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:

• Backyard Football '09 (NDS/PS2/Wii/PC)
• Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (NDS)
• Combat Wings: Battle of Britain (PC)
• DanceDanceRevolution Universe 3 (X360)
• Eternal Sonata (PS3)
• Europa Universalis III: Complete (PC)
• EverQuest: Seeds of Destruction (PC)
• Exodus from the Earth (PC)
• Fable II (Xbox 360)
• Far Cry 2 (PS3/X360/PC)
• Guitar Hero: Aerosmith (PC)
• High School Musical 3: Senior Year Dance! (Wii)
• High School Musical 3: Senior Year (NDS)
• Jillian Michaels' Fitness Ultimatum 2009 (Wii)
• Mechanic Master (NDS)
• Midnight Club: Los Angeles (PS3/X360)
• Midnight Club LA: Remix (PSP)
• Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution 2 (Wii)
• Spider-Man: Web of Shadows (NDS/PS2/PSP/Wii/X360/PS3/PC)
• Star Ocean: First Departure (PSP)
• Ten Pin Alley 2 (Wii)
• TouchMaster 2 (NDS)
• What's Cooking? with Jamie Oliver (NDS)
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PC Fitness: Your Personal Trainer is the first game to combine a personalised, interactive and goal-oriented gaming experience focused on health and fitness, with the power of your PC or laptop computer.

Xbox Live Primetime is a channel on the New Xbox Experience, a new generation of games and entertainment experiences, a virtual game show stage where content is always fresh; play is global, live and massively multiplayer; and prizes are plentiful. According to Forbes the fall launch has been pushed until spring 2009.

Kombat forces friends to fight, worlds to collide, and unlikely alliances to be forged. In order to save all they know, the heroes and villains of Mortal Kombat must wage war against the combined might of the DC Universe.

Adult Swim's African Swim is a collection of some of the most innovative contemporary African hip-hop music, compiling 15 tracks from some of South Africa's most popular hip-hop artists, downloadable for free.

The Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack provides more than 100 new creature-building components (body parts, paint options, animations, backgrounds and more) themed in two distinct styles--charming, cartoon-esque creatures and scary, monster-like creatures.

Sacred 2 is a action-oriented deep fantasy RPG where players are immersed in an epic journey through the medieval-like kingdom of Ancaria featuring pitched battles and a wide range of enticing quests. In order to optimize the online component and ensure a worldwide release, it was decided to delay the X360/PS3 versions of the game until Q1 2009.

Ensuring that the fun never ends even if it’s cold, rainy, or dark outside, THQ announced Neighborhood Games, featuring 24 twists on popular neighborhood games that are fun for all ages and encourage both competitive and cooperative play.

Warrior Epic is a free to download & play online action/RPG set in an original fantasy universe, where players can utilize a wide selection of warrior classes to go out raiding dungeons in a variety of novel environments. Warrior Epic let you play co-op campaigns or slug it out with friends in PVP.

Realtime Worlds, currently developing APB, announced the appointment of former EA executive Brian Ullrich as the company’s Director of Development, and of former NCsoft director Robert Rice as the company’s Vice President of Online Operations.

The first details from E3 2009 are starting to trickle in, as G4TV revealed that next year's edition of the trade show will be held in June. According to the report, E3 will soften the attendance restrictions, allowing more people to head to the Los Angeles Convention Center between June 2-4, 2009. A different report from Newsweek goes even further and claims the show will be part trade/media and open to the public from June 5-6, 2009. While it will not be a free-for-all, the ESA will reportedly allow a much larger audience to attend; E3 2007 had approx. 5,000 attendees, and E3 2009 will be capped at 40,000.

Abandon Interactive's Freaky Creatures is an interactive gaming platform incorporating collectible toys, customizable characters, an expansive online interactive community and challenging virtual battles with other players’ creatures.

A remake of the 1989 action adventure platformer Prince of Persia Classic hits PlayStation Network, enhanced and updated for the HD era featuring with new character designs, animations, controls, new content and three game modes.

Zombie BBQ is a shooter where you have to move forward by shooting down every living (or dying) creature in your path! Use the arsenal of weapons at your disposal to do away with the savage hoards of zombies.

Call of Duty: World at War completely changes the rules of engagement by redefining WWII gaming and thrusting players into the final tension-filled, unforgiving battles against a new ferocious enemy in the most dangerous and suspenseful action ever seen. Fans interested is participating in the PC beta need to sign up on the official Web site. Everybody will be allowed to join.

Another day, another batch of game trailers was released. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are trailers for:

• Sonic Unleashed [Wii] - Gameplay Trailer
• Astro Tripper [PS3] - Trailer
• Legendary [ALL] - Man vs. Myth Trailer
• Perimeter 2: New Earth - Providence Trailer
• Midnight Club: Los Angeles [PS3/X360] - Launch Trailer
• Spider-Man: Web of Shadows [ALL] - Rhino Trailer
• Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa [ALL] - Penguins Trailer
• Guitar Hero: World Tour [ALL] - Tool Trailer
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Guitar Hero: World Tour will feature guitar, vocals, drums, the ability to create your own songs (and upload them on GHTunes), four-player on/offline co-op, and an eight-player battle of the bands multiplayer mode (4vs4). GameStop will host midnight launch events at 1,800 of its stores on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008.

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.

Akella's naval RPG title Age of Pirates II: City of Abandoned Ships, developed by Seaward.ru, will combine compelling gameplay and wonderful graphics thus bringing a new experience to all the fans of daring sword duels and ship-to-ship combats.

When Midway revealed last week that it was dropping various licenses it did not want to specify any particular titles or franchises, but promised to give more details in its upcoming quarterly financial statement. While it did say it only concerned non-core licenses, Epic's VP Mark Rein stated today that UT 3 was not part of the axed licenses, but instead that Epic is actively working with Midway to expand UT 3 with new content, although no further details were given.