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.

Rockstar is bringing its open-ended crime series to the next-gen consoles with Grand Theft Auto IV. While details on the game are still slim, we now know that the franchise returns to New York situated around the mysterious protagonist Nikolai.

Precursors, developed by Boiling Point's Deep Shadow, is a sci-fi action game that leads you into unexplored regions of space, where he can fly with huge battle ships from planet to planet.

Rail Simulator will offer the opportunity for players to take charge of steam, diesel and electric trains on real routes in the UK and Germany. Challenging and fun gameplay will even enable players to design their own ideal journey routes. This first patch brings all versions of the game to the same level, adding enhancements, improvements and fixes for issues people have been experiencing.

Alternativa is a classic point&click adventure game based on the original sci-fi/cyber-punk script which is composed of a number of shorter stories that lead us through the lives of individual characters as well as the fictional world of the future.

Last week Microsoft sent shockwaves through the internet by offering to buy ailing Yahoo for no less than $44 billion. After a few days of deliberation, even considering outsourcing its ads business to rival Google, Yahoo will turn down the offer, claiming the unsolicited offer undervalues the company, saying it needs an extra $12 billion.

SEGA's Condemned 2: Bloodshot is a first-person action thriller immersing players in a world of psychological terror, featuring all-new fighting mechanics and online multiplayer functionality.

In Crysis, shooter fans will face a new kind of challenge requiring adaptive tactics and customization of weapons and armor in dynamic, hostile environments as mankind struggles to survive in the face of an alien invasion. In a recent interview, Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli revealed that, like its previous game Far Cry, they are in active talks to make a Crysis movie. Let's hope it's not Uwe Boll!

The Club is a 3rd person action shooter focused on addictive and rewarding gameplay, testing your skills to the limit and offers relentless, frantic, and fast paced gameplay with a unique style, tone and storyline that drips with energy, attitude and anarchy.

Lost Planet is a sci-fi action shooter set within the merciless frozen tundra of a hostile planet, humans struggle for survival as conflicts arise between man, the surrounding indigenous creatures and the monstrous beings that have invaded. Released in Thursday, SCEA has pulled the multiplayer demo "in order to address issues that have come to light." (thanks FiringSquad)

In an statement announcing that Vivendi’s UK Managing Director and Vice President of Europe Adam Roberts has joined D3Publisher of Europe as Managing Director it was revealed (which we can confirm) that D3P is developing a sequel to last year's Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords, a genre-bending style of gameplay rooted in a classic puzzle gameboard setting that incorporates role-playing and strategy elements, multiplayer gameplay modes and an engaging storyline.

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:

• Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath [X360/PC] - Mechapede Trailer
• Condemned 2: Bloodshot [PS3/X360] - Trailer (2)
• Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds [PS3] - Trailer
• Turning Point: Fall of Liberty [PS3/X360/PC] - The Style Trailer
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors is an action-packed Virtual Experience where the player becomes the hero of the story using the Wiimote to control their legendary sword, and fight off horde after horde of monsters. Originally scheduled for Feb. 26, Square Enix informed us it has moved yup a week to Feb. 19, 2008.

Brash Entertainment's Jumper is a 3rd person action fighting game based on 20th Century Fox's upcoming sci-fi action/thriller starring Samuel L. Jackson, and directed by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity).

GRAW is a tactical squad based shooter featuring changing climate, improved AI, an advanced Cross-Com system, air strikes from jet fighters, new weapons and a new soldier class, the Medic. After a long period of silence Ubisoft will release a new patch next week WEdnesday, adding 2 new weapons, fixes and 5 updated singleplayer maps for multiplayer purposes.

Jack Keane, developed by Deck 13, is a classical adventure game with their rich story-telling and fun gameplay. As the player you guide hero Jack Keane as he faces some of his toughest challenges yet.

Dragon Ball Z Burst Limit is Namco Bandai's next title in the DBZ franchise. Burst Limit will be similar to the DBZ: Budokai Tenkaichi series (published by Atari in Europe and North America) and have online multiplayer, be cut-scene driven and support 16/9.

Greek publisher hell-tech announced that it has signed a publishing agreement with Crimson Cow for two adventure titles, A Vampyre Story, developed by Autumn Moon Entertainment, and The Abbey, developed by Alcachofa Soft.

Code Lyoko, based on the fourth season of the popular animated high-tech action-adventure series, is an intuitive and innovative blend of adventure, combat, platform and racing type of game play .

Black Sea Studios, known for Knights of Honor, announced WorldShift, a next-generation, cyber-fantasy RTS game set in a dark future of Earth, where today's civilization is only a fading mysterious legend.