Schizoid, the first Xbox Live Arcade title built using XNA Game Studio Express, is a co-op action game where teamwork equals survival and players must team up to protect each other from a seemingly endless stream of glowing enemies.

EA CEO John Riccitiello has not only spilled beans on The Godfather II at the William Blair & Company's 28th Annual Growth Stock Conference but also revealed that Need For Speed: Undercover is coming later this year. Riccitiello himself was rather disappointed with last year's Prostreet, and since the Vancouver team has been split in two, each given a two year development cycle. NFS: Undercover will feature a very strong mission structure, influenced by the action movies The Transporter, and a better storyline with a strong narrative hook

Caffeinated Games, formed by Zipper Interactive's Greg Chudecke, announced its first project, Farmlands, a board and collectible card game you build farms, plant crops, and battle for control of land. The goal of Farmlands is straight forward; increase your net worth to meet the goal of the map or have the largest net worth when time runs out.

When Ninja Gaiden developer Tomonobu Itagaki left Tecmo he let his discontent be heard, which apparently resulted in more employees leaving and filing lawsuit. Now Tecmo has slapped Itagaki with a gag order, preventing him from disclosing or leaking information regarding its game software, sales, development or any other company secrets, using newspapers, magazines, and the Internet to criticize Tecmo software and employees, obstructing its business through slanderous remarks to third parties, nor can Itagaki accept interviews regarding Tecmo or talk to the press about the company.

S2 Games announced a new, completely free, content update for its MMORTS/FPS Savage 2: A Tortured Soul, adding enduring items, a new special unit, new beast unit, character taunts, automated tournament system, community created maps and unit movement enhancements.

Mozart is a 3rd person point & click adventure game where you get submerged in the historical setting of Prague, with its legendary places and architectural treasures combing roman, gothic and baroque styles.

The C&C series continues to thrive with Command & Conquer 3: Kane’s Wrath. As the expansion pack to C&C 3 Tiberium Wars, this RTS game returns to the Tiberium universe with Kane at the center of an epic new single player campaign. According to EA producer Jim Vessella the turn-based Global Conquest game type wasn't popular with beta testers, and lacking control precision vs. a mouse, so it was decided to remove it and plug in a Challenge mode instead.

The demise of the SEGA Rally series doesn't mean the end of racing games for SEGA, there is still the anime/drifting inspired Initial D franchise, under development for the PS3 as Initial D: Extreme Stage, although currently only scheduled for release in Japan.

A new v4.2 SpeedTree has entered beta stage and is available for immediate evaluation and licensing, offers several new options such as a preview option to see your handy work, local wind sources and even more foliage to choose from with over 20 new trees, palms, flowers, cacti etc.

Wisconsin's new 25% tax credits for the film and television industry contains an innovative component not found in most state’s incentives packages, the video gaming industry, as qualifying game developers can also take advantage of the incentives.

Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods is an addon for Jwood's action/RPG and will answer many open questions and guarantee a seamless step to Gothic 4. Once more you take on the role of the nameless Hero and again you have to raise your sword in anger to save the world of Gothic.

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... The Pyro Update will be made available Thursday and contains three unlockable new weapons, 35 new achievements, and two user-created maps.

A 3rd person action adventure Yakuza 2 features enhanced combat, larger environments and a storyline set 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. According to a Seganerds, Yakuza 2 will keep the original Japanese voice cast and add English subtitles.

Focus Home Interactive has signed an agreement with White Birds to publish and distribute Benoît Sokal's first NDS adventure, Last King of Africa, a remake of his PC title Paradise. You are Ann Smith, daughter of the last king of Maurania, whose plane crashes and while suffering from amnesia gets stranded on the other side of the country, in rebel territory.

Although there has not yet been an official announcement, the development of The Godfather II isn't exactly a secret, as it was originally announced as a trilogy. During the William Blair & Company’s 28th Annual Growth Stock Conference, EA CEO John Riccitiello revealed that "You can play this game both at the street level, much like a GTA-style game, but you can also play it top-down, almost like you’re in an RTS, controlling the strategy of the boroughs so you can see what’s going on."

Cyanide's PCM 2008 lets you manage one of the 65 teams, with improved AI, a better recruitment system, more realistic rider progression, extensive customization, and improved gfx. The 2008 edition will also introduce in-door circuit elimination racing, and the PSP version will feature 1vs1 wi-fi multiplayer.

Call of Duty: World at War, using the Call of Duty 4 engine, 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.

Alten8 has signed an agreement with Luc Bernard on the creation/publication of NDS & Wii versions of his fantasy adventure game Eternity's Child. If you are interested to get your face immortalized as one of the characters in the game send in a photo or video before July 1st.

As promised, Sony has released the latest v2.36 PS3 firmware update, improving system stability when playing certain PlayStation titles. At the same time Sony also made available a new firmware update for the PSP, bringing it to v4.00 and adding Google Internet search directly to the XMB interface, and the ability to change viewing speed during playback of videos stored on your Memory Stick PRO Duo.

Baja: Edge of Control is scheduled to bring revolutionary physics and vast open racing worlds combining the best elements of the real-world sport with the right balance of arcade fun as it challenges players to build the ultimate off-road machine and conquer vast, unforgiving terrain.