On December 6th, Microsoft plans to roll out a major dashboard update for its Xbox 360, adding new personal and social features including cloud storage for game saves and Live profile, beacons and facebook sharing, enhanced family Settings, ntegrated voice and gesture controls across the dashboard and in apps, and bing voice search.

SoulCalibur V delivers exhilarating 3D fighting mechanics, breathtaking visuals, and new characters, as well as expanding the online and character creation modes.

Max Payne 3 tells the story of a retired police detective embroiled in a world of corruption, turmoil and intense violence.

Spec Ops: The Line is a provocative and gripping third-person modern military shooter that challenges players' morality by putting them in the middle of unspeakable situations where unimaginable choices affecting human life must be made.

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:

• Batman: Arkham City (PC)
• Batman: Arkham City - Robin Bundle Pack DLC (PS3/X360/PC)
• Corpse Party (PSP)
• Final Fantasy V (PSN)
• Fishing Resort (Wii)
• Karaoke Revolution Glee: Volume 3 (Wii/X360)
• The King of Fighters XIII (PS3/X360)
• Kung-Fu High Impact (X360)
• Pahelika: Revelations (PC)
• Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 (Wii/PSP/PS2)
• Saban's Power Rangers Samurai (NDS/Wii)
• Serious Sam 3: BFE (PC)
• Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster - Unidentified Furry Objects DLC (X360)
• SkyDrift (PC)
• Super Star Kartz (NDS/3DS/Wii/PS3/X360) - Europe Only
• Tekken Hybrid (PS3)
• WWE All Stars (3DS)

We will update this throughout the day when new announcements become available. Read more for details ...

PS Vita incorporates a 5-inch multi-touch organic light emitting diode as the front display and a unique multi-touch pad on the rear. Together with the front touch screen and the rear touch pad, PS Vita offers new game play experiences, allowing users to interact directly with games in three dimension-like motion, through "touch, grab, trace, push and pull" finger motions.

White Knight Chronicles II is a fantasy role-playing game that seamlessly blends the interactive multiplayer co-op experience with the cinematic storytelling of a single-player RPG.

Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc is a cartoon fantasy in which Rayman comes face-to-face with some of his greatest adversaries yet. In addition to vibrantly detailed worlds and innovative game play, it features a deep story line that will immerse players in this unique experience.

Pathfinder Online is a fantasy sandbox MMORPG that will cast players as heroes in a unique online world filled with sword & sorcery adventures and kingdoms inhabited and controlled by thousands of competing players.

City of Heroes is a superhero themed MMORPG that offers a host of gameplay features, allowing you to create your own heroes, band together with others to fight evil, build your own secret HQ and strive to become the premiere hero group in the city.

Call of Duty Elite is a new online service that unites and ignites the Call of Duty multiplayer community. The service offers features which significantly enhance the franchises' multiplayer experience and deliver a new level of social engagement to players worldwide.

Mythos is an online, action RPG that is free to download and free to play. Set in the land of Uld, players assume the roles of fantasy heroes as they explore, adventure, and quest through entirely randomized dungeons and environments.

RAGE is an FPS set in the not-too-distant future after an asteroid impacts Earth, leaving a ravaged world behind. You emerge into this vast wasteland to discover humanity working to rebuild itself against such forces as bandit gangs, mutants, and the Authority – an oppressive government regime that has a special interest in you in particular.

Oil Rush is a real-time strategy game based on the group control, offering mechanics of a classical RTS combined with a Tower Wars genre: control construction and upgrading of production platforms as well as their defence forces, and send battle groups of naval and air units to capture enemy's platforms and oil rigs.

In F1 2011 players will be challenged to ‘Be the driver, live the life, go compete’, with wide-ranging technical and gameplay advancements on and off track and vastly extended competitive and co-operative multiplayer components.

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings features all new dialogue, updated graphics engine, realistic environment, revamped day/night cycle, actions that affect AI behavior, more dynamic/spectacular/bloody finishing moves and plenty more.

Bundled up in my cozy blankies, and I was out for the night ...