Gratuitous Space Battles is a strategy / management / simulation game that does away with all the base building and delays and gets straight to the meat and potatoes of science-fiction games: The big space battles fought by huge spaceships with tons of laser beams and things going 'zap!', 'ka-boom!' and 'ka-pow!'.

Take up the reigns of your country, guide domestic and foreign policy, navigate thousands of historical events, engage in various struggles and lead your country to prosperity – all in the name of glory!

Yesterday was a bit of an odd day. We hauled furniture twice (once moving it out of the way, and then back in place), did some groceries/errands. some early holiday gift shopping, watched The Walking Dead, Harvey, and Smallville. All the lugging around made us hungry in the afternoon, which inevitably led to the fact we were not feeling like eating around dinner time. We sat down to dinner at the stroke of midnight instead.

We have nothing specific on the agenda for today, so we've settled on watching Tony Scott's train wreck of a movie Unstoppable (featuring Denzel Washington and Chris Pine, the new Cpt. Kirk).

Pac-Man Championship Edition DX features more than 100 varied and mind-boggling mazes to navigate. Several new modes test a player's pellet-munching aptitude.

Angry Birds is a physics-based castle demolition game where players use catapults to dish out revenge on thieving green pigs that have stolen the Birds’ eggs. Each feathery fowl has unique destructive powers capable of attacking the pigs’ fiendishly fortified castles.

Mafia II immerses players in the mob underworld of a fictitious late 1940s-early 1950s scenario by fusing high-octane gunplay with white-knuckle driving and an engaging narrative. Players will easily become engaged in the game's cinematic Hollywood movie experience with strong, believable characters in a living, breathing city.

Live and breathe as Ezio, now a legendary master assassin, in his struggle against the Templar order. Lead your own brotherhood of assassins and strike at the heart of the enemy, Rome.

You are one of the few who escaped the destruction of your home. Now, forced to fight for survival in an ever-changing world, you must gather the deadliest of allies, amass fame and fortune, and seal your place in history. This is the story of how the world changed forever. The legend of your Rise to Power begins now.

Serious Sam III is the next installment in the over the top FPS franchise, using the Serious 3 engine. Details are still slim, but it will appear on PC and X360, as well as for the first time on PS3.

It was a rather uneventful day. Apart from working and further tidying up the place for the carpet cleaning later today, not a whole lot happened.

Gran Turismo 5 is finally going to make it to PS3s, a few years after it was initially planned as a platform launch title. With a few years of extra polishing, it should be a rather good title, right ? We'll find out soon enough.

We watched Glee, Hell's Kitchen, Psych and Burn Notice, and maybe later this weekend, we'll see either Unstoppable or Due Date.