On day one, new 3DS owners will have a choice of 18 video games to keep them busy. Nintendo and its third-party publishing partners have made sure that people who buy a system on March 27 will be able to choose from a variety of experiences that leverage the system’s new features.

Set to deliver an authentic and intensely personal US Marine Corps infantryman experience, Red River’s epic campaign will be played out on a deadly new battlefield set in the remote yet beautiful country of Tajikistan along the Vakhsh River.

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:

• Bulletstorm (PS3/X360/PC)
• Cities in Motion (PC)
• Din's Curse: Demon War (PC)
• EverQuest II: Destiny of Velious (PC)
• Killzone 3 (PS3)
• Knights Contract (PS3/X360)
• Ys I & II Chronicles (PSP)

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

escapeVektor: Chapter 1 is a retro styled arcade game in which the player controls Vektor, an entity trapped inside the player’s Wii.

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.