Sins of a Solar Empire is a real-time space strategy title under development at Ironclad Games. Unfolding the fate of three unique factions, Sins of a Solar Empire is the first chapter in an epic science fiction saga.

Today the final shortlist of Xbox Soundtracks was revealed as voting for your favorite tracks opens to select the ultimate winner of a professional recording session. For the past month thousands of DJs, bands, composers and gamers alike from across Europe have been creating new music tracks inspired by the latest games on the Xbox 360.

FIFA 08 will create a football experience that matches the complexity, finesse and beauty of the real-world game. FIFA 08 challenges you to master the skills required to play like a pro football player, allowing you on the pitch to defy the odds, perfect your skills, elevate your game and rise up to win glory for your club.

Gamecock Media Group continues its mission to champion original titles today with the announcement of the final details of its much anticipated E.I.E.I.O event. The "Expo for Interactive Entertainment, Independent and Original" is being held at Santa Monica's Hotel California, right smack in the middle of all the E3 hotels.

A spiritual sequel to Woo's action masterpiece, Hard Boiled, Stranglehold redefines the action gaming experience with its acrobatic gunplay, thrilling cinematography, frenetic combat and incredible massive destructibility.

Heroes of Mana will be a mix of RPG and RTS, where the protagonist's name is Roger, a natural leader and excellent swordsman. You will need to gather resources, summon monsters, and engage the enemy, with combat occurring in real time, as in previous Mana titles.

Sony Online Entertainment's Seattle studio is developing The Agency, a PC/PS3 exclusive fast-paced online action shooter filled with espionage, intrigue and betrayal. When you visit the official The Agency website, you can sign up to be notified about the beta by clicking on the black bullet in the logo on the top right.

DK Project: The Last City of Heaven is an open ended sandbox game in the vein of GTA or MAFIA. You will be free to travel through the city, to take whatever vehicle you want, and although you do not belong to any particular faction, you can start or work for gangs, but the aim of the game is not to have the biggest gang.

Hot on the heels of the restructuring announcement, it seems Take Two will be closing its New York office and consolidating it with their California-based West Coast office. No details as to how many people will make the transition (or get laid off) were disclosed, or whether NY native Rockstar is making any sort of relocation as well.

Guitar Hero fans will channel their inner rock god using Gibson Guitar's Les Paul and Kramer models, experience new features and explosive content including a new multiplayer action-inspired battle mode, grueling boss battles, a bevy of exclusive unlockable content and authentic rock venues.

Project Sylpheed is a 3-D makeover of the classic, mid-'80s scrolling shooter franchise Silpheed launching players through an exhilarating space combat experience driven by a deep, multi-layered storyline. A 613 mb demo is now available on Xbox Live...

Taking full advantage of the Nintendo DS's unique characteristics, KOEI's action-combat series Dynasty Warriors will be unlike any other Tactical Action game previously released on the NDS.

FlatOut: Total Carnage is a re-imagining of FlatOut 2 rebuilt from the ground up and specifically developed to make use of the additional feature sets and improved processing ability of third generation technologies.

Featuring an all-new, revolutionary feature set, SimCity Societies allows players to construct not only the cities they desire, but create their cultures, societal behaviors and environments as well.

It's been quiet for a few months surrounding the Castlevania movie, but word has trickled out that Sylvain White, known for Ronin and most recently Stomp the Yard, has been set to direct a live-action adaptation of Konami's vampire videogame Castlevania. Originally scripted by AvP's Paul W.S. Anderson it will get a rewrite by White, and be produced by Crystal Sky's Steven Paul and Benedict Carver, with Anderson and Jeremy Bolt. Scheduled for late 2008, shooting will commence late fall in South Africa and Romania.

Already owing 70% of the company, venture capital firm Balderton Capital has acquired the remaining 30% stake held by the orignal founders of Codemasters, David and Richard Darling and their father Jim.

Sporting various new features, and a new graphics engine, Arena Wars Reloaded is an action strategy game focusing once again on fast-paced RTS action and multiplayer mayhem.

All three console developers, Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo, have been sued for various patent infringements with their current-generation consoles. Most recently, Microsoft got served by Lucent over an MPEG-2 issue, and today, Texas-based Lonestar Inventions filed suit against Nintendo for a 1993 patent they own regarding "high capacitance structure in a semiconductor device," a space-saving method tripling the effectiveness of parallel plate capacitors by using layers of conducting strips.

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.

Electronic Arts announced that more than 200,000 players have signed up for the closed beta test for its upcoming MMORPG Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning.