Majesty 2: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim will focus on reinventing many aspects of the original game, updating the franchise for the 21st Century. A key element that will permeate the game is the charm and humor of the original Majesty.

In Colonization, players lead one of four European nations on a quest to conquer and rule the New World. Players will be challenged to guide their people from the oppressive motherland, discover the New World, and negotiate, trade and fight with both the natives and other nations as they acquire power and fight for freedom and independence.

Volition, Inc.'s third-person shooter franchise will make its open-world, next-gen debut with Red Faction: Guerrilla. Set 50 years after the climactic events of the original Red Faction, this third-person, open-world action-shooter will return to Mars and once again redefine the limits of destruction-based gameplay.

With the New Xbox Experience, Xbox 360 fans have been able to customize their avatars with various features and attributes. Microsoft promised it would be releasing new items every 2 weeks. Making good on its promise, you can now pimp out your avatar like rodeo riders with boots, cowboy hats, duster, jeans, dungarees and skirts.

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs reunites fans with Scrat, Sid, Manny and Diego in an all-new quest based on the upcoming film from Twentieth Century Fox. As the unlikely herd travels across the tundra and beyond, they stumble upon another world - a lush Dinosaur World teeming with jungles, mysterious plants, fierce dinosaurs, wild new adventures and several new friends.

Crytek will unveil CryENGINE 3 for PS3, X360 and PC at this year's GDC (Mar. 25-27) in San Francisco. CryENGINE 3 is the first development platform that is also next-gen-ready, with scalable computation and graphics for all major upcoming platforms.

Rune Factory: Frontier incorporates an open-ended structure that allows players to choose the type of game they wish to experience. Whether it's growing crops, expanding the town, fighting (or befriending) monsters or even falling in love.

The GAME British Academy Video Games Awards showcased the creative innovation taking place in the video game industry this year. Steven Spielberg won his first BAFTA as a game developer for Boom Blox, and Call of Duty 4 won two BAFTAs and the coveted "GAME Award of 2008," which was voted on by the public.

What if you had to live your whole life in one location … and then one day, suddenly, you could step outside and go anywhere in the whole neighborhood? The Sims 3 gives you the freedom to create unique Sims and immerse them in your own living neighborhood of endless possibility!

Announced a few weeks ago, Obulis, Meridian4's physics-based hardcore casual game, will be available Mar. 19 on Steam and will cost $9.99.

Featuring three intense campaigns, brand-new multiplayer modes and an innovative "direct-fire" feature that allows even more tactical control during the heat of battle, Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor will immerse players in some of the most historic, tide-turning clashes of World War II.

AMD announced that it has shipped the 50 millionth ATI "Hollywood" graphics processor for Nintendo's Wii console. This figure is in line with the forecast that Nintendo made last year about shipping 50 million Wii consoles by spring 2009.

Blade Games, formed last month, has secured an initial round of financing for $4 million from California Technology Ventures.

Vancouver 2010 is an authentic simulation of a host of events from the upcoming Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, focusing on the adrenalin rush that comes from the extreme speed of winter sports. Including the all new challenge mode, it will allow players to immerse themselves in the world's greatest sporting event like never before.

Chinatown Wars is an original entry in the GTA franchise, bringing a new level of interactivity to its sprawling open environments.

Designed to deliver a true driver’s experience that reflects contemporary motorsports, Need for Speed Shift is built by racers for racers, delivering an authentic and immersive driving experience.

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning brings Games Workshop's fantasy world to life in a way that will allow players to create characters destined for great deeds and glory on the field of battle. Layoffs, departures and a shrinking user base are not very good signs for WAR's future, and now Mythic is closing 63 of its servers.

With customizable ships and characters from the Klingon Empire and United Federation of Planets, ground, space and shipboard gameplay and unique options for player-generated content set in the Star Trek universe, Star Trek Online is the MMOG that allows you to boldly go where no one has gone before!

At yesterday's 2009 GAME British Academy Video Games Awards ceremony, where Fable II won the best Action and Adventure award, British TV celebrity Jonathan Ross prematurely revealed that Lionhead is working on the next installment in the Fable franchise. After the event, Ross updated his Twitter with, "Got asked to do voice in Fable 3 tonight," confirmed that it was legit, only to update hours later that he owed Peter Molyneux an apology for revealing something that wasn't announced yet.

Microsoft announced that it has signed more movie content for Xbox Live thanks to two new partners: TNA Wrestling and The Weinstein Company.