EA Playground captures 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.

dtp announced that it has signed two new $1 million development budget RPG productions, scheduled for 2009. One of them, an action RPG developed by the Germany-based team Deck 13, known for its adventure game releases Ankh and Jack Keane, while the second is being developed by a well-known Belgian team.

Capcom has released screens and trailers for the following upcoming titles:

• 'Mega Man Star Force' (NDS) - Screens
• 'Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure' - Screens & Trailer
• 'Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations' [NDS] - Screens & Trailer
• 'Mega Man ZX Advent' (NDS) - Screens & Trailer
• 'MotoGP '07' (PS2) - Screens
• 'Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles' (Wii) - Screens
• 'Devil May Cry 4' (PS3/X360/PC) - Screens & Trailer

JoWooD announced today that it has picked Spellbound Entertainment, known for Desperados and Chicago 1930, as the official developing team for Gothic 4.

EA is introducing a new Need for Speed version that drives the series in a new direction. Need for Speed ProStreet is a ground-breaking Need for Speed experience where you’re thrust to compete head to head against the best street racers in a multitude of racing showdowns.

People who purchase the Xbox 360 version of Tony Hawk's Proving Ground will get a two week head start on the 5 song Guitar Hero 3 demo before it hits Xbox LIVE Marketplace.

MGS4: Guns of the Patriots is set in a war-torn future where huge conglomerates fight for supremacy using armies of hand-picked mercenaries. This battle-scarred arena is seen through the eyes of an older Solid Snake who has been charged with infiltrating a number of key locations across the globe.

Pixel Mine, founded by contributors to titles such as the Ultima and Wing Commander series, Deus Ex, and Medal of Honor, is a new game development studio with attention to innovative short play titles that focus on community and maintaining high production values.

In addition to a new campaign that ties up the Dread Lords saga, GalCiv II: Twilight of the Arnor adds civilization-specific technology trees and planetary improvements that add even more flavor to each alien race, while greatly expanding the strategic depth of the game.

PGR 4 tries to create an emotionally-charged racing experience, where players become attached to their careers, profiles and vehicles. Drivers will be rewarded with a growing fanbase that’ll cheer them on, react to their every move and support them through victory.

Hellgate: London is an RPG set in the immersive first-person perspective. With a randomized world that offers a unique experience every time you play, Hellgate: London introduces a demon-ridden place where the last survivors of the human race must meld science and magic to survive. Hellgate: London will offer players two ways to play through Standard and Subscription accounts.

SCi signed the Highlander license a few years ago, and finally the first results are revealed. Highlander is a third person action adventure set in the Highlander universe – control an Immortal embroiled in a battle against rival Immortals in an adventure spanning over 2000 years.

The Command & Conquer series continues to thrive with Command & Conquer 3: Kane’s Wrath. As the expansion pack to Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars, this RTS game returns to the Tiberium universe with Kane at the center of an epic new single player campaign.

Medal of Honor Airborne, next-gen debut of the series, is set to redefine the series by introducing players to an entirely new way of experiencing a WWII FPS – namely the fully interactive Airborne experience. This demo features the Operation Husky mission...

Backbreaker is taking sports video games to a place where the action is never the same and every hit looks and feels as realistic as a Sunday afternoon. Utilizing NaturalMotion’s revolutionary euphoria motion synthesis engine, you’ll never see the same tackle again. Ever.

Without giving many details City Interactive revealed at the Games Convention that it's Terrorist Takedown 2 sequel, scheduled for November, will use F.E.A.R.'s Jupiter-EX-Engine. You are special ops team leader sent out to neutralize terrorists, drug lords, bad people in general.

Microsoft announced that Ubisoft was the latest to join the Games for Windows branding program. The first title Ubisoft will deliver is The Settlers: Rise of an Empire.

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:

• Team Fortress 2 [ALL] - Meet the Soldier Trailer
• Frontlines: Fuel of War [PS3/X360/PC] - Trailer #4
• Spore - GC 07 Trailer
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Not much has been said about the future of the James Bond game franchise since Activision took over the license from EA, but today it was revealed that a new game featuring the world-renowned top secret agent 007 is in development by powerhouse studios Treyarch, Beenox and Vicarious Visions for next-gen consoles, PC and hand-held platforms.

Midway has released screens and trailers for the following upcoming titles:

• 'Aqua Teen Hunger Force Zombie Ninja Pro-Am' (PS2) - Screens & Trailer
• 'BlackSite: Area 51' (PS3/X360/PC) - 6 New Screens & Trailer
• 'Stranglehold' (ALL) - 4 New Screens
• 'Cruis'n' (Wii) - 3 New Screens
• 'Ultimate Mortal Kombat' (NDS) - Screens
• 'Game Party' (Wii) - 4 New Screens