From Monday Sept. 8 onward, the Good Old Games closed press beta will come to an end and the Early Access Beta will begin. Anyone who has signed up will receive an access key during the next week, granting them access to the ever-growing catalogue of tantalizing classic games.

Pure takes quad racing to a new level, featuring massive jumps and spectacular airborne tricks in memorable, photo-realistic settings all over the globe.

BlackFoot Studios has entered into an agreement with Epic Games to license Unreal Engine 3 for its upcoming military tactical action game Sky Gods, a complete co-operative game experience centering on Special Forces operations, specifically HALO (High Altitude, Low Opening) and helicopter insertion missions.

Guitar Hero: World Tour will feature guitar, vocals, drums, the ability to create your own songs (and upload them on GHTunes), four-player on/offline co-op, and an eight-player battle of the bands multiplayer mode (4vs4). Guitar Hero fans will be able to unleash their inner rockstar with exclusive re-records by MC5’s Wayne Kramer, Motörhead and The Sex Pistols

Sacred 2 is a action-oriented deep fantasy RPG where players are immersed in an epic journey through the medieval-like kingdom of Ancaria featuring pitched battles and a wide range of enticing quests.

Crackdown pushes the action-driving hybrid genre into the next gen with the introduction of a true 3-dimensional persistent playground, co-op gameplay and an extensive prop interaction system all while taking place in a massive and highly-stylized urban center. Realtime Worlds community rep Chris Dye revealed that there will be no more Crackdown DLCs, the studio has moved on to APB and other yet unannounced projects.

The latest issue of Japanese magazine Famitsu reveals that Q Entertainment is working on a new installment in their Lumines franchise, coming to the PlayStation Network later this year. Lumines Supernova features new skins, stages, and a new Dig Dug mode where you have to clean preset blocks off the screen in order to win.

Dissidia: Final Fantasy is an all-new title in the FF franchise, although it's not part of the compilation of Final Fantasy VIII or the Ivalice Alliance. Not a standard RPG, it's labeled a dramatic progressive action title, and Tetsuya Nomura, known for Kingdom Hearts, has signed on to be the game's character designer.

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:

• Facebreaker (PS3/X360)
• Touch Darts (NDS)
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The Last Remnant is Square Enix's latest single-player RPG game, powered by the Unreal Engine 3, scheduled to be released in Japan and North America simultaneously, with two main characters, each one appealing to a specific territory.