Set five years after the original, San Vanelona's been rebuild after it was hit by a natural disaster. Equipped with double the bag of tricks, gamers are tasked to rebuild their career and revive the New San Vanelona skate scene.

Blizzard's two-day gaming festival, BlizzCon 2008, begins on Friday, Oct. 10, celebrating its Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo player communities by letting them play the latest versions of Blizzard's games as well as speak with developers in special panels, participate in tournaments and contests, and meet with fellow gamers and friends.

SEE Virtual Worlds announced a partnership with Entropia Universe developer Mindark to expand popular Hollywood properties into full, stand-alone virtual planets utilizing the Entropia Universe Virtual World Platform.

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 Last Remnant is Square Enix's latest single-player RPG game, powered by the Unreal Engine 3, scheduled for a simultaneous in Japan and North America, with two main characters, each one appealing to a specific territory. Fans who pre-order on Gamestop, Gamecrazy or Amazon get a March to War Set code, which unlocks three rare battle formations, and Best Buy offers a poster.

2K Sports and Visual Concepts are working on the next installment in their NBA2k franchise featuring 11-time NBA All-Star and 2008 Defensive Player of the Year Kevin Garnett of the Boston Celtics as the cover athlete and spokesman for NBA 2K9.

Handheld gamers will once again have the freedom to unleash their inner rock star anywhere, anytime with Vicarious Visions' Guitar Hero On Tour Decades which will now also introduce song share between NDS players with different versions of On Tour.

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:

• Game Party 2 (Wii)
• The Price is Right (NDS/Wii/PC)
• Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches (PC)
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2K Sports' MLB Stickball is an exciting, fast-paced, multiplayer game that puts gamers against each other to see whose team can win a classic game of stickball.

Capcom is working on bringing the original Gamecube (based on the 1996 PSOne game) title in the Resident Evil series to the Wii. Currently only scheduled for a December release in Japan, the port will add no new content or features, apart from making it compatible with the Wiimote controls.