Based on Cartoon Network’s action adventure series, The Secret Saturdays: Beasts of the 5th Sun puts players in control of Zak Saturday and the rest of the Saturday family, a group of scientific explorers dedicated to discovering and protecting the secret artifacts and mysterious creatures known as Cryptids.

Sony has rolled out new PlayStation Store content, starting with Smash Cars ($14.99), demos for IL-2 Sturmovik and Mini Ninjas, DLCS, for PAIN, Zen Pinball SFII Tribute Table, Blazblue, Cross Edge, song packs for Guitar Hero World Tour, and Rock Band (Unplugged), as well as the usual game/movie trailers, PS3 themes and downloadable PSP games (Warriors Orochi, Bloody Roar).

Def Jam Rapstar delivers players a hip-hop experience that allows them to take on the role of a rapstar so you can rhyme and sing along with the greatest hip-hop tracks. But the game also offers opportunities where it’s also about creating all new rhymes, sharing your creativity and expressing yourself to the wider community and the world.

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:

• Astro Boy [ALL] - Voice-over Trailer
• Batman: Arkham Asulym [ALL] - Story Trailer
• Borderlands [ALL] - GamesCom 09 Trailer
• GearGrinder [PC] - GamesCom 09 Trailer
• Ju-On: The Grudge [Wii] - Trailer
• Mafia II [ALL] - Art of Persuasion Trailer
• Singularity [ALL] - GamesCom 09 Trailer
• Tropico 3 [X360/PC] - GamesCom 09 Trailer
• Twin Sector [PC] - GamesCom 09 Trailer
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As revealed a few weeks ago, Spiess Media Holding, a company owned by Midway Games' Exec Vice President - International Martin Spiess, has purchased the UK and French offices, while F & F Publishing GmbH, a company owned by Midway Games' General Manager Uwe Fürstenberg and Finance Director Hans Meyer, have purchased the German office.

Heir to the Throne is the 3rd expansion to the preeminent historical strategy game Europa Universalis III, taking the game beyond complete, with improvements across the board.

Tripwire Interactive's 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.

Responding to consumer feedback from the online games played, FIFA Soccer 10 will deliver a new standard for authenticity with gameplay refinements and innovations that will make it the most complete and intelligent simulation of soccer.

cdv announced a significant increase in revenues and profits for the first half of fiscal year 2009, driven by the success of Sacred 2, strengthening its position and market share in the interactive entertainment space.

Activision signed an agreement with Nelvana Enterprises to develop video games based on the toy and action animated TV series Bakugan, which tells the story of Dan and his friends as they battle their Bakugan Brawlers to save the planet of Vestroia and, ultimately, Earth from destruction.