SouthPeak Games announced Dream Pinball, developed by Topware, a superb pinball simulator creating an authentic pinball experience with refined controls that capitalize on the unique qualities each platform.

Hothead Games announced plans to publish Ron Gilbert's RPG-Adventure game, DeathSpank, who also joins the company's Vancouver-based studio as Creative Director. Described as "Monkey Island meets Diablo", the game will feature Gilbert's unique style of humor and storytelling.

Stranger combines RPG with some of the best elements of RTS, while its spell and item enchantment system allows a never-before-seen flexibility as players simply have to swap the amounts of used crystals to adapt to their enemies' strategies.

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.

War Leaders: Clash of Nations will expand upon the RTS genre by placing gamers in the roles of the major leaders of WWII, including Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin. Political, diplomatic and economic decision making will be key to success, while sound tactical strategies will ensure victory on the battlefield.

Jack Keane, developed by Deck 13, is a classical adventure game with their rich story-telling and fun gameplay. As the player you guide hero Jack Keane as he faces some of his toughest challenges yet.

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. Through specialized hardware such as the Novint Falcon HaptX enables gamers to physically feel their gameplay.

Microsoft and the U.S. Army announced that U.S. gamers will have a chance to prove their skills in the first ever Halo 3 Championship Tournament, hosted exclusively on Xbox Live. Registration will begin in March, and the actual tournament kicks off in April 2008, preceded by Basic Combat Training exercises.

StarCraft II will feature the return of the Protoss, Terran, and Zerg races, overhauled and re-imagined with Blizzard's approach to game balance, designed to be the ultimate competitive RTS game.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky is the official prequel to its survival FPS S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, bringing the players one year prior to the events of the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game in 2011.

One of the most anticipated UT3 features was the possibility of allowing PS3 gamers to import new community content/mods on their consoles. Epic has finally released the tools to "cook" your own content, and transfer it from PC to PS3.

Backbreaker is taking sports video games to a place where the action is never the same and every hit looks and feels as realistic as a Sunday afternoon. Utilizing NaturalMotion’s euphoria motion synthesis engine, you’ll never see the same tackle again.

EA announced that it has completed its acquisition of VG Holding Corp. and has officially welcomed BioWare Corp. and Pandemic Studios to the EA Games Label, vaulting EA into a competitive position in the RPG, action and adventure genres.

Prototype tells the story of Alex Mercer - a man haunted by his past, fighting a secret war in New York City. As the action spirals out of control, a conspiracy tied to his origins threatens the future of mankind itself. The Neural-THX Surround technology extends the surround sound experience from 5.1 to 7.1 discrete surround sound.

While Namco Bandai's latest One Piece: Unlimited Adventure has just gone gold in North America, the next installment in the franchise is already well under way. While details about One Piece Unlimited Cruise: Episode 1 are slim, the first footage was shown at Jump Festa 2008 a few weeks ago.

Based on the second season of the Avatar animated series, players will join Aang and his friends as they master their skills and fight their way to defend the greatest Earth Kingdom city against a deadly Fire Nation invasion.

After Microsoft showed off its holidays hard/software sales numbers, Sony put its cards on the table revealing that hardware retail sales across its three platforms reached more than 3.9 million units in North America from Nov. 23, 2007 to Dec. 31, 2007.

Revealed a few days ago, Sony officially announced that late January it will introduce Skype features to the new slim PSP through a firmware update, enabling users to freely communicate with other Skype users around the world over the Internet.

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. This demo features the Retomoto Tower mission, also playable in co-op.

All your favorites from Rockstar Games are now on Steam! To celebrate, you'll save 10% (ends Jan. 11) on every title, from the complete Grand Theft Auto and Max Payne series to Manhunt, Midnight Club II, and more. The Rockstar Collection, which packs every Rockstar game for just $53.95 (regular price: $59.95).

The newest Games for Windows issue has the first details on Gas Powered Games' latest title, Demigod, according to 1UP. Labeled as an action/RPG/RTS hybrid, Chris Taylor's development studio, known for Dungeon Siege, Supreme Commander, and currently working on Space Siege, is influenced by Defense of the Ancients, a community-created mod for Blizzard's RTS Warcraft III. There is no resource-gathering or micromanagement in Demigod. You control one hero unit; some have special powers to create other units and buildings, while others defeat enemies on their own merit. The game will be multiplayer focused, support co-op and have a single-player portion that mainly serves as a tutorial. More details to follow shortly ...

The holidays are traditionally a good time for hardware/software sales, and with the Wii still in short supply, it was up to the PS3 and X360 to pick up the slack. Today, Microsoft revealed that it has sold more than 17.7 million X360 units worldwide, while Halo 3 breaks records with no less than 8.1 million copies sold since its Sept. 2007 launch. In little over a month, Mass Effect has already sold 1.6 mill. units, and according to November NPD data, consumers keep spending money on Xbox software and accessories, with a record-high attach rate of 6.9.

Team Fortress 2 is a class-based, multiplayer team warfare game, delivering new game types, a signature art style powered by Valve’s next-gen animation technology, persistent player statistics, etc... Valve revealed it would be adding new achievement packs to TF 2, starting with a batch of 36 achievements for all the hard-working medics out there. Read more for details ...

One of the most anticipated UT3 features was the possibility of allowing PS3 gamers to import new community content/mods on their consoles. While users themselves still can't "cook" the content until the official tools are ready, Epic Games' VP Mark Rein gave an update, "We're very close to releasing an update to the Unreal Engine 3 editor, that comes with the PC version of UT3, that will allow UT3 mod-makers to cook their mods into the required PS3 format."

Dead Mountaineer's Hotel is a 3D point-and-click adventure, in the style of Benoit Sokal's Syberia, based on the original story by famous Russian sci-fiction writers Strugatsky Brothers.