Colosseum, developed by Swedish studio Shortfuse Games, is a cel-shaded 3D fighting game featuring a single-player segment, but with a heavy multiplayer focus.

This morning, Wedbush Morgan's Michael Pachter sharply lowered the annual price target for THQ, similarly to what he did last week with EA before they announced increased loss and pending payoffs, indicating that the Calabasas publisher's upcoming financial result (Nov. 5) might be less rosy than expected. Earlier today, it was rumored that THQ might close several of its studios, which has now been confirmed to us by its PR. Paradigm Entertainment, Mass Media, Helixe, Locomotive Games and Sandblast Games have all been shuttered, while Juiced Games reportedly and Rainbow Studios laid off part of their staff.

Salvation is a third-person shooter game set in the near-future where the world government has staged Judgment Day, replicated Christ and Antichrist in order to kill them off and assume ultimate power. Any dissidents are killed or sent to a cybernetic virtual Hell, causing a human to suffer unbearably.

You're In The Movies is a minigame-laden party game that takes players' action and cobbles them together into campy B-flicks.

Beltion: Beyond Ritual is Rostok-Games' alternative fantasy RPG, in development since 2004. Beltion allows the player a freeform gameplay with a mix of fantasy and historical reality of medieval Europe.

Valve announced the roll out of Steam Cloud, a set of services for Steam that stores application data online (keyboard, mouse, and gamepad configurations, as well as multiplayer settings such as spraypaint images) and allows user experiences to be consistent from any PC.

Gears of War 2 picks up six months after the events of the original, thrusting players back into humankind's epic battle for survival against a nightmarish force of underground creatures known as the Locust Horde.

Fluid Entertainment's Emerald Island is an original MMO aimed at children that challenges players to become online eco-heroes in a mission to save a vibrant, imaginary, virtual world from environmental destruction.

Activision's Vigilante 8: Arcade is a remake of the original game, featuring online play with up to eight players and a host of new content, taking full advantage of next-generation technologies.

Neko Entertainment's Horse Life 2 is the sequel in the horse simulation series, exceptional in both visuals and game-play.