2K Sports has released a 1GB demo for the latest installment in its hockey franchise NHL 2K8, while Codemasters has released a 885mb playable demo, released yesterday on PC, for its horror action game Clive Barker's Jericho.

Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom will take the franchise in a new direction as developer BLUESIDE and series director Henry Lee plan to create a truly next-generation Action-RPG, departing from their well-known Action-RTS formula.

KartRider fuses the thrill of addicting, old-school multiplayer kart riding mayhem with innovative track design customization options, millions of uniquely created character personalities and endless kart modifications. Nexon America announced it's opening the closed beta Oct. 2.

Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation will let players experience Ace Combat on a massive worldwide scale as it features an in-depth multi-player online experience that includes a variety of action-packed online modes.

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. This v1.0.6.7 patch fixes bugs, and adds various balance tweaks.

RE: The Umbrella Chronicles combines first-person, light-gun style combat with interactive pathways, multiple weapons and new enemies to create an entirely new RE experience, revealing the back story behind the fall of the Umbrella Corporation.

In Half-Life 2: Ep. Two, armed with new weaponry and vehicles, Dr. Gordon Freeman must race through a countryside riddled with an increasingly fierce Combine threat. Half-Life 2: The Orange Box also includes Team Fortress 2 as a multiplayer addition, and physics-focused Portal.

In The Simpsons Game, Homer, Marge, Bart, and Lisa use exciting, all-new powers to save the world from rising chaos. To help the Simpsons, gamers at home must journey through all of Springfield (as well as vast worlds beyond!), vanquish an amazing array of villains, and fight their way through parodies of multiple popular games.

After recently getting approved as PSP/PS2 publisher in North America, Playlogic announced that it has signed a global publishers license for the PS3, allowing it to publish PS3 games in all territories worldwide.

In Crysis shooter fans will face a new kind of challenge requiring adaptive tactics and customization of weapons and armor in dynamic, hostile environments as mankind struggles to survive in the face of an alien invasion.

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:

• Everlight: Power to the Elves! - Trailer #2 [German]
• The Eye of Judgment [PS3] - Tutorial Trailer
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After Nintendo's Senior Vice President George Harrison recently announced his departure, Senior Director of Corporate Communications Beth Llewelyn also put in her resignation and decided to "take some time off to be a full-time mom for a bit," after 12 years of service. A little while back, Nintendo decided to shut down its Redmond, Wa., offices, sell its property and set up shop in San Francisco and New York instead.

In UT3 you assume the role of a futuristic warrior engaged in contests of intense shooting battles against skilled opponents, controlled either by human contestants online or by A.I. These contests are fought with the most powerful sci-fi weapons and vehicles. During a community chat Epic VP Mark Rein revealed that there will be no PS3-PC cross-platform multiplayer at launch (and even a slim chance of it ever happening) due to the difficulty of making game code 100% compatible between the systems.

As society succumbs to a worldwide energy crisis, a new global depression takes hold. Amidst this desperate backdrop, two superpower alliances emerge. Join the battle on the frontlines of tomorrow as the Western Coalition or the Red Star Alliance.

Auran Games' prize pool for “Fury Challenge” has now officially topped $2 million dollars. The Open Beta event for its Player versus Player MMO has been extended to Oct. 7, with the first competition weekend kicking off Sept 28-30 and a rematch Oct 5-7.

The weapon-based fighting game franchise has been reinvented as Namco Bandai announced Soulcalibur Legends exclusively for the Wii, fully immersing players in a 3rd person action adventure that takes a unique approach to the series by truly utilizing the Wii Remote and Nunchuk.

Microsoft announced that its Xbox 360 exclusive game "Halo 3" has officially become the biggest entertainment launch in history, garnering an estimated $170 million in sales in the United States alone in the first 24 hours, beating previous records set by blockbuster theatrical releases like "Spider-man 3" and novels such as "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."

Ice Station Santa puts a whole new spin on the season of giving, peace, and joy. With Christmas presents on the attack and carols of gunshots drowning out the bells, Sam & Max must storm the North Pole to bring down a less-than-jolly foe.

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.

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. This volatile partnership combined with innovative technologies allow for an unparalleled gaming experience. Eidos plans to released Kane & Lynch on Nov. 20, the same day as Rock Band, Mass Effect and a slew of other titles ...