Guitar Hero: World Tour will feature guitar, vocals, drums, the ability to create your own songs (and upload them on GHTunes), four-player on/offline co-op, and an eight-player battle of the bands multiplayer mode (4vs4). GameStop will host midnight launch events at 1,800 of its stores on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008.

SouthPeak Games' Ninjatown, based on the Shawnimals' designer toy line, is na action strategy title where you have to defend your peaceful town from Mr. Demon, using each of the ninja's unique skills and powers.

Akella's naval RPG title Age of Pirates II: City of Abandoned Ships, developed by Seaward.ru, will combine compelling gameplay and wonderful graphics thus bringing a new experience to all the fans of daring sword duels and ship-to-ship combats.

When Midway revealed last week that it was dropping various licenses it did not want to specify any particular titles or franchises, but promised to give more details in its upcoming quarterly financial statement. While it did say it only concerned non-core licenses, Epic's VP Mark Rein stated today that UT 3 was not part of the axed licenses, but instead that Epic is actively working with Midway to expand UT 3 with new content, although no further details were given.

Mushroom Men shows gamers the mundane world from the surreal perspective of a three-inch-high Mushroom Man. Unnoticed by humans, a war rages between the spore factions, and you, as a brave Bolete Mushroom Man, are given the opportunity to wreak havoc by transforming common household trinkets and trash into weapons and tools.

Hello Kitty Big City Dreams is a fun, exciting and cute mini game based adventure, featuring the popular Hello Kitty character.

Atlantica Online is bringing back turn-based and strategic gameplay to give a fresh face to the MMO world, a thinking person's game, giving you the chance to really strategize using the combat, mercenary and city/country management system.

Microïds announced that it has acquired the intellectual rights of the former Cryo video games catalogue as well as the Cryo brands such as the historical adventure games series like Atlantis, Jules Verne (Return to Mysterious Island, Journey to the Center of the Moon and Secrets of Nautilus) and Egypt, but also games like Hellboy, Salammbo or Thorgal.

Meridian4 and Hermitworks Entertainment Corporation announced their unique, habit-forming action/trading game; Space Trader: Merchant Marine has gone gold.

Mata Hari as a classic point-and-click PC adventure game that will tell a story based on the legendary dancer and spy, Mata Hari. The story and game design will be created by Hanover-based studio, 4Head.