Gears of War blends tactical action with survival horror, thrusting gamers into the harrowing story of humankind's battle for survival against the Locust Horde. Last week an expired digital certification issue rendered the PC edition of Gears of War unplayable, and while Epic is still working on a solution, VP Mark Rein revealed that it is caused by a digital signature involving the online cheat detection features.

SouthPeak Games today announced its plans for the New York Comic Con show on Feb. 6-8, 2009. Located at Booth 1349, SouthPeak will display some of their upcoming 2009 titles with both hands-on demos and producer-led demonstrations, along with special trailers featuring never before seen game footage.

theHunter is a free to play online hunting game that artfully combines the most realistic hunting action, with the community and functionality of a social networking site. Emote Games revealed that people who register on the site, will get phased into the beta test.

'Square Enix's Dragon Quest IX: Defender of the Stars, developed by Level 5, is the first title on any Nintendo system since Dragon Quest VI, 10 years ago, now featuring WiFi support for four players in co-op.

Top Global Markets, which combines sales numbers from The NPD Group, GfK Chart-Track Limited and Enterbrain, Inc., has released its global video game sales revealing that the market grew 11% in 2008 to 409.9 million, compared to 2007's 367.7 million units. Both US and UK showed growth, with 15% and 26% respectively, while Japan saw a 13% decline in 2008, mainly due to a decrease in PS2 titles.

Seems the previously revealed Yakuza 3, set 400 years before the first two titles in the series, was nothing but a spin off while the real third installment in the franchise is still set in modern times, situated two years after Yakuza 2, set in Ôsaka and Okinawa.

The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) today released additional details about the 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3 Expo), including a preliminary list of exhibitors. Last year's absentees Activision and Atlus are back on the floor...

Grand Ages: Rome, previously known as Imperium Romanum II, is a city-building game where the player takes the role of a Roman patrician, a nobleman, who has just started his political career. His ultimate goal is to become the Governor of Rome.

A new survey released by national video game retailer Game Crazy finds that nearly 80 percent of Americans would enjoy playing video games with their significant other. Relationship expert Dr. Diana Kirschner states that in her experience the couples that play together stay together!

Taito's classic Space Invaders game gets extreme once again with new features that bring the retro franchise up to speed with the Joneses such as a new Bingo and Multiplayer WiFi mode.