The National Basketball Association (NBA) announced new multiyear agreements with Take-Two Interactive Software, and Electronic Arts, extending the league’s longstanding relationship with each company to continue to develop, publish, and distribute NBA video games.

2K announced a partnership with XLGAMES to develop and publish a massively multiplayer online game for the Asian market based upon one of 2K Games’ top-selling franchise.

NCAA Football 12 takes the journey of the college athlete to the next level of depth and authenticity. Experience the pride and pageantry of gameday Saturday with all new enhanced in-game presentation, traditions and school specific crowd celebrations. Make an impact on the field as your team takes down your heated rival on the road to the National Championship.

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.

Nintendo added one WiiWare, and three NDSiWare titles to the Shop Channels. Nintendo owners with online access can redeem points to download: Overflow (Wiiware), Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords, 99Bullets, and 3D Twist & Match (NDSi).

BloodRayne: Betrayal stars the beautiful yet lethal dhampir anti-heroine as she fights and feeds in a bloody new 2D side-scrolling hack 'n slash action adventure game.

Gods & Heroes is a massively multiplayer RPG of mythic adventure in the ancient world featuring epic God Powers, intense squad-based combat, and creatures drawn from the myths and legends of the ancient world.

APB is a massively multiplayer online freeform combat and driving-based game, designed by the creator of the original GTA franchise, and takes  the universal theme of Criminals and Enforcement and brings it to a persistent, open world setting in a modern, crime-ridden city.

Green Man Gaming, the first digital retail platform allowing PC gamers to trade-in their digital games online, is celebrating its one year anniversary by giving users a voucher for free copies of the first-person shooter, NecroVisioN: Lost Company.

This week promises to be a busy one, with more pre-E3 stuff and the premiere of the Red Faction: Origins movie.

We watched Chuck, Kitchen Nightmares and Game Of Thrones, which has long surpassed Camelot on the awesome scale. Talk about a brutal way to get a golden crown!

No trips to the theater this weekend, but we'll most likely watch The Hangover II next, and that should be a good time. We are also looking forward to the upcoming long weekend, and there so happens to be a sale on baby back ribs at the local market. Coincidence? I think not!

Don't forget, APB Reloaded goes open beta today ....