Inon Zur's orchestral music from Ubisoft's Prince of Persia games will be performed in front of a live audience for the first time as part of the "A Night in Fantasia 2009" at the Sydney Entertainment Centre, Australia, on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009.

Mini Fighter is a frenetic, side-scrolling fighting game that features massively multiplayer online battles of up to 210 combatants. Players can level-up their fighters and compete in a wide variety of modes, from Survival and Tag Team matches to Boss fights and daily Siege Warfare.

For the first time ever, you can customize the makeup of your band with any combination of instruments in-game: two guitars and two drums, or three guitars and a microphone, etc. while also adding new gameplay modes. With every purchase of specially marked copies of GH5 during the month of September, fans will be able to rock out with an advance copy of the unreleased Guitar Hero Van Halen long before it takes the stage in stores.

The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest is a new 3rd person action adventure where players assume the role of Aragorn and embark on his greatest quests from The Lord of the Rings trilogy as they wield his sword, bow or spear on foot and on horseback through an action-packed gameplay experience. Originally slated for fall 2009, WBIE has delayed the game until Spring 2010.

While the game shares its twisting plot with the original PlayStation game, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories takes a different path in many, many ways. Characters can be approached but will offer different responses and be found in different places, while new clues and gameplay paths can be followed.

In a vast open world environment, Assassin's Creed II invites players to incarnate Ezio, a privileged young noble in Renaissance Italy who's been betrayed by the rival ruling families of Italy, and seeking vengeance.

Offering a fun and unique new baseball experience, Baseball Blast! gives fans the opportunity to test their abilities in a variety of unique game modes, including skill challenges, puzzles, and trivia matches, as well as entertaining play-by-play commentary by popular baseball personalities.

StarCraft II will feature the return of the Protoss, Terran, and Zerg races, overhauled and re-imagined with Blizzard's approach to game balance, designed to be the ultimate competitive RTS game.

Introducing new class-based gameplay, mobile bases and persistent player progression throughout all game modes, Command & Conquer 4 offers players new, innovative and compelling strategic depth.

Phantom EFX's Darkest of Days, using 8Monkey Labs' proprietary Marmoset game engine, is a story-rich, first-person shooter presenting an intriguing story of time-travel to some of the darkest periods in the history of mankind.

Two Worlds II presents a totally new experience, one in which 2 years of intensive development has enabled quantum leaps in all spheres: completely overhauled AI and balancing standards, experienced authors, the active combat system and the brand-new engine all combine to provide an experience where excitement, sheer enjoyment and graphics rule.

Ready to set the standard for fighting games with stunning realism and uncompromising quality, Tekken 6 promises to deliver a pulse-pounding edge-of-your-seat experience with bone-jarring punches and gut-wrenching grapples.

Capcom announced its line-up of titles it will be showing off at GamesCom 2009 (August 19th – 23rd), such as Lost Planet 2, Monster Hunter Tri, MotoGP 09/10 and Wii brawler Spyborgs.

Get ready to ditch the workout and join the Zumba movement as Majesco has teamed up with Zumba Fitness to bring the workout experience to video games.

dtp's Drakensang: The River Of Time is going to tell a new story within the Drakensang universe, bringing as much innovations as tried and true game elements to Radon Labs' fantasy RPG.

Prison Break was originally announced by Brash, but after its demise, the status was unknown, although Zootfly confirmed the game was still in development. Koch Media has signed a license agreement with 20th Century Fox regarding the worldwide publication rights to a video game based on the TV series Prison Break.

Dragonica is a free-to-play, cartoon side-scrolling, micro-transaction-based casual MMO mixing elements of action and arcade.

Dead Space Extraction is a prequel that reveals the events leading up to Isaac Clarke’s mission on the USG Ishimura in the original Dead Space game. Dead Space Extraction will marry the innovative motion controls of the Wii Remote with a frenetic first person perspective to create a new action-packed horror experience.

Blizzard Entertainment announced that the Prince of Darkness, Ozzy Osbourne, will headline the closing concert at this year’s BlizzCon, which will take place August 21-22 at the Anaheim Convention Center. While tickets to the convention sold out in minutes, a live Pay Per View event will be available via Internet stream and in HD on DIRECTV.

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:

• Active Life: Outdoor Challenge (Wii)
• C.O.R.E. (NDS)
• Brave: A Warrior’s Tale (Wii/X360)
• Real Heroes: Firefighter (Wii)
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