Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved combines retro-arcade Asteroids-like gameplay with up to date graphics and has players navigating their geometric ship through a retro grid world, facing off against waves of deadly spinners, snakes and repulsars.

SEGA's PS2-exclusive RPG Shining Force EXA plunges gamers into stunning interactive worlds of swords and sorcery, filled with anime cut-scenes for which the classic series is best known.

Avatar Reality announced that it has licensed Crytek’s CryENGINE 2 for use in creating their recently announced Mars-based massively multiplayer virtual world, allowing players to live their fantasy lives by creating personalized characters, or avatars, in a beautiful environment.

Check out the following new screens from Sony's GDC 2007 lineup:

• Calling All Cars (PS3) - Screens
• fl0w (PS3) - Screens
• Home (PS3) - Screens & Trailer
• LittleBigPlanet (PS3) - Screens & Trailer
• SingStar (PS3) - Screens
• Warhawk (PS3) - Screens & Trailers

LittleBigPlanet is a new PS3 community-based game with a hugely innovative concept behind it. Players meet on a blue and green planet scattered with individual plots -- and use their character's amazing abilities to play, create and share what they build with other gamers throughout the world via PS Network.

Sony unveiled a first-of-its-kind 3D online user community service for the PS3. The service, known as "Home," will enable users to create their own avatar and explore a real-time virtual community, as if they are playing a detailed 3D game.

DiamondWare announced today that its 3D voice technology has been selected for Auran's MMORPG, Fury; each voice will sound like it was spoken by the player's avatar. 3D voice adds elements of realism and immersion, improves tactical coordination, and provides live voice communications.

Red Ocean combines fast-paced, uncompromising action with perilous diving sequences. You take on the role of Jack Hard, who stumbles upon a Cold War-era Russian research station on the ocean floor taken over by a terrorist group.

EA today announced The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth Anthology, a compilation which will include The Battle for Middle-earth, LotR: The Battle for Middle-earth II Collector's Edition, and its The Rise of the Witch-King expansion. It will ship March 20, 2007, for an MSRP of $39.99.

Macrovision announced an agreement to digitally distribute a catalog of Activision's PC games on Macrovision's games network, starting with Call of Duty, CoD: United Offensive, CoD 2, Gun, Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines, The Movies, and additional PC games...

A heroic task awaits you. Just beyond your galaxy, an ancient malevolence has embarked upon a covetous rampage. This demonic juggernaut seeks nothing less than the total enslavement of every world it encounters. Your world could be next.

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:

• Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (PS2)
• The Sacred Rings (PC)
• Carol Vorderman’s Sudoku (PSP/PS2/PC)
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. provides players with dynamic gameplay of fast and tough combats, where you are to oppose intelligent enemies, a diversity of weapons, possibility to control machinery, detailed and interactive game world, in a team based story-driven single player game, and multiplayer with numerous modes.

Massive Inc. announced it has added no less than 14 titles since October 2006, and now includes more than 50 titles for the X360, Xbox and PC. With recent titles such as Crackdown, DEF JAM: ICON, MLB 2K7, and Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2, the Massive network is projected to be live with more than 100 titles by year's end.

Check out the following new screens from EA's PC lineup presented at GDC 2007:

• Crysis (PC) - Screens
• Hellgate: London (PC) - Screens & Trailer
• Mercenaries 2: World in Flames (PS2/X360/PS3/PC) - Screens
• Portal (PC) - Screens

Lighthouse Interactive and developer VSTEP announced that they are working on Ship Simulator 2007, a through-development of the 2006 edition, but will graphically be even better by using an upgrade of the Quest 3D engine and will include many much-desired new features.

In Birth of America you control one of the major contenders in French & Indian Wars, and the War of the American Independence, trying to achieve military and political victory. This v1.11 patch fixes bugs, crashes, improves AI, optimizes the UI and a few other tweaks.

Dusk2Dawn announced Mercs: Gun4Hire, a multi-level game that takes the best from popular genres, such as first-person shooters, space dogfighting and third-person run-and-gun and brings them all together in one explosive title for home computers.

Eidos has signed a publishing agreement with Conspiracy for its billiards simulation video game, Pocket Pool, featuring advanced AI, real world physics, 13 scintillating pool games including 9 ball, 8 ball Rotation, Black Jack and Snooker.

Shrapnel Games and Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space developer Digital Eel are taking gamers on a bold new adventure with Eat Electric Death!, a fast and furious board game of tactical starship combat for two or more players (allowing for team play).