Rockstar Games announced the fourth installment in the franchise, Midnight Club: Los Angeles, which is being developed by series creator Rockstar San Diego. This brings the franchise to next-gen consoles for the first time.

Tripwire has released a free update pack for Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45, created entirely by the community team MinionWorkz team. The pack includes new operable vehicles and working anti-guns for both sides, and updates the whole objective system for four new game types, two entirely new maps and updates to three earlier maps

Until I'm Gone is a horror 3rd person adventure build on Faraway Studios' WinterMute Engine. Until I'm Gone features pre-rendered scenes and real-time 3D models of characters, similar to Microids' Syberia.

Dominions 3: The Awakening is a turn-based strategy game set in a world of epic struggle between men, monsters, and gods. This v3.14 patch includes a new nation, some new mod commands, and a witch's brew of bug obliteration.

Insomniac Games' PS3 launch title Resistance: Fall of Man is still one the best game on the machine, and while it was a no-brainer a sequel would follow, the first details are starting to trickle through. Resistance 2 will feature 8-player, story-driven online co-op separate from the regular single-player campaign, 60-player online PvP (Heavy, Special Ops, Medic classes) and more vehicles, including The Chameleon, a Stalker with full cloak.

While there most likely won't be an official announcement anytime soon, Gametap revealed that former EA Chicago GM Kudo Tsunoda is now with Microsoft as Project Lead for the new Gears of War game. Tsunoda was recruited by Don Mattrick, formerly at EA Vancouver, where they both worked on the Fight Night series. Mattrick also recently reeled in former Tiburon boss and EA's Vice President of Worldwide Studios John Schappert to run Microsoft's Xbox Live. According to other rumors, GoW2 will run on Unreal Engine 3.5, have 4 new weapons, be twice as big as the original, have controllable air vehicles, new melee moves, etc...

For the past two months, the best gamers in the United States and Canada have been competing in intense online matches of 2K Sports’ NHL 2K8 for a chance to win a spot and showcase their skills in the NHL 2K8 All-Star Tournament championships in Atlanta, Georgia, during NHL All-Star Weekend on January 26-27, 2008.

Art of Murder: FBI Confidential, created by by the team who made Schizm, Sentinel and Reah, is a point & click adventure where the player takes on the role of an FBI agent, whose task is to solve a series of macabre murders of wealthy, well-to-do citizens.

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:

• Yakuza 3 [PS3] - Trailer (5)
• One Chanbara Revolution [Wii] - Trailer #2
• Turning Point: Fall of Liberty [PS3/X360/PC] - Trailer (2)
• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed [ALL] - Dev Diary #3
• Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None [Wii] - Trailer
• Opoona [Wii] - Gameplay Trailer
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  We will update this throughout the day when new trailers become available. Read more for download links ...

Paradox Interactive's Penumbra: Black Plague, the final chapter in the Penumbra story, thrusts players into a creepy environment of psychological horror, as they are challenged in this unique action/adventure experience. in a recent announcement, Frictional Games revealed that the game has gone gold and its publisher has the final version in hand (and so do we...)