Earth is burning. Striking from beyond known space, a race of terrifying machines have begun their destruction of the human race. As Commander Shepard, an Alliance Marine, your only hope for saving mankind is to rally the civilizations of the galaxy and launch one final mission to take back the Earth.

Lumines: Electronic Symphony marks the return of the puzzle series, bringing together addictive block-dropping puzzle action, an all-new 3D graphics engine, and some of the most significant names in electronic music history.

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:

• BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend (PS3/X360)
• Crusader Kings II (PC)
• Grand Slam Tennis 2 (PS3/X360)
• Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom (PC)
• House of the Dead 3 (PSN)
• Jagged Alliance: Back in Action (PC)
• Tales of the Abyss (3DS)
• Tekken 3D Prime Edition (3DS)
• Twisted Metal (PS3)
• UFC Undisputed 3 (PS3/X360)
• Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2012 - Pop Dance DLC (X360)
• Zumba Fitness Rush (X360)

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

Blacklight Retribution will set the new standard for free-to-play shooters, by fully leveraging Unreal 3 technology and implementing DirectX 11 to give gamers cutting-edge graphics that will blow away expectations as well as minds.

Myst is an adventure title featuring six worlds, many puzzles to solve and clues to find, MYST offers over 80 hours of immersive gameplay and has something for everyone.

With hair flying, long legs kicking and the ear-piercing shrill of deadly vixens, Girl Fight is a unique all-female, fast-paced spin on arcade-style fighting games.

Fray is a turn-based, multiplayer, real-time strategy game that eliminates the waiting involved with most turn-based games by introducing simultaneous play.

With real-time combat, motion controls, multiple endings and a unique relationship system, Pandora's Tower offers a unique experience and an epic story that will keep you engrossed for hours. 

Whatever goes up, must go down, and it has proven to be no different for the WP servers. They've been reliable for many years with only a few minor hiccups, but our luck has run out all at once. One of our file servers went belly-up with a double hard drive failure, our mail server crapped out, and we also decided to move our main web server to a new and faster location. While the first two are being worked on as we speak, we kept the best for last and will be looking into moving WP in the next week or two. No important data was lost, so I guess we should count our blessings.

On a more upbeat note, Fox News was actually funny for once when commentator Andy Levy apologized to Chris Brown and his fans for calling Brown out on beating his then-girlfriend Rhianna ... or does he? 

Burning Skies takes place right before Resistance 2, filling in the lost years and giving players a ground-eye view of the day the Chimera came to NYC.