Virtua Fighter 5 raises the bar for console fighting games including all the features fans know and love plus enhanced gameplay mechanics, additional characters and new fighting styles, as well as newly redesigned 3D environments.

Battlestations: Midway follows the story of naval recruit Henry Walker, whose first assignment as a gunner at Pearl Harbor is the starting point of an incredible career at the heart of the US Pacific Fleet in 1942. Battlestations: Midway will be released in North America on January 30, 2007.

Kudos is a turn based game 'life sim' game based on social relationships, like the Sims, but not set in a 3D world. Positech has given the game a major graphical overhaul, added a journalist career, and the usual bug and crash fixes and balance adjustments.

Test Drive Unlimited challenges players online to experience the most exotic and fastest vehicles on more than 1000 miles of diverse Hawaiian roads. Gamers win races, challenges, missions and tournaments to earn credits and purchase new cars, bikes, rare performance parts, clothes, apparel, homes and garages.

As the premier sports statistical-simulation game on the market, football fans will experience all the intense excitement and strategic challenge in Football Mogul 2007 that they have come to expect from the series.

Cinema Empire is Comport Interactive's latest commercial sim products. Start small, work your way up and end up as the owner of the country’s largest chain of movie theatres.

Cyberathlete Professional League announced Severity, a multiplayer FPS focusing on team-versus-team and one-versus-one play modes, offering unprecedented support for gamers worldwide playing in online and live competitions both casually and professionally (thanks Shacknews).

Desert Diner is an FPS based on Artificial Studios and Immersion Games' upcoming game CellFactor: Revolution. With a massive number of unique rigid bodies flying in the air simultaniously, combined with an intriguing post-apocalyptic mexican truck-stop setting Desert Diner is sure to show off the PhysX engine.

Armed Assault is a realistic, combat gaming offering freedom of action and immersive complex environments, blended with a unique touch of total simulation. Morphicon has released the a new patch, bringing your German retail game to v1.02 and addressing various AI issues, engine updates, general performance and stability issues.

GripShift combines high-flying stunt driving with unique puzzle-solving action in an all-out, pedal-to-the-metal racing experience. Sidhe Interactive is optimizing the PSP version for the PS3 (720p, 60fps), where you will be able to download the full game from the PlayStation Store in demo mode (limited to a subset of the levels in Challenge Mode), which you can then purchase and unlock the full game.

Exteel is an MMO featuring stylized action in a universe filled with robots on a far off world where the exiled survivors of a lost war struggle against each other for control of the planet's resources. Exteel features easy-to-access gameplay and a unique merging of strategic combat and high-speed action. If you are interested is joining the beta, NCSoft is now accepting signups.

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:

• Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars - GDI vs. Nod Trailer
• Lost Planet [X360] - How To Trailer (3)
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Dark Crusade features two new playable races, an all-new single player campaign centering on the conquest of a meta-map, with each territory captured giving tangible rewards to the occupying force. THQ has released the v1.11 patch, allowing multiplayer sessions between alll international editions, and adds subtitles to load screens and cutscenes.

Ghost Rider offers a unique combination of high impact combat and motorcycle action. Johnny Blaze is Ghost Rider, destined to haunt America’s highways, visiting his righteous wrath upon the souls of the wicked and the damned.

Assume the role of Master Detective to unlock secrets held within Ravenhearst, scouring 32 rooms in the manor for cleverly hidden clues. Locating and assembling diary pages helps tell the story of the house and, ultimately, unlock the mystery.

Silent Hunter 4: Wolves of the Pacific, developed by Ubisoft Romania, will put you in the role of a US submarine Captain in the Pacific Ocean.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. provides players with dynamic gameplay of fast and tough combats, where you are to oppose smart & dangerous enemies, a large set of diverse weaponry, possibility to control machinery, detailed and interactive game world, story-driven single player with original team gameplay, and multiplayer with numerous modes.

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:

• Bioshock [PS3/X360/PC] - Trailer #3
• Fuzion Frenzy 2 [X360] - Trailer #5
• Titan Quest: Immortal Throne - Dev. Diary Trailer #1
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MotorStorm delivers brutal off-road racing, plunging players into a stunningly realistic - but frenzied and chaotic - environment awash with grit, mud and petrol, in a game that leaves the standard rules of racing in the dust. While not available yet in North America, UK- based developer Evolution Studios is celebrating international success today, as its racing title MotorStorm tops the Japanese PS3 charts.

2K will release a free holiday scenario for Firaxis' Sid Meier’s Railroads!, where you reemerge as a former railroad tycoon, determined once again to redeem himself and more importantly, save Christmas! Help Santa and his elves make and transport toys to Santa's Station by the rapidly-approaching deadline.