Soldier of Fortune Payback, the 3rd installment in the SoF series, continues with the organization know as The Shop where players take on the role of a hired mercenary, blasting their way through high intensity combat situations in the world's most dangerous hotspots in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe.

Medal of Honor Heroes 2 is designed completely from the ground up for the Wii and PSP. Just like the recent Madden 08 announcement, the Wii edition will include an all-new mode that simplifies gameplay for players of all skill levels.

Bus Driver is a realistic simulation of a bus driver's duty, offering over ten different kinds of buses to drive, an expansive city environment with various districts, and over two dozen routes with varying weather conditions set at differing times of day.

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.

SEGA's Universe at War: Earth Assault, developed by Petroglyph, is a combat-intensive RTS game enlisting players in an epic struggle to prevent total alien domination of planet Earth.

CoD 4: Modern Warfare is a new action-thriller that will arm gamers with the most advanced and powerful arsenal of modern day firepower to fight a new war in the world’s most treacherous hotspots. Activision will release a single player demo Thursday, Oct. 11, featuring the Bog Rescue level, which we will of course have available on our fileserver network.

UPDATE: Apologies for the typo; the demo is coming Oct. 11, not Nov., as I mistakenly posted. One too many Friday night beers, I presume!

SEGA is bringing 2005 arcade gun game Ghost Squad to the Wii, adding a number of new Wii-specific gameplay modes and using the Wiimote as a multi-purpose tool that allows players to easily control the targeting of on-screen enemies, defuse bombs, and rescue hostages.

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:

• Assassin's Creed [ALL] - Freedom Developer Diary
• Empire Earth III - Behind the Scenes Trailer #1
• Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games [NDS/Wii] - 110m Hurdles Trailer
• Mass Effect [X360] - Character Spotlight #2
• Painkiller: Overdose - Trailer #3
• The Sims 2 Castaway [NDS] - Trailer
• Sonic Rivals 2 [PSP] - Knockout Trailer
• Too Human [X360] - Video Diary #1
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Medal of Honor Airborne introduces players to an entirely new way of experiencing a WWII FPS – namely the fully interactive Airborne experience. EA is working on the first patch for MoH Airborne, which enables the Dedicated Server, fixes several bugs, and makes some balance changes on the Anti-Tank Weapon.

High Energy Productions' producer Keisuke Kikuchi announced Rygar: The Battle of Argus will be an all-new Wii exclusive title, not a PS2 port. Expected later this year in Japan, Rygar: The Battle of Argus will introduce a new hero and use the Wiimote to control Rygar's trademark weapon, the Diskarmor.

EverQuest: Secrets of Faydwer, the 14th expansion, lets characters advance up to level 80, and discover thousands of new items, including Heroic Items that push abilities to new heights, as well as dynamic high level raid content, new spells, and new Advancement Abilities to rejuvenate even the most hardened warrior.

Using the Wii remote as a golf club, swing into the action with your favorite characters as Super Swing Golf Season 2 returns to the island to challenge the new courses with all new story, tournament modes, new multiplayer modes, completely new customizations, costumes, and secrets.

Kane & Lynch: Dead Men is a violent and chaotic journey of two men — a flawed mercenary and a medicated psychopath — and their brutal attitude towards right and wrong. Eidos' Jane Cavanagh revealed that, while K&L has yet to be released, a sequel is already in production, showing their confidence in the title. The plan is to make IO Interactive's Mature rated action game into a long-term franchise, and Eidos has set aside its largest marketing budget ever to promote the title.

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.

Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal is an action-adventure game featuring seven playable Looney Tunes characters, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tasmanian Devil, Foghorn Leghorn, Marvin the Martian, Gossamer and a special secret character. Ahead of its launch next week, WBIE has released a demo on Xbox Live Marketplace.

StarCraft II will feature the return of the Protoss, Terran, and Zerg races, overhauled and re-imagined with Blizzard's approach to game balance, designed to be the ultimate competitive RTS game.

In its seventh consecutive year, the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS) announced today the 2008 dates, new facility and early line-up of speakers and sponsors for its upcoming D.I.C.E. (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) Summit.

In Evil Under the Sun famous detective Hercule Poirot is back in typical style, turning up at just the right time to begin an investigation into the murder of a famous actress during what should have been the start of a relaxing holiday.

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.

Bladestorm will offer massive battles mixed with strategy, much like the Dynasty Warriors titles, but one of the main differences is that the game will be situated in the Western medieval timeframe. The promised demo is now available for download on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network.