SouthPeak Games' Ninjatown, based on the Shawnimals' designer toy line, is na action strategy title where you have to defend your peaceful town from Mr. Demon, using each of the ninja's unique skills and powers.

Xbox Live is having a scheduled downtime on Monday, Sep. 29 starting at 12:01am Pacific Time. It will be down for 24 hours as Microsoft prepares for the new stuff coming in the new Xbox experience. Xbox LIVE will be down as will those sections on Xbox.com that rely on the service such as "My Xbox", and while the forums will be viewable. you won't be able to post in them.

Larger, deeper, and loaded with thrills, Persona 4 delivers an all-new story set in the Japanese countryside. A mysterious chain of deaths remains unanswered and only you and your team of gifted supernatural sleuths can uncover the truth. Will you thwart this hidden evil before it is too late?

Audiosurf is a music-adapting puzzle racer where the shape, the speed, and the mood of each ride is determined by the song you choose.

Tenchu 4 will use the Wii Remote to fight, dash, jump and kill like a true ninja. Players will continue the saga of Rikimaru and Ayame, elite ninjas who must use their lethal skills to keep the peace in feudal Japan.

Empire: Total War, the new installment in The Creative Assembly’s Total War RTS franchise, will maintain the series 3D battles, grand turn based campaign map and rich historical flavor while for the first time introducing 3D naval combat into the series.

Everyone's favorite orange-clad ninja returns to the role-playing genre with Path of the Ninja 2, featuring an all-new original storyline, a huge roster of playable characters, an improved combat system and for the first time, exciting Wi-Fi battles.

Rune Factory 2 is set several years after the original, the evil Sechs Empire has been defeated, and the Kingdom of Norad is once again at peace. Things may not stay that way for long, however, as dark premonitions foretell of dangers to come. It's up to player to uncover the source of these premonitions and bring peace to the kingdom once more.

A recent video game habits survey fielded by PoshMama, a women exclusive online community, revealed that many women would rather play video games than catch up on sleep.

Zen Studios announced The Punisher: No Mercy coming exclusively to PlayStation Network. For the first time on consoles, you’ll see the Marvel Universe through a first-person perspective in some intense arena-based multiplayer action, complete with characters like Jigsaw, Bushwacker, Barracuda and even Silver Sable.

PopStar Guitar features songs from top pop music stars including 3 Doors Down, Simple Plan, Blink 182 and many more, allowing players to unlock their inner pop celebrity and star as the lead guitarist in their very own band.

Moon is a sci-fi, action-adventure title, placing gamers on the cold lunar surface in the year 2058. Researchers are shocked to find a sealed, alien hatch during construction of a new lunar base, but it's a shock that soon pales in comparison to what they find beyond the hatch. Pre-order Moon through GameSto and receive an exclusive telescoping Moon stylus and game case.

Offshore Tycoon is a casual time management simulator in which the player has to take control of harvesting equipment such as fishing trawlers, oil tankers and more. Every task has to be managed and completed quickly and efficiently in order to make money and in turn to progress.

In East India Company, players will enjoy building the world's most powerful trading empire and engaging in fierce battles in both single-player and multiplayer modes, all within a breathtaking cinematic environment.

Swarm Gold is a fast-paced, intense top down blaster that takes no prisoners, taking you on over 100 different tailor-made levels of extreme challenge where new enemies lurk around every corner and the only friend anyone wants is a gun...a really big gun.

Encompassing a variety of different characters while exploring many exotic locations and cultures across the game's universe of parallel worlds, Suikoden: Tierkreis will expand the bounds of the handheld RPG.

The saga continues as Master Chief returns to finish the fight, bringing the conflict between the Covenant, the Flood, and the entire human race to a dramatic, pulse-pounding climax. As promised, the Halo 3 update #2 is being rolled out, adding new campaign/multiplayer achievements, and also fixing various issues, add a new multiplayer ban method, and a per-playlist ranking of player skill. Celebrating Halo 3's one year anniversary, more content is expected later this week (possible the Mythic map pack).

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:

• BUZZ! Quiz TV (PS3)
• BUZZ! Master Quiz (PSP)
• Hell's Kitchen: The Game (NDS/Wii/PC)
• Brain Quest (NDS)
• Shaun the Sheep (NDS)
• Animal Paradise (NDS)
• Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2009 (PS2/Wii/PS3/X360)
• SimCity Creator (NDS/Wii)
• Babysitting Mania (NDS)
• Brothers In Arms Hell's Highway (PS3/X360)
• LEGO Batman: The Videogame (NDS/PSP/PS2/Wii/PS3/X360/PC)
• Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Colonization (PC)
• Dark Horizon (PC)
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Phantasy Star Portable includes the original PSU content, the Ambition of the Illuminus expansion pack, 4-player local multiplayer, PSP exclusive bosses and weapons, and a new History mode playable as a new character Vivienne.

In Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts the famous bear and bird duo return for a unique adventure of epic proportions. The Lord of the Games is tired of the petty squabbling between Banjo and the evil witch Gruntilda (aka Grunty) over the years, and has arranged a showdown to decide the rightful owner of Spiral Mountain.