Major League Gaming and EA announced an agreement to integrate online tournament functionality across a number of upcoming EA SPORTS titles in 2010. The deal deepens the two companies' existing relationship relating to the EA Sports Challenge Series and will bring to market the most fully integrated competitive experience in online console gaming.

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is a new action-adventure IP, a story of one man’s journey to discover the true meaning of sacrifice amidst murder and betrayal. Set in Southern Europe during the middle ages, Lords of Shadow has beautifully-realized locales that play host to an epic battle between good and evil.

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:

• Alice in Wonderland (NDS/Wii/PC)
• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (PS3/X360/PC)
• Deca Sports DS (NDS)
• Lunar: Silver Star Harmony (PSP)
• Major League Baseball 2K10 (NDS/PSP/PS2/Wii/PS3/X360)
• MLB 10 The Show (PSP/PS2/PS3)
• Project Runway (Wii)
• SpongeBob's Boating Bash (NDS/Wii)

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

Veteran game designer Luke Schneider announced the creation of Radiangames, a new independent game development studio formed with the goal of developing a series of highly focused and enjoyable downloadable games.

Nexuiz is a 3D deathmatch game that is simply first person shooting reduced to the very basics with perfect weapon balancing.

Triangle Studios has opened a new office in the United States. The new location is intended to facilitate the growth of international ambitions of the company.

Rare is to open a new second studio facility in Fazeley Studios, Digbeth Birmingham in April which will complement Rare’s longstanding headquarters in Twycross. Fazeley’s main area of focus will be as a production, test and usability site to accommodate Rare’s evolving methodology in game creation.

Blacklight: Tango Down is a fast-paced FPS based in a new fictional universe called Blacklight. The game's near-future setting is brought to life with disturbingly detailed and old-world architecture dripping with modern sci-fi lighting and brightly lit advertisements, an effect that causes each environment to appear both futuristically alien as well as hauntingly familiar.

THQ announced that it will open a new, state-of-the-art Usability Lab located at The Guildhall at Southern Methodist University. Expected to be fully operational by summer 2010, the lab will enhance game testing capabilities, and generate important opportunities for collaboration with faculty and the post-graduate community, as well as potential paid internships and research projects.

Since the launch of high-selling Tony Hawk: RIDE, Robomodo has grown by 20%, increasing in all areas of the studio, including art, engineering, production, and design. The company is currently looking to grow an additional 17%, looking to fill positions in all areas across the company to work on projects across all platforms.