To celebrate the upcoming Emergence Day, several lucky gamers will win the chance to play Epic's Gears of War prior to launch, and party with celebrities living and dead at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles on Thursday, Oct. 26 at 12:01 a.m.

The Battle for Middle-earth II: The Rise of the Witch-king enhances every existing feature and offering players the chance to command the rise of evil in Middle-earth while experiencing the epic battles that took place before those depicted in the films.

Tony Hawk’s Project 8 immerses players in the definitive skateboarding experience using ultra-realistic graphics, enhanced physics and extremely responsive controls that simulate the feeling of skating with every trick and bail. Unlike the Mortal Kombat demo, you can now download Activision's 340 mb THP8 demo off Xbox Live Marketplace.

CITY Interactive keeps on expanding its Terrorist Takedown titles, this time sending you in as special ops team leader Lt. Jake Morche. Your unit is sent into Columbia to take out a cartel boss, while being outnumbered and hunted down by the heavily armed drug mafia.

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six makes its handheld debut in the most dramatic installment of the renowned first-person shooter franchise to date. Rainbow operatives take to the chaotic streets of Las Vegas as an escalating terrorist siege in "Sin City" threatens to take world terrorism to new, uncontrollable heights.

Enter the world of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 and discover 22 playable characters, classic fatalities, brutalities, friendships and babalities with tons of environments, and multiplayer Kombat Mode as you fight to defeat Shao Kahn! Xbox Live Members can now download ‘Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3’ demo from Xbox Live Arcade, while the full version can be purchased for 800 points.

UPDATE: It seems the game is not available afterall, downloading it as we speak...

Sierra and NovaLogic today announced that they have entered a co-publishing agreement for the PS2 exclusive first-person shooter Delta Force Black Hawk Down: Team Sabre.

The game gives you the opportunity to play through the events of the film - leading up to and following the break down of the heist - from the perspective of each character, and find out what happened at the diamond store.

Producer Tim Hall revealed that Timegate's F.E.A.R.: Extraction Point expansion is fihnished and has gone gold. F.E.A.R. Extraction Point kicks off where the original game ended – with a bang. The First Encounter Assault Recon Team (F.E.A.R.) returns to battle the now free Alma and her paranormal minions across a destroyed city.

Legacy is an epic game of Starfleet combat covering the entire Star Trek Universe. Players become the Admiral of a task force of warships and must lead their fleet to victory in large-scale battles.