SCEA announced that the next system software update for the PS3 will be available March 22, delivering features such as Folding@home connectivity, enhanced downloading of content from the PS Store, support for Bluetooth keyboards and mice, and an optional full QWERTY on-screen keyboard for text entry.

Playing as a warrior riding a voracious dragon trained for deadly aerial and ground combat, and capable of scorching, clawing and smashing thousands of enemies, gamers must defeat countless armies to save a civilization. Together, the gamer and the beast will attempt to change the destiny of a world on the brink of extinction.

After Capcom earlier announced it's bringing Devil May Cry 4 to X360 and PC, the latest Famitsu issue reveals that Namco is working on Ace Combat 6 for the Xbox 360, a franchise previously only on PS2 and PSP. Currently scheduled for later this year, AC6 will be larger in scale, cover more terrain than ever before, and feature a slew of Xbox Live multiplayer modes such as Battle Royale, Team Battle, co-op, including achievements and rankings.

Sony Europe and BigBig Studios' sequel to 2005's high speed action game. Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice ups the ante with a Hollywood inspired storyline, multiplayer modes and will be coming to the PS2 as well.

Media analysts Screen Digest's latest research revealed that the market value for MMOGs outside Asia hit $1 billion for the first time in 2006. While subscription services continue to dominate in the West accounting for 87% of the market, new business models like virtual item sales and in-game advertising have also made their mark during the year.

Afterfall is a postapocalyptic computer role-playing game set in Central Europe, destroyed in the course of a nuclear war, introducing you into a story of a search for identity. You are going to become the protagonist of a tale about the rebuilding of the lost order. You are going to create the greatest legend of the wastelands.

Dark Sector is Digital Extreme's new sci-fi/action game. Not many details are available at this point so these new screens will have to speak for themselves.

Dark Crusade features two new playable races, an all-new single player campaign centering on the conquest of a meta-map, with each territory captured giving tangible rewards to the occupying force. THQ has released the v1.20 patch, adding new maps, tweaking the various factions, and fixing bugs and crashes.

DIRT: Colin McRae Off-Road is set to be the most diverse and exhilarating off-road racing experience ever with sensational gravel, mud and dirt events the world over.

Electronic Arts plans to make an equity investment in Korea-based online gaming company, Neowiz Corporation, and expand the existing co-development and publishing relationship with that company.