Havok and Intel have launched a worldwide competition with a cash prize of $40,000 to find the “next big thing” in video game development. Entitled the Havok Physics Innovation Contest, amateur game developers are being asked to create an inventive, playable PC game demo using the Intel sponsored no-charge PC version of the Havok Physics software.

2K Sports' MLB Superstars takes America's favorite pastime into a totally new realm by bringing fans’ favorite players and teams out of their natural environments and showcasing them in over half a dozen different mini games that speak to the kid in all of us.

Age of Conan is an Online Action RPG, mixing a deep, story-driven single-player experience and a massive and brutal multiplayer end-game that brings forth the ultimate representation of the Age of Conan. With former game director Gaute Godager resigning earlier this month, the MMORPG hit another snag as his replacement revealed that Funcom will be merging servers in order to increase population and increase the game experience.

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:

• Blitz: The League II [ALL] - Hit Targeting Trailer
• Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts [X360] - Showdown Town Trailer
• Quantum of Solace [ALL] - Environments Trailer
• Skate 2 [ALL] - New Tricks Trailer
• Motorstorm Pacific Rift [PS3] - Carnage Trailer
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SingStar makes an encore performance with SingStar Vol. 2 featuring 30 new chart-toping tracks from your favorite hit artists including The Bravery, Spoon, Paramore, Radiohead and more.

Pirates of the Burning Sea is a MMORPG set in the Caribbean islands of the 18th Century. You play a bold sea captain, master of your own ship and crew, as you seek glory and adventure across the trackless deep. People interested in trying out Flying Lab Software swashbuckling, seafaring MMO can get a free 14-day trial key and check it out.

X-Blades, previously known as Oniblade, is a third-person, anime-style action/adventure. Your heroine wields two magical blades that can be used as swords or guns, and has magical abilities, all of which are upgradeable.

As society succumbs to a worldwide energy crisis, a new global depression takes hold. Amidst this desperate backdrop two superpower alliances emerge, join the Western Coalition or the Red Star Alliance.

Luminous Arc 2 is an epic strategy RPG loaded to the brim with content, including a wealth of new characters (and the return of a few favorites), hand drawn graphics, a score from composer Yasunori Mitsuda‘s Procyon Studio, local and online multiplayer support, multiple endings, a redesigned user interface, etc...

MotorStorm: Pacific Rift is moving from the rugged desert to a lush Pacific island with all of the vehicles familiar of the first game (ATVs, rally cars, buggies, motorbikes, race trucks, etc.), while adding a new monster truck class. Evolution studios revealed the game is nearing completion as they have just submitted the gold master candidate to testers, to give testers one last hammering.