I really need to figure out why it is that each time we crack open a bottle of wine, it makes me sleepy beyond control. We had company last night, made dinner, and had some wine, and sure enough, snooze fest all around ... again!

As if Battlefield 3, Modern Warfare 3 and L.A. Noire weren't enough to keep gamers busy, tomorrow is the launch of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (check the link for our review).

I was looking forward to Rockstar's latest masterpiece (where's my Red Dead Redemption, damnit?!), so I let it download on Steam overnight (a whopping 12 GB) only to find that Norton detects the game's ypatcher.exe as a virus and automatically deletes it. This makes the game not start at all. Lovely!

Created by a team of only five, Rayman comes back again, but this time in his original 2D glory roots. Rayman Origins features a cartoony art style, evocative of claymation, and will include some sort of cooperative platforming as he now has a sidekick, Globox the chubby frog.

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:

• Cave Story 3D (3DS)
• Dead Rising 2: Off The Record - Firefighter and Gamebreaker DLC packs (PS3/X360)
• Dora and Kai-lan's Pet Shelter (NDS)
• Fusion: Genesis (XBLA)
• Nickelodeon Dance (Wii/X360)
• Orcs Must Die!: Lost Adventures DLC (PC)
• Rabbids Alive & Kicking (X360)
• SpongeBob's Surf & Skate Roadtrip (NDS/X360)
• Team Umizoomi (NDS)
• Tropico 4: Junta DLC (X360)
• WindSlayer 2 (PC)

We will update this throughout the day when new announcements become available. Read more for details ...

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