Featuring world premiere footage from a variety of the gaming world's most anticipated releases, Spike TV's annual Video Game Awards will be a night to remember as the network celebrated the outstanding artistic and technical achievements in the gaming industry over the past year.

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:

• Afterfall: InSanity (PC)
• Elfsquad7 (XBLI)
• Magicka: The Stars are Left (PC)
• Magicka: Holiday Spirit DLC (PC)
• Magicka: Horror Props DLC (PC)
• Mercury Hg: Rare Earth Elements DLC (PSN/XBLA)
• Total War: Shogun 2 - Hattori and Blood Pack DLCs (PC)

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

In Choplifter HD, players take on the role of an up and coming rescue pilot asked to join the elite, international helicopter rescue team C.H.O.P.R. (Coordinated Helicopter Operations, Preservation and Rescue).

In Battlefield 3, players step into the role of the elite U.S. Marines. As the first boots on the ground, players will experience heart-pounding missions across diverse locations including Paris, Tehran and New York.

Killing Floor is a first-person co-op survival horror, set in and around London after a mad scientist’s “specimens” have broken loose and gone on the rampage.

Based on the popular Sour Then Sweet candy Sour Patch Kids, the game will take players on a journey from the perspective of a lost piece of candy finding its way to its ultimate destination – the human stomach.

Bodoink is an XBLA Kinect game where you are dropped into a pinball-like environment. Control your very own Xbox Avatar to pop as many pegs as possible while getting knocked around by pistons, conveyor belts, and teleporters.

Magna Mundi is a new strategy game that will bring open-ended challenging gameplay spanning over 300 years, as players will be able to relive key events that shaped the modern world.

Dust 514 is a console-based hybrid MMO/FPS set within the Eve universe featuring first-person shooter and RTS-style gameplay, and will interact with CCP’s MMO EVE Online. This interplay between the two games opens the EVE universe to console gamers and gives them a chance to become part of one of the most massive cooperative play and social experiences ever.

Sony has rolled out new PlayStation Store content, starting with free Playstation Plus content/discounts, Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus, Sly 2: Band of Thieves, Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves, Voltron: Defender Of The Universe (demo), Scene It? Movie Night, Modern Warfare 2, de Blob 2, DLCs for LittleBigPlanet 2, NBA 2K12, Mercury Hg, Zombie Apocalypse, Ace Combat Assault Horizon, Elevator Action HD, Dynasty Warriors 7 Xtreme Legends, song packs for Rocksmith, Rock Band 3, the usual game/movie trailers, PS3 themes, and downloadable PSP/PS0ne games (Darkstalkers, Tak 2).