The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) has named former President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Ken Kutaragi, the recipient of the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award, which will be bestowed at this year’s Interactive Achievement Awards (IAA) ceremony on Feb. 7 at the annual D.I.C.E. Summit 2008.

StarCraft II will feature the return of the Protoss, Terran, and Zerg races, overhauled and re-imagined with Blizzard's approach to game balance, designed to be the ultimate competitive RTS game.

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:

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Microsoft is making it even easier to expand your Friends network on Xbox Live, starting with the Fall Dashboard Update on Dec. 4th. Members will now be able to check out the friends lists of fellow Xbox Live members right from the Dashboard, and send messages and game invites, as well as compare games and Achievements.

Command and Destroy brings army-based RTS gameplay to the NDS for the very first time. With a total of 24 exhilarating missions, you get to decide whether to play the role of the humans, defiantly standing up to the alien onslaught or whether you want to control the extra terrestrials hell-bent on the destruction of the human race.

Eidos today announced the official opening of Eidos-Montreal, its brand new development studio in the heart of downtown Montréal, which is currently working on the third installment in the Deux Ex franchise.

Simutronics announced today that ZeniMax Online Studios has licensed the Simutronics HeroEngine. ZeniMax Online will use HeroEngine in connection with their massively multiplayer game (MMO) project currently getting underway.

Get ready for classic space shooting action with the release of Asteroids and Asteroids Deluxe which will be available jointly for download on Xbox LIVE Arcade this Wed., Nov. 28 at 9:00 a.m. GMT (2:00 a.m. PST).

Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom will take the franchise in a new direction as developer BLUESIDE and series director Henry Lee plan to create a truly next-generation Action-RPG, departing from their well-known Action-RTS formula.

Stranger combines epic RPG with some of the best elements of RTS. The never-before-seen spell and item enchantment system allows a never-before-seen flexibility as players simply have to swap the amounts of used crystals to adapt to their enemies' strategies.