Namco Bandai's Soulcalibur IV delivers new gameplay modes, characters and enhanced features with unprecedented 3D modeling and animation, making it the definitive fighting game experience. The series is no stranger to cameo appearances, but today marks a first as LucasArts is teaming with Namco Bandai to bring Yoda to the X360 edition of SC4, while the PS3 gets Darth Vader.

CMP’s 2008 Game Developers Choice Awards will honor computer strategy game luminary Sid Meier with a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s ceremony taking place at the Game Developers Conference (GDC).

Sledgehammer is a pure action game on wheels, a festival of demolition and speed, all in one. Drive the most powerful truck and destroy every opponent that you’ll find on the road or go to the multiplayer mode and decide who is the king of the highway.

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:

• Turning Point: Fall of Liberty [PS3/X360/PC] - Dan Carson Trailer
• Downstream Panic! [PSP] - Trailer
• Imperium Romanum - Trailer
• Dead Mountaineer's Hotel - Trailer #2
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The Need for Speed ProStreet Live Race Weekend starts Friday, Jan. 11, 2008 and features an Xbox Live Leaderboard tournament (on the Portland International Raceway), a 72-hour Play & Win Sweepstakes with a prize every hour, races against the devs and the PMS clan.

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning will bring Games Workshop's fantasy world to life in a way that will allow players to create characters destined for great deeds and glory on the field of battle.

Speedball 2 transforms the futuristic game setting into a high-speed online sports spectacle. Offering international leagues, a large-scale ranking system and a virtual marketplace, Speedball 2 pulls out all the stops in modern multiplayer gaming action.

Steam's latest hardware survey shows more gamers play on NVIDIA GeForce hardware than any other graphics platform, so in an effort to further show its support Valve is offering all NVIDIA gamers a free copy of its special edition Portal: First Slice.

SouthPeak Games announced Dream Pinball, developed by Topware, a superb pinball simulator creating an authentic pinball experience with refined controls that capitalize on the unique qualities each platform.

Hothead Games announced plans to publish Ron Gilbert's RPG-Adventure game, DeathSpank, who also joins the company's Vancouver-based studio as Creative Director. Described as "Monkey Island meets Diablo", the game will feature Gilbert's unique style of humor and storytelling.