Handheld gamers will once again have the freedom to unleash their inner rock star anywhere, anytime with Vicarious Visions' Guitar Hero On Tour Decades which will now also introduce song share between NDS players with different versions of On Tour.

Fluid Entertainment announces the title and first details for Emerald Island, their original children's MMO that challenges players to become online eco-heroes in a mission to save a vibrant, imaginary, virtual world from environmental destruction.

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.

Pure takes quad racing to a new level, featuring massive jumps and spectacular airborne tricks in memorable, photo-realistic settings all over the globe. A pre-order demo disc of PURE will be available at GameStop, Best Buy (U.S. and Canada), Blockbuster, Game Crazy, EB Games (Canada), and other retailers.

NBA Live 09 sports new features like Pick and Roll Control, Defensive Lockdown Control, Signature Playcalling and Quickstrike Ankle-Breakers that will make the game experience fun from beginning to end. Additionally, NBA Live 09 takes you to training camp with the NBA Academy that gives you a chance to hone your skills.

TF2 is a class-based, multiplayer team warfare game, delivering new game types, a signature art style powered by Valve’s next-gen animation technology, persistent player statistics, etc... Valve's next update will revolve around the Heavy class, with unlockable weapons, achievements, seven new maps and more ..

Crystal Dynamics has made Tomb Raider Underworld more realistic with fluid movements due to motion capturing. Set a few years after the last game, it also features persistent destruction and lush locales across the globe. Lara gets muddy in the game, but with the weather system, rain will wash it away.

MTV and Harmonix announced that next week's addition to the Rock Band Music Store will be New Wave pioneers Devo with Girl U Want and Through Being Cool, and Duran Duran’s Rio and Girls on Film.

A 3rd person action adventure Yakuza 2 features enhanced combat, larger environments and a thrilling storyline continuing a year after Yakuza ended. Yakuza 2 will plunge players deeper into the world of Japan’s notorious underground organization, where honor and respect are not earned easily.

Trouble in Paradise invites gamers to return to magical Piñata Island. Unfortunately, not all is well on the island, as Professor Pester along with his gang of Ruffians have wiped out Piñata Central’s computer records, which poses a threat to parties everywhere. Rare has revealed that VP:TiP has been released to manufacture.

With an extensive range of features Runes of Magic prepares to redefine the standard of free-to-play MMO games. Even at the beginning Runes of Magic conveys its absorbing story in over 600 quests embedded in an atmospheric world.

As society succumbs to a worldwide energy crisis, a new global depression takes hold. Amidst this desperate backdrop two superpower alliances emerge, join the Western Coalition or the Red Star Alliance. Kaos Studios is currently in the final stages of development of PC patch 1.2.0 and will start testing it shortly. Scheduled for Sept. it will include 2 new maps (Boneyard Map, Conquer Mode), server browser phase 2, Joystick support, PC leaderboards (Ranked & Unranked) and dedicated Server Tools.

Dynasty Warriors 6 will deliver the massive scale and realistic atmosphere that players have come to expect from the series, but will redefine the Tactical Action experience, with completely re-imagined character designs and weapons, yet maintaining familiar characterizations that are accurate to culturally depictions.

THQ announced the games it will be showing at the Leipzig Games Convention (20-24 August, 2008) such de Blob (Wii), WALL-E (PS3, X360, Wii, PS2, PSP, NDS), Darksiders: Wrath of War (PS3, X360), WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009 (PS3, X360, Wii, PS2, PSP, NDS), Red Faction: Guerrilla (PS3, X360), Saints Row 2 (PS3, X360), Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 2 (PC), and UFC 2009 Undisputed (PS3, X360).

CDV announced the games it will be showing at the Leipzig Games Convention (20-24 August, 2008) such as the X360 version of Velvet Assassin, Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars, Mushroom Men: Rise of the Fungi, NDS titles Dementium: The Ward and Insecticide, as well as party title Hail to the Chimp.

Eidos and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment on behalf of DC Comics announce Batman: Arkham Asylum, a 3rd-person action game powered by the Unreal Engine 3, with a dark and gritty setting reminiscent of Bioshock.

In limbo since CDV dropped it in 2004, resulting in developer UDS shutting down, KORE was acquired by Daydream Software and then picked up by Playlogic and never released. Zoink and SnapDragon Games have revived the project. In KORE, you explore a vast game universe packed with action, puzzles and countless surprises. Meet strange characters and even stranger creatures as you unravel the game's off-the-wall storyline.

In Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise players will inherit a neglected garden on Piñata Island and turn it into a piñata paradise by tending to all aspects of cleaning the garden, growing and maintaining vegetation, caring for and breeding piñatas, as well as attracting new piñata species.

EA Black Box announced Need for Speed Undercover, an intense action racing title starring international movie star Maggie Q as the lead character in the live-action sequences that propel the original story forward, taking the franchise back to its roots and re-introduces breakneck cop chases, the world's hottest cars and spectacular highway battles.

Imperium Romanum II is a city-building game where the player takes the role of a Roman patrician, a nobleman, who has just started his political career. His ultimate goal is to become the Governor of Rome.