Qubesoftware says that Near London, a virtual world built on Qube's future generation middleware 'Q', showcases a new generation of virtual worlds that has the potential to widen the appeal of online gaming.

Begin your odyssey at the dawn of life as a simple microbe just trying to survive, then evolve the creature from its microscopic origins into an intelligent, tool-using race, becoming a global civilization and choose whether to hunt or forage, attack or trade. The Spore Creature Creator gives you the opportunity to design your own species, share it with others, and imported them into the full retail version once released.

Doodle Hex is a game of magical dueling where aspiring Doodlers compete head-to-head for fun and glory by drawing runes onto the screen, in real time, to create powerful and fun spells to inflict on their opponent.

Back in early 2007 New Line Cinema (now a unit of Warner Bros.) acquired the movie rights to Epic's action game Gears of War, to be adapted by Stuart Beattie and produced by Temple Hill Entertainment. Twilight producer Wyck Godfrey revealed that the script was ready and the movie was scheduled for summer 2010 with a director about to be attached. According to Variety that turns out to be Die Hard 4 helmer Len Wiseman, who previously did Underworld (and sequel). Wiseman is set to make a new draft of the film's screenplay with The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift screenwriter Chris Morgan.

Claude Boulet and his team of elite French Foreign Legion commandos have to face their biggest challenge yet! General Mendoza’s mercenaries have invaded the Île Royale in the French Guiana, where scientists in a secret atomic research facility are working on an experimental nuclear reactor.

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:

• Alone in the Dark [ALL] - Making Of Introduction Trailer
• Belief & Betrayal - Trailer #5
• Project Origin [ALL] - Trailer (2)
• Belief & Betrayal - Trailer #5
• Battlefield: Bad Company [ALL] - Eye Patch Trailer
• Guitar Hero: Aerosmith [ALL] - Behind The Scenes DMC Trailer
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

Safecracker is a puzzle adventure game that requires you to use your wits, deductive reasoning, and puzzle solving skills to crack the master safe! Take on the role of an expert safecracker hired by the wealthy family of recently deceased billionaire, Duncan W. Adams, to find the deed to his riches in one of 35 extraordinary safes.

Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon follows Crypto on a journey of enlightenment and hi-fi destruction as he faces his most dangerous enemy yet and lampoons the pop culture of the Funked Out 1970s.

TF2 is a class-based, multiplayer team warfare game, delivering new game types, a signature art style powered by Valve’s next-gen animation technology, persistent player statistics, etc... The Pyro Update will be made available Thursday and contains three unlockable new weapons, 35 new achievements, and two user-created maps. To give everyone a chance to try the new weapons and community maps, another Team Fortress 2 Free Weekend will commence this Friday at 11 am PDT.

Happy Tree Friends, based on the cult-classic cartoon by Mondo Media, is a bright, colorful, and immensely bloody platformer where gamers have to save their friends, including popular favorites Lumpy, Nutty, and Handy, from inevitably gory deaths.