerful racecars - new and classic, circuit and drift - players will compete in urban street races, as well as conquer official racetracks and championships. The eBay Motors Marketplace will allow you to buy and sell performance vehicles in a realistic setting.

Activision and Infinity Ward are planning a new offensive with the Call of Duty 4 downloadable Variety Map Pack, a series of new multiplayer maps, coming to the PlayStation Network on Thursday April, 24 for both North America and Europe!

Project Origin continues F.E.A.R.'s supernatural suspense story of an escalating paranormal crisis that threatens to destroy a major American city. Alma, whose rage against those who wronged her triggered a chain of events that have spiraled completely out of control, now has free reign, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

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:

• The World Ends With You (NDS)
• Wild Earth: African Safari (Wii)
• Cory in the House (NDS)
• High School Musical 2: Work This Out! (NDS)
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  We will update this throughout the day when new announcements become available. Read more for details ...