Digital distribution outlet GamersGate announced its weekly specials, starting its holiday sales with the Advent Calendar holiday sale, marking down a slew of titles up to 83% (and a special buy 3 get one free promotion), such as Darkness Within 2, Europa Universalis franchise, Evil Genius, Legendary, Sam & Max, EVE Online, and a slew of others...

Shift 2 Unleashed builds on the true drivers experience by introducing the driver’s battle, an even more authentic and primal feeling of power and speed which elevates the fundamental competitive race into a struggle for supremacy against other drivers and even the track itself.

APB is a massively multiplayer online freeform combat and driving-based game, designed by the creator of the original GTA franchise, and takes  the universal theme of Criminals and Enforcement and brings it to a persistent, open world setting in a modern, crime-ridden city.

SBK 2011 will feature a brand new artistic direction, an up-to-date driving model to meet the gamers expectations following the most accurate feedback collected so far on the web, as well as a more appealing presentation and side effects, due to an overall enhancement of the whole visual impact.

Fighting as either U.S. Marines or North Vietnamese Army (NVA), the hostile combat terrain of the Vietnamese jungle is brought dramatically to life via the Frostbite engine with a host of authentic vehicles and weapons with which to engage the enemy.

Venetica is an action-RPG with an immersive storyline. Venetica mixes emotion and action in an intense and powerful setting. A unique and vibrant game world full of surprises, set in the beautifully rendered city of Venice during the 16th Century, awaits players in this captivating adventure game.

Pirates of the Burning Sea is an MMORPG set in the Caribbean islands of the 18th Century. As a bold sea captain, master of your own ship and crew, you seek glory and adventure across the trackless deep.

Dead Rising 2: Case West will extend the Dead Rising 2 experience by delivering brand new content and the return of a familiar face.

City Interactive announced that it has established a new, in-house development studio in London, England, and has named industry veteran, Stuart Black (know for the gunporn shooter Black and most recently working on Bodycount for Codemasters) as Creative Director of the new venture.

Bomberman Live: Battlefest will feature the same frantic action with 8-person online multiplayer that the series is known for, as well as a wealth of all-new features, including teams, new modes, new arenas, new power-ups, new costumes, and even the ability to use an avatar as a playable character.

Living rooms will transform into nightclubs to let budding beat chemists, singing sensations and all of their friends party together by firing up two turntable controllers and a microphone to experience their favorite music as they've never heard it before in DJ Hero 2.

Dr. Kawashima's Body and Brain Exercises challenges players to exercise both mind and body in the most cerebral and energetic party game ever from the originators of the video game brain training craze.

Ion Assault is a space combat action game in which, instead of conventional weapons, players use the free energy particles that are abundant in space to fend off swarms of aliens.

A Mystical Land is a free-to-play 3D fantasy MMO that combines elements of casual Facebook games with traditional MMOs.

Not to be outdone by Microsoft's Kinect announcement, Sony Computer Entertainment announced that the sales of PlayStation Move motion controller for the PS3 reached over 4.1 million units worldwide.

UPDATE: Sony admit that this number is units shipped to stores, not actually units "sold" to customers.

From Hamburg to South America: Bigpoint announced that the free-to-play online-game developer and publisher is opening  a new office in Sao Paolo, Brazil’s largest city.

Rift: Planes of Telara is a graphically stunning online game is set in a world being torn apart by dimensional “rifts” that tear into the land of Telara, releasing powerful forces that threaten the very existence of the entire universe.

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:

• Arma 2: Private Military Company Expansion Pack (PC)
• Deathspank: Thongs of Virtue (PC)
• Epic Mickey (Wii)
• Eve Online: Incursion DLC (PC)
• Golden Sun: Dark Dawn (NDS)
• Halo: Reach Noble Map Pack DLC (X360)
• Lylian: Episode One - Paranoid Friendship (PC)
• PT Boats: South Gambit (PC)
• Silly Bandz (NDS)
• Star Shipping (PC)
• Zumba Fitness: The Video Game (Wii/PS3/X360)

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

Magic: The Gathering - Tactics will allow players to command forces of dramatic 3D figures and powerful spell cards pulled from the Magic: The Gathering Multiverse. Players can participate in single player scenarios or jump right into PVP action against other players worldwide, 24 hours per day.

Microsoft announced that demand over the Black Friday weekend has propelled retail sales of Kinect for Xbox 360 to more than 2.5 million units worldwide since it launched just 25 days ago.