Zu Online, which refers to lots of classical sutras, has its setting based on the supernature novel, The Life of Swordsman in a area called Zu. It is a 3D MMORPG with a rich culture of immortals and knight-errants, with an emphasis on the traditional Chinese culture of monkery.

Revealed last month, EA Playground is now in development, capturing the exuberance and nostalgia of your neighborhood playground, turning your gaming space into an arena of interactive fun with immersive activities designed for kids, and the kid inside all of us.

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:

• Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (NDS/PS2/PS3/X360/Wii)
• Hot Brain (PSP)
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Konami announced the latest installment in its popular soccer franchise, Pro Evolution Soccer 2008, making its debut on the PS3. PES 2008 features a proprietary adaptive AI system entitled Teamvision, a sophisticated AI programming that learns and adapts according to an individual’s style of play.

Talismoon's Tiltboard is an intelligent piece of kit and comes pre-loaded with TiltTune technology, giving gamers the option to adjust the tilt sensitivity, adjust the 0 degree in order to hold the controller at the most comfortable angle, invert the Y axis and turn the tilt function on and off.

WipEout Pulse is Sony's latest installment in its anti-gravity combat racing series, featuring 24 new tracks, 8 teams, 7 adrenaline-fuelled game modes, wireless multiplayer, downloadable packs including new tracks, ships and tunes...

A few days ago 3D Realms revealed it had 2 major announcements coming up in the near future, and the latest issue of GameInformer might have one of them. Under development at Recoil Games, freshly formed by co-founder of Max Payne's Remedy, Earth No More is a Unreal Engine 3-powered single-player action game (with added multiplayer, co-op), currently scheduled for 2009. It's described as Aliens, War of the Worlds, Terminator, 28 Days Later, and The Thing all rolled into one...

The German development team Piranha Bytes and Koch Media's premium games label Deep Silver will be working together in the future, with details to be released at a later date. Deep Silver has already acted as a co-publishing partner for Gothic 3, the most recent title developed by the team from Essen.

In Manhunt 2 an experiment at a secret research facility has gone catastrophically wrong. Daniel Lamb and Leo Kasper are the only surviving subjects. The Pickman Project will stop at nothing to hunt them down and stop the truth from getting out.

Eidos announced that the latest Lara Croft adventure, Tomb Raider: Anniversary, will be released on the Xbox 360, initially in the form of downloadable episodic content which will be available for purchase to owners of Tomb Raider Legend...

It’s time for the Bratz girls to hit the red carpet! Join Chloe, Jade, Sasha and Yasmin as they rock out in explosive music shows, strut the fashion runway with stylin’ outfits designed by you, and publish the hottest magazine ever!

Starshatter: The Gathering Storm integrates elements of real-time-strategy games by allowing fleet commanders to direct the battle on a tactical level, launching fighters and directing destroyers to defend the fleet and annihilate enemy forces. This v5.0.2 update adds the ability to use Track IR headsets while whizzing through space and blowing up baddies!

Total Pro Golf 2 allows users to create a golfer and take him or her on one of six in-game tours. Hire caddies and coaches, purchase equipment and play some great golf to earn sponsorships and your professional tour card. This v2.1 patch adds new courses, tournament summary, and some bug/crash fixes.

While other FPS titles claim to feature action-packed, highly realistic gameplay, BlackSite: Area 51 takes next-gen gaming to an all-new level integrating cutting edge technology, game design and story writing to create the ultimate entertainment experience.

Serious Sam Forever is a total conversion of the previous Serious Sam games using the Croteam's Serious Engine 2. While specific details are limited, developer Prophets of Sam are currently looking for for Level Designers and Sound Engineers.

Activision revealed that next week it is going to launch a Public Beta with 60,000 slots available. The Public Beta build will consist of a single map named "Sewer", which is part of ETQW's Pacific Campaign. Set in Japan, the map revolves around a Strogg base hidden in, well, a sewer. It's an interesting mix of outdoor and indoor, vehicle and infantry combat, deployables and counter-deployables and good old-fashioned FPS combat.

A fantasy voyage through the great mythologies, Loki, an action/RPG, allows you to take on the role of one of the 4 heroes of the game, each drawn from a different mythology: a Norse fighter, a Greek warrior, a Egyptian magician or an Aztec shaman who masters the secrets of the spirit world.

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.

Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars is an all-new twists to the classic Crazy Taxi experience including multiplayer modes that allow two people to play co-op or competitively, including the original Dreamcast games, Crazy Taxi and Crazy Taxi 2.

With Ozzy Osbourne's newly released I Don't Wanna Stop single on the soundtrack, and Tennessee Titans quarterback Vince Young on the cover, Madden NFL 08 looks to be back better than ever...