"Project Natal" (pronounced na-tall) is the code name for the new controller-free gaming and entertainment experience from Microsoft for its Xbox 360 console, but at Microsoft's press briefing earlier this evening, it revealed the project has now gotten an official name, Kinect.

Homefront is set ten years after the economic collapse of the United States and follows the American Civilian Resistance as they fight to reclaim their homeland from an oppressive North Korean occupation, featuring a personal, story-driven single player campaign and a full suite of multiplayer options.

Microsoft has released the first patch for Ensemble Studios' AoE III: The WarChiefs, bringing your retail game to v1.04 which brings compatibility between the retail version and the Games on Demand version.

Robot Entertainment has released the Age of Empires III v1.14 patch mainly balancing and tweaking the various factions in the game, as well as a few client fixes and adding custom online scenario support for multiplayer games.

Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties is AoE 3's the second expansion pack, engaging gamers of all ages and types n epic warfare in the Eastern world, and leading Japanese, Chinese and Indian civilizations to expand their empires.

Sorry for the downtime yesterday. We had planned on moving the server to a new location sometime this weekend, but I did not realize it was going to be Friday night! Either way, the move went without a glitch, and we should be seeing some better performance. It's already better on my end, so everybody is happy.

Last night, we went out to celebrate my birthday. A good time was had by all, plenty of food and drinks, laughter and, of course, adult and racist jokes (We even had all the ethnic groups present, which made it even more fun).

Now we're packing and off to Los Angeles for the E3 craziness.

Tales from Space: About a Blob is a game about an innocent little creature that grows and grows until it eats the whole world. In development since January of 2009, the game features a monster movie setting and theme, a retro-inspired art style and puzzle-focused platforming gameplay.

Red Dead Redemption is a Western epic, set at the turn of the 20th century when the lawless and chaotic badlands began to give way to the expanding reach of government and the spread of the Industrial Age.

Living rooms will transform into nightclubs letting budding beat chemists, singing sensations and all of their friends party together by firing up two turntable controllers and a microphone to experience their favorite music as they’ve never heard it before in DJ Hero 2.

In Comic Jumper is a comedy shooter where you play as the loudmouth Captain Smiley, a half-witted comic book superhero who discovers that his fans are losing interest in his comic books, so he "jumps" into other comic book franchises to earn the love and respect he needs to re-launch his own series.