Iron Grip: Warlord, using the Quake 3 engine, blends RTS and FPS gameplay, where you must employ urban guerrilla tactics to fight off the hordes. Protect your city at all costs, by building defense structures, setting traps, and taking the enemy on yourself.

Namco Bandai's Soulcalibur IV delivers new gameplay modes, characters and enhanced features with unprecedented 3D modeling and animation, making it the definitive fighting game experience. The series is no stranger to cameo appearances, but today marks a first as LucasArts is teaming with Namco Bandai to bring Yoda to the X360 edition of SC4, while the PS3 gets Darth Vader.

CMP’s 2008 Game Developers Choice Awards will honor computer strategy game luminary Sid Meier with a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s ceremony taking place at the Game Developers Conference (GDC).

Sledgehammer is a pure action game on wheels, a festival of demolition and speed, all in one. Drive the most powerful truck and destroy every opponent that you’ll find on the road or go to the multiplayer mode and decide who is the king of the highway.

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:

• Turning Point: Fall of Liberty [PS3/X360/PC] - Dan Carson Trailer
• Downstream Panic! [PSP] - Trailer
• Imperium Romanum - Trailer
• Dead Mountaineer's Hotel - Trailer #2
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

The Need for Speed ProStreet Live Race Weekend starts Friday, Jan. 11, 2008 and features an Xbox Live Leaderboard tournament (on the Portland International Raceway), a 72-hour Play & Win Sweepstakes with a prize every hour, races against the devs and the PMS clan.

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning will bring 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.

Speedball 2 transforms the futuristic game setting into a high-speed online sports spectacle. Offering international leagues, a large-scale ranking system and a virtual marketplace, Speedball 2 pulls out all the stops in modern multiplayer gaming action.

Steam's latest hardware survey shows more gamers play on NVIDIA GeForce hardware than any other graphics platform, so in an effort to further show its support Valve is offering all NVIDIA gamers a free copy of its special edition Portal: First Slice.

SouthPeak Games announced Dream Pinball, developed by Topware, a superb pinball simulator creating an authentic pinball experience with refined controls that capitalize on the unique qualities each platform.

Hothead Games announced plans to publish Ron Gilbert's RPG-Adventure game, DeathSpank, who also joins the company's Vancouver-based studio as Creative Director. Described as "Monkey Island meets Diablo", the game will feature Gilbert's unique style of humor and storytelling.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl is Nintendo's latest incarnation in the popular Super Smash Bros. series of titles, featuring all-new characters ranging from Kirby and Wario to Samus and even Metal Gear Solid's Snake.

Stranger combines RPG with some of the best elements of RTS, while its spell and item enchantment system allows a never-before-seen flexibility as players simply have to swap the amounts of used crystals to adapt to their enemies' strategies.

Rez HD, Tetsuya Mizuguchi's psychedelic cult-classic shooter, is a frenetic, wire-frame adventure backed by industrial beats, taking players deep into the world's computer network, where they must hack the system, alter the visual output and take over the music, creating their own rhythms and eye candy as they dig deeper into the cyberworld.

Sunrise is an adventure game with a gripping, story, entertainment and interactivity. Rydec, Brian and Max are three friends from New York with a great plan: a better life and then on to the Nobel Prize. Having spent innumerable late nights working on inventing something unique, on the night of their presentation, something goes wrong ...

Paradox Interactive's Penumbra: Black Plague, the final chapter in the Penumbra story, thrusts players into a creepy environment of psychological horror, as they are challenged in this unique action/adventure experience.

Majesco announced Cake Mania 2 for the NDS, where players use the stylus to lead Jill through more than 200 different levels of baking and frosting madness that include 50 unique kitchen upgrades players can buy with cumulative bakery earnings

War Leaders: Clash of Nations will expand upon the RTS genre by placing gamers in the roles of the major leaders of WWII, including Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin. Political, diplomatic and economic decision making will be key to success, while sound tactical strategies will ensure victory on the battlefield.

Dutch developer Engine Software announces its first project for the Nintendo WiiWare service, Project Bang!, a casual game type with very addictive gameplay using the unique Wii Remote controller functionality, and will support a two-player battle mode.

Atari's Lucky Luke: Go West! is an action packed platform game based on the adventures of legendary animated cowboy Lucky Luke in the forthcoming full-length animated feature film ‘Go West!’.