Spice Road is a trading and city management game. A rich plot drives the single player campaign, and a sandbox mode, easy to mod data tables and lua scripting lets the play continue beyond the campaign.

Set in the distant past, Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep is a single-player focused tale of a new trio of heroes, told across three scenarios. New features will be introduced on top of the traditional controls, game system, and visual style of its predecessors.

Killing Floor is a first-person co-op survival horror, set in and around London after a mad scientist’s “specimens” have broken loose and gone on the rampage. Tripwire has released  the “Level Up” Free Content pack, adding 3 new maps, a new Perk, increased Perk levels, a new specimen and 7 new weapons to the game.

Halo 3: ODST lets people experience events leading up to the epic story told in Halo 3 through the eyes of an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper, as they search for clues leading to the whereabouts of their scattered squad and the motivations behind the Covenant's invasion of New Mombasa.

Armada 2526 is a space-based blend of addictive turn-based strategy and intense real time space battles. You guide your race from its first interstellar journeys, until it becomes a mighty galactic empire. Along the way, you'll explore the galaxy, conduct research, diplomacy and trade, found new colonies, maneuver mighty star fleets, and fight epic battles.

Stardock's digital distribution platform, Impulse, is having its weekend sale, knocking 50% off the regular price on Red Faction Guerrilla, Elven Legacy, 25% off  Call of Duty Modern Warfare (now $38.50), dropping the price on a slew of titles like AI War: Fleet Command, Pahelika, Gratuitous Space Battles, Restaurant Empire, Nemesis of the Roman Empire, Warlords Battlecry III, Baseball Mogul 2008 and Capitalism II.

Lots of interesting stuff happening yesterday: League of Legends open beta, Star Trek Online beta sign-ups, Modern Warfare 2 coupon, and the launch of the Dragon Age web game. Speaking of launches, Windows 7 is being rolled out, and I must admit, I have been testing it for a few months now and like it. It's definitely an improvement over Vista, that's for sure.

TV-wise, I watched Criminal Minds and NCIS Los Angeles, but not one of the episodes of the latter has matched the promise of the pilot episode, so I'm considering dropping it soon. We also picked up a new series through Netflix, Flashpoint, which stars Enrico Colantoni (AKA Veronica Mars' dad) and follows a SWAT-type unit. It's pretty good so far, and I'm liking it better than NCIS: Los Angeles.

As it's Friday, we're one step away from the weekend, and since we don't have any specific plans, I think I'll do some hardcore CrimeCraft grinding in anticipation of next week's patch and free-2-play launch, which surely will bring in plenty of n00bs ready for me to plow through with my LMG.

The Mass Effect trilogy is a sci-fi adventure set in a vast universe filled with dangerous alien life forms and mysterious uncharted planets. In this dark second chapter, Saren's evil army of Geth soldiers has just been defeated, and humans, who are still struggling to make their mark on the galactic stage, are now faced with an even greater peril…

Sony has rolled out new PlayStation Store content, starting with Trine, demos for Ratchet And Clank Future: A Crack In Time, Critter Crunch, Dragon Ball: Raging Blast, DLCs for FIFA 10, Lumines Supernova, Way of the Samurai 3, song packs for Guitar Hero 5, Rock Band (Unplugged); and the usual game/movie trailers, PS3 themes, downloadable PSP games (Liberty City/Vice City Stories, The Warriors, Lemmings, Undead Knights, The Secret Saturdays, Marvel Super Hero Squad, and a slew of others), and some PSOne classics (Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee/Oddworld: Abe’s Exodus).

Another day, another batch of game trailers was released. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are trailers for:

• History: Great Battles Medieval [ALL] - Trailer
• Assassin's Creed II [ALL] - Dev Diary Trailer #5
• Rabbids Go Home [Wii] - Failed Attempt Trailer
• Left 4 Dead 2 [ALL] - Intro Trailer

We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...