8Realms is a new social empire-building strategy game where players grow their empires from humble village to glorious dominions through eight ages of history.

Dead or Alive: Dimensions will incorporate a 'Chronicle Mode' feature, which acts as a story mode in the game. The 3DS's touch screen will be used for executing special fighting moves for your character, while the top screen would be used for displaying the fight.

Founded in 2003, Relentless Software is a British developer primarily known for the Buzz! franchise, who most recently released Blue Toad Murder Files, a 1-4 players episodic TV murder mysteries. Early Feb. 2011, Relentless Software was forced to lay off 20 employees who have now moved on to form Full Moon Game Studios, which will focus on casual gaming and digital distribution.

As expected, it was a quiet day yesterday. It gave us the opportunity to catch up on a few Netflix movies that had been lying around for a few weeks, Grown Ups and Three Kingdoms. We also watched a few episodes of the new cop series The Chicago Code (good stuff), Mr. Sunshine (new comedy series with Friends' Matthew Perry), The Cape, and House.

Later this week, we'll be heading out to a pair of Microsoft events to check out a bunch of new titles and probably some other new announcements, so keep an eye out for that. Our Killzone 3 review is ready, but we wanted to wait until the official launch to try some of the live multiplayer servers and properly round out our coverage.

In the meantime, if you haven't yet, check out Total War: Shogun 2 preview. If that isn't your type of game, maybe you could enter our Mythos Closed Beta Key Giveaway!

Shift 2 Unleashed builds on the true drivers experience by introducing the driver’s battle, an even more authentic and primal feeling of power and speed which elevates the fundamental competitive race into a struggle for supremacy against other drivers and even the track itself.

Kinect is the controller-free gaming and entertainment experience, which was previously only on Xbox 360, but Microsoft announced plans to release a non-commercial Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit, or SDK, this spring.

Supernova is the first expansion for Armada 2526 and gives you more to explore, more to exploit, two new races to exterminate, and lets you challenge your friends over a local area network, or by email.

StarCraft II will feature the return of the Protoss, Terran, and Zerg races. It's overhauled and re-imagined with Blizzard's approach to game balance, and it's designed to be the ultimate competitive RTS game.

With an all-new pirate-based theme, Risen 2: Dark Waters aims to combine the most loved classic RPG gameplay mechanics of the original Risen with a fresh theme and setting on a huge variety of themed island locales.

Lots of movement going on in the C&C universe these days, earlier this month a new community manager was appointed, Aaron "Apoc" Kaufman has been replaced by Eric "CIRE". Victory Games was formed to be the focal point for the creation of strategy games at EA, with its current focus on making a AAA Command & Conquer PC game. Victory Games is led by Jon Van Caneghem, known for the Heroes of Might & Magic franchise, and comprised of former C&C talent as well as industry veterans, spread over studios in Los Angeles, CA; Austin, TX; and Shanghai, China.