Rock Band allows you to perform famous rock music with your friends as a virtual band using drum, bass/lead guitar and vocals, as well as online. Harmonix has released three new songs for Rock Band, downloadable through Xbox Live (next week on PlayStation Network). Lynyrd Skynyrd's Three Steps, a cover of Black Crowes' Hard to Handle and Rush's Limelight, also covered, for 160 Microsoft Points each.

Grey Dog Software announces its latest sports management simulation title, Total Extreme Wrestling 2008, allowing you to take on the role of a wrestling promoter, where it is up to you to try and steer your chosen company to the top of the industry.

Conflict: Denied Ops, previously called Crossfire, is a new paramilitary themed co-op FPS from Pivotal Games, putting you in control of two of these merciless operatives, each of them highly specialized in both weapons and military tactics.

The entire Worthplaying team wishes everybody a Happy New Year! We hope everybody had a safe transition from old into new and may 2008 be even better than last year. We here at Worthplaying have some exciting new stuff lined up to better serve you all. Behind the scenes, we are working very hard to expand the website in various ways which will hopefully start showing in the months ahead. Until then, party on & stay safe!

In SimCity DS 2, based on Sim City 3000, you will be in charge of evolving your city through 8 periods of time, from the stone ages, until modern times, visiting locations like Paris, or ancient Japan.

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:

• Battle Rage - Trailer #2
• Exit [NDS] - Trailer
• Arkanoid DS [NDS] - Trailer
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

Hudson Entertainment announced the Bomberman Live New Year’s Bash Tournament & Sweepstakes, in which U.S. players will compete both for bragging rights and for prizes, including a 1st-place prize of 100,000 Microsoft Points. Registration begins at 9:00 a.m. PST on Dec. 31, 2007 and ends at 8:59 a.m. PST on Jan. 13, 2008.

Earlier this year SCi/Eidos' CEO Jane Cavanagh confirmed a Battlestations: Midway sequel was in development, and while there are still no details available, Eidos seems to have filed to protect the Battlestations Pacific trademark. Battlestations: Midway’s blends action with RTS in epic, large-scale massive air, sea, and undersea battles from Pearl Harbor to Midway

Square Enix is bringing the Kingdom Hearts franchise to handhelds. Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep for the PSP is set in "the distant past," and will be similar to the PS2 titles, focused on single-player. Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days, for the NDS, is set during the KH II events, and has Roxas as the main character.

In No More Heroes you play the role of Travis Touchdown, a hardcore anime fan who takes it upon himself to murder the top assassin's in the world, using the Wiimote to wield Travis' beam sword and kill off enemies in gruesome ways. Originally scheduled for Feb. 5, Amazon.com, GameCrazy, and BestBuy now have a Jan. 22 release date, while GameStop's remains the same.