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.

Check out the following new screens and trailers from Microsoft's Gamers Day 2008 lineup:

• 'Gears of War 2' (X360) - Facts, Features & Screens
• ''Penny Arcade Adventures: Ep. 1' (X360/PC) Gets Release Date - Screens
• 'Fable 2' (X360) Coming This Holiday - 14 New Screens & Trailer
• 'Too Human' (X360) Coming in August - 20 New Screens & Trailer
• 'Viva Piñata: Trouble In Paradise' (X360) Announced - Facts, Features, Screens & Trailer
• 'Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts' (X360) Announced - Facts, Features, Screens & Trailer
• 'Ninja Gaiden II' (X360) - 15 New Screens & Trailer

Shrouded in secrecy and feared for their ruthlessness, you play the role of Altair, an Assassin intend to stop the hostilities by suppressing both sides of the conflict and throw the environment into chaos and shape events during this pivotal moment in history. This v1.02 patch address gfx glitches, choppy, freezing, crashing, missing gfx, as well as remove support for DX10.1, since its implementation needs to be reworked.

Rainbow Six Vegas 2 adds new gameplay features and more stunning visuals. Players will encounter a solo campaign that uses new tactical possibilities in various locations around Sin City, co-op and adversarial modes, while providing unprecedented interaction between the solo and multiplayer experience.

Set in World War 2, Velvet Assassin is a 3rd person shooter combining intense battles with guerrilla missions, featuring extensive stealth elements and challenging puzzles.

Finnish game developer Frozenbyte, known for Shadowgrounds and Shadowgrounds Survivor, announced that it has expanded its dev. team and decided to focus on creating games based on original IP, with currently three projects in development.

FlatOut Ultimate Carnage is rebuilt from the ground up and specifically developed to take advantage of the additional feature sets and improved processing ability to produce an entirely new, breathtaking FlatOut experience.

LEGO Indiana Jones: The Videogame is a tongue-in-cheek take on the first three cinematic adventures of pop culture's most iconic archaeologist, including Raiders of the Lost Ark, the Temple of Doom and the Last Crusade. Includes the first level, after which the Free Play mode unlocks giving you access to new characters and areas.

Set between the largely unexplored era between Ep III and Ep IV, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed casts players as Darth Vader's "Secret Apprentice" and promises to unveil new revelations about the Star Wars galaxy.

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:

• Castle of Shikigami III (Wii)
• Deca Sports (Wii)
• Myst (NDS)
• R-Type Command (PSP)
• We Ski (Wii)
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  We will update this throughout the day when new announcements become available. Read more for details ...

WoW: Wrath of the Lich King will open the forbidding wasteland of Northrend to exploration by the hardiest adventurers. New levels of power, challenging new dungeons and encounters, an exciting new character profession, and the game’s first hero class are just some of the new features awaiting players in Wrath of the Lich King.

Last week it was revealed GTA IV sold 3.6 million units and earning US$310 million in its first day of release, which earned itself the title of Highest Grossing Video Game in 24 Hours and the Highest Revenue Generated by an Entertainment Product in 24 Hours.

Alone in the Dark returns with a heart-stopping survival experience realized through combining the use of real-time physics and environmental interaction to deliver an exhilarating action-orientated experience within a highly detailed, open environment. Eden Games' Lead Designer Hervé Sliwa tells us more about the development process ...

Blizzard has released yet another update for its MMORPG World of Warcraft. This v2.4.2 patch mostly fixes a few bugs, crashes, makes tweaks to the various characters, quests, professions, dungeons and so forth...

Earthrise, Bulgaria based indie developer Masthead Studios' debut title, is a post-apocalyptic science fiction MMO.

StateShift is an original sci-fi racing title, set in a not too distant future, focuses on illegal racing competitions around the future Earth where economical instability, and depletion of resources has led to a series of bloody conflicts.

SilverBirch Studios and G4Box announced that they have secured English language rights, in several major markets, to develop and publish CrossFire, a military-themed free-to-play online shooter that has rapidly become a major success in Asia.

Skate Park City draws on the very best elements of the great Tony Hawk and Jet Set Radio series fused with its own unique ingredients to make it the coolest, most creative and downright fun skateboarding game seen on any platform.

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures is an Online Action RPG, mixing a deep, story-driven single-player experience and a massive and brutal multiplayer end-game that brings forth the ultimate representation of the Age of Conan