As reward for his contribution to advancement within the industry while demonstrating proven success and leadership, the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) is inducting Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime into its Hall of Fame.

Baroque is a hardcore dungeon-crawling action RPG loaded with items to find and customize, packed with tons of twisted monsters to vanquish, boasting a powerful musical score, and featuring an innovative story progression system in which death is not the end, but rather, the means by which to move the story forward.

GSC Gameworld's S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is story-driven sci-fi team-based action game with dynamic gameplay of fast and tough combats, set in a detailed and interactive game world. In an interview with German Oblivion Lost fansite, GSC revealed that while it is working on the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky expansion, they are seriously contemplating bringing the franchise into the MMO market.

MapleStory is an online adventure game that centers around the "Maple World," allowing players to combat monsters and develop their characters' skills and abilities in an immense platform-inspired persistent world. MapleStory Europe launches a three week long celebratory event that's full of festive fun, excitement and monsters dressed in Santa hats.

Konami announced the first titles to emerge from its recent publishing agreement with Hudson Soft will be Fishing Master and Sports Island, both created specifically for the Wii and will be released in Q1 and Q2 2008 respectively.

Mercury Games' Matchstick Puzzle by DS is a classic puzzle game which requires lateral thinking and includes lots of brain teasing conundrums. The aim of the game is to answer the questions by moving or rotating matchs

Relive the traditions, rivalries and terrifying speeds that characterized the golden age of racing at the Racing Capital of the World: the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

In what will most likely be one of the final Naruto installment for the last gen consoles, the popular blond ninja is back once more in pursuit of Sasuke and Akatsuki. Naruto: Narutimate Accel 2 will introduce no less than 62 new characters, new attacks and co-op combos.

LittleBigPlanet is a new PS3 community-based game with an innovative concept behind it. Players meet on a blue and green planet scattered with individual plots, and use their character's amazing abilities to play, create and share what they build with other gamers throughout the world via PS Network. When announced early this year, a demo was promised by end of the year, which has now been pushed to next year.

More than half of Codemasters' 2008 U.S. line-up will be created by in-house teams or development studios based in the U.S., including Spark Unlimited, inXile Entertainment and Liquid Entertainment. The line-up features games that span hard-core, casual and online content across next-gen platforms, PCs and handhelds.