Digital Illusions' Battlefield: Bad Company drops gamers behind enemy lines with a squad of renegade soldiers who risk it all on a personal quest for gold and revenge. When EA launched the multiplayer beta, fans went ballistic when it was revealed that certain weapons would only be available as premium DLC, even organizing a boycott of the game. EA/DiCE heard the outcry and revealed today that all weapons will be unlockable through leveling up, while people who buy the Gold edition have them from the outset.

Zenses Ocean and Zenses Rainforest will allow players to escape from the stress of daily life while challenging the mind, body and spirit through relaxing puzzle games, soothing ambient sounds and authentic rainforest and oceanic visuals.

Bionic Commando Rearmed is a makeover of the classic 8-bit game originally released 20 years ago, but with added content such as stunning new visuals, new weapons, online rankings, a reworked musical score and the addition of a 2-player co-op mode.

Battlefront.com and Fury Software unveiled the second expansion pack for Strategic Command 2: Blitzkrieg, titled Patton Drives East. It will allow players to explore the historically possible what-ifs of World War II.

The latest GameInformer has new info on Epic's Gears of War 2. From the GDC 08 trailer we saw the UE3 engine moved from a handful of Locust on screen to hundreds, and the elusive Brumak from the original will be present, but so will even larger creatures making the "Brumak look like a baby panda bear." The fight is being taken to the Locust so expect expansive, multi path, and prettier underground locales, where you will be assisted by 4 new characters (Tai Kaliso, leader of the COG forces Chairman Prescott, Dizzy, the driver of a new vehicle; and Dom's wife Maria Santiago, narrator of the story.) Singleplayer co-op will allow people to play at different difficulty settings when paths split. The cover system has been tweaked to offer better protection, new chainsaw duels have been added, new weapons, achievements, and a War Journal with background story.

On life support for a few years, Interplay announced 2007 earnings increased 520% ($6 million) compared to 2006, mainly due to selling the Fallout license to Bethesda. CEO Herve Caen reiterated that it is securing funds for the Fallout MMO, and sequels to some of its most successful games, including Earthworm Jim, Dark Alliance, Descent, and MDK, are being considered. Interplay plans to launch its new website shortly (thanks NMA ).

Not only is Ubisoft working on a web-based version of Heroes of Might and Magic, China based NetDragon Websoft is developing a full-blown 2.5D MMORPG based on the franchise. Currently in testing, Heroes of Might and Magic Online will allow you to control a virtual hero who leads an armym and by capturing towns, players can also engage extra armies to help them in their conquests.

EA originally signed a license agreement with Epic to use the Unreal Engine 3 and has now extended the deal allowing EA to incorporate UE3 in more than five upcoming titles currently under development.

Rock Band allows you to perform music from the world’s biggest rock artists with your friends as a virtual band using drum, bass/lead guitar and microphone peripherals, in addition to offering online connectivity. On May 23, European gamers will finally be able to rock out as well, albeit initially only on X360 as Microsoft scored a timed exclusive.

Kane & Lynch: Dead Men is a violent and chaotic journey of two men, a flawed mercenary and a medicated psychopath, and their brutal attitude towards right and wrong. Revealed yesterday, Eidos will release The Dope Bag, a new DLC for Kane & Lynch, on April 17 on XBL and PSN, which includes 4 new maps for the Fragile Alliance multiplayer mode, for free.

Kane & Lynch: Dead Men is a violent and chaotic journey of two men — a flawed mercenary and a medicated psychopath — and their brutal attitude towards right and wrong. On April 17, Eidos will release The Dope Bag, a new DLC for Kane & Lynch on XBL and PSN which includes 4 new maps for the Fragile Alliance multiplayer mode, for free.

In UT3, you assume the role of a futuristic warrior engaged in contests of intense shooting battles against skilled opponents, controlled by human contestants online or by AI, fought with the most powerful sci-fi weapons and vehicles. Epic's Mark Rein said "We don’t have a particular release date yet but we’re going to be playing it with some members of the press in two weeks at Midway’s next Gamers Day in Las Vegas." We'll be there and report back!

While Bleach was released late 2007 on NDS and Wii, Japanese gamers are already expecting the third installment in the strategy/rpg franchise. With a story written by the manga author himself, Bleach The 3rd Phantom is turn based, with pre-defined fight combos, and uses sprites when in combat mode.

With the help of the community and its partners EA has located and shut down a number of modified servers which were being used for sending inflated scores to the Battlefield 2 stats leaderboards. During this crackdown process over 1000 players has their stats wiped to best protect the leaderboard integrity.

Rockstar Games announced the formation of Rockstar New England through the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Andover, MA-based Mad Doc Software, best known for the Vivendi's Empire Earth RTS series.

Set between the largely unexplored era between Ep III and Ep IV, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed casts players as Darth Vader's "Secret Apprentice" and promises to unveil new revelations about the Star Wars galaxy.

Football SuperStars is an MMO, developed by ex-Climax Online boss Rik Alexander's Monumental Games, allowing players to meet within a utopian soccer-styled virtual world and take part in 3, 5, 7 and 11-a-side football matches.

Revealed a few months ago, Telltale officially announced that Sam & Max Season One will be coming to the Wii. The Sam & Max episodes let players guide the Freelance Police through a series of bizarre—and often sidesplitting—mysteries.

In this arcade-style game you control one of the many attractive women to become the champion of beachvolleyball. You'll have to beat 32 other countries! You can also have lots of fun playing with and against your friends, support for up to 4 players.

Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 is an old school style shooter remixed for the 21st century with next-gen graphics and deep, modern gameplay that is easy to pick up and hard to put down. Now that Activision has acquired Bizarre Creations, creators of Geometry Wars and PGR franchises, it was only a matter of time before a sequel would pop up, and according to Aussie classification board it will even be multiplatform.

Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed delivers an all-new sci-fi action gaming experience, where players control Crypto as he travels the world in the 1970s, unleashing massive destruction on foot, in his UFO and for the first time, in the Big Willy mech.

Treasure Island is an 3D adventure game based on the classic bestseller novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, situated 4 years after its conclusion. The game combines traditional Point & Click controls and gameplay with breathtaking realtime 3D graphics and SFX. This patch fixes various graphical/codec issues with the game.

Last week rumors went around that Def Leppard would be featured on RedOctane/Activision's upcoming Guitar Hero IV, info extracted from an on-air Rockline radio interview. Said radio station has now put up a soundbite on its website where Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen confirms that Photograph, Animal, and Rock of Ages will be featured on the rhythm game's next installment saying "No, it is coming out, it would have been out earlier, but we didn't get around to it."

NCsoft has entered an agreement with Double Fusion to bring in-game advertisement into its City Of Heroes MMORPG which takes place in a modern urban setting, an ideal environment for unobtrusive in-game advertising.

Set between the largely unexplored era between Ep III and Ep IV, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed casts players as Darth Vader's "Secret Apprentice" and promises to unveil new revelations about the Star Wars galaxy.